Harlan Smith and the Houses at the Beach Grove Site

Pioneer archaeologist Harlan I. Smith first visited the Beach Grove Site (DgRs I) in 1898 while working as part of the Jesup Expedition, in response to information from a Dr. Walker about shell heaps at Point Roberts (Smith to Boas, Oct. 5 , 1897). However, although his work is included in his Archaeology of the Straight o.lGeorgia published by the Jesup Expedition, the Beach Grove site is bare ly mentioned. He had collected several artifacts which he listed in his field notes as from the "Schoolhouse Road Site," his name for the Beach Grove site. He continued to visit the site in his later job as archaeologist for the National Musewn of Canada. In the spring of 1922 he visited the si te . with his friend, Dr. Ralph Roys, a Vancouver resident with an interest in archaeology. It was during this visit that be prepared a sketch map of the house depressions remaining on the site (Figure I ) and took three photographs (Plates 1 3).