History 2201E Lecture : THE PACIFIC COAST 1860S.doc
22 Mar 2012
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Introduction: like last week"s lecture on the northwest, this lecture on the region that became british columbia takes us back to the period of first contact between. First nations and europeans, and forward in time to the 1860s. The first part of the lecture compares this contact zone with earlier contacts in eastern canada and the. Northwest, and then shows how and why the region almost became part of the us. Focusing on james douglas, the father of bc, the lecture also explores the question of race relations in a frontier setting. The last part of the lecture deals with economic and political changes as the colony diversified and struggled and a handful of people made decisions about its future. First nations on the pacific coast: numerous, hierarchical, prosperous, acquisitive. Europeans arrive overland from the northwest: fur traders and explorers and rivalry with us traders.
