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THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1846, the artist Paul Kane leaves #Jasper House on his way across the Rocky Mountains very late in the season -- so late, in fact, that an early snowstorm almost prevented them from reaching the Boat Encampment. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #ABHistory #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/paul-kane-7/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-flood/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-flood/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-flood/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-flood/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The old location of Fort Alexandria was in a different location than I have previously understood it to be, and so that changed the story of the Fort Alexandria flood that was the result of a landslide along the Fraser River. But there were two landslides.... #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-alexandria-flood/

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

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

I'll post some belated stuff today; my last full day off before returning to work tomorrow.
One of my search & rescue friends took me away for an off grid day hiking adventure yesterday & we got home last night.

#Carmanah Point #LightStation was established in 1891. The first #lighthouse there was built of wood & attached to the keeper's housing. The present tower was built in 1920 of concrete & remains in operation. The area is said to be named for the upstream #Nitinaht village. It is said the name means "thus far upstream".

In Summer 2024, #Canadian Fisheries & Oceans along with the #CoastGuard announced that the light station was seismically unstable & would be destaffed before the end of the year. On Oct. 25, lightkeepers were removed from the station. The decision to destaff the station has been met with heavy criticism from various local authorities, including local governments, indigenous leadership & industry leaders.

#VancouverIsland #VanIsle #Mariners #Nautical #EmergencyLight #BoatersSafety #MarineSafety #JuanDeFucaTrail #Westcoast #PacificNorthwest #CowichanValley #Cascadia #monochrome #photography #PNW #BChistory #WildernessSafety

I spent 3.5 months here in my first #CivilDisobedience action in my teens. Which led to a lifelong commitment to protect all old growth in BC.

Produced by Nettie Wild, Song by Bob Bossin. Featuring the 1993 Clayoquot Sound (Kennedy River Bridge) Logging Blockades.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_olVLUgKI

#ClayoquotSound #WarInTheWoods #ColonialResistance #Landback #Environmentalists #blockade #BChistory #BCForestryReform #BCpoli #CDNpoli #NoJusticeNoPeace #StopDeforestation #SaveOldGrowth #StopEcocide #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Tofino #VancouverIsland #Ucluelet #NatureFirst #WildFirst #Solidarity

THE HBC BRIGADES JOURNAL, 1826:
"The party going by that route consists of the three above-mentioned Gentlemen & 13 Men. They are to convey to Hudson's Bay about 44 pieces of Furs & Castoreum, and in order to accelerate their passage from hence to the East end of the Rocky Mountain portage #PeaceRiver, and to add strength to the party in case of an attack from the Beaver Indians, four additional Men accompany them as far as the last mentioned place. #HistoricJourney #BritishColumbia #BCHistory

THE HBC BRIGADES, BLOGPOST:
Fort Shepherd was built on the Columbia River just north of the Washington State boundary line, and south of #Traill #BC and #Castlegar. It is part of our #BritishColumbia #History, even if it didn't exist for many years. #BCHistory #Blogpost http://nancymargueriteanderson.com/hbc-buildings/

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1847:
"Last night started about 10 o'clock and pulled all night. Had a favourable breeze in the day time which took us through the remainder of the #Arrow Lake about noon. Has been a fine day. Encamped a little below the Pend-d'Oreille River. #Castlegar #TrailBC
"Thursday. Beautiful clear weather. Breakfasted at Dease's Encampment and arrived at Fort Colvile a little after noon. Had the boats hauled up on the beach and the pieces taken out. #BCHistory #WAHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1848:
"Warm. Breakfasted at the foot of the Little Dalles, and encamped about ten Miles above the Pend-d'Oreille River #TrailBC #Castlegar #BC
"Wednesday. Exceedingly warm and last night the Columbia River rose about a foot. Sailed for a short time in the afternoon. When we got to the lower Lake had a light favourable breeze, and encamped about 15 miles from its entrance. #ArrowLake
"Thursday. Warm. Had a light fair wind for 2 hours... #BCHistory #BritishColumbia

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNAL, 1827:
"Foggy morning but fine day. Started at half past 4 am. Paddled thro' the 1st Lake (about 2/3 of it) down the River and encamped a little way in the 2nd Lake at 5 pm. #ArrowLake Gummed one of the boats. Saw Indians.
"14th. Had a shower of rain but day generally fine. Embarked 2 am. Proceed thro' the 2nd Lake and re-entered the #ColumbiaRiver about 2 pm. Encamped some distance below McGillivray's [Kootenay] River. #Castlegar #Trail #BCHistory #AmWritingHistory

YORK FACTORY EXPRESS JOURNALS, 1847:
"Cloudy, threatening weather, but only a few drops of rain. Two or three peals of thunder in the afternoon. Wind still ahead, although light. Camped 2 miles above the Kootenay River #Castlegar #BC
"Sunday. Fine day. Came to the first Lake before breakfast and camped in the evening nearly at the upper end of #LowerArrowLake #ArrowLake. Strong head wind all day.
"Monday. Started this morning at 2 o'clock, and had a strong breeze.. #BCHistory #BritishColumbia

#SilentSunday

#abandoned #FishCannery front #door with #window - looking into #decaying interior & the ocean beyond.

*turn phone sideways for full view*

#monochrome #BlackAndWhite #WorldInMyEyes #MyPerspective #MyPhotography #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #AlertBay #CormorantIsland #BCCoast #BCNorthIslands #CoastalBC #SmallTown #NamgisTerritory #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #Photography #RoadTrip #BCHistory #OldBuildings

#ThrowbackThursday to the year 1900, where it was still just as cool to take a picture with your cat as it is today. Here is Edith Pope and her fuzzy friend posed for a portrait!
(P01680)
#MapleRidgeMuseum #MRMuseum #MRM #MapleRidgeBC #MapleRidge #BCMuseums #BCHistory #BCHeritage

#abandoned #AlertBay #shipyard #building - kitty corner from #NamgisTerritory original burial grounds. It's falling apart. Lots of items still left inside the locked building.

#BCShipbuilding #BChistory #CormorantIsland #BCCoast #BCNorthIslands #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #GalentinesWeek #WorldInMyEyes #MyPerspective #samsung8 #CellphonePhotos #MyPhotography

The old #AlertBay #courthouse - #built in 1923 - #multifunctional #building - operated as a #PoliceStation , #jail & RCMP housing. It's now a private residence.

#history #CormorantIsland #BCHistory #BCCoast #BCNorthIslands #BritishColumbia #Canada #PNW #PacificNorthwest #NamgisTerritory #NamgisNation #GalentinesWeek #RoadTrip

#VictoriaBC based #documentary explores the important role of #BlackPioneers in #BritishColumbia #history .

Secret Victoria: Rush to Freedom was created by Vancouver-based producer Anthony Brown and Telus Originals director Melinda Friedman.

It looks at how a rush of #black #immigrants in the 1850s helped shaped the Victoria we know today.
https://youtu.be/B7tvk15vzKU

#BlackFriday #AntiRacism #EducationIsKey #KnowledgeIsPower #BLM #Awareness #StopRacism #POC #KnowBetterDoBetter #BCHistory

For #BlackFriday - please consider #learning from this #timeline of #BlackHistory in #BritishColumbia #Canada 🙌

https://bcblackhistory.ca/learning-centre/bc-black-history-timeline/

#BlackMastodon #POC #AntiRacismEducation #decolonization #learnAboutHistory #KnowledgeIsPower #EducationIsKey #BLM #BCHistory #BlackPioneers #Awareness