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Chapter 10 Section 3 British Columbia:
Economic and Cultural Changes
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Each of the first groups to come to
British Columbia had a complex society
and its own language and customs.
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The first European explorers
to arrive in the late 1700s
wanted to trade.
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The lives of the indigenous peoples in British Columbia were
not changed as much by trade with Europeans, as by the discovery of gold!
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Victoria’s population
doubled overnight when
over 400 miners arrived.
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Boomtowns sprung up in the Cariboo region since the
government built a highway to the
region.
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Canadian laws banned
indigenous peoples’ customs,
religion and languages, by
the late 1880s.
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Canadians began to work on a railroad which would link
Montreal and Vancouver in 1881.
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Because of the
enormous size of the
project, immigrants
from all over the
world came to Canada
to find work on
the railroad.
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Many people who live in British Columbia today feel that their
future lies with other countries, not with the rest of Canada.
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British Columbia’s
location ties it to the
economy and culture of the Pacific Rim.
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Reviewing Key Terms
totem pole
boomtown
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A tall, carved wooden pole that contains the symbols
of a particular
Native American
group, clan or family is a totem pole.
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A boomtown is a settlement that springs up
quickly to serve the needs of miners.