Mudge Island
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Mudge Iceland is an island in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It belongs to the Southern Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia and is located southeast of Nanaimo Gabriola between Iceland and Vancouver Iceland. It is about 800 m wide and 4 km long. Administratively, the island is part of the Regional District of Nanaimo and there, along with Gabriola Iceland and De Courcy Iceland, for example, district
It is named after William Fitzwilliam Mudge, one of the officers of the HMS Plumper. His Captain George Henry Richards sailed 1859, the region in order to measure them. He gave the islands new name, without asking for the existing ones.
The island has 60 permanent residents, whose number increases during the summer to around 100 to 150. In addition to a private marina called Moonshine Cove, which allows visitors, there is no access, neither a bridge nor a ferry. However, she has, in contrast to the other, small islands of the De Courcy Islands electricity, telephone and cable network. Shops, there is not there.
History
Early History
On the eastern edge of Vancouver Iceland, the ancestors of Snunéymuxw lived around 1840 in five villages. 1987 identified a so-called shell middens study ten different cave tombs and petroglyphs. In Mudge Iceland there were at least seven other archaeological sites. In the opposite Departure Bay 1992 up to 2000 year old artifacts were unearthed. They stand with the Marpole culture in context. On the False Narrows Site 1966-1967 were found the remains of 86 individuals and 2,194 artifacts. David Burley examined the findings in 1989 again and was the oldest date to the 1st century BC. The finds have a high cultural continuity, can be thus assign the current Snunéymuxw. In addition, the results indicate a pronounced social differentiation. Since August 2007, 15 more graves were discovered in the Departure Bay.
European settlers and the displacement of the Salish
The relationship between the emerging in the 1860s and the early settlers was Snunéymuxw, follow the oral tradition, very good. Some of the settlers were married Salish women who exchanged indigenous fish brought against European fruits, such as apples. Methodist missionaries won the entire tribe, which in British Columbia is an exception, so everyone Methodist Indians was considered a member of the Snunéymuxw. 1876 put the Indian Reserve Commissioner arrested two small reservations, which were on Gabriola. So they lost the right to live on Mudge.
One of the first settlers was David Samuel Reece Roberts from England. Born in 1846 and husband came to Canada in 1871 and lived after the census of 1881, on Mudge Iceland. He lived at this time with a 28 -year-old Salish woman named Mary, married in 1883 but the 22 - year-old Mary Isabella Martin, daughter of a settler of Gabriola. In 1884, the family 160 acres of land on Mudge, probably the country that Roberts had taken possession before 1881. It was between Dodd 's Narrows and False Narrows. He planted Baldwin apples, a particularly large variety of apple, on Mudge, as well as plums and cherries. Around 1892 perverted even a ferry named Esperanza to Mudge, even if only on Fridays. 1893 Mary Isabella died during their fifth birth. Eight months later, Robert married again, this time the 19 - year-old Mary Silvie, Silvie daughter of Joseph Reid of Iceland. 1901, the family was still living on the island, but in 1920 it is no longer listed, David lived in Northfield in Nanaimo. Instead, there were two new families on the island, the Coxe and the Juriet.