Business Directory Salt Spring Island - Cities from States
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Salt Spring Island is a city with an area of 182 km² and a population of 10,000 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Salt Spring Island Salt Spring Island is the largest, most populated, and most visited of the Gulf Islands chain, named by officers of the Hudson s Bay Company for the cold and briny saltwater springs on the north end of the island. Saltspring has been a seasonal home of the Coast Salish First Nations since at least the time of European settlement, and evidence suggests that permanent settlements existed for centuries before that, on the south coast of the island where the Tsawout Band Reserve is located today. The Wsanec people of the Saanich Peninsula and the Cowichan people from the Cowichan Valley frequented the island s shores and harvested its resources.