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The transaction was soon cancelled by the Dominion Government as contravening the Indian Act on several grounds, that only it had the right to negotiate surrenders of land with Indians interested, and that the Reserve belonged in common to the entire Squamish Band. The land subsequently was
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expropriated by the Vancouver Harbour Commission, an agent of the Dominion government, in 1916. The Squamish were never allowed to reoccupy of the reserve and most of it remained undeveloped. Around the time of the second world war, the site was home to
209:, the Province and the City of Vancouver worked together to displace the Squamish inhabitants, with the City calling the settlement "a source of menace to the morals and health of the City". In 1913, the BC Government under 221:(RCAF) station, Number 2 Equipment Depot. On October 28, 1966, it was turned over to the Vancouver Park Board by the Federal Government. Named for former Governor General of Canada 534: 198:. During the Royal Engineer’s Survey of 1869, it was designated as "Indian Reserve No. 6". Sen̓áḵw encompassed 80 acres, and included Vanier Park. In 1877, chief 213:
expropriated the site, paying the inhabitants a fraction of the land's value, and giving them two days to leave before burning their homes to the ground.
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and formerly the Vancouver International Children's Festival. It is the biggest and most famous of the fifteen parks in Kitsilano.
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had an ancestral fishing ground on the site. In the mid-1800s, they established a more permanent village site there named
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Deputy Park Board Superintendent William Livingstone, famous for his landscape design for
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Vanier Park plays host to one of Vancouver’s biggest summer festivals, the Shakespearean
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Sen̓áḵw

Burrard Bridge

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Canadian Pacific Railway
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Georges Vanier
MacMillan
Queen Elizabeth Park

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