One Hundred Acres

A Gulf Island Colonial History

Abstract

The hundred acres surveyed as Section 1 on Penelakut Island's Lamalcha Bay is the only land on that island lying outside the Penelakut Tribe's reserve. The Indigenous village that was originally located there was destroyed by colonial authorities following a battle that took place in 1862. Its  settler history since that time reflects changing cultural attitudes within British Columbia, from colonial agrarianism to arcadian romanticism, therapeutic idealism, and ecologically inspired conservationism.