Squamish

The Squamish were a Coast Salish people whose territory extended from Burrard Inlet up Howe Sound and the Squamish River in British Columbia. Disease devastated much of their population in the 1770s, before recorded encounters with José María Narváez and George Vancouver in 1791–1792. Vancouver's expedition surveyed the coast from the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1792.