The Germansen River, formerly Germansen Creek, is a major south tributary of the Omenica River in the

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. The settlement and former gold-rush centre of Germansens Landing is located at its confluence with the Omineca. Along its course is Germansen Lake at , south of which is the Germansen Range and Mount Germansen.

Name origin

All "Germansen" placenames were named for James Germansen, of

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, who first discovered gold deposits here in 1870, during the

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Gold placer earnings

The first reported earnings from the benches along Germansen Creek were a little over a year after James Germansen's first strike, with $10,000 reported in the last week of August, 1871. By the end of that season in October, a total of $400,000 by Peter O'Reilly, who was then Gold Commissioner for the Cariboo Mining Division. Earnings waned from that point, with $80,000 being reported for Germansen and

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s for the season in 1874 and $32,000 being reported for 1875. By 1876, the mining district was "almost deserted".''British Columbia From The Earliest Times to the Present. Vol. 2'', F.W. Howay and E.O.S. Scholefield, S.J. Clarke, Vancouver (1914), pp. 266-267
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