The Terror of the Coast

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Chris Arnett. The Terror of the Coast

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Hul’qumi’mum First Nations place names mentioned in the text.

Land Alienation and Colonial War on

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The Hudson’s Bay Company having formed an establishment on the southern point of Vancouver’s Island, which they are annually enlarging, are anxious to know whether they will be confirmed in the possession of such lands, as they may find it expedient to add to those which they already possess. 57

Earl Grey agreed that the interests of Great Britain in the region would best be served by an active policy of British immigration and colonization to check American settlement. Despite controversy over the plan, on January 13, 1849, Queen Victoria signed the grant making the Hudson’s Bay Company “the true and absolute lords and Proprietors” of Vancouver Island, “together with all royalties of the seas upon these coasts within the limits aforesaid, and all mines royal thereto belonging.” 58

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