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'''Saltspring Island''' (also '''Salt Spring Island''') is one of the ] in the ] between mainland ], ] and ]. It is the most populated and most frequently visited of the Gulf Islands, with a population of about 10,500 as of 2008.<ref>{{cite book | last = Zimmerman | first = Karla | coauthors = James Bainbridge, Celeste Brash, Natalie Folster, Scott Kennedy, Graham Neale | edition = 10 | publisher = Lonely Planet | title = Canada | year = 2008 | isbn = 1741045711 | page = 731}}</ref> The island, initially inhabited by ] ], became a refuge from ] for ] who had resided in the ].<ref>{{cite book | last = Schulte-Peevers | first = Andrea | title = Canada | edition = 9 | publisher = Lonely Planet | year = 2005 | isbn = 1740597737 | page = 729 | quote = Originally settled by the Salish First Nation over a thousand years ago, it became a place where African Americans fled to escape racial tensions in the USA}}</ref> |
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'''Saltspring Island''' (also '''Salt Spring Island''') is one of the ] in the ] between mainland ], ] and ]. It is the most populated and most frequently visited of the Gulf Islands, with a population of about 10,500 as of 2008.<ref>{{cite book | last = Zimmerman | first = Karla | coauthors = James Bainbridge, Celeste Brash, Natalie Folster, Scott Kennedy, Graham Neale | edition = 10 | publisher = Lonely Planet | title = Canada | year = 2008 | isbn = 1741045711 | page = 731}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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The island, initially inhabited by ] ], became a refuge from ] for ] who had resided in the ].<ref>{{cite book | last = Schulte-Peevers | first = Andrea | title = Canada | edition = 9 | publisher = Lonely Planet | year = 2005 | isbn = 1740597737 | page = 729 | quote = Originally settled by the Salish First Nation over a thousand years ago, it became a place where African Americans fled to escape racial tensions in the USA}}</ref> Settled in 1858 by black Americans, the island was not only the first of the Gulf Islands to be settled, but also, according to 1988's ''A Victorian Missionary and Canadian Indian Policy'', the first agricultural settlement established anywhere in the ].<ref>{{cite news | title = Hill | first =Kathleen Thompson | coauthors = Gerald N. Hill | title = Victoria and Vancouver Island: A Personal Tour of an Almost Perfect Eden | edition = 5 | publisher = Globe Pequot | year = 2005 | isbn = 0762738758 | page = 241}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nock | first = David A. | coauthors = Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion | title = A Victorian Missionary and Canadian Indian Policy: Cultural Synthesis vs. Cultural Replacement | publisher = Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press | year = 1988 | isbn = 0889201536 |page = 159-160}}</ref> |
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