David Oppenheimer the Father of Vancouver

The five Oppenheimer brothers came to California and opened up several of their own stores to trade goods with gold miners, much like most Jewish immigrants to North America at that time. Soon one of the brothers Charles Oppenheimer heard about the gold rush in British Columbia and went to investigate, in a year the rest of the brothers joined him and opened up a trading firm in Victoria and soon in Barkerville as well. When the gold rush was dying down David saw the possibility of Burrard Inlet becoming a great port in the future, but only if the railway ended in Vancouver. Even though Va…