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"label": "12",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_12.png",
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"FID": 0,
"lat": 49.471627,
"lng": -124.685577,
"Title": "ch’námin (Chrome Island)",
"updated": "",
"descrip": "where the lighthouse now stands was a camping spot for fishing in the fish trap which is located below the rocky bluffs. There was also a fortification here where people could defend themselves against other hostile tribes. Directly under the lighthouse is a large petroglyph that featured a substantial number of figures in the representation, no meaning for this petroglyph has been recorded.",
"gis_id": "KLU-12"
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"label": "11",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_11.png",
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"FID": 1,
"lat": 49.492755,
"lng": -124.760598,
"Title": "kéĺkeĺya (Metcalf Bay, Denman Island)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was an ancient village site where clam, cockles and mussel were gathered. In 1956 archaeologists found oblong depressions parallel to the shore. One of these measured 42 feet x 21 feet, with a depth of 4 feet, indicating a Big House.",
"gis_id": "KLU-11"
},
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"label": "9",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_9.png",
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"FID": 2,
"lat": 49.536055,
"lng": -124.803636,
"Title": "lháytayich (Denman Island)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was an important area to select massive straight cedar trees to build canoes and take huge planks from the trees for their homes. It was also a place where roots for basket-making were dug and shellfish and seals were harvested. On the south end of the island just above Boyle’s Point is a large trench that was used as a deer trap, with the deer being driven into it and impaled on sharp stakes that had been placed in the trench.",
"gis_id": "KLU-09"
}, {
"label": "13",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_13.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 3,
"lat": 49.528798,
"lng": -124.849122,
"Title": "t’ámxwayksen (Buckley Bay)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "an important site for gathering shellfish and catching coho salmon.",
"gis_id": "KLU-13"
},{
"label": "10",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_10.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 4,
"lat": 49.555747,
"lng": -124.845488,
"Title": "Village Point",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "is on the western side of Denman Island. The enormous size of the midden at this site indicates a long period of occupation. Archaeological evidence revealed remnants of a large village site where people feasted on clams (predominantly horse clams), cockles, mussels and mammals such as deer, seal and whale. Human burials, a large trench and petroglyph are other signs that indicate the importance of this place to its occupants.",
"gis_id": "KLU-10"
},{
"label": "14",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_14.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 5,
"lat": 49.585073,
"lng": -124.884316,
"Title": "chích7atixw (Union Bay)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a salmon fishing place as well as a place to collect oysters and dig clams. On a beach just south of Union Bay are two stone fish traps which when the fish were running in the bay would fill with fish as the tide fell.",
"gis_id": "KLU-14"
},{
"label": "8",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_8.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 6,
"lat": 49.588550,
"lng": -124.817251,
"Title": "póٰpwoos (Komas Bluffs)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "includes a massive shell midden that is approximately 20,800 square metres in size and seven feet deep. The midden also revealed several oblong depressions on two terraces. Each of these pits was separated by high mounds of shell, leading archaeologists to conclude the pits represented the spot where Big Houses once stood. There was also a stone fish trap in front of this site.",
"gis_id": "KLU-08"
},{
"label": "7",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_7.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 7,
"lat": 49.602471,
"lng": -124.837346,
"Title": "xélikw’ (Henry Bay)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was an important seasonal camping site in former times as it was an excellent clam-digging spot. Captain Richards of the H.M.S. Plumper was anchored off of Henry Bay for several days in April of 1860. When they first arrived on the 13th the place was deserted and by the following day about 40 people arrived specifically to dig clams. By the 16th about 80 people had descended upon the place bringing with them house planks, cedar bark mats and cooking vessels. By April 19th Capt. Richards recorded that 'the village has increased wonderfully, a week since not a man here now nearly 300 people with 61 considerable large canoes and the Point covered with their houses'. K'ómoks people continued to gather clams here and a report from February 1907 commented that the Denman Spit was illuminated at night by stings of pitch torches carried by the native diggers.",
"gis_id": "KLU-07"
},{
"label": "6",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_6.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 8,
"lat": 49.618529,
"lng": -124.841615,
"Title": "jáji7em (Sandy Island",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a shell-fish and basketry root gathering area. The K'ómoks people camped on the north end of the island and it was here that Chief Andy Frank was born.",
"gis_id": "KLU-06"
},{
