- 2026-10-08The Ponderosa Pine occurs in Canada only in British Columbia where it has adapted to a zone of low summer…
- 2026-10-08When John M. Robinson, a former Manitoba legislator and newspaper editor, came to the South Okanagan in 1898, he found…
- 2026-10-08A valley north and south, a sandspit east and west - this was the crossroad of the centuries. Down the…
- 2026-10-08Once called 'The Beaver Plains', this townsite was named in honour of Dr. G.M. Dawson, outstanding Canadian geologist and scientist,…
- 2026-10-08In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie and North West Company adventurers discovered this route through the Rocky Mountains. During 1805-08 Simon Fraser…
- 2026-10-08Seeking a route to the Pacific Ocean, this resolute fur trader and explorer, with his party of 9 men and…
- 2026-10-08This natural prairie once was beaver country, the trapping area of the Beaver Indian, Pooscapee. The park-like beauty and rich…
- 2026-10-08In 1898 a North West Mounted Police party laboured northward past here blazing an overland route from Edmonton to Dawson…
- 2026-10-08Israel W. Powell, M.D., 1836-1915, whose name is honoured here, was a consistent supporter of the movement which led B.C.…
- 2026-10-08Captain George Dixon, whilst seeking sea-otter pelts from the native Haidas, named these islands in 1787. Because of an expected…