United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia was the name informally given to the de facto amalgamation of the two crown colonies from 1866 until their incorporation into the Canadian Confederation in 1871.The Colony of Vancouver Island had been created in 1849 to bolster British claims to the whole island and the adjacent Gulf Islands, and to provide a North Pacific home port for the Royal Navy at Fort Victoria. By the mid-1850s, the Island Colony's non-indigenous population was between 500 and 1000 a mix of mostly British,…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia was the name informally given to the de facto amalgamation of the two crown colonies from 1866 until their incorporation into the Canadian Confederation in 1871.The Colony of Vancouver Island had been created in 1849 to bolster British claims to the whole island and the adjacent Gulf Islands, and to provide a North Pacific home port for the Royal Navy at Fort Victoria. By the mid-1850s, the Island Colony's non-indigenous population was between 500 and 1000 a mix of mostly British, French-Canadian, Metis, Hawaiians, but with handfuls of Iroquoians and Cree in the employ of the fur company, and a few Belgian and French Oblate priests. Three years earlier, the Treaty of Washington had established the boundary between British North America and the United States of America west of the Rocky Mountains along the 49th parallel.