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Deadman's Island

Deadman's Island is a small 3.8 hectare island to the south of Stanley Park in Coal Harbour, Vancouver and home to the naval station/museum, HMCS Discovery.

The island was originally used as a rendering station by whalers in the 1860s. John Morton, first visited the island in 1862 and discovered hundreds of redcedar boxes lashed to the upper boughs of trees. 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 First Nation. According to Pauline Johnson the Squamish name is "Island of the Dead Men".

Settlers continued to use Deadman's Island as a cemetery prior to the 1887 opening of Mountain View Cemetery. Between 1888 and 1892, Deadman's Island became a quarantine site for victims of a small pox epidemic and burial ground for those who did not survive. (read more...)

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