Digging into Indigenous history with Vancouver's staff archaeologist

A decision had to be made, in the late 19th century, when workers building the road encircling Stanley Park came upon a place of tremendous historical importance to local First Nations. The village site, near where Lumbermen’s Arch currently stands, included buried ancestral remains.
They elected not to simply pave over the archeologically sensitive area — instead, they opted to dig up the site, which reportedly included everything from artifacts to skeletons, and use it in the