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THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden came down the raging Columbia River in small wooden canoes. Here is John Work's journal telling how these two men "fell" down the Columbia on their way to #Spokane House, their destination. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #WAHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/twentieth-leg/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Alexander Anderson led his men from #FortLangley to the place where the future Fort Hope would be constructed. East of that place, he and his men followed the Sumallo River to the historic Rhododendron Flats -- a unique grove of California Rhododendron. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/rhododendron-flats/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson returned to #Kamloops via the Fraser River east of #FortLangley. Here is his journal, following his trail up the Nicolum River and through the valley that the Hope Slide now blocks. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson returned to #Kamloops via the Fraser River east of #FortLangley. Here is his journal, following his trail up the Nicolum River and through the valley that the Hope Slide now blocks. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson returned to #Kamloops via the Fraser River east of #FortLangley. Here is his journal, following his trail up the Nicolum River and through the valley that the Hope Slide now blocks. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson returned to #Kamloops via the Fraser River east of #FortLangley. Here is his journal, following his trail up the Nicolum River and through the valley that the Hope Slide now blocks. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson returned to #Kamloops via the Fraser River east of #FortLangley. Here is his journal, following his trail up the Nicolum River and through the valley that the Hope Slide now blocks. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane travelled West with the incoming York Factory Express men, and in his later book he described his descent of the Big Hill that led down from Athabasca Pass to Boat Encampment. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-8/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, as he passed up the Fraser River, Anderson's men paddled past an enormous inland lake where many First Nations people lived in houses on stilts. The HBC men called this "Smess" and today it is named Sumas Prairie. There is no lake here anymore. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fur-traders-smess/

Huge #OrangeShirt #memorial to honour all the native kids' lives lost in the cruel #ResidentialSchool system.
On the site of one of the worst in Canada - #Namgis territory, #AlertBay. It was called St. Michael's Indian Residential School. It was demolished in 2015. #Umista Cultural Center sits on the old site. #Indigenous peoples have reclaimed their land there & are trying to heal from colonial abuses.

We have racists in #Canada who are currently dishonouring the victims of residential schools by denying survivors' histories & saying mass graves are a lie. This is so wrong. We owe the ones who died & the living survivors support & reparations. Please don't let folks use denialism around you - confront them & stand up for the victims & survivors.

Relevant links:
https://collections.irshdc.ubc.ca/Detail/objects/518

https://orangeshirtday.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Indian_Residential_School_(Alert_Bay)

https://www.umista.ca/

https://www.7generations.org/what-is-every-child-matters/

#IndigenousChildren #ColonialCrimes #ColonialViolence #ChurchAbuses #RacialViolence #IndigenousGenocide #EveryChildMatters #BelieveVictims #SupportSurvivors #NativeChildren #IndigenousChildren #ChildAbuse #ColonialCoverUps #TruthBeforeReconcilliation #Decolonization #DecolonizeYourMind #BritishColumbia #Canada #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CanadasGenocide #BChistory #CanadianHistory #StopRacism #SystemicRacism #SystematicAbuse

"Chinese and Indigenous communities have shared histories. We faced hardships together while mining for gold in the British Columbia gold rush and experiencing the rugged Canadian weather and terrain.

There are many graves on First Nations territories when Chinese people died from the flu and from the building of the railway, crushed by landslides, collapsing tunnels and premature blastings (Mittelstedt, 2014). The First Nations communities took in the Chinese railroad workers and care for their grave sites to this day (Mittelstedt, 2014). We enjoyed economic success and partnerships that were respectful and mutually beneficial (Ma, 2012). Chinese people leased lands (on First Nations) to farm and then hired Indigenous people to help farm the land (Mathur et al., 2011, p. 74). The Chinese built elaborate gold-mining operations among First Nations communities and perhaps most importantly our communities intermingled and there were many marriages between Chinese men and Indigenous women. In 1891, 98% of Chinese people in Canada lived in British Columbia (Barman, 2013, p. 1), which explains why there are such intimate ties between Chinese people and our First Nations communities in British Columbia. Unsurprisingly, one in six Chinese men created a family with a local Indigenous woman (Barman, 2013, p. 1)."

https://fccrwc.com/chinese-and-indigenous-history-relationships-canada/

#BCHistory #CanadianHistory #ChineseCanadians #Intercultural #POC #Chinese #Indigenous #Coexistence #MutualSupport #RaceRelations #DecolonizationReading #Educational #FirstNations #ChineseCanadianHistory #MixedMarriages #HistoryOfCanada #AntiRacismEducation #AsianMastodon #LearnHistory

Random confession.

