Introduction

Compared to other places, the province we call British Columbia is not very old. The land has been around forever. And the First Nations and their ancestors have lived here for thousands of years. But the rest of us are recent arrivals. British Columbia was one of the last places visited by the European navigators who explored so much of the globe. The province itself was only created less than 200 years ago. That is a blink of an eye in the history of the world.

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