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The beach on the island opposite the Sq'éwlets archeological site. There are pithouses on the right in the bush.

The mouth of the Harrison River is in the background.

References:
Sq'éwlets, Sq'ówlets - Old Scowlitz village at the northeast bank of the mouth of Harrison River onto the Fraser River, about two miles east of present-day Scowlitz Reserve, old Scowlitz was near Kilby's store and on the opposite side of Harrison Bay from new Scowlitz, the river turns there around the bottom of a mountain, the new Scowlitz was named after the old village but is not on a turn. Literally 'turn of river at bottom (of mountain).'
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 477.

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