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The oldest plank house village found is located in Kitselas Canyon at the Paul Mason Site in western British Columbia, Canada. This village is estimated to be 3,000 years old. At the Maurer site in British Columbia the remains of a rectangular building have been excavated, providing artifacts which date the site to between 1920 and 2830 BCE. [1]
Semiahmoo society did not have a formal political structure. The First Nation was divided into politically and economically independent households. Each plank house held several families united by bonds of kinship. There were also two classes—an upper and lower—of free men and a class of slaves. The upper-class free men had inherited ...
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874). The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest of North America also built a form of longhouse. Theirs were built with logs or split-log frame ...
Hey, Love the history bits about Capt. Cook and his observations. Great info, pronunciation, in depth research and descriptions. They help to discern the differences between our image of the "long house" and what is actually a plank house. Thank you. And, 4000 BC do you mean? Great info, and well writing in the Wikipedia style.
"Lighthouses of Canada: Southern British Columbia". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals Canadian Coast Guard. Retrieved 19 March 2017; British Columbia Canada Lighthouses Lighthouses Friends. Retrieved 19 March 2017
In July 2005, Parks Canada, in cooperation with several members of the Ktunaxa Nation conducted archaeological investigations at the site of Thompson's Kootanae House, near Invermere BC. Kootanae House was David Thompson's first post constructed in the Columbia Basin and his "jumping off point" for further explorations throughout the region. [4]
The foundation is mandated to oversee the maintenance of Government House's property and all the structures on it; the acquisition, either on loan or permanently, of British Columbia artworks for display in the royal residence; the management of official gifts to the lieutenant governor or monarch in right of British Columbia; and public ...
Tappen is an unincorporated community in British Columbia.The settlement is located on the shores of Shuswap Lake. [2] It is colloquially known as "Rust Valley", and is the location of the TV show Rust Valley Restorers. [3]