British Columbia's frenzied gold rush had started in 1858 - after California's gold fever had broken - on the Fraser River near Lillooet, about 250 miles south of Wells. During the next four years ...

adjunct assistant professor of history at the University of Victoria and leading Fraser River Canyon Gold Rush expert. “Not only does it pass so many different climatic environmental zones ...

Globe recently wrote an acclaimed social history of the 1858 gold rush, Gold, Grit, Guns (Ronsdale Press). It’s based on the four known diaries of the Fraser River Gold Rush. Two are in ...

The routes to the upper Fraser River country already in use are several. Those heretofore most frequented are by river to Fort's Hope or Yale, and thence by long and tedious trails over mountains ...

One such stretch lies along the highway that traces the Gold Rush Trail between Quesnel on the Fraser River and Barkerville ... mix with school groups. (The history of both the Fraser Canyon ...

By the end of the decade, the Islands’ gold rush was declared ... along the Thompson and Fraser Rivers: “In addition to the diggings before known on Thompson’s River and its tributary ...

The 1858 Fraser River War and its long aftermath are not ... The 1849 California gold rush pulled thousands of Americans all the way to the Pacific. By the time news of B.C. gold reached San ...

There’s little doubt this gold ... with the Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 when 30,000 American miners left the California Gold Rush to seek their fortune in B.C., on the lower Fraser River.