Crossing the border in 1858: Gold Rush routes from Washington to the Fraser and Thompson Rivers

• Main Author: Favrholdt, Kenneth
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2008
• Subjects: gold rush; Whatcom Trail; Hudson's Bay Company™; 49th parallel; Geography; Fraser River; Goldfields; First Nations
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wdcag/2008wdcag/2008/35

The discovery of gold along the Thompson and Fraser rivers in 1857 caused a stampede of thousands of miners into what became, by November 1858, the colony of British Columbia. As well as the Fraser River, several overland routes from Washington Territory were taken to the goldfields, including the W...