- 2026-10-08Following the decision of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1881 to adopt the southerly route through the Rockies at Kicking…
- 2026-10-08In 1897 the Canadian Pacific Railway purchased an American copper smelter at Trail, a site proximate to supplies of lead…
- 2026-10-08James Teit was the leading ethnographer of the Interior Salish of Southern British Columbia. A Shetlander of Norse ancestry, he…
- 2026-10-08In 1942, wartime politics brought to a head mounting discrimination against some 22,000 innocent people of Japanese ancestry on this…
- 2026-10-08During the Great War, more than 200 Japanese Canadian soldiers served our country. Although not recognized as equal citizens, they…
- 2026-10-08Born in Perth, Ontario, Robson came to British Columbia in 1859. In 1861 at New Westminster he founded the British…
- 2026-10-08Born near Woodstock, Ontario, Plaskett began the first programs of astrophysical research in Canada at the Dominion Observatory, Ottawa, in…
- 2026-10-08This 1898 building, the oldest remaining municipal hall on the British Columia mainland, typifies the civic facilities erected in a…
- 2026-10-08First recorded in the report of the Palliser expedition of 1857-60, this pass takes its name from an incident in…
- 2026-10-08In 1806 the North West Company clerk, Jaco Finlay, blazed a trail over Howse Pass from the Saskatchewan to the…