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of Halkomelem speaking Central Coast Salish First Nations. The Saleelwat peoples whose permanent village site was at "Tetimexwten" (Belcarra) was one historic group that would have used the land and shoreline of Barnet to gather food and other resources. The life of aboriginal peoples here was organized around

trees, shrubs, and flowers, and maintained the food producing elements of the vegetable garden , cows , chickens , and sometimes ducks and goats. For the puposes of this book the immediate family tree would look like this: The H A R R I E T and M O N T A G U E M O O R E Family : M O T H E R : Harriet

- fare, thence by canoe or dugout, down the sluggish stream we now call Still Creek, but these also were abandoned w h e n the white m a n cut his t r a i l along the N o r t h R o a d . F i s h provided the staple food of the native, and the canoe was, next to h i s w i g w a m or hut, his home. It was

emerged from the depths of its dim, cavernous terminal at the corner of Hastings and Carrall; packed with commuters of all kinds. Shoppers, many from Woodwards food floor, boarded with large boxes of groceries. Through the coach’s sliding doors was the smoking section where men sat with newspapers