Bella Coola Sunset
by Barbara St Jean
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Title
Bella Coola Sunset
Artist
Barbara St Jean
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
The Nuxalk people were present in the Bella Coola valley prior to any formal written history of the area. This is confirmed both by oral history that continues unbroken to present day, and by written history of some of the first European explorers of the area.
In 1793, Alexander MacKenzie arrived from the east, completing the first recorded crossing of the continent north of Mexico.
Immigration (non-Nuxalk) to the region was sporadic and often temporary for the next century. A Hudson's Bay fur trading post was set up at the mouth of the river (the land granted to the post forms the off-Reserve portion of the present-day "townsite"), and a handful of farmers were granted land further up the valley. The trading trails of the Nuxalk and neighbouring nations became a popular route from the Pacific Ocean to central British Columbia, particularly during the Cariboo Gold Rush of the 1860s. In the 1870s the valley was surveyed as a potential Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway (Burrard Inlet was the eventual choice, its selection giving birth to the city of Vancouver).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Coola,_British_Columbia
by Barbara St. Jean, Saint Jean Art Gallery, Copyright Protected, All rights reserved.
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