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sites, or to travel further abroad to visit family who had access to special resources like cranberries or wapato (wild potatoes). Ancestral villages ranged in size, from dozens to hundreds of occupants. Some larger villages were home to over 1,000 residents. Central Coast Salish travellers, who did

-in-law to Governor James Douglas, and Charles John Riland, who was to become a magistrate at Langley and also lessee of the Hudson’s Bay Company farm there. The three young men decided to travel on together and boarded the Moses Taylor for Aspinwall joining Colonel R.C. Moody, officer com- manding the detachment

, and they knew that in return for access they might themselves become hosts at a future time. As part of their seasonal round, families would travel to the Fraser River in the spring to fish for eulachon, and would return again in the late summer for the sockeye salmon runs. Many people travelled through