FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It did rain a lot
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Tribe members traveled and gathered water from neighboring regions
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The large Columbia and Fraser Rivers they lived near
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Ritual ceremonies where tribes raindance to please the rain gods
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Fraser River is the longest river in British Columbia, stretching 1, 375 km. It begins on the western side of the Rocky Mountains at Mount Robson Provincial Park, and ends in the Strait of Georgia at Vancouver.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was different than the current flood in that it wasn’t caused by an “atmospheric river” of rain, it was caused by the run-off of melting snow. “That was a spring flood, ” recalls former Province photographer John McGinnis, 90. “A bit of a hot spell and heavy, heavy melting (of snow from the mountains).
Detailed explanation-3: -Hundreds of photographs of the 1948 flood survive in archives across the Lower Mainland, preserving a visual record of the devastation. The Fraser Valley was hit hardest, but Coquitlam was not spared from the rising waters.