THE CARIBOO GOLD RUSH

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THE CARIBOO GOLD RUSH

• The New Eldorado

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GOLD WAS DISCOVERED

• 1857 First Nations people on the Thompson River
  found nuggets and brought them to the HBC store.
• James Douglas said, It was GOLD.

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THE GOLD RUSH IS ON

• The quiet town of Victoria went from 300 fur
  traders to 20,000.
• 2,800 people in a single day.
• Lots went from 50 to 1500.
• Miners from California packed up and headed north.

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VICTORIA TO GOLD COUNTRY

• Left Victoria on anything that floated.
• (canoe,raft, and rowboat)
• Fights broke out for places on steamers.
• Arrived in New Westminister.
• From there guided by First Nations or road in a
  wagon along the Cariboo Trail.

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THE CARIBOO ROAD

• Governor Douglas built a road to ensure taxable
  revenue.
• Miners would have to pass in order to get gold
  out.
• Road would also promote settlement.
• 4 hard yrs and 750,000
• Never totally recouped

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THE CARIBOO ROAD

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BARKERVILLE

• Grew up almost overnight Barkers strike of
  gold
• By 1860 5000 people largest town north of San
  Francisco and west of Chicago.
• Facilities improved as access improved.

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METHODS OF GOLD MINING

• PANNING
• Easiest and simplest method.
• Metal pan with sloping sides.
• Gold is heavy and sinks to bottom of pan.
• Wash light gravel out.
• Left with black sand and gold flakes.

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METHODS OF MINING

• ROCKING
• Faster method two person job.
• Built a box on rockers (like a cradle).
• One shoveled sand and the other poured water to
  wash it through.

-One rocker could produce 100/day. -By 1858,
500,000 worth of gold taken from the Fraser River
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METHODS OF MINING

• HYDRALIC
• Used heavy water to erode banks.
• Very environmently unfriendly.
• Used to displace great quantity of earth.

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MAIN ROUTES TO B.C.

• ROUTE ONE
• Fastest route
• Most expensive
• Sail from England to Panama Canal
• Cross isthmus by stage
• Sail North to San Francisco
• Steamship to B.C.
• 6 to 8 weeks

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MAIN ROUTES TO B.C.

• ROUTE TWO
• Cheaper route
• Much slower
• Sail around tip of South America
• Sail North to San Francisco
• Further North to Victoria
• 4 month journey

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MAIN ROUTES TO B.C.

• ROUTE THREE
• Long and difficult trip
• Steamer from England to Quebec
• Overland to B.C.
• Carts, wagons, stage coach, canoe, train,
  snowshoe, rafts
• Many dangers
• Rocky Mountains

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THE END OF THE GOLD RUSH

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BEAR MEAT
Grizzly Bear

• This outhouse hadnt been used in a 100 yrs.

Hunormus claws
Me
But it was on this day!