When Settlers Seized and Set Fire to the Kitsilano Reserve
As the Squamish Nation rebuilds with an ambitious new housing project, a scholar examines its long history of displacement.
By Christopher CheungMany settlers in Vancouver had no idea that the land by the south end of the Burrard Bridge was once a village home to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people. When the Squamish Nation announced its plans to develop housing on the land in 2019, CBC published a story about its “little-known history.” In 1913, B.C.’s attorney general forced the original residents into an illegal sale of their land, sent them away on barges, and burned the village of Sen̓áḵw to the ground. It was a dark chapter for... Read more
