Remember the news item in the Mainland Guardian of 1869 titled "Discovery of Diggings at Pitt River" that created considerable excitement in New Westminster? Click here to read it again.
A decade earlier, in 1858. the Fraser gold rush started and in that year a number of maps were drawn promoting the gold fields. Derek Hayes shows three of those on pp 151-154 of his Historical Atlas of BC and the Pacific Northwest.
The pictures I show here are details of these maps of the area around Pitt Lake area mentioning "gold" and "Indian diggings," and one map, in the extension of Pitt Lake the words "much gold bearing quartz rock." The maps must have triggered the stories of gold beyond Pitt Lake that have returned to the newspapers ever since. Click on the images to zoom in.
No comments:
Post a Comment