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Bralorne ( ) is a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District of
Since 2002 rising gold prices have led to new exploration in the area and plans for re-opening the Bralorne Mine, and nearby Pioneer Mine. In 2014, a realtor put the Bralorne's "third townsite", Bradian, on sale for $1 million. Recently, the entire town was sold for just over one million dollars. It is a ghost town consisting of some 20 dwellings last occupied in the 1970s.
Their Past Lives Here''
Virtualmuseum.ca photo exhibit
Bralorne Gold Mines Ltd.
{{Coord, 50.783, N, 122.817, W, display=title, type:city_region:CA_source:GNS-enwiki Bridge River Country Designated places in British Columbia Mining communities in British Columbia Gold mines in British Columbia Populated places in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Ghost towns in British Columbia Company towns in Canada
Bralorne ( ) is a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District of British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...
, some 130 km on dirt roads west of the town of Lillooet.
Background
Gold has been the central element in the area's history going back to the 1858-1860Fraser River Gold Rush
The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's c ...
. Miners rushed to the Cayoosh and Bridge River areas looking for placer deposits, One named Cadwallader looked for the outcroppings on the creek that is now named for him and turned out later to be the site of the richest hard-rock veins in the region. Early exploratory parties of Chinese and Italians in the upper Bridge River basin were driven out by Chief Hunter Jack Hunter Jack of Shalalth inhabited the Bridge River Country region of southwestern British Columbia. He was a larger-than-life indigenous personality who died in 1905.
Character
His formal name was Jack Tashpola or Tash Poli. He was born at 22-Mile ...
, who himself had a secret placer mine somewhere in the region, believed to be in upper Tyaughton Creek. and whose big-game hunting territory this also was. During the 1870s Hunter Jack began to invite chosen prospectors into the valley, and ran a ferry across the Bridge River that virtually all entering the region had to cross. Among these were those who would eventually discover the hard rock lodes on Cadwallader Creek. Though styled the Bridge River Gold Rush, in this early period there were so few who had made it into the district that there were only forty residents during the 1890 Census, prompting the naming of one of the claims "Forty Thieves".
Bralorne today
Since 2002 rising gold prices have led to new exploration in the area and plans for re-opening the Bralorne Mine, and nearby Pioneer Mine. In 2014, a realtor put the Bralorne's "third townsite", Bradian, on sale for $1 million. Recently, the entire town was sold for just over one million dollars. It is a ghost town consisting of some 20 dwellings last occupied in the 1970s.
See also
* Black Dome Mountain * Ogden, British Columbia * Railroad Pass (British Columbia)References
External links
Their Past Lives Here''
Virtualmuseum.ca photo exhibit
Bralorne Gold Mines Ltd.
{{Coord, 50.783, N, 122.817, W, display=title, type:city_region:CA_source:GNS-enwiki Bridge River Country Designated places in British Columbia Mining communities in British Columbia Gold mines in British Columbia Populated places in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Unincorporated settlements in British Columbia Ghost towns in British Columbia Company towns in Canada