Gold was first discovered in the Thompson River by a member of the Shuswap (now The attempt,” as miner Thomas Seward wrote. For this large, unemployed class of miners, news of any gold strike “was enough to send hundreds of men into the wilderness to make their fortunes or to die in Glory days of the California Rush were marginalized by capital-intensive hydraulic mining. Unlike the Cariboo Gold Rush (1861–67), which attracted many Canadians, the Fraser Rush was an extension of California mining society.īy the 1850s, placer mining in California had depleted free gold. By 1852, miners had been driven out of Haida Gwaii by the local Indigenous peoples. Sir James Douglas announced that the unauthorized removal of gold would result in criminal and civil They wanted little to do with anything that would upset the fur trade’sĭelicate balance and attempted to suppress any news of gold strikes. The population of Fort Victoria doubled overnight with the influx of miners, but the HBC was not especially welcoming. Most of them were employed by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). There were only a few hundred settlers at Fort Victoria on Vancouver Island. News of gold strikes in the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) trickled out in 1850, sending the first Britain established Fort Victoria in 1849 to assert its sovereignty in the West after the loss of territory in the 1846 Oregon Treaty, which established the American/British boundary at the 49th parallel. Prior to 1858, the population of New Caledonia was between 40,000 and 50,000 people, mostly Indigenous peoples.Įuropeans had arrived in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. 'Fraser River Gold Rush', Last Edited August 09, 2019, Īn 1858 advertisement from a San Francisco newspaper claimed that merchants had succumbed to Fraser River “gold fever.” (courtesy Daniel Marshall) Background Marshall, Daniel P., and Laura Neilson Bonikowsky, and Eric Wright.Article published NovemLast Edited August 09, 2019. Marshall, Daniel P., and Laura Neilson Bonikowsky, and Eric Wright, 'Fraser River Gold Rush'.Marshall, D., & Bonikowsky, L., & Wright, E., Fraser River Gold Rush (2019).

The Canadian Encyclopedia, 09 August 2019, Historica Canada.

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