The Mainland Halkomelem

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Volume III of The Salish People deals with the Mainland Halkomelem, the people of the Fraser River from Vancouver to Chilliwack, and includes the earliest account of B.C. archaeological sites. The road to connect Vancouver to Sea Island (the present Vancouver International Airport) had already opened up part of the Fraser midden in 1889, two years before Hill-Tout's arrival in B.C. He got into the midden right away and surveyed the area with Mr. F. Monkton, a mining engineer well-known in Vancouver's early days and one of the founders of the Art, Historical and Scientific Association. By 1895, Hill-Tout was able to write an extensive report to the Royal Society of Canada, which, in the words of Harlan I. Smith, constituted "the first resume of British Columbia archaeology."

Author Charles Hill-Tout

Additional Contributors and Acknowledgements Ralph Maud (Editor)

IdentifierLIB.00063

PublisherVancouver, B.C. : Talonbooks

Date1978

ISBN0889221502

Series TitleThe Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout

Volume and Sequential DesignationVolume 3

General Material DesignationPrint and published material

LanguageEnglish

Location / Box-Folder Media Room and Library

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