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Digital: Gold Rush of BC
Target audience: Grade 4 (can be adapted for adult audience)
Tuesdays at 2:00pm, Thursdays at 10:30am
In 1858, when gold was discovered in the Fraser River, what is now known as British Columbia became a destination for hopeful miners from around the world. For every gold seeker who rushed here, there were factors that drove them from their homelands and dreams that enticed to a new and foreign place. The impacts of the gold rush on British Columbia were large, and lasting.