Atlas Obscura
Yale Historic Site in Yale, British Columbia
British Columbia, like California, owes its founding to a gold strike. Gold was discovered in 1858 along the Fraser River in Fraser Canyon, upstream from this point, and thousands of men arrived in the ensuing gold rush. Because it marks the upper limit of practical navigation on the Fraser, Yale rapidly became a transshipment point to the wagon roads that were being built upstream, and hence a…
Gold was discovered along it in 1858.