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Dionisio Point Provincial Park occupies the northwestern tip of Galiano Island in British Columbia’s southern Gulf Islands, across Porlier Pass from Valdes Island. Known today as a marine-accessed campground and coastal park, it also preserves a long human history. Shell middens and berms show the area was used for at least 3,000 years, and fenced archaeological sites are associated with the Penelakut First Nation. Its name recalls Captain Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, who reached the Gulf Islands in 1792 aboard the Sutil. The site is significant for bringing together visible evidence of Indigenous use over millennia and the later era of Spanish exploration.
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