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Squamish steamer landing and railhead delta

Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: crockery.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Howe Sound steamers landed settlers here from the 1890s and the PGE railway made it a terminus in 1915; landing refuse on the delta fringe.

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