#Human remains found on Vancouver Island have opened a door into a lost world

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“#Human remains found on Vancouver Island have opened a door into a lost world” On a sunny day in August, at the controls of a Komatsu 300 excavator, 32-year-old Jesse McKay was pulling up a gnarled and rotted old-growth tree stump on the north side of Washer Creek, just outside Union Bay, a sleepy old…

#How the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Canada’s history—and its borders

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“#How the Hudson’s Bay Company shaped Canada’s history—and its borders” In this painting, Ambassadress of Peace, Thanadelthur negotiates peace between Chipewyans and Cree, paving the way for HBC’s expansion (Ambassadress of Peace by George Franklin Arbuckle for HBC, c. 1953. Image Courtesy of HBC Corporate Collection) If there ever was a commercial enterprise that Canadians…