Provides very unique gulf islands fishing and gulf islands diving. In the Dean Channel near Bella Coola on the west coast, you can still see the rock where he inscribed Alexander Mackenzie from Canada by land 22nd July 1793. In 1794 the first white settlement in British Columbia was established at what is now Fort St, John. In 1808, when Simon Fraser visited the communities along the mouth of the Fraser River, he thought he had found the Columbia River. Provides very unique gulf islands fishing and gulf islands diving.
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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. Provides very unique gulf islands fishing and gulf islands diving. The two major fur trading companies, the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company amalgamated under the HBC in 1821. 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. 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 fishing and gulf islands diving.