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-3- to have been left to the native Indians until the latter part of the nineteenth century, though it is uncertain whether there was any permanent native settlement there; VJest Vancouver* s Indian population living mainly in t\fo settlements, one at the mouth of the Capilano River and the other at Sandy Cove^. W.A. Grafton, - 1957, in conversation with Major J.S. Mattthev/s, Vancouver City Archivist, in May 1937, mentions **the lone tree knov/n as ’Dead V/atch Tree*, on which an eagle aat, on the rocks just off Point Atkinson where the Indians laid their 2 dead in boxes or canoes on the surface of the rocks** . The site of this burial ground is the East V/est or Grebe Islets - northwest of Point Atkinson, and at the time of Mr. Grafton*s description the lone tree was no longer standing. However this information would lead one to believe that what v;o knov/ as Lighthouse Park could have been the site of an Indian settlement as late as the end of the last century. 1. Phyllis Sarah V/alden, History of V/est Vancouver, op. cit. 2. J.S. Matthews,- Diaries, Vol. 4 “ W.A. Grafton, Interview with author May 1937, P» 274* VancouvL,r City Archives.