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1860

1861

The Cariboo Gold Rush

Raucous gold rush towns pop up across the Cariboo

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1862

The Bentinck Arm Road

A planned route to B.C.'s goldfields sparks the Tsilhqot’in War

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1862

The 1862 Smallpox Epidemic

The deadliest outbreak in B.C. history devastates the local Indigenous population

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1862

The Cariboo Wagon Road

B.C.’s first megaproject, “the eighth wonder of the world”

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1862

Hannah Maynard’s Studio

An unconventional woman becomes one of the province’s most prolific photographers

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1862

B.C.’s First Synagogue

Congregation Emanu-El becomes the centre of Victoria’s early Jewish community

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1862

Barkerville's Chinatown

Thousands journey from China in search of “Gold Mountain”

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1864

The Tŝilhqot'in War

A nation defends its land from an encroaching colony

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1864

Joseph Trutch

Bigoted aganst Indigenous people, Trutch shrunk reserves and refused to recognize Aboriginal title

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1864

Judge Begbie Hangs Chiefs

A conflicted man hands down death sentence to Indigenous warriors

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1865

Colonies Hang by a Thread

Significant debt puts the future of B.C. and Vancouver Island in doubt

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1865

Hastings Sawmill Opens

Vancouver’s oldest building watches a city grow from the ground up

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1866

The Colonies Unite

Drowning in debt, Britain's twin colonies begrudgingly become one

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1866

Mifflin Gibbs Elected

An American businessman becomes B.C.'s first Black elected official

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1867

Dominion of Canada Forms

Business and political hopes align in the British North America Act

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1867

U.S. Purchases Alaska

A newly-American Alaska spurs fears of annexation

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1868

Amor de Cosmos

An eccentric politician advocates for B.C. to join Canada

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