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Peace River Gold Rush, 1861 (a.k.a. Finlay Gold Rush) Stikine Gold Rush, 1861 The Finlay and Peace-Finlay Gold Rushes prompted the declaration of the Stickeen Territories, which lay north of the colony's boundary, the line of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, extending to the 62nd parallel, west of the Rockies. Shuswap Gold Rush (Spallumcheen River)
When news of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush reached London, Richard Clement Moody was hand-picked by the Colonial Office, under Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, to establish British order and to transform British Columbia into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west" [4] and "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific."
The Cariboo Gold Region can be seen towards the northwest corner of the map (1870). The Cariboo Gold Rush is the most famous of the gold rushes in British Columbia, so much so that it is sometimes erroneously cited [1] as the reason for the creation of the Colony of British Columbia.
The epicentre of the Cariboo Gold Rush, the catalyst for the economic and political development of British Columbia; the town was eventually abandoned and became a ghost town, but restoration commenced in 1958 Bay Street Drill Hall [9] 1915 (completed) 1989 Victoria
The story of Pitt Lake gold begins in 1858, the year of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, when a number of maps were published in San Francisco promoting the gold fields of British Columbia. [1] Two of these maps show the words "gold" and "Indian diggings" in the country above Pitt Lake.
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 .
Porter Landing, Cassiar (1926) In the 1870s a gold rush occurred in the region, based at McDame Creek and at Thibert Creek, a tributary of Dease Creek.In 1874, more than a million dollars' worth of gold was taken from the region and in 1877, one prospector found the largest gold nugget ever recorded in British Columbia: a 72-ounce gold nugget, mined from McDame Creek.
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.