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
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
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
