Aboriginal settlement with increasing complex cultures exist in all areas of BC. 1400s European settlement begins in North America. 1744 Royal Proclamation of 1763 proclaimed Aboriginal people as “nations or tribes” and acknowledges that they continue to possess traditional territories until they are “ceased or purchased by” the Crown.

20/07/2021 · In 1858, the colony of British Columbia was established on the mainland, partially in response to the discovery of gold on the Thompson River the previous year and the ensuing gold rush, which brought up to fifty thousand gold seekers (mostly Americans from California) to the banks of the Fraser River.

In 1849, Vancouver Island was colonized by the British. Soon after, the Gold Rush attracted tens of thousands of people to the interior of B.C. B.C. was a British colony until 1871, when it joined Canada. In 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, opening the country from east to …

List of first human settlements. This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens ). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of ...

13/01/2016 · Octavian carefully considered over the next eighteen months what to do and on January 13, 27 BC, called together the First Constitutional Settlement in the Senate. He entered the chamber and declared he was retiring and returning to private life.

Up until the early 1800s, the only settlements in the area had been strictly those of the First Nations people. In 1827, the first permanent European settlement was formed at Fort Langley by the Hudson’s Bay Company, near the mouth of the Fraser River. By 1830 the fort had become a major port for the exportation salted salmon and cedar lumber.

The First Settlement needed revision and Augustus believed that it was time to make a fresh start. On the 1st of July, he resigned from his position of consul and stated that he would no longer be a regular candidate for consulship because it stretched constitutional propriety too thin, took up a lot of time (business, ceremonies, etc.) and was irritating potential political applicants.

Spanish colonization of "Alta California" began when the Presidio at San Diego, the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Coast, was established in 1769. With the expedition was Father Junipero Serra, a Franciscan Father who would have a tremendous influence in the colonization of California through the establishment of missions.