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James Douglas makes a series of 14 land purchases from Aboriginal peoples. The Douglas Treaties cover approximately 576 square kilometres of land on Vancouver Island. Aboriginal peoples are paid in blankets and promised the rights to hunt on unsettled lands and to carry on fisheries “as formerly.” A policy is set to allow no more than 10 acres of reserve land per Aboriginal family—settlers are allowed 320 acres

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Vancouver Island is established as a British colony. The crown grants the land to the Hudson’s Bay Company, which becomes effectively wedded to the Crown. (TFN)

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George Vancouver makes contact with Nisga’a.

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Captain Cook lands on the coast of BC and claims the land for Britain.

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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 is issued by King George III. The proclamation recognizes Aboriginal tribes as owning their lands under British sovereignty in North America. The Crown must sign treaties with individual Aboriginal nations before acquiring lands for European settlement. (TFN)

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Aboriginal settlements with increasingly
complex cultures exist in all areas of
British Columbia.

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Portugese Corte Real seizes 50 Aboriginals, perhaps Micmac, from the Canadian Maritimes and sells them for slaves in Lisbon, and a French ship brings seven Aboriginal men...to France as curiosities...three Aboriginal men, hawks, and an eagle are taken to England for display...” (Kehoe: 1981, p. 228)