Indian Legends of Vancouver Island

[Illustration: THE LONE INDIAN] INDIAN LEGENDS OF VANCOUVER ISLAND TEXT BY ALFRED CARMICHAEL ILLUSTRATED BY J. SEMEYN BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION The unsophisticated aboriginal of British Columbia is almost a memory of the past. He leaves no permanent monument, no ruins of former greatness. His original habitation has long given place to the frame house of sawn timber, and with the exception of the carvings in black slate made by the Hydah Indians of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the stone hammers, spear and arrow points, fashioned in the days before the coming of the white man, the mementos of his sojourn in British Columbia are only relics in wood, bark or reeds. In the Alberni District of V…

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