In the second segment of this six-part series, we investigate the mystery surrounding the first Canadians definitively proven to have disembarked on Canadian shores – Chinese sailors and craftsmen brought to Vancouver Island in the 1780s by English mariner John Meares and his North West America Company. Were these settlers enslaved by the Spanish or killed by the Nootka? Or did they intermarry with the natives and form their own clan – the mysterious ‘China Indian’ tribe?

0:00:00 – Anthology of American Strangeness
0:02:16 - Chinese Canadians
0:05:07 – The Nootka Crisis
0:15:45 - The China Indian Tribe

My good friend and fellow researcher, Kevin Guhl, has just published his first book – a collection of forgotten tales from the United States entitled ‘Thunderbirds, Lost Temples and Skeleton Ghosts: An Anthology of American Strangeness, Vol. 1’. If you’d like to get a copy of this book, please check out the links below:

For Americans:

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For Canadians:

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