Coast Salish territory surrounds Metro Vancouver, where the Squamish identify dozens of significant locations, each with a meaningful place name.
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“The land itself, with these small exceptions, becomes the entire property of the white people for ever.”
James Douglas, the governor of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia from 1851 to 1864, wrote this clause into the 14 historic treaties that preceded the province's reserve system.
