Unit 3

After Confederation

Skill Builders Targets

What factors led to British Columbia joining Confederation?

Vocabulary

historical perspective

magistrates

province

Creative Commons

After Confederation, many newcomers were lured to the Canadian prairies by the promise of good farmland.

However, some newcomers wanted to go to mountainous British Columbia for one thing — gold.

Click on the link below to watch the video, Sam Steele, from the Heritage Minutes Collection, for an introduction to the gold rush.

Sam Steele

teenagers with computer

Digging Deeper

To learn more about Canada’s gold rush, click on the link to watch the video "Fraser River Gold Rush".