The Boston College School of Social Work’s (BCSSW) Research Program on Children and Adversity (RPCA) will collaborate with the University of Illinois at Chicago for a project that aims to provide mental health and familial support for Afghan refugees resettled in the United States, according to BC News.
Joseph William McKay was an enterprising and active employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was also a government official. The 1860s was a transition period for Kamloops and area. The Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade was giving way to a mercantile economy supplying miners, ranchers, and entrepreneurs. The Fraser River and Thompson River Gold Rush was still in force and the Cariboo Gold Rush was about to unfold.