Shortly after the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was pounded into place at Craigellachie, British Columbia on November 7, 1885, the first tourists arrived to witness the immense beauty ...

After completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1886, Chinese immigrants began to migrate from British Columbia to eastern Canada. Some settled in the Province of Québec where Chinese had already ...

George-Etienne Cartier said Canada would build a railway to the Pacific if British Columbia joined confederation. (Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) His support for joining Canada put ...