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Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia, Canada, and is preserved as a historic town.It is located on the north slope of the Cariboo Plateau near the Cariboo Mountains 80 kilometres (50 mi) east of Quesnel.
Many Americans returned to the United States at the opening of the Civil War. Others went on to the Fort Colvile Gold Rush, Idaho Gold Rush, and Colorado Gold Rush. Some went elsewhere in the Intermontane West, including other parts of British Columbia, in addition to those who had come and gone during the advent and wane of the Cariboo rush.
By the time the depression came to an end only a handful of miners lived at what was the former gold rush boom town called Granite Creek. By the 1960s the last of these miners in Granite Creek had passed on and the townsite became a ghost town of British Columbia. Only a very few partial log buildings stand on the original site. [4]
Cassiar Gold Rush; seat of Cassiar Mining District 500 Derby: Old Fort Langley Fraser Valley: Metro Vancouver founding of Colony of British Columbia-Fraser Canyon Gold Rush: 40 (now rural area in Langley) Discovery: Cassiar: Donald: Revelstoke: Columbia-Shuswap
The Cariboo Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Colony of British Columbia, which later became the Canadian province of British Columbia. The first gold discovery was made at Hills Bar in 1858, followed by more strikes in 1859 on the Horsefly River, and on Keithley Creek and Antler Creek in 1860. The actual rush did not begin until 1861, when ...
The Omineca Gold Rush was a gold rush in British Columbia, Canada, in the Omineca region of the Northern Interior of the province. Gold was first discovered there in 1861, but the rush did not begin until late in 1869 with the discovery at Vital Creek .
Bennett, British Columbia, Canada, is an abandoned town next to Bennett Lake [1] and along Lindeman Creek (formerly known as the One Mile River). The townsite is now part of the Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site of Canada and is managed by Parks Canada. [2]
Yale is an unincorporated town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, which grew in importance during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Located on the Fraser River , it is generally considered to be on the dividing line between the British Columbia Coast and the Interior regions of the British Columbia Mainland.