Welcome to the
website of the
Texada Island Heritage Society,
Texada Island, BC, Canada
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Texada Island rises up
out of The Straits of Georgia some forty miles west of Vancouver
between Vancouver Island and the mainland. No doubt that the first
to discover the Island were First Nations people evident by the fact
that several middens and fish weirs have been found on the west
shore of the Island. Arrowheads, spear heads and honed pieces of
slate also have been found. The Tla'amin Nation name
for Texada Island is Si’ yi yen.
In 1791 Francisco Eliza
and Dioniso Alcala Galiano, Spanish explorers, first sighted and
charted this island, Jose Maria Navarez later named the Island
Texada after his friend Rear-Admiral Felix de Texada.
British Captain, George
Vancouver, referred to the island as "Favada," but this may have
been the English translation of the Spanish "Texada."
Texada remained silent until 1871 when
Harry Trim a fisherman and a homesteader in Blubber Bay, stopped one
day to examine the rusty red area on the hillside some three miles
West of Gillies Bay. The result of this discovery and the subsequent
actions of Trim caused a scandal that rocked the Province and
overthrew the Government of Amor de Cosmos. This scandal would draw
the interest of many who would bring about the most interesting and
historical period of mining on the coast.
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