 August Jack worked in logging and trapping in the area.built canoes and totem poles, made carvings, drove logs down the Squamish River, and "often ferried many of the Squamish Indians to Vancouver in his large, heavy canoes" Swanamia and August Jack remained here until his death.European settlement in the Burrard Inlet area began in the 1860s, but historical evidence shows that native settlements in the area were present three thousand years ago.