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Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island.
The reserve on Poplar Island was used as an Aboriginal smallpox victim quarantine area and a cemetery. Informants from the New Westminster Indian Band identified the reserve as a site of burials for people from the Kwantlen First Nation. [3] For decades, the Poplar Island reserve was designated as belonging to "all coast tribes". [4] During ...
Poplar Island may refer to: Canada. Poplar Island (British Columbia) Poplar Island (Prince Edward Island) United Kingdom. Poplar Island, River Thames; Poplar Eyot; United States. Poplar Island (Chesapeake Bay) Poplar Island (West Virginia)
Poplar Island. Popeley Island (later Poplar Island) was one of Talbot County's first islands that was given and name and location on a map. Popeley Island was given its name by Captain William Claibourne after Lt. Richard Popeley. Popeley Island was the first land to be settled in 1632 by Captain William Claibourne.
Poplar Island is a small island of Canada located off the west coast of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. It is within Charlottetown city limits, in the North River of Charlottetown Harbour, less than a quarter mile east of the town of Cornwall. [1] It is connected to both sides of the river via Causeways, over which Prince Edward Island ...
Poplar Island from downstream. Poplar Island is an island in the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England. The island is on the reach above Caversham Lock near Tilehurst, a suburb of Reading. Appletree Eyot is very close to it. The two islands are in the middle of the river, so that navigation goes to each side of them according to the rules of the ...
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Poplar Island reserve was sold to the city of New Westminster for $16,260 in 1945. [8] On page 634 of their report, [9] the McKenna-McBridge Commission described the New Westminster Indian Band as: "Composite band, its members residing chiefly on Musqueam No. 1 and Langley No. 8 ... This Reserve allotted for Coast Indians, in common.".