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in, with Kanaka crewmen, all curled crinkly hair and boy could they ever travel up the rigging. Boy, I tell you they were just like monkeys - I used to go and talk to them and Id get little boxes and the Japs would give me boxes of wooden safety matches and the other guys would give me things, too. There were no

at the distant forts of "the Hudson's B a y Company,—that Indians also set up their lodges, or built rude shacks beside the Fraser, w h i c h had, for years been their highway of travel. Close to the river, now protected from their ancient foes, their straggling camp extended f r o m . G l e n B r o o k westward

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

on the boulevard. BURNABY HISTORICAL SOCIETY relying on public transit had to travel to downtown Vancouver by street car and then east along the Central Park interurban line to Edmonds to pay their taxes at the munic- ipal hall. It is interesting to note that into the late 1950s, North Burnaby Firemen using public

, 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