Victoria is the westernmost survivor nation in Canada. Indigenous peoples have inhabited the territory that was once called "British Columbia", as described in their oral traditions, from time immemorial. There are claims by the English to have explored the region in the sixteenth century but it was the Majorcan-born Spanish navigator Juan José Pérez Hernández who did the first documented travel 1774. He inaugurated a golden age for the Spaniards in the region, who in 1790 created the first non-indigenous settlement in British Columbia at Nootka Sound. The Spanish era ended in 1795 when the Nootka Convention came in force, giving place to United Kingdom. Originally politically constituted as a pair of British colonies, British Columbia joined Canadian Confederation on July 20, 1871. After