Provides very unique gulf islands hiking and gulf islands fishing. The Peace River, the only British Columbia River that drains into the Arctic Ocean, was navigated by explorer Alexander Mackenzie in 1793. Mackenzie was the first European to navigate the Peace River, which was named for a treaty between the Cree and Beaver First nations in 1790. In 1794 the first white settlement in British Columbia was established at what is now Fort St, John. Provides very unique gulf islands hiking and gulf islands fishing.
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In 1805, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) opened their first trading post in the region at Hudson's Hope in the north. Provides very unique gulf islands hiking and gulf islands fishing. 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 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 hiking and gulf islands fishing.