Bringing back a Lion Island Cache, origionally hidden by Hyack
The cache is a small blue rubbermaid screw top container hidden at the point of the island, where long ago it appears a dock existed. You can easily land on the beach, high or low tide. You do require a boat, canoe, kayak or some method of crossing to the island.
Lion Island (known in the Japanese community in the early 20th century as Sato-jima) lies in the south arm of the Fraser River. It was the site of an early salmon cannery built in 1884 and owned by Alexander Ewen. The name of the island may refer to the Lion brand of sockeye salmon produced at this plant.
In 1902 a colony of Japanese fishers and their families settled on the island and on neighbouring Don Island (known in the Japanese community as Oikawa-jima) under the leadership of Jinsaburo Oikawa, an entrepreneur. The colonists exported salted salmon and salmon roe, produced soy sauce and sake, cleared farms and worked at the fishery. Oikawa returned to Japan in 1917 and the colonists gradually abandoned or were forced from the islands during WW2.