1. Why do you think most communities are made up of different groups of people?

2.  A custom is a way of doing something.  In a community, the people in a group often share the same customs.

3.  The customs that people have are part of their culture.  The culture of a group is made up of things the people share.  They usually speak the same language and believe the same things.

4.  The people who start the community are called its founders.  A community begins when a group of people start to live together.

5.  Vancouver is a city in Canada, the country to the north of the U.S.  It is a community made up of many groups of people from different parts of the world.

6.  The Musqueam Indians were the first people to live on the land where Vancouver was built.  The ancestors of some of the people who live in Vancouver today were Musqueam Indians.

7.  Vancouver is named for George Vancouver, the British sea captain who explored the area in 1792.  He wanted Vancouver to become part of Great Britain.  He was NOT the founder of Vancouver.

8.  The founders of Vancouver, William Hailstone, Sam Brighouse, and John Morton, founded Vancouver when they built Hastings Mill there in 1865.  Hastings Mill was a lumber mill.

9.  Trees were a resource in Vancouver. There were lots of forests with many trees. These trees provided the lumber the city needed.

10.  In the 1850s miners came from the U.S. and Australia to search for gold.  In the 1880s thousands of Chinese workers came to help build the railroads.

11.  In 1904 a large group of Sikhs moved to Vancouver from India to cut trees in the forests.

12.  The Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year in February.

13.  On July 1 everyone celebrates Canada Day, the country’s birthday.  On July 1, 1867 Canada gained independence from Great Britain.