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  • The Royal Proclamation of 1763
  • Chief Maquinna Meets Cook

1800

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1800

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  • Chief Kw’eh, ‘The King’

1810

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1810

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  • Douglas Enters the Fur Trade

1820

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1820

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  • Chinook Wawa
  • HBC Arrives on the West Coast
  • Chief Kw’eh Spares Douglas

1830

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  • Hawaiians Come to B.C.
  • Chief Legaic’s Legacy

1840

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  • The Founding of Fort Victoria
  • The Fight for 54-40
  • The Oregon Treaty
  • Colony of Vancouver Island

1850

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1850

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  • 'Gunboat Diplomacy'
  • Douglas Makes 14 Treaties
  • Scottish Miners Arrive
  • The Metlakatla Experiment
  • Black Pioneers Arrive in B.C.
  • The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
  • The Fraser Canyon War
  • Mainland B.C. Becomes Colony
  • New Westminster Named Capital
  • Victoria Booms

1860

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  • The Cariboo Gold Rush
  • The Bentinck Arm Road
  • The 1862 Smallpox Epidemic
  • The Cariboo Wagon Road
  • Hannah Maynard’s Studio
  • B.C.’s First Synagogue
  • Barkerville's Chinatown
  • The Tŝilhqot'in War
  • Joseph Trutch
  • Judge Begbie Hangs Chiefs
  • Colonies Hang by a Thread
  • Hastings Sawmill Opens
  • The Colonies Unite
  • Mifflin Gibbs Elected
  • Dominion of Canada Forms
  • U.S. Purchases Alaska
  • Amor de Cosmos

1870

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  • B.C. Joins Canada
  • Race-Based Voter Inequality
  • John Deas's Cannery
  • The Inverness Cannery
  • The Indian Act

1880

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1880

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  • Birth of Vancouver's Japantown
  • Construction Begins on CPR
  • Chinese Railway Workers
  • Nisga’a Challenge Land Loss
  • Residential Schools
  • James Teit
  • Potlatch Ban Introduced
  • The Chinese Head Tax
  • CPR Ends in Vancouver
  • The Great Vancouver Fire
  • Stanley Park Established
  • Chinatown's Unofficial Mayor
  • Indigenous Lose Fishing Rights

1890

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  • Chinook Jargon Put to Paper
  • B.C.’s Population Explosion
  • Kootenay Silver Rush
  • Kamloops Wawa Published
  • Indigenous Women in Canneries

1900

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1900

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  • Steveston's Japanese Flourish
  • B.C. Fishermen Strike
  • The 'Bows and Arrows'
  • The 1906 London Delegation
  • Anti-Asian Riots of 1907
  • The 'Continuous Journey' Law
  • Japanese Immigration Limited
  • Canada’s First Sikh Temple
  • Interior, Coastal Chiefs Unite
  • Musqueam-Chinese Farms

1910

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  • The Laurier Memorial
  • Prince Rupert’s Wobblies
  • The Champion Newspaper
  • Vancouver Island Coal Strike
  • The McKenna-McBride Commission
  • Women in the War
  • The Hell's Gate Landslide
  • Komagata Maru
  • The First World War
  • The Founding of Paldi
  • (Some) Women Get the Vote
  • George McLean, War Hero
  • Helena Gutteridge
  • The Death of Ginger Goodwin
  • Spanish Flu Hits B.C.
  • First World War Ends

1920

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  • 'Chinese Exclusion Act'
  • Emily Carr
  • The Saga of Brother XII
  • Doukhobors Protest
  • The Great Depression

1930

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1930

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  • 'Indian Hospitals'
  • The Native Brotherhood of B.C.
  • Unemployment Relief Camps
  • Unemployed Workers Strike
  • The Native Sisterhood
  • The Flying Seven
  • The 'On-to-Ottawa Trek'
  • Vancouver's 'Bloody Sunday'
  • The Second World War

1940

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  • B.C.’s Forest Economy
  • Prince Rupert in Wartime
  • Canada’s Racialized Soldiers
  • Japanese Internment
  • Building the Alaska Highway
  • Shelling of Estevan Point
  • Force 136
  • The Terrace Mutiny
  • Railway Porters Make History
  • Second World War Ends
  • Native Voice Published
  • Chinese Get the Vote
  • The Story of Tomey Homma

1950

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  • The Postwar Immigrant Wave
  • Potlatch Ban Ends
  • W.A.C. Bennett Transforms B.C.
  • Cheslatta Lose Their Land
  • Doukhobor Children Interned
  • The Birth of Kitimat
  • Sinixt Nation Declared Extinct

1960

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1960

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  • Hogan's Alley
  • First Gay Rights Group
  • War Resisters in B.C.
  • Commercial Whaling Ends
  • Immigration Act Overhauled
  • Indiantown
  • The Fight to Save Chinatown
  • Dam Displaces Tsek'ehne
  • Rose Charlie and the IHA
  • The White Paper
  • Robert Davidson Raises a Pole
  • Homosexuality Decriminalized
  • B.C. Chiefs Team Up

1970

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1970

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  • Greenpeace Forms in B.C.
  • First Black Female MLA Elected
  • The Calder Case
  • George Manuel
  • Vietnamese Refugees Arrive

1980

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1980

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  • Canadian Farmworkers Union
  • AIDS Vancouver
  • B.C.'s Last Residential School
  • The Arrest of Ronald Sparrow
  • The New Wave
  • First Logging Blockade
  • Nikkei Fight for Redress
  • Women Reclaim Indian Status
  • Lyell Island Blockade
  • Expo 86

1990

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1990

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  • Vancouver Hosts the Gay Games
  • War in the Woods
  • Cecil Paul’s Magic Canoe
  • Gustafsen Lake Standoff
  • The Delgamuukw Decision
  • The Nisga’a Treaty