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.

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 ...

Culture How the Fraser River Gold War Changed Canada Claiming the Land shows how an American invasion upended relations with Indigenous people.

Gold rush on the water: Sockeye is mankind’s preferred salmon species, and as luck — and other indiscernible factors — would have it, the coveted fish are returning in droves to the Fraser ...

The Canyon mine portion of the paleo-channel, south of the Fraser River, was heavily prospected following the gold rush of 1860. During 1919 and 1920 a sizeable hydraulic operation was active and ...

The river has been bringing salmon and water to people along its banks throughout the ages, and it always draws adventure seekers ...

The history of the dispute between natives and developers over British Columbia’s Sun Peaks ski resort can be traced back to the 1858 Fraser River gold rush. The struggle by Aboriginal people to have ...

Reminder of B.C. gold rush 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.

Only a few hundred Europeans had ventured to the B.C. mainland before the Fraser River Gold Rush in 1858. Suddenly thousands of miners flooded the area, creating the need for maps and charts to ...

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.