Deer Island

Deer Island (50˚43'00" 127˚23'00" Entrance to Beaver Hbr, just E of Port Hardy, NE end of Vancouver I). The feature is known to the Kwakwaka’wakw people as Wazulis, a name translated by Franz Boas in the 1930s as “river on flat beach.” It became a confrontation site in 1986 when local residents prevented a MacMillan Bloedel subcontractor from logging it. The island, site of an old village and graveyard, was used by Edward Curtis as the setting for his 1914 ethnographic film In the Land...

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