{"id":25161,"date":"2014-07-14T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/?p=25161"},"modified":"2014-07-13T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T04:30:43","slug":"tour-vancouver-with-a-musqueam-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2014\/07\/14\/tour-vancouver-with-a-musqueam-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Tour has a Musqueam Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/EveryPlace_VAN-600.jpg\" alt=\"EveryPlace_VAN-600\" width=\"600\" height=\"71\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/take-a-tour\/musqueam-tour-witness-it-remember-it-tell-it\/\">Vancouver Heritage Foundation<\/a> is piloting a project with the Musqueam Indian Band to offer a tour of Vancouver from a slightly different perspective then the usual whip around Stanley Park, Spanish Banks and the Museum of Anthropology. Actually we did all those things on a four hour bus jaunt one recent morning, but we also got some insights into traditional Musqueam territory and why several well-known sites hold significance for their people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">The first stop was the sketchy area behind the Fraser Arms Hotel. Turns out this uninteresting fenced-in piece of dirt, was once part of a thriving settlement for the Musqueam. According to our guide Terry Point, the land has been occupied for 5,000 years and is one of the most significant archaeological sites in Canada. Three years ago it looked like the Midden would be turned into a 108-unit condo development, until archaeologists dug up the human remains of an adult and two small children, kicking off a Musqueam vigil that went for over 200 days. The Musqueam subsequently bought back the land, but I couldn\u2019t find out what they planned to do with it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">Most of the sites we visited were former warrior villages, and they were a vicious lot back in the day. They used to put their enemies heads on stakes at the mouth of the Fraser to keep out unwelcome visitors, and they buried their dead up in trees, leaving the bodies to rot and later gathering up the bones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">That\u2019s of course how Deadman\u2019s Island in Stanley Park got its name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">A June Saturday morning in Stanley Park is prime season for tour buses and after a bit of jockeying for position I really enjoyed the tour of the totem poles. Terry\u2019s aunt<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">ie Susan Point<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>carved the gateway portals designed to represent the traditional slant-roof style of Coast Salish architecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">Many of the roads we travelled (including Granville Street) were once a network of trails that spread out all over the city and were used by runners to warn the villagers of impending attacks or visitors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">We ended the tour at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musqueam.bc.ca\/musqueam-cultural-centre-gallery\" target=\"_blank\">Musqueam Cultural Centre<\/a> in time to celebrate National Aboriginal Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">There is another tour on Sunday July 27. See the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org\/take-a-tour\/musqueam-tour-witness-it-remember-it-tell-it\/\">Vancouver Heritage Foundation<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>for details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 13px\/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal;\">***<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Eve Lazarus<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer with an Aussie accent and a Vancouver address.\u00a0Her latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/evelazarus.com\/sensational-vancouver\/\">Sensational Vancouver <\/a>is a fully illustrated\u00a0non-traditional history book about Vancouver&#8217;s famous and infamous, the ordinary and the extraordinary, filtered through the houses in which they lived.\u00a0Eve also\u00a0writes obsessively about Vancouver&#8217;s shady past at\u00a0her <a href=\"http:\/\/evelazarus.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Vancouver Heritage Foundation is piloting a project with the Musqueam Indian Band to offer a tour of Vancouver from a slightly different perspective then the usual whip around Stanley Park, Spanish Banks and the Museum of Anthropology. 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