[2] The reserve on Poplar Island was used as an Aboriginal smallpox victim quarantine area and a cemetery.
Informants from the New Westminster Indian Band identified the reserve as a site of burials for people from the Kwantlen First Nation.
[3] For decades, the Poplar Island reserve was designated as belonging to "all coast tribes".
During the war years, hundreds of workers built, among other things, four warships for the government of France.
[4] Media related to Poplar Island, British Columbia at Wikimedia Commons