Fraser Canyon Gold Rush - Wikipedia
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton.
The Fraser River Gold Rush - U.S. National Park Service
These men were the advance guard of an estimated 25,000-40,000 Californians who rapidly uprooted their lives and traveled vast distances into uncharted territory to extract riches from the challenging environment of Canada’s Fraser River Valley.
Fraser River Gold Rush - The Canadian Encyclopedia
2006年11月27日 · In 1858, around 30,000 gold seekers flooded the banks of the Fraser River from Hope to just north of Lillooet in British Columbia’s first significant gold rush. Although it dissipated by the mid-1860s, the Fraser River Gold Rush had a significant impact on the area’s Indigenous peoples and resulted in the Fraser Canyon War .
Fraser River | Map, Gold, History, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月27日 · Fraser River, major river of western North America, draining a huge, scenic region of some 92,000 square miles (238,000 square km) in central British Columbia. About 70 percent of the region drained is over 3,000 feet (900 m) high, and human exploitation of this rather isolated area has been
The Mighty Fraser – River Of Gold – BC Gold Adventures
The Fraser River has been a source of placer gold for more than 150 years. The Department of Mines of British Columbia reported a yield of $28,983,106 in the period from 1860 to 1869. This placer gold at today’s price would be worth more than 290 million dollars .
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush - British Columbia - An Untold History
A gold miner panning near Yale, an old prospecting town on the Fraser River, about 25 kilometres north of Hope. Within a year of the word getting out about the discovery of gold, some 30,000 gold-seekers arrived in Victoria on their way to the Fraser's goldfields.
History - Gold Rush Trail - British Columbia Shaped by Nature
In 1857, gold was discovered in the Fraser River, and in the spring of 1858, James Douglas sent 800 ounces of gold to the San Francisco Mint knowing what word of the gold’s arrival would trigger. There are no secrets in a gold town and rumours of a new gold rush began to spread.
The Fraser River Gold Rush and the Founding of British Columbia
2013年8月1日 · Many believed it was only a matter of time until the United States extended its reach north to Russian America, the future Alaska. There matters stood when news leaked out of the discovery of gold in sandbars of the Fraser River. The first arrivals in the spring of 1858 were mostly experienced miners from the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush - British Columbia History
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, also known as the Fraser River Gold Rush, was a gold rush that began in 1857 and continued until the mid-1860s. It was sparked by the discovery of gold along the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada.
British Columbia's Fraser River: Land of Gold and Splendor - BBC
Once named “New Caledonia” by Fraser, Europeans considered this part of the B.C. mainland a remote fur trading territory of the Hudson’s Bay Company - that is, until word spread in the late-1850s...