- 2026-10-08This magnificent estate, residence of the Crown's representatives in British Columbia, is a cultural landscape that boasts a long and…
- 2026-10-08Through her prolific writings and editorship of the journal The Canadian Nurse, this dynamic educator and administrator campaigned for the…
- 2026-10-08Although Spanish seamen had noted the Fraser estuary in 1791, when Alexander Mackenzie reached the upper Fraser in 1793 on…
- 2026-10-08Competition for sovereignty and trade drew Europeans to the Pacific Northwest coast in the 1780s. Although long known to First…
- 2026-10-08A native of the Hebrides, Mackenzie was obsessed by Peter Pond's idea a practical water route existed between Lake Athabasca…
- 2026-10-08On August 7, 1919, Captain E.C. Hoy made the first crossing of the Canadian Rockies by air from Vancouver following…
- 2026-10-08On 22 July 1793, Alexander Mackenzie of the North West Company wrote his name on this rock, signaling the end…
- 2026-10-08The first permanent lighthouse on the Pacific coast of Canada, Fisgard was erected in 1859-60 by the British and Colonial…
- 2026-10-08Harvesting of the forest has long been an important aspect of life on the Pacific Coast. The native people were…
- 2026-10-08Opened in 1889, the Victoria Law Courts was the first major public building constructed by the provincial government after union…