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At first the town was called Elwyntown, in honour of Thomas Elwyn, the gold commissioner. However, the name did not reflect the fantastic richness of the placer deposits, and in September, 1862, it was officially named Richfield by Lieutenant H.S. Palmer of the Royal Engineers, who surveyed it.
Dec 1, 2010 · In 1862, William "Billy" Barker registered a claim downstream from Richfield, from which $650 000 (at $16 to $21 a troy ounce) in gold was recovered up to 1895. Barker's discovery ultimately sparked the recovery of more than 5 million ounces of gold from the Cariboo goldfields.
Richfield got its name from the fact that when the first new settlers saw the fields they thought that sense the fields had such good hay that soil had to be rich. And they figured that with such rich soil they could grow nice big gardens and sell the extra vegetables for profit.
- Victoria Selected For A Hudson’s Bay Company Pos – 1843
- California Gold Rush – 1848
- Vancouver Island Became A British Colony – 1849
- The Fraser River Gold Rush – 1858
- B.C. Is Established as A Crown Colony – 1858 to 1866
- The Canyon War – 1858
- Cariboo Gold Rush – The 1860s
- The Overlanders – 1862
- Billy Barker Strikes Gold – 1862
- Barkerville Burns Down
Fort Victoria was a fur trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company, the headquarters of HBC operations in British Columbia. The fort was the beginnings of a settlement that eventually grew into the modern Victoria, British Columbia, the capital city of British Columbia. The headquarters of HBC operations on the Pacific Coast of North America at the t...
The first gold rush in North America began in California in 1848 and the California gold rush ended around the mid to late 1850s. The California Gold Rush began when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California. The first to hear confirmed information about gold in California were the residents of Oregon, the Sandwich ...
Constitutional history began in 1849 with the creation by the Imperial Government of a proprietory colony based on a west Indian model, Vancouver Island. On March 11, 1850, Richard Blanshard formally assumed office as Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island. It was a wintry day, but every effort was made to make the ceremony as impressive as the...
In the spring of 1858, James Douglas sent 800 ounces of gold to the San Francisco Mint knowing what word of the gold’s arrival would trigger. There are no secrets in a gold town and the supervisor of the mint was also a prominent member of the San Francisco volunteer fire department. Within hours of the next fire department meeting, rumours of a ne...
From 1851 to 1864, he was Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island. In 1858, he also became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, in order to assert British authority during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. He remained governor of both Vancouver Island and British Columbia until his retirement in 1864. He is often credited as “The Fat...
Real tensions existed between miners and the Nlaka’pamux, the First Nations people living in the heart of the Fraser Canyon. The Aboriginal peoples of the Fraser Canyon wanted a negotiated agreement with the miners and the Colony of British Columbia before allowing the miners to enter their territory. The Fraser Canyon was the territory of the Nlak...
People came from all over the world. Some travelled from Scotland, England, Germany and even from China. Gold Rush brought immigrants from Hong Kong to the port of Victoria. Chinese miners worked their way up the Fraser River as white miners abandoned these sites. Many Chinese immigrants moved to the Cariboo to become miners or set up businesses su...
In June of 1862, the Overlanders left Fort Gary (Winnipeg) for the Cariboo goldfields. Included in this group is the famous gold rush artist, William George Richardson Hind and Catherine Schubert was the only woman of this group from Fort Garry. As with many early miners, Barker’s story began in the American gold fields in the mid-1800s where peopl...
As with many early miners, Barker’s story began in the American gold fields in the mid-1800s where people from all over the world travelled to seek their fortune. By the mid-1850s, gold finds were slowing and rumours began to surface of ‘easy gold’ on the Fraser River. Barker had worked without much success in California and so he, along with thous...
The town of Barkerville burns down in what became known as the Barkerville fire. Though reconstruction began the next day, the Gold Rush was dwindling.
Richfield Oil Corporation, a former brand of filling station in the western United States that merged to form the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)
The Southern Exploring Company under Mormon Apostle Parley P. Pratt visited the area during the winter of 1849-50, and George W. Bean explored the Sevier Valley in 1863. Early in 1864 ten men settled in the Richfield area. Several other towns were founded in the next few years.
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Richfield, which was established as a village in 1908, is unusual in that it has avoided most of the ills of aging postwar suburbs despite its tight boundaries and refusal to become...
