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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.
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."
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]
Queen Charlottes Gold Rush, British Columbia, Canada (1850); the first of many British Columbia gold rushes Northern Nevada Gold Rush (1850–1934) [ clarification needed ] Victorian gold rush , Victoria , Australia (1851–late 1860s).
William Barker (1817–1894), also known as Billy Barker, was an English prospector who was famous for being one of the first to find a large amount of gold in the Cariboo of British Columbia. He was also the founder and namesake of Barkerville, the most significant town during the Cariboo Gold Rush, which is preserved as a historic town.
River Trail (British Columbia) Rock Creek Gold Rush; Rock Creek, British Columbia; S. Seton Portage; ... This page was last edited on 9 August 2021, at 03:05 (UTC).
"Gold mining town of Rock Creek, British Columbia, 1860," leaf 33 from album British Northwest Boundary Commission and Related Subjects, 1859-1861 (Library of Congress). The Rock Creek Gold Rush was a gold rush in the Boundary Country region of the Colony of British Columbia (now part of a Canadian province).
But as the gold rush ended, the stores went bankrupt and finally out of business. People of Chinese descent were an important part of Barkerville life for almost a hundred years. They established a number of businesses, including the Kwong Lee Company of Victoria., [5] a general store that sold groceries, clothing, hardware, and mining tools ...
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