ROAD TRIP

JULIA ALESSANDRINI

JANUARY 16/2015

Julia Alessandrini January 30/2015 Social studies 10

Once back in the time fort Vancouver was homed to both the fur trades and the fighters. Fort Vancouver is located just across the Columbia River, the fur trading camp found the Hudson Bay Company in 1825. Fort Vancouver became the HBC’s main trading post in the Oregon Territory. Fort Vancouver would be in American territory. In 1851, Douglas became the governor of the newly formed colony of Vancouver Island.

Fort Victoria was a fur trading

post founded by the Hudson’s

Bay Company (HBC) Vancouver

Island in 1843. As a product of

today's society it may be hard

for us to imagine how a small

Hudson's Bay Fort began over

150 years ago.

Fort Langley is a village community

with a population of 3,400. Just like

fort Vancouver was also the trading

post. Now located in the community

of fort Langley. Fort Langley is the

captain of New Westminster. Lying on

the Fraser River.

It's been hit by lightning, plugged with rocks, short-circuited, silenced by work stoppages and even (briefly) stolen but Vancouver's famed old Nine O'clock Gun has—as faithfully as circumstances have allowed—boomed out the time of day from its home in Stanley Park for 107 years now.

While the population of Kanakas in Maple Ridge likely never exceeded ten families, at one time, there was still a substantial settlement. They soon made their own small settlements on the Fraser River witch is Maple Ridge today. In both downtown Vancouver and near the sawmills of North Vancouver, in downtown Victoria, and on Salt Spring Island, which was one of the first places where land was opened to settlement.

James Douglas urgently needed non-

American immigrants who would be loyal

to the British Crown. In California were

unhappy because of restrictive immigration

policies of the California government, the

didn’t like this because how they treated

slavery and beatings, insults and legalized

injustice. Many people would settle on

farm where they would start a family and

then get their children education.

Black

Chinese workers had made their way to Canada for some decades before the 1870s, but it was the promise of work on the transcontinental railway that brought Chinese to Canada in large numbers. In 1907, Japanese and Canada agreed in a “Gentleman’s Agreement” to limit Japanese immigration to Canada to 400 people a year. Many Chinese laborers lived in Chinatown only between jobs. Often they were away from Vancouver for months at a time working at seasonal jobs, like lumbering or canning fish.

Sikhs are now far more dispersed than they were for the first sixty years of this century. Sikh pioneers found an opening in British Columbia’s lumber industry, which was expanding rapidly when they first arrived. These pioneers, as highly mobile workers far from home. They were willing to do seasonal outdoor work at $l.00 or $l.50 a day. They would work so hard for this much.

In the 19th century, people were just as influenced by the dream of instant wealth. Thousands had immigrated to Canada or the United States with the hope of finding a better life. What is a gold rush well a period of intense migration of people to an area where gold has been discovered.

Mining, especially the discovery of gold, was the beginning of the development of British Columbia's industries. Today, the underground coal mines are gone, but open pit coal mines in the Southeast and Northeast parts of the province.

Fishing- Fishing has been an economic mainstay in British Columbia for thousands of years. Fishing isn’t a big think to people anymore there a low percent. The percent also not so high.

AgricultureMost of the best agricultural land is located near the large population centers in the lower Fraser Valley, the Okanagan Valley, and the Thompson Valley. Agriculture began and developed to supply meat, vegetables and dairy products to people who earned their living in the resource industries of mining, forestry and fishing.