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Agassiz
- History
Barkerville
Gold Rush Trail and the Historic Town of Barkerville
Canadian
Navy of Yesterday and Today
These
pages are intended to present information about the ships and aircraft
of Canada's navy, from its inception in 1910 until present day.
Cariboo
Sentinel -- Barkerville, Williams Creek
The
stories of the gold rush and the historic town of Barkerville
Cassiar
- Do You Remember?
This
site is devoted to the now-closed company mining town of Cassiar,
British Columbia, Canada and its former residents.
First
Newspapers on Canada's west coast: 1858-1863
The
first modern printing press on what is now Canada's west coast came to
the British colony of Vancouver Island on the mad tide that was the
Fraser River gold rush of 1858. It arrived in the tiny community of
Victoria from San Francisco, and so did hordes of American prospectors,
storekeepers, outcasts, land-sharks and other opportunists. . . .
Fort Langley
- a
Brief History
Fountain
(Xaxlip) and the Great Bend of the Fraser River
Fraser River Gold Rush
Greenwood
- city of Greenwood
Greenwood,
BC, the smallest city in Canada is on route Highway #3, located in the
west Boundary Area between the Okanagan and Kootenay in southern British
Columbia. Incorporated in 1897, Greenwood was the hub of gold
mining exploration in the Boundary Country. Mining history,
heritage buildings and industrial ruins form part of Greenwood's
culture.
Gulf
Islands - a brief history
Kelowna
- a pictorial history
The
Life and Times of Henry Hudson - explorer and adventurer
This
is a collection of data about, and a chronology of the life and voyages
of English explorer, mariner and adventurer, Henry Hudson, as well as
some additional notes on his times, contemporaries and his crew. it was
compiled from numerous sources by Ian Chadwick, 1997-2001.
Nelson
- Historical Characters of Nelson
Who
killed William Robinson?
William
Robinson was a real person, a Black American who was murdered on Salt
Spring Island in the British Colony of British Columbia in 1868. He had
arrived in the Colony a decade before, as part of a contingent of Black
Americans fleeing persecution and slavery in the years leading up to the
American Civil War.
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