Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
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The Fraser Canyon 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 conflue
The New Eldorado: "A Complete View of the Newly Discovered Goldfields"
Cabin on the Fraser, B.C., "The Bacon is Cooked", About 1862
Fraser Canyon
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The Fraser Canyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia to the Fras
Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
…from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton. The rush overtook the region around the discovery and was centred on the Fraser Canyon from around Hope and Yale to Pavilion and Fountain, just north of Lillooet. Though the rush was largely over by 1927, miners from the rush spread out…
View of Fraser Canyon near Fountain, British Columbia
View of Fraser Canyon looking upstream from Fountain, British Columbia.
View of Fraser Canyon in the area of the Kwioek Creek (the valley coming in at left)
View of Hells Gate looking downstream, c.1955