Komoks Village on the Salmon River

"It's a complicated question. When European contact happened, Kussam was a Coast Salish Village. European contact led to a decline of 90% of First Nations population due to new diseases by the late 1800's. With such a drastic reduction in population, they lost most of their key people and events like flooding left them vulnerable, so they abandoned the village in the early 20th century and consolidated with the larger Coast Salish population in the Comox Valley."