Provides very unique gulf islands diving and gulf islands cycling. In 1805, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) opened their first trading post in the region at Hudson's Hope in the north. In 1808, when Simon Fraser visited the communities along the mouth of the Fraser River, he thought he had found the Columbia River. The names of these two explorers are indelibly printed in the history of British Columbia, adorning hotels, rivers and street signs. Provides very unique gulf islands diving and gulf islands cycling.
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The two major fur trading companies, the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company amalgamated under the HBC in 1821. Provides very unique gulf islands diving and gulf islands cycling. 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. Soon, instant towns sprang up and grew to become flourishing boomtowns. The legacy of these prospectors can be found in the many Ghost Towns that dot the Interior today. Provides very unique gulf islands diving and gulf islands cycling.