Missions in British Columbia

I.  Exploration and the fur trade
By sea:  Juan Peréz (1774) & James Cook (1778)
By land:  Alexander Mackenzie (1793), Simon Fraser (1808), David Thompson (1811)
	Columbia River
Hudson's Bay Company 
Fort Victoria (1843) 
Colony of Vancouver Island (1849)
James Douglas (1803-77)
Informal attempts at mission
	Syncretism?
Herbert Beaver (arrives at Fort Vancouver 1836), with wife Jane
First Roman Catholic missionaries arrive (1838)
	Superficial conversions

II.  Settlement:  1858+
Fraser River
Racial attitudes

1857 	William Duncan (Anglicans’ Church Missionary Soceity) arrives Victoria
1858	Oblates of Mary Immaculate settle at Esquimalt 
1859	first Methodist missionaries arrive from Canada

A.  William Duncan (1832-1918)
	1854 begins training at Highbury college in London
Henry Venn 
Fort Simpson 
Tsimshian Indians 
First impressions
Metlakatla
Rules
	Politics
	Economy
Results

B.  Oblates
Leon Forquet 
Saint Mary’s Mission
Comparison with Duncan’s mission

III.  Results