Every month, for 15 years straight, I used to go to #RossBayCemetary & leave a piece of cat poop at Robert Dunsmuir's gravesite. As a symbolic gesture of my thoughts of him being a colonial capitalist POS who abused/exploited Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, Sikhs, Blacks & other immigrants for capital gains. He became a big billionaire on the backs of many dead POC peoples, who were used as slave labour. BIPOC workers were paid far less than their white coworkers - even when they worked the exact same jobs. Dunsmuir was an abusive, racist POS. I don't like it when anyone tries to praise him.

#Decolonization #VancouverIsland #BChistory #ColonialResistance #VanIsle #CoalBaron #Ecocider #Dunsmuir #VictoriaBC

The only #ruins left at #abandoned No.8 coal mine in #Cumberland. There used to be a huge building here but it was demolished in the 90s. Before it was torn down, it was a popular party place for local #ComoxValley teenagers. All the old mine shafts have been blocked off for public safety. There is still a large abandoned building that was part of this former large coal mine site but it's really deep into the forest & you need to bushwhack your way there. We had very limited time on this past road trip so I stuck to showing my friends the 2 easiest accesses to cool #AbandonedPlaces.

Eight mines used to operate at Comox, named No. 1 Mine through to No. 8 Mine. The workings consisted of boreholes, air shafts, mine entries, & underground network of tunnels. A rail network was also developed to link the ore piles with the town & Union Bay. Old rail bed remain in place today as public trails. A series of survey monuments also remains on the surface today. These have been tracked down, beginning with a concrete monument located slightly below ground in the vicinity of Cumberland Park & recorded to match the maps of the underground workings with the surface-level features today.

The mines at #Comox were technically advanced for their time, with partial mechanization & electrification well before 1900. The first documented use of electricity underground was in the No. 4 Mine in 1891, when four electrically-driven coal-cutters were installed.

Canadian Collieries (owned by #Dunsmuir family) Ltd. operated coal mines on Vancouver Island, including the Wellington Mines near Nanaimo & Comox Mines at Cumberland. Comox Mines had earlier been operated by Union #Colliery Company, the first of the mines being opened in 1888. The last of the Comox Mines, the No.8 Mine, was closed in 1953.

#BCMiningHistory #AbandonedMines #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BChistory #VancouverIslandHistory #photography #graffiti #InTheForest #No8Mine #CoalMiningHistory

Learn more about #ChiefMaquinna.

This is a collection of words, photos and video clips for Hyas Tyee #Nuuchahnulth - Chief Maquinna. A greatly respected & important Chief of the Nuuchahnulth #Haida People, of the Haida Gwaii Islands, in #BritishColumbia #Canada.

Chief Maquinna (also transliterated: Muquinna, Macuina, Maquilla) was the Chief of the Nuuchahnulth People of #NootkaSound, during the heyday of the maritime fur trade in the 1780s and 1790s, on the #PacificNorthwest Coast.

British explorer #CaptainCook went looking (like so many #Europeans before and after him)or the Northwest Passage. He ran headlong into a thriving trade and business culture on the west coast, overseen by young Nuu-chah-nulth, Chief Maquinna.

The two men's encounter would forever change trans-Pacific trade and teach the European empire a lesson in diplomacy, they've managed to forget, many times over.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkf8fIcyhyc

#BCFirstNations #ColonialBC #ColonialCanada #NativeChiefs #IndigenousChief #NativeBC #FirstPeoples #Maquinna #VancouverIsland #Nootka #VanIsle #PNW #Cascadia #ColonialResistance #BChistory #geopolitics #BCIndigenousHistory #CanadianHistory #PNWHistory #FirstNations #colonialism #BrokenTrust #TruthBeforeReconciliation #Landback #educational #HonourTheTreaties #BCpoli #CDNpoli #HistoryAndPolitics #JusticeForIndigenous