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Vancouver history

The Lower Mainland was originally home to various First Nations peoples (belonging to the Coast Salish linguistic group) when George Vancouver explored the area in 1792. In the 1820s, European settlers set up a fur and salmon trading post at Fort Langley, east of present-day Vancouver.

Gold rushes in 1858 bolstered the local population; the town itself grew around a saw mill and the transcontinental railway terminus. The city was known as Granville for a while but, in 1886, it was renamed Vancouver.

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