Town north of Vancouver

Usage examples of squamish.

Misty and shadowy, Vancouver Island dropped astern, until at last they steamed into harbor, where a crowd of happy-faced Squamish Indians greeted them, stowed them away in canoes, paddled a bit up coast, then sighted the great, glancing fires that were lighting up the grey of oncoming night--fires of celebration and welcome to all the scores of guests who were to partake of the lavish hospitality of the great Squamish chief.

Then came the great Squamish chief, saying more welcoming words, and inviting his guests to begin their tribal dances.

Someone had covered him with a beautiful, white, new blanket, and as his young eyes opened they looked straight into the kindly face of the great Squamish chief.

The great Squamish chief now took him by the hand and led him towards the blazing fires round which the tired dancers, the old men and women, sat in huge circles where the chill of dawn could not penetrate.

The club wipes out all outlaw motorcycle gangs except two: the 15-member Tribesmen in Nanaimo and Squamish, and the 15-member Highwaymen in Cranbrook.

Whoever had been on board had managed to pull in some sail but obviously had been unable to fight the force of the Squamish wind funnelling down from the mountains and out into the Sound.

Miss-Adventures beginning climbing classes to Smoke Bluffs in Squamish all week, a different group every day.

Men were milling around, most of them making toward the door and windows on this side to see what the commotion was, but they made way for me as I dodged through them like a deep brooder on a forty-three-man squamish team herding the goat in for the goal.

Ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay, the Squamish Highway, offering one lane each way, threads its precarious way along steep, heavily forested cliffs overlooking Howe Sound.

A few miles past Squamish, a tiny logging and bedroom community that sits at the end of Howe Sound some 40 miles north of Vancouver, a small white-water stream runs across the highway on its way to the Squamish River.

Biggs the best part of three days to find Lennox in a fleabag pub near Victory Square, and, by the time they got organized for their trip up the Squamish Highway, Marylee Scott had been quite gamey.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers had gathered north of Squamish, B.

Within an hour a small creek north of Squamish was swelling visibly, roiling waters becoming dark with silt and debris.

University of British Columbia frat house and en route to Whistler, stopped by a swollen creek that crossed the Squamish Highway north of town.

The three frat rats were sitting in a Squamish coffee house nursing growing hangovers.