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Joe Capilano was a Squamish chief from 1895-1910. Capilano spent his youth fishing and hunting, and went to work in the sawmill in what is now the Lower Lonsdale area of North Vancouver. In 1906 he, along with Quwutsun' Chief Charley Isipaymilt and Secwepemc Chief Basil David, traveled to Ottawa, then London, to meet with then King of Canada, Edward VII, in order to speak of the need to settle land claims in BC, and to lift the ban against the potlatch.

Born: c. 1854
Died: 1910