Coal discovered near the Nanaimo River.Coal miners down tools at Fort Rupert, precipitating the Island’s first strike.Richard Blanshard becomes the first Governor of Vancouver Island, but resigns and returns to England after only 18 months. Vancouver Island is made a colony, and the HBC moves its headquarters from Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River to Fort Victoria.Grant, Vancouver Island’s first independent settler, buys land and settles at Sooke. The HBC builds Fort Rupert just south of Port Hardy in order to develop coal mines in the area.Paul Kane, well-known Toronto artist and Victoria’s first tourist, paints Fort Victoria and other local features.The treaty between Great Britain and the United States defines the continuation of the 49th parallel as the boundary between the two countries.James Douglas organizes a team of men who will build Fort Victoria on the east side of a sheltered harbour called the Port of Camosack.William McNeill of the Hudson’s Bay Company, captain of the Beaver, visits the Island and reports favourably on one particular area at its southern tip.They agree to name it Quadra’s and Vancouver’s Island. Captain George Vancouver and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra meet at Nootka Sound.Estevan Jose Martinez takes possession of the country in the name of King Carlos of Spain.Frances Trevor Hornby, bride of Captain Charles Barkley, becomes the first European woman to visit the Island.The Island’s first permanent resident is Doctor John Mackay, a member of a fur-trading expedition, who lives at Nootka for just over a year.Captain James Cook’s third voyage around the world includes a visit to Nootka Sound, where he becomes the first Englishman to set foot on Vancouver Island.Spanish, Russian and British explorers navigate the coast and name many of its features.Our highest mountain is named after his ship.
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