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Indigenous People on Salt Spring Island

Indigenous People on Salt Spring Island

photo of Charlie Joseph and his wife Eileen at WENNANEC (Fulford)
Photo taken in 1910 at WENNANEC (Fulford) of Charlie Joseph and his wife Eileen (perhaps also known on Salt Spring Island as Mary) with an unidentified man. Eileen was from W̱SÁNEĆ, likely of the Malahat Nation, and the dog on her lap is a Salish Wooly Dog

The couple’s longhouse home and two Salish canoes can be seen in the background.

(image: Penn/Braithwaite collection, Salt Spring Archives)