| 词条 | Brownsville, British Columbia |
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HistoryThe town was named after Ebenezer Brown, who owned property in the area and had come from England in 1858-1859 during the Fraser Gold Rush. He was a stonemason and made the border monument at Point Roberts. He served on New Westminster's city council and later was elected as MLA for New Westminster, then for New Westminster City, and became President of the Executive Council of British Columbia (i.e. the cabinet). Issues about conflict of interest in connection with railway building led to his retirement from politics in 1881.[2] Kikait/QiqaytThe indigenous summer village called Kikait, modern spelling Qiqayt, was at the site of Brownsville prior to Ebenezer Brown taking up land there.[3] The Kwikwetlem people had been driven from the site of New Westminster by the Kwantlen people, who had enslaved them and forced them to the site of Kikait, which had been marshy until filled by them with rocks and stones to make a village site for the Kwantlens. Simon Fraser is said to have spent a night here on his way to the mouth of the Fraser in 1808.[4] The chief of this community was Whattlekainum, the son of a Tsawwassen woman who was raised and trained at Tsawwassen but is also regarded as a chief by the Katzie and Kwantlen. While closely associated with the Kwantlen people, this former fishing camp was used by the Tsawwassen and other Halkomelem or Hun'qum'i'num (hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓) groups during late summers. Salmon and sturgeon were caught and processed here before being brought back for storage at the longhouses of the winter villages. This was also the site of a church in which many marriages and baptisms were conducted for the Hun'qum'i'num people of the Lower Fraser.[5] Until broken up in 1879, this was the South Westminster Indian Reserve.[6] Railway pointThe name Brownsville was used for a railway point just south of this location by the Burlington Northern Railway.[7] See also
References1. ^BC Names entry "Brownsville (former locality)" {{coord|49|12|20|N|122|53|00|W|display=title}}2. ^letter from John C. Brown, another former MLA, January 14 1927, quoted in Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River, Denys Nelson, 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives, quoted in BC Names entry "Brownsville (former locality)"] 3. ^BC Names entry "Qiqayt (former Indian village)" 4. ^[Place Names of the Delta of the Fraser River, Denys Nelson, 1927, unpublished manuscript held in the Provincial Archives, quoted in BC Names "Brownsville (former locality)" 5. ^BC Names entry "Qiqayt (former Indian village)" 6. ^cited on Qayqayt First Nation 7. ^BC Names entry "Brownsville (railway point)" 3 : Surrey, British Columbia|Ghost towns in British Columbia|Populated places on the Fraser River |
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