Robert Dunsmuir arrived in BC in 1851 and worked for various mining companies until 1869. On November 8, 1869, J.W. Trutch, the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works received an application for a prospecting office from Robert Dunsmuir. The licence application was for prospecting “coal on the land adjoining Departure Bay near Nanaimo." Governor Anthony Musgrave approved the application on December 4, 1869. This was the basis of the Dunsmuir fortune. Join BC Archives government records manager, Michael Carter, to learn more about this important moment in BC history in our latest episode of This Week in History!

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