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Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser discovers the river in which now bears his name- The Fraser River -
The Nine O'Clock Gun
The Nine O'Clock Gun is made by H & C King in Woolwich. -
tready of 1818
The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary and the restoration of slaves between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, was an international treaty signed in 1818 between the United States and the United Kingdom -
James Mcmillan
James Macmillan of the Hudson's Bay Company, with a party of men, struck out into the interior of the province from the mouth of Surrey's Nicomekl River. They went up the Nicomekl until their boats could go no farther, then portaged to the Salmon River, which flows into the Fraser about 50 kilometres east of its mouth. -
The Hudson's Bay Company
opened Fort Vancouver on a bluff above the north bank of the Columbia River where the city of Vancouver, Washington is now located, directly across the river from Oregon State. The fort becomes the company's western headquarters. -
hbc establishes fort langley
Fort Langley is a former trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, now located in the community of Fort Langley opposite McMillan Island.[1] Commonly referred to as "the birthplace of British Columbia", it is designated a National Historic Site of Canada and is administered by Parks Canada. -
James Murray
took command of Fort Langley and a Hudson's Bay Company farm was established at Langley Prairie. The farm will become very successful, shipping salted salmon to Hawaii. -
Beaver
The Hudson's Bay Company steamship Beaver leaves England for Burrard Inlet. Burrard inlet become important trading post -
The Beaver arrives from England
six months after leaving. It is the first steamship to reach the Pacific Ocean. -
Fort Camosun
The Hudson's Bay Company establishes Fort Camosun at the southern end of Vancouver Island. By December it will be known as Fort Victoria. -
oregon tready
The Oregon Treaty[1] is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. Signed under the presidency of James K. Polk, the treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly occupied by both Britain and the U.S. since the Treaty of 1818. -
The first dairy farm in Greater Vancouver was operated in Ladner by Alexander McLean
After being flooded out in 1853 McLean moved his family and their 50 cows to the west bank of the Pitt River in what is now Port Coquitlam -
James Douglas
Governor James Douglas announced the discovery of gold in British Columbia. Not long after, the first of 25,000 American prospectors arrive. -
fraser canyopn gold rush
he Fraser Canyon gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1857 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton. The rush overtook the region around the discovery, and was centered on the Fraser Canyon from around Hope and Yale to Pavilion and Fountain, just north of Lillooe -
Gassy Jack
John “Gassy Jack” Deighton, born in Hull, Yorkshire, started working in B.C. as a steamship operator in the late 1850s. This is important due to the gold rush and it being the first saloon in vancouver -
colony of british columbia
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866. At its creation, it physically constituted approximately half the present day Canadian province of British Columbia, since it did not include the Colony of Vancouver Island, the vast and still largely uninhabited regions north of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, or any of the coastal islands. -
new west
New Westminster is a historically important city in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, Canada, and is a member municipality of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. It was founded as the capital of the new-born Colony of British Columbia in 1858, and continued in that role until the Mainland and Island Colonies were merged in 1866 -
Queensborough was proclaimed as the site of the new capital of British Columbia
. Later it will be renamed New Westminster. (Historical coincidence: Oregon became a state on the same day). -
Coal was discovered
The Royal Engineers arrived in British Columbia. They will have a great impact on early Metropolitan Vancouver, overseeing the construction of roads and bridges. The Engineers contract to have the “North Road” built -
bc and vancouver island unite
The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866. At its creation, it physically constituted approximately half the present day Canadian province of British Columbia, since it did not include the Colony of Vancouver Island, the vast and still largely uninhabited regions north of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, the regions east of the Rocky Mountains, or any of the coastal islands. -
hastings mill
Hastings Mill was a sawmill on the south shore of Burrard Inlet and was the first commercial operation around which the settlement that would become Vancouver developed in British Columbia, Canada. In 1867, Captain Edward Stamp began producing lumber in Stamp's Mill at the foot of what is now Dunlevy Avenue after a planned site at Brockton Point proved unsuitable due to difficult currents and a shoal -
Weekly stage service is established between the Brighton Hote
the cpr added a hotel to there service. they had locations all over the railroad but the most famous were in Vancouver and banff -
Victoria.
The capital of the colony of British Columbia is moved from New Westminster to Victoria. -
gas town
Gastown is a national historic site in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the northeast end of Downtown adjacent to the Downtown Eastside.[1][2] Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks) -
Louis Gold is the first Jew among the merchants of newly emergent Gastown
simon fraser was the first European to get to vancouver but Louis gold was the first Jewish man -
John Jessop
Superintendent John Jessop visited the school at Fort Langley. The teacher, James Kennedy, was in the process of being fired, the school was about to close because of mosquitoes, and there were no maps or blackboards -
CPR is Completed
The last spike of the CPR is driven down in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
