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Rockslide in Quebec City, September 19, 1889. August 1 – Alexander Davie, Premier of British Columbia, dies in office. August 2 – John Robson becomes premier of British Columbia. August 12 – The Canada (Ontario Boundary) Act, 1889 of the British Parliament expands Ontario's boundaries west to the Lake of the Woods and north to the Albany ...
The colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island amalgamate and then enter Confederation as the Province of British Columbia, Canada's sixth province. Except for individual treaties for small portions of the territory, the agreement annexes a large area of land into Canada without treaties with the First Nations. [62]
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The first European visitors to present-day British Columbia were Spanish sailors and other European sailors who sailed for the Spanish crown. There is some evidence that the Greek-born Juan de Fuca, who sailed for Spain and explored the West coast of North America in the 1590s, might have reached the passageway between Washington State and Vancouver Island – today known as the Strait of Juan ...
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Hugh Nelson; Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – James Cox Aikins (until July 1) then John Christian Schultz; Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Samuel Leonard Tilley; Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Matthew Henry Richey (until July 8) then Archibald McLelan
Sir Sandford Fleming House (1866–1871), Brunswick St., Halifax, Nova Scotia In 1827, Fleming was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland [2] to Andrew and Elizabeth Fleming. At the age of 14 he was apprenticed as a surveyor and in 1845, [3] at the age of 18, he immigrated with his older brother David to colonial Canada.
By 1900, Vancouver displaces Victoria, the provincial capital, as the leading commercial centre on Canada's west coast. 1898 The 9 O'Clock Gun is placed at Brockton Point (it still signals the time by being discharged every evening at 9:00 p.m. precisely). The Province newspaper founded; J. S. Matthews, later city archivist, settles in Vancouver.