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New Caledonia Hist.

• 1 Nova Scotia.

  • 1754  De Laet calls the peninsula New Caledonia, not New Scotland, into which Charlevoix has changed it. . . .

• 2 the name given by Simon Fraser (in 1808) to what is now the central and northern parts of the interior of British Columbia, which comprised a department of both the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and was one of the great areas of the fur trade.

  See also: Siberia of the fur trade  

  • 1815  (1890)  Mr. James Stuart after crossing to the Columbia is again returned to his old quarters, New Caledonia.
  • 1905  (1954)  New Caledonia was a name given by the Highlanders of the Northwest Company to the east-central portion of the present province of British Columbia, comprising Fraser, McLeod, Stuart Lakes.
  • 1963  Gold was found in the mid-1850s at several points in New Caledonia, a fur-trading reserve whose only white inhabitants were a few score servants of the Hudson's Bay Company

• 3 the name given in 1858 to the British colony comprising much of the mainland of present-day British Columbia.

  • 1858  (1907)  If the name of New Caledonia is objected to as being already borne by another colony or island claimed by the French, it may be better to give the new colony west of the Rocky Mountains another name.
  • 1921  Objection had been taken to the name of New Caledonia, by which title the mainland was usually designated, although New Caledonia was more properly the northern interior of British Columbia.
  • 1958  For this is a province of extremes and it comes as no surprise to learn that this country of New Caledonia, which is steeped so thoroughly in the past, is now being tagged as The Land of the Future.