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Jan 18, 2017 · The American mining company Phelps Dodge jumped in at the opportunity. A large swath of land several hundred acres in size was prepared for the town of Kitsault, and a massive construction project, on a scale that had never been seen in Northern British Columbia, began. Ships arrived with building supplies into Kitsault’s deep water fiord.
2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in China. 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the oldest living tree and organism on earth as of 2020 the Methuselah Tree, the second-oldest known organism. Sprouting in what would become Inyo County, California.
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Jul 26, 2021 · 3 min read. By Binny Paul, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Terrace Standard. Kitsault — a remote, abandoned northwestern B.C. town along the coast of the Observatory Inlet has captured the...
The “last spike” of the Canadian Pacific Railway was hammered by Lord Strathcona at Craigellachie, British Columbia. This fulfilled a government promise to connect BC to Eastern Canada via a transcontinental railway. Among the workers who built the railway were 15,000 labourers from China, many of whom died during the railway’s construction.
The history of British Columbia covers the period from the arrival of Paleo-Indians thousands of years ago to the present day. Prior to European colonization, the lands encompassing present-day British Columbia were inhabited for millennia by a number of First Nations . Several European expeditions to the region were undertaken in the late 18th ...
Jul 20, 2021 · VOYAGES MADE IN THE YEARS 1755 ET 1789, FROM CHINA TO THE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. In 1778, the Nuu-chah-nulth people living at Yuquot on the west coast of what is now Vancouver Island encountered Captain James Cook, who set foot on the land that would become British Columbia. Ten years later, the British built a trading post at Nootka Sound.
Jul 10, 2023 · At the Battle of Corupedium in 281 BC, former allies faced each other as enemies. Almost 40 years had passed since Alexander the Great breathed his last that fateful day in 323 BC. In his lifetime this Macedonian had forged one of the largest empires the world had yet seen.
