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Powell Street was once home to Canada's largest Japanese neighbourhood
Following scandal and threats to secede, work finally starts on the transcontinental railway
17,000 Chinese immigrants work on Canada's transcontinental railway
Chief Mountain’s visit to Victoria kicks off a century-long land rights campaign
Canada makes residential schools official policy, setting the stage for more than a century of cultural genocide
An amateur ethnographer becomes a passionate early advocate for Indigenous rights
Federal government amends Indian Act, forbidding an important Indigenous practice
In 1885, the head tax was set at $50. By 1903, it was $500
A railway transforms a fledgling town called Granville into B.C.'s largest city
Not one year old, an emerging city goes up in flames
The creation of one of Canada's largest urban parks displaced scores of longtime residents
Yip Sang flees China and makes a name for himself in Canada's Pacific province
New rules allow settler canneries to prosper at the expense of Indigenous fishers
