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- The Spanish and British conjointly named it Quadra's and Vancouver's Island in commemoration of the friendly negotiations held in 1792 between the Spanish commander of Fort San Miguel in Nootka Sound, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, and British naval captain George Vancouver, during the Nootka Crisis.
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With its location on the western coast of Canada near the mouth of the Fraser River and on the waterways of the Strait of Georgia, Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet, and their tributaries, Vancouver has – for thousands of years – been a place of meeting, trade, and settlement.
Hearing of the proposed border between American and British Territories, and fearing disruption of its fur trading activities in the north, the HBC built a post on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in 1843, and called it Fort Victoria.
Whereas creation of the international border between the United States of America and British North America in 1846 isolated the lower mainland from any natural geographical north-south orientation, it was the Fraser River gold rush of 1858 that dramatically reshaped the Vancouver area.
The Hudson’s Bay Company built Fort Victoria in 1843, and the colony of Vancouver Island was established in 1849 when the entire island was leased to the HBC.
On Jan. 13, 1849, the British Empire officially declared Vancouver Island a Crown colony — despite the fact that 50 different First Nations had long called the island home. Rather than establish an expensive colonial government, London struck a public-private partnership and leased the territory to the Hudson’s Bay Company(HBC) for 10 years.
May 17, 2024 · First discovered by Captain James Cook (1778), the island was surveyed in 1792 by George Vancouver and was held by the Hudson’s Bay Company until it was made a British crown colony in 1849.
2 days ago · History. Vancouver: Fort Langley. Fort Langley National Historic Site, near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The region had long been inhabited by several Native American (First Nations) peoples when a trading post, Fort Langley, was set up by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1827 near the mouth of the Fraser River.
