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from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
The measure, part of a wave of legislation to crush demonstrations against new oil and gas infrastructure, will reach the governor’s desk Monday.
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from The Orca
News & Media Website in B.C.
The Vancouver Island Exploring Expeditions of 1857 & 1864 – Part 1
Gold! This was the quest of not one, but two expeditions that crossed Vancouver Island from east to west during the mid-nineteenth century – both from Cowichan Bay and along the river of the same name – to Kaatza (meaning the “Big Lake” in the Hulqu’mi’num language) and beyond in search of the elusive metal. When the first “Indian diggings” were confirmed by Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor James Douglas in the Interior of what would become British Columbia (a year or two before the 1858 Fraser River gold rush) he soon began to wonder whether gold might also be found in Vancouver Island. Certainly, there had been a limited gold rush to Haida Gwaii in the 1850s, but no serious gold reconnaissance of Vancouver Island by non-Indigenous exploring parties, even though the founding of the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1849 had been the direct result of the massive California Rush of the same year.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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