As happened in other parts of North America, the first explorers and settlers of British Columbia thought they'd arrived in a place without a history. Independent historian Reimer shows how Euro-Canad
Captain James Cook first made contact with the area now known as British Columbia in 1778. The colonists who followed soon realized they needed a written history, both to justify their dispossession o
For thousands of years, the broad expanse between Sumas and Vedder Mountains east of Vancouver lay under water, forming the bed of Sumas Lake. As recently as a century ago, the lake's shores stood fou
