Meaning of Luxvbalis | Babel Free

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Ancient Heiltsuk village of the northern coast of Calvert Island in British Columbia.

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“Other Heiltsuk tribal groups existed in ancient times but became extinct after smallpox epidemics literally killed entire villages. The ethnographer Ronald L. Olson (1955) learned of a village on the northeast side of Calvert Island called, Luxvbalis, which was wiped out from one such infection.”

“Oral traditions of the Heiltsuk people tell of the ancient village of Luxvbalis abandoned after a small pox epidemic in the late 1800s and lost because so few were left to tell the tale. The village may just have been discovered on a site on Calvert Island, in Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy, located off British Columbia’s central coast and its history could date back to as much as 10,000 years.”

“Another example is a place on Calvert Island called Luxvbalis which refers to the consistent rolling of the waves as they come off of the ocean and roll into the inlet. And this is the village that my people have inhabited for many generations.”

“Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who’s discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia. Farid Rahemtulla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia who thinks he’s found the site of the long lost village of Luxvbalis on Calvert Island about 100 kilometres north of Vancouver.”

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