 Today, the community goes by the name ʔEsdilagh, which in Tŝilhqot'in language means peninsula.During the time of the fur trade in British Columbia, many other First Nations settled in the region in order to trade with the nearby Hudson's Bay Company's Fort Alexandria.However, after two serious waves of Smallpox decimated Tŝilhqot'in populations in the late 1850s and early 1860s, the Tŝilhqot'in Nation decided it would be safest to extradite all non-Tŝilhqot'in peoples from their homeland.