Vancouver Squatting #5: Well before Crabtown in Burnaby. The original Vancouver squatters settled in what is now Stanley Park before these images were taken in 1915. Scottish and Portuguese sailors jumped ship or turned away from the sea for a different life, one of sowing, netting, trapping.
"Here we were met by about fifty Indians, in their canoes, who conducted themselves with the greatest decorum and civility, presenting us with several fish cooked, and undressed, of the sort already mentioned as resembling the smelt. These good people, finding we were inclined to make some return for their hospitality, shewed much understanding in preferring iron to copper."
- George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World, 1791-1795
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