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THE TŜILHQOT’IN WAR
DATE: 1864
For a time, English colonization in what is now British Columbia had little direct effect on the Tŝilhqot’in First Nation. The colony was centred in Victoria and New Westminster, while the Tŝilhqot’in lived far away in the Interior.
That changed with Alfred Waddington. The British aristocrat arrived in 1862 with money from investors in Victoria and a plan for a road between Bella Coola and Fort Alexandria. The Cariboo Gold Rush was at its peak, and the road would give miners a shorter route to the goldfields. It would also cross Tŝilhqot’in territory.
Victoria had recently…
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