"label": "5",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_5.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 9,
"lat": 49.628174,
"lng": -124.857457,
"Title": "kw’ulh (Seal Island or Islet)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a very important location for digging and preserving clams and cockles. It was also a place to hunt seals and at one time a seal trap, which was 'a set of latticework [propped] flat under water around Seal Rocks.'",
"gis_id": "KLU-05"
},{
"label": "15",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_15.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 10,
"lat": 49.647465,
"lng": -124.937376,
"Title": "lhét’lha7t’ay (Gartley Point)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "Fish Traps at various locatons between Royston and along the Courtenay River.",
"gis_id": "KLU-15"
},{
"label": "20",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_20.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 11,
"lat": 49.660512,
"lng": -124.924159,
"Title": "pélxwikw (Goose Spit)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a burial site for the K’ómoks people. The A-frame burial huts containing important members of the community were still standing at the turn of the century at the point of Goose Spit.",
"gis_id": "KLU-20"
},{
"label": "16",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_16.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 12,
"lat": 49.690213,
"lng": -124.995172,
"Title": "kus kus sum (Courtenay)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a fishing village where people would also gather local camas, berry and roots. Stories passed down through the generations describe a war being fought in this location and a number of tree burials found in this general area substantiate this oral history.",
"gis_id": "KLU-16"
},{
"label": "17",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_17.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 13,
"lat": 49.683951,
"lng": -125.050821,
"Title": "skei-ep (Puntledge Falls)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "roughly translates to 'the laughing waters.' These waterfalls were once a salmon fishing spot and place to pick berries and young salmon berry shoots on the overland trade route to the West Coast via Comox Lake.",
"gis_id": "KLU-17"
},{
"label": "18b",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_18.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 14,
"lat": 49.700278,
"lng": -125.003511,
"Title": "kíxkax (K’ómoks Village)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "is the site where the K’ómoks people choose to live when they moved to the Comox Valley and continue to do so. The rich and diverse environment surrounding the village could sustain large numbers of people. In front of this site are the remnants of a sophisticated network of fish weirs designed to catch massive quantities of salmon.",
"gis_id": "KLU-18b"
}, {
"label": "18a",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_18.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 15,
"lat": 49.678474,
"lng": -124.957520,
"Title": "kíxkax (K’ómoks Village)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "is the site where the K’ómoks people choose to live when they moved to the Comox Valley and continue to do so. The rich and diverse environment surrounding the village could sustain large numbers of people. In front of this site are the remnants of a sophisticated network of fish weirs designed to catch massive quantities of salmon.",
"gis_id": "KLU-18a"
},{
"label": "19",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_19.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 16,
"lat": 49.674408,
"lng": -124.941307,
"Title": "íwus (The Fort on Manor Dr.)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was once a large deep trench located at the top of the hill next to the village. If enemies were approaching the entire village would climb the steep path and hide in the trench after blocking the path. As the enemy came near the K’ómoks would roll boulders and logs down at the enemy in order to stop an attack.",
"gis_id": "KLU-19"
}, {
"label": "4",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_4.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 17,
"lat": 49.690655,
"lng": -124.868938,
"Title": "sáwuseman (Point Holmes)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a place to camp during the coho season. Loosely translated to 'the long beach' it was a productive area to obtain deer, clams, camas bulbs, medicinal plants and berries.",
"gis_id": "KLU-04"
},{
"label": "3",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_3.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 18,
"lat": 49.695358,
"lng": -124.862316,
"Title": "chixwikw (Cape Lazo)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a place to gather deer, bull rush, cranberry, and medicinal plants. This was also a look out spot where watchmen would keep watch for enemy canoes. If canoes were spotted one of the watchmen would run along an 8 km trail and warn the people in the village, who would take refuge at íwus (19).",
"gis_id": "KLU-03"
}, {
"label": "2",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_2.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 19,
"lat": 49.707977,
"lng": -124.867608,
"Title": "k’i7 (Air Force Beach)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was another winter village site where large amounts of clams were gathered.",
"gis_id": "KLU-02"
},
{
"label": "1",
"icon_name": "green_icons/number_1.png",
"embed_link": " ",
"FID": 20,
"lat": 49.738805,
"lng": -124.920839,
"Title": "táwuseman (Little River)",
"updated": " ",
"descrip": "was a winter village site where coho salmon, berries, camas bulbs, medicinal plants and bull rush were collected.",
"gis_id": "KLU-01"
}
]