Fort Victoria (British Columbia) 1924, the site of the fort was desgianted a National Historic Site of Canada. Fort Victoria (British Columbia) Fort Victoria began as a fur trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company and was the headquarters of HBC operations in the Columbia District, a large fur trading area now part of the province of British Columbia, Canada and the U.S. state of Washington. Construction of Fort Victoria in 1843 highlighted the beginning of a permanent British settlement now known as Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. The fort itself was demolished in November 1864 as the town continued to grow
Annexation Party of British Columbia Annexation Party of British Columbia The Annexation Party of British Columbia was a political party in British Columbia, Canada that sought the annexation of the Province of British Columbia by the United States of America, thus making it the 51st state of the American union. It was registered with Elections BC, the agency that conducts elections in the province, but never ran candidates in a provincial election. The party, if elected, would have provided a choice to all the residents and voters of British Columbia to begin the diplomatic negotiations for annexation. The party's founder was R. Gordon Brosseuk of