Description

Hamersly Hopyard Hill, is the hill on the right in the top-left side of the picture. The hill on the left is Cemetery Hill. Alámex, is behind them, separating Agassiz from Seabird Island, on the extreme left of the photo. Alámex is the highest point of this hill, and it means "babysit or container, container of lookouts." Lhílhkw'eleqs is on the extreme left-center, while Lexwchíyò:m, "always wild strawberries," is a small gravel bar in the river, in the top-center. Carey Island is in the right-center.

References:
Alámex - the whole Agassiz area, Agassiz Mountain, place near Agassiz where Hamersley Hopyards were. 'I'm going to Alámex so that we (can) pick hops.' Alámex Smámelt, Agassiz Mountain.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 3.

Lhílhkw'eleqs - Lhílhkw'elqs. Hook-nose, Hook-nose Mountain, Hamersly Hopyard Hill. A mountain or rock shaped like a hook nose several miles west of Agassiz, the "nose" is a bluff right on the Fraser River just downriver from the old Hamersly Hopyards site; the rock was and is now a good dip-net and set-net site used by some Stólõ people; near it is an ancient archeological village site (used so long ago no one knew anyone who ever lived there); unclear whether the word is also a body-part insult, literally 'hook-nose, gaffing reduplication. Also Lhílhkw'elqs Smámelt.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 274-275.

Lexwchíyò:m, xwchí:yò:m -Cheam Island (my name for an island in the Fraser River across from Cheam Indian Reserve #2), Cheam village, Cheam Indian Reserve #1. The island I'm calling Cheam Island is unnamed on the maps; LJ pointed it out upstream from the Agassiz-Rosedale bridge; it was the first place to be named for the strawberries and was full of wild strawberries many years ago; the island was planted with trees to be harvested some years ago; there may be some strawberries left; it is now a small and long island more like a gravel bar with some trees on it; the village got its name from the island; then the Indian Reserve got its name from the village; Mt. Cheam was named in English after the village. Also Shxwchí:yò:m, literally 'place to pick strawberries', also Lexwchíyò:m, literally 'where wild strawberries grow.' Cheam village was originally not up on the hill where Cheam I.R. #1 is now; Harry Edwards' parents were the first to move up there and were there when the missionaries came (ca 1860). Also Chí:yò:m, literally 'wild strawberry patch.'
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 43-44.

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