Crews have dug up ancestral human remains at the West Victoria Street project.

Capital projects manager Darren Crundwell says the city is working very closely with Tk’emlups to follow their ancestral remains policy.

He says there will not be any major impacts to construction.

“We’re maintaining a 50-metre radius around the find, but work is continuing. Work has continued since we found this yesterday. We have a planned weekend off; the contractor is doing a phenomenal job working hard here, they’ve been working 24 hours a day six days a week. So they had always planned on taking the long weekend off.”

Crundwell says he expects work will be back to normal in that buffer zone where the remains were found by next week.

West Victoria Street is the oldest street in the city, with infrastructure more than a century old. Crundwell says First Nations first inhabited the area 10,000 years ago.