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3 unusual facts about Colony of Vancouver Island


Colony of Vancouver Island

Despite his sympathy for the plight of neighboring Indian peoples, Kennedy authorised naval bombardment of the Ahousahts of Clayoquot Sound in 1864 in reprisal for the murder of the crew of a trading vessel.

The result was that emigration was slow, and the landless labourers frequently fled the colony either to obtain free land grants in the United States, or work the newly discovered goldfields of California.

Hugh Burgoyne

Burgoyne was Commander on HMS Ganges under Captain John Fulford during that vessel's service in the waters of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia during the fledgling years of the latter colony's establishment.


Adam Grant Horne

Adam Grant Horne (1829 – August 10, 1901) was a Hudson's Bay Company employee at the Colony of Vancouver Island, a municipal politician and a businessman.


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