The Royal Engineers in early BC history
Channel: BC History
Date: 29/04/2014

In 2009 the BC Provincial Capital Commission did a series of short history docs about various aspects of BC.  With the end of the PCC in March of 2014 it is not clear what will happen to these videos so I thought would post them to ensure they remain online.

Mini-doc on the Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers, sent to British Columbia in 1858 to undertake a program of public works, townsite surveys and road building.

Some links to the Royal Engineers
http://www.royalengineers.ca/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Engineers,_Columbia_Detachment
http://members.shaw.ca/rkcampbell/
http://cariboogoldrush.csp.net/site/en/index.php?area=primary&source=engineers
http://www.bcheritage.ca/cariboo/people/royal.htm

Here is the link to the BC PCC original video
http://youtu.be/rJQyvXI3tnk

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Please watch: "Royal visit 1939 drive by on Kingsway at Marlborough in Burnaby May 29th" 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0ANezSxLo
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