Forbidden Plateau

Forbidden Plateau (49˚41'00" 125˚19'00" NW of Comox Lk, SW of Campbell R, Vancouver I). Several explanations have been put forward for the name of this feature, which is not really a plateau but a sloping terrain of ridges and open parkland. The area was supposedly shunned by local First Nations, either from a belief that it was haunted or because of bloody encounters between Comox, Cowichan and Nuu-chah-nulth hunting parties. One legend holds that a party of Comox women and children, sent to...

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