Luxvbalis

Other Heiltsuk tribal groups existed in ancient times but became extinct after smallpox epidemics literally killed entire villages. The ethnographer Ronald L. Olson (1955) learned of a village on the northeast side of Calvert Island called, Luxvbalis, which was wiped out from one such infection.

2006, Elroy Alden Felix White (Xanius), Heiltsuk Stone Fish Traps: Products of my Ancestor’s Labour, Simon Fraser University, page 19

Oral traditions of the Heiltsuk people tell of the ancient village of Luxvbalis abandoned after a small pox epidemic in the late 1800s and lost because so few were left to tell the tale. The village may just have been discovered on a site on Calvert Island, in Hakai Luxvbalis Conservancy, located off British Columbia’s central coast and its history could date back to as much as 10,000 years.

2011 August 9, Medha, “Ancient settlement may have been uncovered”, in Times Colonist

Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who’s discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia. Farid Rahemtulla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia who thinks he’s found the site of the long lost village of Luxvbalis on Calvert Island about 100 kilometres north of Vancouver.

2013 August 15, Marc Montgomery, “Archaeologist digs up long lost village – Indigenous, the Other Story”, in Radio Canada International