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POINT OF INTEREST
Many thanks to Ken Traynor for all the fact finding and counting rings on this valley giant. The 53 meter( 175ft) tree came down after several days of heavy rain and wind Dec 2014. It missed the hatchery by approximately 22 meters (75ft).
Tree | Date | Events |
1 | 1546 | Seedling sprouts among giants in the creek valley |
33 | 1579 | Francis Drake reportedly explores BC Coast on round the world expedition |
154 | 1700 | Magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami off Vancouver Island |
194 | 1740 | Russian trading begins for otter furs on west coast |
228 | 1774 | Juan Perez of Spain first puts BC Coast on a European map, pre-contact population estimates 300,000 to 400,000 |
229 | 1775 | Juan Francisco de Bodega y Quadra begins his explorations of BC Coasts |
230 | 1776 | First smallpox epidemic hammers the Island’s first nations |
232 | 1778 | Captain Cook explores Nootka Sound |
247 | 1793 | Alexander MacKenzie reaches the Pacific over land |
246 | 1792 | Vancouver & Bodega y Quadra chart the Georgia Strait |
274 | 1820 | Sea Otters virtually extirpated in Vancouver Island waters |
281 | 1827 | Fort Langley established on The Fraser River |
290 | 1836 | Island First Nations show coal deposits to James Douglas |
296 | 1842 | Fort Victoria established |
303 | 1849 | Royal Charter Grants Vancouver Island to HBC directing James Douglas to negotiate with VI tribes |
310 | 1856 | Adam Horne treks to Alberni via Big Q trail and Horne Lake |
325 | 1871 | First cannery established on Fraser River and Indian people banned from fishing commercially |
326 | 1872 | Right to vote withdrawn from BC Indians |
327 | 1873 | Agent General for BC Gilbert Sproat publishes handbook with map in London titled BC Information for emigrants |
330 | 1876 | Qualicum Band Reserve established on Big Qualicum |
337 | 1883 | E&N Land grant |
350 | 1896 | Road completed Nanaimo to Big Qualicum |
368 | 1914 | E&N RR Parksville to Courtney section completed |
374 | 1920 | Thompson&Clark logging begins Horne Lake to Deep Bay |
380 | 1926 | Bowser School by Nile Creek starts operation |
394 | 1940 | Plummer & Sutton sawmill operates on Cochrane Road |
400 | 1946 | 7.3 magnitude earthquake shakes Oceanside |
415 | 1961 | Big Q hatchery construction starts |
450 | 1996 | Inland Highway opens |
456 | 2002 | Nile Creek Hatchery built |
468 | 2014 | Storm winds bring down a valley giant |