Description

Agassiz.

Lhílhkw'eleqs, "at the end of the mountain," is Hooknose Mountain in the background. The low mountain on the right is Hamersly Hopyard Hill, in Agassiz. The top of the hill behind Hamersly Hopyard Hill is Cemetery Hill.

References:
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.

Alámex - the whole Agassiz (B.C.) area (JL), Agassiz Mountain (AK), 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.

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