The BC Gold Rush had profound effects on BC. Without it happening, we might have become just another part of the US. Even thought parts of eastern Canada had been settled for 250 years, British Columbia was not included on maps. The Gold Rush brought so many people here, they didn’t have a reason not to put it on maps. There are many different claims from people who want to be known as the person who first found gold in BC. Some say that natives traded gold dust since 1852. Others say that Donald
largest in the country. denoting somebody from (in Dutch: "van") Coevorden, an old city in The Netherlands. Vancouver was first settled in the 1860s as a result of immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, particularly from the United States, although many immigrants did not remain after the rush. The city developed rapidly from a small lumber mill ... ... middle of paper ... ...Free Zone. Aviation Located in Richmond, Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is the principal international
The first Chinese immigrants travelled to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in British Columbia. The next group of immigrants from China were labourers to work in Canada. They were mainly brought in to help build the Canadian Pacific transcontinental railway. In the year the railway was completed the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 and a head tax was created to control the increasing amount of immigrants. This was mainly due to the pressure from British Columbia, where they felt that the immigrants were
The Rocky Mountains are an incredible mountain range located in North America in the Western Hemisphere. The mountain range stretches from northern Colorado and into southwestern Canada. It is home to a diverse ecosystem, both geographically and biologically and is revered as a monumental landform worldwide. The geologic history of the Rocky Mountains has come about as an aggregation of millions of years. Briefly speaking, the formation of the Rockies transpired from hundreds and millions of years