HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homosociality, Miscegenation, Canadian Shield
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These anxieties need to be placed in perspective against the catastrophic results of european- introduced diseases on aboriginal people. It is estimated that british columbia"s rich resources had enabled between 100,000 and 200,000 aboriginal people to live there before european contact. By the late nineteenth century that population was only 27,000. Explorers along the coast: russians (1728), spanish (1774), british captain james cook (1776) Rupert"s land over the rockies to the coast. Establishing the colony of vancouver island: the hudson"s bay company wanted a formal right to develop the region. In 1849 it negotiated with the british government, which created the crown colony of. Victoria: a second discovery of gold in the early 1860s, this time in the cariboo country of the mainland extended and expanded the gold mining frontier. 2: gradually men attracted to the gold fields found other opportunities in the salmon fisheries, lumbering, agriculture, and coal mining.
