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THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Once they made their way past Anderson Lake, Anderson and his men stumbled across a First Nations village where the people offered them food and transportation. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/potlatch/

THE. YORK FACTORY EXPRESS: FORT VANCOUVER TO HUDSON BAY, 1826-1849
In 1823, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden travelled West to the Columbia district in the years before the York Factory Express existed. At the height of the mountain range, they begin their journey on foot down the Big Hill to Boat Encampment, on the Columbia River. #Journeys #YorkFactoryExpress #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twenty-two/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson and his small group of men followed the Fraser River down to the stream that flowed out of Seton Lake, before walking to the west along the north sores of both Seton and Anderson Lakes. They were on their way to #FortLangley, and they did arrive at the place, but the trail was not a good route. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/anderson-seton-lakes/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
In 1846, Anderson set off to explore the country between #Kamloops and #FortLangley, searching for a new route for the brigades. It was important that he understood what the requirements for a brigade trail were. #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/hbc-brigades/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
South of #Kamloops, the outgoing HBC brigades made their way south through the Grand Prairie, and passing #Okanagan Lake they made their way all the way south to Fort #Okanagon, on the Columbia River. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #BCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/brigade-six/

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 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

#WindowsWednesday

Side windows on the First Metropolitan United Church building.

The Metropolitan Methodist Church was founded in Victoria in 1859. Following the establishment of the United Church in 1926, the church became the Metropolitan United Church.

#NorthParkCommunity #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #windows #fenetre #HeritageBuilding #BrickBuilding #HistoricalBuilding #architecture #Churches #WorldInMyEyes #DisabledPhotographer #VanIsle #YYJhistory #BChistory

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