First Nations Peoples have lived on the shores of Metchosin for millenia using the bountiful resources of the sea, the forests and the fields of Camus.  Many different groups occupied the shorelands and this location was at the boundary of the lands of the inner Coast Salish people and the outer coast where more warlike Nootka tribes lived The local tribes  were often caught in the middle of intertriibal warfare.  In the documentation that follows from the Race Rocks website, one such group, from 1500 to 1000 years ago inhabited the area and built the many burial cairns still present in fields of Metchosin, Rocky Point and Race Rocks. Then without any record of what happened, that complete cultural tradition disappeared.

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