folio. pp. 18. folding coloured lithographed map ‘Reconnaissance of Fraser’s River from Fort Hope to the Forks’ by John Arrowsmith. new quarter cloth.

"This fundamental document on the gold discovery on the Fraser River is the basis for practically all the guides and other pamphlets written on that famous gold rush." (Streeter) The blue paper includes correspondence between Governor James Douglas, Colonial Secretary Henry Labouchere and his successor Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and W.G.Smith, Secretary of the Hudson’s Bay Company.

The massive influx of miners attracted to the Fraser River district by the gold rush of 1858 led to the creation of the crown colony of British Columbia and was a major consideration in the British decision to terminate the Hudson’s Bay Company’s territorial rights in the West. In 1858 Governor Douglas renamed the former Hudson’s Bay Company post Fort Dallas at Camchin, the confluence of the Thompson and Fraser Rivers, Lytton, British Columbia in honour of the Colonial Secretary. Lowther 67. Streeter VI 3405. TPL 3814.

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Bookseller: D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB) (CA)
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Title: Copies Or Extracts Of Correspondence Relative To The Discovery Of Gold In The Fraser River’s District In British North America. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. July 2, 1858.
Author: GREAT BRITAIN. COLONIAL OFFICE
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: London: Printed By George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1858.
Keywords: Canadiana/Americana Fraser River Gold Rush British Columbia

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