Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

In 1858 about 30,000 gold seekers, many of them Americans coming north from California, flooded the Fraser River between Hope and Lillooet. Britain responded that same year by creating the mainland colony of British Columbia, so the province itself is this rush's biggest legacy. That summer mostly American miners fought the Nlaka'pamux in the Fraser Canyon War, which ended with peace agreements in August 1858 that left the miners working Nlaka'pamux territory. It is the rush to read for how quickly a gold strike could redraw a colonial map and who paid for it.