There was a gold rush that began at Sutter's Mill in California. The San Francisco 49ers are named after the people who rushed there for gold in 1849. (Levi Strauss made his fortune making pants for...
Peter Curran Dunlevey found gold in 1858 at Horsefly, BC. Billy Barker struck the main vein at what is now Barkerville on Williams Creek in 1863. At the peak almost a million dollars of gold mined...