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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."
During the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858–1860, 10,500 miners and an untold number of hangers-on populated its banks and towns. The Fraser Canyon War and the series of events known as McGowan's War occurred during the gold rush.
Route of the Okanagan Trail. Dotted lines are alternate routes to the lower Fraser Canyon. The Okanagan Trail was an inland route to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush from the Lower Columbia region of the Washington and Oregon Territories in 1858–1859.
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. Immediately north of the town ...
The Fraser Canyon War, also known as the Canyon War or the Fraser River War, was an incident between white miners and the indigenous Nlaka'pamux people in the newly declared Colony of British Columbia, which later became part of Canada, in 1858. It occurred during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, which brought many white settlers to the Fraser ...
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)
The site of the former boomtown is situated near the right bank of the Fraser River, between Yale and the mouth of Emory Creek. [2] The eponymous bar was the first active placer mining site at the onset of the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush , and was the scene of the Boatmakers of San Francisco claim, which included Ned McGowan of McGowan's War , and ...
Solid line is Whatcom Trail, dotted line is Skagit Trail Only settlements extant in 1858 are shown. The Whatcom Trail was an overland trail from the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858.