I decided to do a bit of my own research about the definition of genocide and whether or not the use of this term is correct in reference to historical and present day acts towards Indigenous First Peoples.
As a relative newcomer resident to Lasqueti Island (since 2011), I became curious about the history of the 'name' given to the island by twenty-three year old Jose Maria Narvaez, Captain of the Saturnina of the Spanish navy in 1791. There's a concrete monument to 'Lasqueti' in the Squitty Bay Park that was installed in 1991 by memebers of the community.
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