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Fort Vancouver was built as a fur trading post and was the HQ of the Hudson's Bay Company
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This made John McLoughlin very angry to the point where McLoughlin supported the Americans fully to take the Oregon Territory.
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The Oregon Territory was split in two. The larger northern of the two is now mostly BC. The rest of the Oregon Territory is now Washington. James Polk, the American President, was promoting the idea so that America's border can be expanded.
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Started off as Fort Victoria. much like the mainland, it suffered through massive debt and was united with the mainland by Britain to try and kill two birds with one stone. Shame that it didn't kill even one of them
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This marked the beginning of the gold rush, shame that very few people actually got rich off mining for gold.
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This is the colony of BC BEFORE the union of Vancouver Island and Mainland BC
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James Douglas wanted the road built so that the gold leaving the area was taxable, however it when the gold rush ended, BC's debt just plummeted even further.
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We're now an entire province, yay
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BC is now part of Canada thanks to Anthony Musgrave who co - opted the anti - confederationists.
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William Van Horne had to move the terminus because Port Moody was not the ideal place to put the terminus as the terrain was too shallow for ships
