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.

“The Fraser River is an incredible geography,” observes Daniel Marshall, PhD, adjunct assistant professor of history at the University of Victoria and leading Fraser River Canyon Gold Rush expert.

The 1849 California gold rush pulled thousands of Americans all the way to the Pacific. ... Maps of the Fraser River showed the miners’ names, not Indigenous names.

A trio of artifacts from the 1858 Fraser River Gold Rush, including one of four known diaries of the gold rush, a photograph of the miner who wrote it and an American 50-cent piece dated 1858 ...

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The Fraser River gold rush of 1858 brought disease and hardship to First Nations, but it also included the devastating loss of many young Stó:lō boys who were kidnapped and taken to the United States.

“The Fraser River has paid a high price for our comfort and prosperity;” B.C. author Alan Haig-Brown wrote in his 1996 book on the river, “its health is in serious danger.

Learn about the history of BC’s Gold Rushes from the 1858 Fraser River Gold Rush, the 1862 Cariboo Gold Rush, to the Klondike Gold Rush of 1899. Coquitlam Heritage will provide a look at gold ...

A small brick building close to the water in Bellingham, Washington, has strong ties to the Fraser River gold rush and the 1858 boom in Victoria. Bellingham - then called Whatcom - had its own ...