The Rush to BC

The year 2008 marks 150 years since the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia in 1858. In this same year, gold was discovered along the Fraser River, and brought a huge (for those days) rush of people to what is now BC. After the gold was mined out, many of the miners and shopkeepers settled here and made a living ranching, logging, fishing, farming, doing other kinds of mining, and working in the little towns and larger cities that sprang up throughout the province.

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