Songhees and Distribution of Songhees Tribes circa 1840
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- Songhees. Information collected over the past 100 years confirms that as early as 4,000 BC the southern portion of the Saanich Peninsula was occupied by Indian people known as the Songhish or Songhees. The Songhees were not a single tribe but composed of many independent groups with the same dialect of Straits Salish and a similar way of life. Songhees village. Nancy Romaine. Artist. Songhees Longhouse. Unique construction methods allowed cedar boards to be removed from winter homes and taken by canoe to summer camps for shelter. Nancy Romaine. Artist. Distribution of Songhees Tribes Circa 1840. Ken Josephson. Cartographer. The territorial range of the Chekonein group included the Gordon Head Campus land near Cadboro Bay. Lines indicate division of Indian territory specified in the 1848 Fort Victoria Treaties. The territory occupies by the Chekonein tribe included winter villages at Cadboro Bay and Oak Bay and 24 temporary camps and burial sites which were widely distributed in the area now known as Gordon Head. Temporary Indian Camp. British Columbia Archives and Records Service. R. Maynard. Photographer. Songhees family reef net fishing in traditional canoe. British Columbia Archives and Records Service HP74546
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