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Apr 6, 2024 · Perhaps no one single person was more involved in the early development and improvement of the Cariboo region of B.C. than Peter Curran Dunlevy. He was a miner, a businessman, a developer, a rancher, an investor and a true entrepreneur.
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Peter Dunlevey, An American, arrived on the lower reaches of the Fraser just about the time the Indians above Fort Yale had massacred a number of white people. Not deterred by remarks that any attempt to push farther into hostile Indian territory would be fool-hardy, he and his party went upriver as far as the mouth of the Chilcotin.
Item C-08624 - Peter Curran Dunlevey. Item C-09706 - Residence of Thomas Shotbolt, Hollywood, at the corner of Fairfield Road and Foul Bay Road; shot taken from Gonzales Hill; Craigdarroch Castle at the far left
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DUNLEVY, Peter Curran, prospector (b 21 Oct 1834, Pittsburgh, PA; d 15 Oct 1904, Soda Creek). He is credited with making the initial discovery that sparked the Cariboo GOLD RUSH. In the spring of 1859 he was among a party of prospectors looking for GOLD on the FRASER R when they met a SECWEPEMC (Shuswap) man named Baptiste.
Peter Curran Dunlevey, a native of America, was one of the many miners to move further North seeking more and better gold. He followed Aaron Post to the mouth of the Chilcotin River and it was here that he and his men met an Indian, a Hudson Bay Company runner, who was on his way to Fort Alexandria.
1859-Peter Curran Dunlevey discovers gold at Little Horsefly Creek and starts the Cariboo Gold Rush. -James Douglas authorizes the construction of a road called the Douglas Trail from the coast to the interior. -French tight rope walker walks across Niagara Falls on a tight rope.
