Join Maurice Guibord for a lively presentation on this noteworthy aspect of early BC history. Attendees will also hear how the Indigenous descendants of these ranching families found their respective places during their historical journeys.

In September 1945, after the close of the Second World War, the Canadian government threatened over 10,000 people of Japanese descent with exile to Japan, a country that many of them had never visited.

The Coast Salish Peoples bred a dog known as the Coast Salish Woolly Dog for its wool. It started to disappear around the 1850s. The only known pelt of a dog, named “Mutton,” was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in 1859 where he was forgotten in a drawer for 140 years.