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THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The Nicola Valley is a large flat grassland that lies between two ranges of hills. It is covered in trails, both Indigenous and HBC brigade trails, and everyone who worked at #Kamloops or who rode out with the Brigades rode through this valley. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicola-valley/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continue their descent of the Columbia River in two small canoes. This is the first time Work has been West of the Rockies, and he describes vividly what he sees here. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continue their descent of the Columbia River in two small canoes. This is the first time Work has been West of the Rockies, and he describes vividly what he sees here. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continue their descent of the Columbia River in two small canoes. This is the first time Work has been West of the Rockies, and he describes vividly what he sees here. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continue their descent of the Columbia River in two small canoes. This is the first time Work has been West of the Rockies, and he describes vividly what he sees here. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
John Work and Peter Skene Ogden continue their descent of the Columbia River in two small canoes. This is the first time Work has been West of the Rockies, and he describes vividly what he sees here. #YorkFactoryExpress #Journeys #BCHistory #WAHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/arrow-lakes/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
At the top of the Tulameen Plateau and just above Rhododendron Flats, Anderson's Tree (which of course was named for Alexander Anderson) sits on the edge of a mountain lake. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/andersons-tree/

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

On April 6, 1980, the #Canadian #Farmworkers #Union came into existence. This film documents the conditions among #Chinese and #EastIndian #ImmigrantWorkers in #BritishColumbia that provoked the formation of the union, and the response of growers and #labour contractors to the threat of #unionization. Made over a period of two years, the #documentary film is eloquent testimony to the progress of the #WorkersMovement from the first stirrings of militancy to the energetic canvassing of union members.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/time-to-rise/

#CanadianImmigrants #BCHistory #CanadianHistory #UnionStrong #Solidarity #Racism #EmployerExploitation #WorkersRights

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

One year before the #ChineseExclusionAct was brought into effect, locally the #VictoriaBC #SchoolDistrict voted to #segregate #Chinese #students from the school system.
In 2022, on the 100th anniversary, the #GreaterVictoriaSchoolDistrict issued an #apology for this & the #ChineseCommunity marched to #commemorate the actions of students who walked out in protest of the segregation.
https://www.cheknews.ca/reflecting-on-the-history-of-chinese-canadians-in-victoria-for-asian-heritage-month-1154069

#AsianMastodon #yyj #ChineseInCanada #BChistory #CanadianHistory #racism #discrimination

#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