Chapter 5
The United States and Canada
Exploring Canada

Section 3: British Columbia: Ties to the Pacific Rim

A. As You Read
Directions: As you read Section 3, complete the statements below.

1. Each of the first groups to come to British Columbia had a complex society and its own customs.

2. The first European explorers to arrive in the late 1500s came to trade.

3. The lives of the indigenous peoples in British Columbia were not changed as much by trade with Europeans as by the discovery of gold.

4. Victoria's population doubled overnight when 450 miners arrived.

5. The reason that boomtowns sprang up in the Cariboo region was because the government built a highway to the region.

6. By the late 1800s, Canadian law banned indigenous peoples' customs, religions, and languages.

7. Today, indigenous peoples are demanding land and political rights.

8. In 1881, Canadians began work on a railroad that would link Montreal and Vancouver.

9. Many people who live in British Columbia today feel that their future lies with the Pacific Rim countries, not with the rest of Canada.

10. Forty percent of British Columbia's trade is with countries in Asia.

B. Reviewing Key Terms
Directions: For each definition below, write the key term in the blank provided.

11. A tall, carved, wooden pole that contains symbols of a group, a clan, or a family of indigenous peoples

totem pole

12. A town that grows very quickly to serve the needs of miners

boomtown