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The town of Richfield was born in 1862, named for the rich gold claim found at that part of Williams Creek by a miner named Bill Cunningham. Soon people came from all around and built several saloons, a jail, a courthouse, and the St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church.
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Feb 6, 2006 · Williams Creek (125 km southeast of Prince George) was the richest and became the centre of mining operations for the district. Here, in a canyon with a narrow, steep-sided and isolated creek bed, a trio of supply, service and administrative towns was established: Richfield, Camerontown and Barkerville.
- 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.
In 1908, Richfield officially became a city by adopting a President/Trustee form of government. However, residents of Richfield held town meetings dating back to May 11, 1858 - the date on which Congress admitted Minnesota into the Union.
Once known as the fertile home of vegetable-selling truck farmers with names like Bachman and Wagner, after World War II Richfield became the classic 1950s suburb with waves of newly built...
In 1908, Richfield became a village. From 1908 until 1950, Richfield's local government consisted of a president, three trustees, and a city clerk. On November 7, 1950, residents voted for a city-manager form of government, meaning the city had a mayor, four council members, and a city manager.
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Mar 10, 2023 · The Richfield area that became part of Minneapolis in 1927. This aerial photograph, looking northeast, was taken in the 1920s or 1930s.
