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Deadman's Island (Vancouver)
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Deadman Island is a 3.8 ha island to the south of Stanley Park in Coal Harbour in Vancouver, British Columbia. The indigenous Squamish name is "''skwtsa7s''", meaning simply "island." Officially designated "Deadman Island" by the Geographical Names Board of Canada in 1937, it is commonly referred to as Deadman's Island. It has been a battle site, a native tree-burial cemetery, smallpox and squatter settlement in its long history. Today it is the site of Vancouver's Naval Reserve Division, HMCS ''Discovery'', leased from the City of Vancouver but subject to land title claims of the Musqueam Nation.
==Early history==
One of Vancouver's first white settlers, John Morton, visited the island in 1862. Morton discovered hundreds of red cedar boxes lashed to the upper boughs of trees and one had evidently fallen and broken to reveal a jumble of bones and a tassel of black hair. The island was the tree-burial grounds of the Squamish people. Undeterred, Morton took a fancy to the island and attempted to acquire it. He changed his mind when Chief Capilano pointed out that the island was "dead ground" and was a scene of a bloody battle between rival tribes in which some two hundred warriors were killed. It's said that "fire-flower" grew up at once where they fell, frightening the foe into retreat.〔(Richard E. Allen, "Deadman's Island lives on in history" ) from HMCS Discovery ()〕 The macabre name of the island is thought to reflect this history, although the Squamish name is simply ''skwtsa7s,'' meaning "island."〔The ''Greater Vancouver Book'' claims the island's graveyard past is the reason for its name. According to Pauline Johnson the Sḵwxwú7mesh name is "Island of the Dead Men" because of the massacre that took place there. See: (Pauline Johnson, "Deadman's Island," ''Legends of Vancouver'', at Project Gutenburg ). Major J. S. Mathews wrote its Squamish name as Squt-sahs. City Archives, ''Naming Opening and Dedication of Stanley Park''. Vancouver: City Archives, City Hall, 1964, 55.〕
Settlers continued to use the island as a cemetery prior to the 1887 opening of Mountain View Cemetery. Between 1888 and 1892, Deadman Island became a quarantine site for victims of a smallpox epidemic and burial ground for those who did not survive.〔Heather Conn, "The Origins of Stanley Park" and Roger Parton, "Islands of Greater Vancouver," in Chuck Davis, ed., ''The Greater Vancouver Book: An Urban Encyclopaedia''. Surrey, BC: Linkman Press, 1997, 52 and 169.〕
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