Google Maps Settlement Assignment

The Kanakas Settlement

                The Kanakas are Hawaiian natives that were called up to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company. By 1827, they had built Fort Langley. There were 6 Kanaka people that worked on building the fort. While working on the lower mainland, many of them married First Nations women, mostly from the Kwantlen. These families crossed the Fraser to settle and began crossing the river every day to get to work. This gave Kanaka Creek its name.

Black Settlement

                Black people first settled in British Columbia in 1818, when they were given permission to trade and settle in the Columbia District. The black people in the district were not allowing French Canadians in and didn`t agree with marriage of white people with black people. In California, the black people weren`t being treated properly even as free citizens. The policies were too strict, so they left to seek a new home.

The Jewish Settlement

                The Jewish people immigrated to British Columbia from 1850 to throughout the 1890s. They wanted to work for the British Empire because they knew the British Empire had jobs available with developing the territories in Canada. During the mid-1860s, Victoria had a good agricultural ground. The Jewish people were accepted nicely as well as many other different races and religions. The first synagogue in Victoria was built in 1863, and roughly half of the building was funded by people that weren`t Jewish.

The Sikh Settlement

                In 1897, the first Sikhs to enter British Columbia had arrived, But they weren`t there to settle. They were there to travel through Canada to commemorate Queen Victoria of England`s Diamond Jubilee. Later in 1902, Punjabi soldiers came through British Columbia to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII. But the group led by Sardar Major Kadir Khan Bahadur thought settling there wasn`t a bad idea. They were happy with immigrating to Canada because the agriculture was very rich like their homeland.

The Chinese Settlement

                The Chinese began to settle in British Columbia during the Gold Rush in 1858. They came in large groups from California. But in 1885 the Canadian government began taxing the Chinese if the wanted to come in. Starting at fifty dollars they taxed them. When the amount of people still immigrating didn`t decrease, they increased it to one hundred dollars. That still didn`t decrease the numbers, so they increased the tax even more, up to five hundred dollars.

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