Keefers
Keefers is a railway point in the lower Fraser Canyon area of southwestern British Columbia. The ghost town is on the west shore of the Fraser River and north of the mouth of the Nahatlatch River. The locality is by rail about north of Hope and south of Lytton. Name origin George Alexander Keefer (1836–1912), surveyor and construction engineer, had charge of building the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) between North Bend and Lytton. During this period, he resided with his wife and children at his headquarters, namely the future Keefers. Mining In 1858, during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, placer miners worked the river bars. Being forewarned that hostile First Nations intended to exterminate them, a party of 20 miners were retreating down the Fraser, when they came under attack at Mariners' Bar, just upstream from later Keefers. Five survivors, some seriously wounded, were able to escape. From that time, the location was known as Slaughter Flat. The goldrush also drew thousan ...
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