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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]
The modern-day reserve of Pekw'Xe:yles in Mission, BC is a current example of a similar in-common reserve. The New Westminster Indian Band was made up of a block of three reserves next to New Westminster, [ 6 ] and another reserve on Poplar Island, [ 7 ] which was used to house Indigenous people who had contracted an infectious disease.
Poplar Island (British Columbia) R. ... Skumalasph Indian Reserve No. 16; Squeah Indian Reserve No. 6; Sto꞉lo Nation Chiefs Council; Stó꞉lō Tribal Council;
Poplar Island may refer to: Canada. Poplar Island (British Columbia) Poplar Island (Prince Edward Island) United Kingdom. Poplar Island, River Thames; Poplar Eyot;
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 ...
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In the 1870s, the reserve in which the park was in was split into an area for a penitentiary, asylum, and the park itself. The park was officially declared open in 1887 as a celebration of Queen Victoria's 50th year as a monarch. [3] In 1890, an exhibition building was built which could house up to 5,000 people. [4]