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The letter gives a report of the state of colonial trade, weather forecasts and native relations. Despite the letter stating native-colonial relations to be amicable, something of sour note may have occurred between Native and colonial settlers two…

This document, written in 1850, describes a very different situation at Fort Rupert then that of the previous source pertaining to this location. Richard Blanshard, Governor of Vancouver Island, sends a dispatch to London, notifying them of the death…

This source is a printed newspaper from The Daily Colonist, a British colonial newspaper in British Columbia. One of the columns in this volume discusses an event in which two missionaries from the north-west are accused of teaching the indigenous…

The map displays the area that would come to be known as Pearl Harbour. It shows that mapmakers may have used local knowledge (in this case place names) to effectively map out the territories which they were interested in exploiting. This is also…

A rusted gold sifting pan. Equipment used in sifting gold by hand. Tools such as the gold pan allowed gold prospectors to sift for gold on their own, without the need for a team to operate large machinery. It also allowed prospectors to test the…

A base map from the City of Vancouver Engineering Department with the City’s parks hand-coloured in green. The base map was created in 1978, with the hand drawing demarcating the City’s parks added in 1980. The map identifies city blocks, the…