Did You Know?

That British Columbia was once called New Caledonia.

That archaeologists found evidence that people were living in British Columbia 10,500 years ago.

That First Nations and early traders couldn’t understand each other so people made up a new language called Chinook Jargon.

That the City of Vancouver was once a tiny sawmill village called Gastown.

That camels once ran wild in BC.

Gastown prior to the great fire of 1886. Gordon Miller illustration