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Marpole Midden

Vancouver, Canada

Marpole Midden

The Marpole Midden, also known by archaeologists as the Great Fraser Midden or Eburne site, is a 4000-year-old midden near the mouth of the Fraser River, in the Marpole neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. The site is the location of the ancient Musqueam village of c̓əsnaʔəm and a sacred bu

rial ground. The midden was discovered in 1884 and it was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1933. Non-native archeologists excavated the site until a hotel was built on the land in 1955. There was a series of disputes over land rights and contested development projects until the site's land was returned to the Musqueam First Nation in 2018.

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