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The building was officially reopened in 1931, and was dedicated as the Museum of B.C. Historical Relics in Memory of the Pioneers, or the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum in 1932. [3] Operated by the Native Daughters of British Columbia, the museum houses artifacts and curiosities from Vancouver's past, and First Nations art. [4]
Four sites at the heart of CFB Esquimalt: Her Majesty's Canadian (HMC) Dockyard, the former Royal Navy Hospital, the Veterans’ Cemetery and the Cole Island Magazine; illustrative of years of naval history, from the era of the British Royal Navy to the modern Royal Canadian Navy: Estate of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia [33]
website, local history, also Haney House Museum, a late 19th-century period house Maritime Museum of British Columbia: Victoria: Capital: Maritime: Mascot Gold Mine: Hedley: Okanagan-Similkameen: Mining: Seasonal tours of the mine and mine buildings Mayne Island Museum: Mayne Island: Capital: History: Local history, located in a former jail [13 ...
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 ...
Building or complex Built Location Architect Father Lacombe Chapel: 1861 [1]: St. Albert: Fr. Albert Lacombe: Clerk's Quarters: 1865 [2]: Fort Victoria: George Flett: Rocky Mountain House Chimneys
Keatley Creek is a significant archaeological site in the interior of British Columbia and in the traditional territory of the St'at'imc peoples. It is located in the Glen Fraser area of the Fraser Canyon ranchlands, about 18 miles from the town of Lillooet on a benchland flanking Keatley Creek, whose name derives from a former ranch owner, and from which the site takes its name.
The explorations of James Cook and George Vancouver, and the concessions of Spain in 1794 established British claims over the coastal area north of California. Similar claims were established inland via the explorations of such men as John Finlay, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, Samuel Black, and David Thompson, and by the subsequent establishment of fur trading posts by the North West ...
X̱á:ytem [1] (/ ˈ h aɪ t ə m, ˈ h ɑː ɪ t ə m /) is an indigenous archaeological site and the name of a related museum run under the auspices of the Stoːlo people at Hatzic, British Columbia, Canada. X̱á:ytem is approximately 80 kilometres east of Vancouver on Highway 7.