| 词条 | Poplar Island (British Columbia) |
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Poplar Island is an uninhabited island located at the east end of the North Arm of the Fraser River in the City of New Westminster,[1] British Columbia. It is the last large undiked island in the Fraser River's North Arm. HistoryIn 1879, the federal government allocated three reserves to the New Westminster Indian Band, including {{convert|27|acre|m2}} on Poplar Island.[2] A smallpox epidemic devastated the local people, known as the Qayqayt after the name of their main village on the east bank of the Fraser,[3] reducing the band members from about 400 people to under 100. Many of the remaining inhabitants of Qayqayt were assimilated into other local reserves, such as the neighbouring Musqueam Indian Band. Their reserve on Poplar Island was turned into an Aboriginal smallpox victim quarantine area. For decades, the Poplar Island reserve was designated as belonging to "all coast tribes".[4] In 1916 the remaining land on Poplar Island was turned over to the BC Government.[4] During World War I the New Westminster Construction and Engineering Company built both a massive shipyard on the island and a bridge connecting it to New Westminster. During the war years, hundreds of workers built, among other things, four warships for the government of France.[4] Cargo vessels built in the shipyard include the War Kitimat, War Comox, War Edensaw, and the War Ewen.[7] Ship launching ways are still visible on the island’s upriver end.[5] In 1936, the bridge gave out but by then, only fisheries warden William Albert Bowcott and his family lived on the island, and in 1945 the island was bought by New Westminster, which immediately sold it to Rayonier Canada, a forest company that used the island mainly as an anchorage for its log booms. Over the years, the trees grew back. The B.C. government included the island in its "nature legacy" program in 1995, and it was to be held by the Metro Vancouver's park department as a strictly protected nature reserve, in perpetuity.[4] The Qayqayt First Nation, a "revived" band government, is trying to regain control of the island to reinstate it as a landbase (it currently is the only chartered First Nations government in Canada with no land base). References1. ^{{BCGNIS|17738|Poplar Island}} [6]2. ^{{cite web |date= June 6, 2009|url = http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=312de30a-2778-4a3b-a044-f1d2dc0e829b&sponsor=|title = Uncovering her roots|work=Canwest News Service |publisher = New Westminster Record| accessdate = July 26, 2009 | last= |quote=}} 3. ^{{BCGNIS|59480|Qiqayt (former Indian village)}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite web |date= March 2, 2006|url = https://www.straight.com/news/how-poplar-island-fell-map|title = How Poplar Island fell off the map|format = |publisher = The Georgia Straight| accessdate = July 26, 2009 | last=Terry Glavin |quote=}} 5. ^{{cite web |date= 2008 |url = http://www.tourismnewwestminster.com/funfacts.html|title = Fun Facts About New Westminster|publisher = Tourism New Westminster| accessdate = July 27, 2009 | last= |quote=}} 6. ^1 {{cite book| url = https://books.google.ca/books?id=Xj5kf10gntQC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=%22war+kitimat%22&source=bl&ots=LmhzeizQB0&sig=ikv9aH4w6IhbAlkYz0A7hBmbXig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwirrObpwoXXAhVP52MKHd8QD3oQ6AEIVDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22war%20kitimat%22&f=false | title = A New Westminster Album: Glimpses of the City as it was| publisher = Dundurn Press| author = Gavin Hainsworth, Katherine Freund-Hainsworth| date = 2005| page = 200| location = | isbn = 9781550025484| accessdate = 2017-10-22| deadurl = No | quote = }} }}{{coord|49|12|00|N|122|56|00|W|display=title}} 4 : Uninhabited islands of British Columbia|New Westminster|Islands of the Fraser River|Sto:lo |
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