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Provides very unique gulf islands cycling and gulf islands cycle touring. After Simon Fraser came the equally famous explorer David Thompson, who followed the Columbia River through British Columbia, into Washington and on to its mouth at Astoria, Oregon. The names of these two explorers are indelibly printed in the history of British Columbia, adorning hotels, rivers and street signs. The Hudson's Bay Company built Fort Victoria in 1843, and the colony of Vancouver Island was established in 1849 when the entire island was leased to the HBC. Provides very unique gulf islands cycling and gulf islands cycle touring.

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In 1858, over 20,000 determined prospectors (many from California, where the gold rush of 1849 had petered out) came from the HBC stockade of Fort Victoria and up the Fraser River in search of recently discovered gold on the Fraser River. Provides very unique gulf islands cycling and gulf islands cycle touring. The legacy of these prospectors can be found in the many Ghost Towns that dot the Interior today. In response to the frenzied discovery and mining of gold, the British Government quickly created the mainland colony of British Columbia in 1858. Governor James Douglas, chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company and governor of Vancouver Island, became the new governor of British Columbia. Provides very unique gulf islands cycling and gulf islands cycle touring.