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(A view point on the Vancouver Horseshoe Bay Highway)
Before you lies one of the most intricate coastlines in the world. Into this sheltered straight, ageless domain of the Indian, sailed Jose Narvaez in the year 1791. Other Spaniards and George Vancouver followed. Fighting wind and tide, they charted this remote maze of waterways – a milestone in the mapping of the world.
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(At Annieville, on South Arm of Fraser River, south of Vancouver)
This site, on the world’s greatest sockeye salmon river, lured many pioneer canners in the late 1860s and early 1871s. Pre-eminent was Alexander Ewen, a founder and first president of BC Packers, who established a cannery here in 1871. The new salmon canning industry thrived on exports to foreign markets until by 1900 it was among the most important in the province.
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(10 miles north of Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal, Highway 99)
The P.G.E. derived its name from England’s Great Eastern Railway. Begun by private interests in 1912, it was acquired by the province in 1918 when the builders ran into financial difficulties. Opening between Squamish and Quesnel from 1921, it was extended to Prince George in 1952, to North Vancouver in 1956, and to Dawson Creek and Fort St. John in 1958.
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(At the intersection of the Buttle Lake road and the John Hart Dam road, 4 miles west of Campbell River)
On a hot day in July 1938, an ominous smoke pillar near Gosling Lake signaled a forest fire which was to ravage 115 square miles of logged and timbered land. Over 1500 firefighters battled grimly for weeks to save timber and communities. Costs and damages were enormous. Reforestation, intensified by the Forest Service, helped to heal...
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(At Metchosin Schoolhouse, about 15 miles west of Victoria)
In spring, 1872, classes began in Metchosin Schoolhouse with Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher teaching 7 girls and 3 boys. On land donated by John Witty, and with its $300 cost shared equally by local settlers and the colonial government, it was the first new school building opened in British Columbia after Confederation. In regular use to 1914 and reopened in 1942, it finally closed its doors in 1949.
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