Deadman Island

Deadman Island (49˚18'00" 123˚07'00" Coal Hbr, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver). This 3-ha island was a former burial ground for Skxwúmish (Squamish) and X’muzk’i’um (Musqueam) First Nation groups using the Stanley Park area (its X’muzk’i’um name was Skwcàs, or “island”)—and for the old community at Brockton Point. From the 1890s until 1931, as many as 150 squatters lived on the island. A Seattle lumberman, Theodore Ludgate, received a lease in 1898 to build a sawmill there, and...

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