Shell Heaps of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia

Addressing seasonal site use through ancient DNA species identification of Pacific salmon at Dionisio Point, Galiano Island, British Columbia

“…A number of other village sites have been dated to the interval from 2500 to 1400 BP in the southern Strait of Georgia. These include the previously mentioned sites of Beach Grove and False Narrows, as well as Point Grey (Coupland, 1991;Unfreed, 1989), Departure Bay (Arcas, 1994aWilson andCrockford, 1994), Port Hammond (Antiquus, 2001;Rousseau et al, 2003;Smith, 1903), Marpole (Arcas, 1989Borden, 1970;Burley, 1979;Smith, 1903), British Camp (Stein, 1992(Stein, , 2000, Nanaimo Foundry (Eldridge et al, 2007), and possibly Buckley Bay (Golder, 1998;Mitchell, 1974;Wigen, 1980) and Pender Canal (Carlson, 1986(Carlson, , 1987Carlson and Hobler, 1993;Hobler, 1985). Villages have been dated to both earlier than 2500 BP, consisting of St Mungo (Calvert, 1970;Eldridge, 1985;Eldridge and Fisher, 1997;Ham et al, 1986) and perhaps Long Harbour (Johnstone, 1991(Johnstone, , 2003, and later than 1400 BP, including Shingle Point (Matson, 2003;Matson et al, 1999), Tsawwassen (Arcas, 1994b) and st'ám ' es (Arcas, 1998.…”

Has There Been a Turning Point in Aboriginal Burial Site Protection in British Columbia? Examining the Successes and Failures of Present-Day Policy, Preservation, and Media Tactics in Protecting Aboriginal Burial Sites

“…The early Western narrative regarding the site, however, has treated it as "a dump site," "a campsite," or as "a dumping ground for clam shells and bodies" rather than an important nomadic city (Roy, 2010, p. 113). Such denigration is recorded as early as 1884, during construction on the site, when two members of the Canadian government "removed ancestral remains and gave them to the Natural History Museum of New Westminster" (Smith, 1903). The site was referred to in these earliest recorded descriptions as a shell-heap and pile of discarded artifacts, with no references to its peoples or relatively recent past as a city.…”