Ecoole
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, 37 km southwest of
PORT ALBERNI on
VANCOUVER ISLAND, is a former
NUU-CHAH-NULTH (Nootka) village site and
FISHING settlement on the southeast side of Seddall Island near the head of
BARKLEY SOUND. The name can be translated as "bushes on hill." A trading post was established here in the 1850s.
BC PACKERS had a
PILCHARD reduction plant here in the 1920s and 1930s, but the site was later abandoned.
by Andrew Scott...
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