HIS312H1 Lecture : Lectures 7 and 8
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The hudson"s bay company and colonial beginnings on vancouver island. Abo pop decline: 100, 000 200 000 27 000 (1730-1880) Nanaimo: coal mining scottish, local, and kanaka labour. 1858: fraser river: fort hope, yale, lytton: 30 000 instantly. Indig pop larger here - presence newcomers were aware of and had to adjust to> Indig: larger pop on west than east 100 000 to 200 000. 1880s 27 000 pop diseases kill them off. Early days of exploration: began in 18th c. , first by russians who came across pacific in 1728-9 then spanish round south american tip in 1774. Fur trade opened in 18th c. and first half 19thc. Sea otter pelts, also land based pelts to asia and europe: by 1846, modern boundary of bc usa established. In this period, hudson"s bay co. important, had extended westward, up pacific coast, by sea and over land, exploited fur resources of bc www. notesolution. com.
