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  • 2026-10-08
    Honoured and remembered for her teachings, this Laxsgiik (Eagle Clan, House of Sinaxe’et) matriarch held great rights and responsibilities in…
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    British Columbia's early law makers strove to emphasize the English origins of the province's legal system in newly-settled areas. In…
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    Constructed in 1912-1913 during the Victoria building boom, this structure originally opened as the Royal Victoria Theatre, owned by a…
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    This elegant sternwheeler is the oldest intact passenger steam vessel of its type in the world. The machinery and the…
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    This oldest surviving mission church in the Vancouver area has long been a focal point of the Mission Reserve. Chief…
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    In the 1860s and 1870s, Sewell Moody became the first entrepreneur to engage in the export of British Columbia lumber…
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    In 1894, Alfred Wallace founded a one-man boat-building company that, by the early 1950s, had grown into one of the…
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    A career Imperial civil servant, Anthony Musgrave served as governor of Newfoundland (1864-69) and British Columbia (1869-71). Both terms of…
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    Trained with the militia here at Fort Rodd Hill, Currie went on to become a pivotal figure in Canada’s war…
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    Born in the Scottish Highlands, Simpson joined the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820. In 1821 he became governor of the…