10 Years Down the New Pathways to Gold

Friday, October 14, 2011: (108 MILE HOUSE) They broke out the branding irons at the historic 108 Mile House ranch to reignite interest in the Gold Rush Trails. To reinvigorate the marketing of the Gold Rush/Spirit Trail brand, the New Pathways to Gold Society teamed up with the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Association (CCCTA), [...]

Sept. 24-26, 2009: Some 20-plus teachers descended on Barkerville Historic Town for the “Pathways to Gold: Heritage Resources for B.C. Educators” symposium. The symposium brought together teachers, academics, heritage facility operators, aboriginal tourism experts and Heritage Branch officials to devise a strategy to capitalize on B.C.’s living history. It featured seminars and presentations showing [...]

Sept. 27, 2008: The Fraser River Lecture Series “River of Diversity” kicked off at the University of Northern British Columbia. The lecture was conceived and developed by Langara College instructor Rick Blacklaws (pictured here), who was joined at the first lecture in the Agora Lecture Theatre by Richard Mackie of the University of Victoria [...]

September 21-23, 2007: The Fraser River War Symposium in Lytton sees over 120 participants listen to 11 presenters, engage in dialogue and share stories about this shadowy chapter of B.C. history. In the audience were First Nations representatives, local elected officials, business people and others. The central theme of the forum was the courage [...]

August 31, 2008: Filming started on Canyon War: The Untold Story, a ground-breaking documentary on First Nations-miner conflict during the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858. The film was shot on locations in the Fraser Canyon exactly 150 Years after the war it depicted took place. It was made possible by a partnership between [...]

September 8, 2008: Premier Gordon Campbell and several key ministers toured the Lower Fraser Canyon from the Yale Historic Site to Lytton to speak with community groups, First Nations leaders and elected representatives to get a firsthand look at the gateway to the Gold Rush/Sprit Trails corridor. Ministers on the tour were Blair Lekstrom [...]

August 30, 2008: The Motherlode Travelling Musical Revue gives their finale performance Lytton as part of the annual Riverfest celebrations. A joint project with the Newman and Wright Theatre Company (Theatre Royal, Barkerville), this production was a hit from Sparwood to Vancouver and from Barkerville to Hope. The five-player company performed dozens of times [...]

August 30, 2008: The Great Bulwer Lytton (“Proff vs. Toff”) Debate draws a huge crowd during a dark and stormy afternoon at Lytton’s Riverfest celebrations. Over 200 people watched the great-great-great-grandson of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the Honourable Henry Lytton Cobbold, debate San Jose State University’s Professor Scott Rice (head of the Bulwer-LyttonWriting contest [...]

Monday, August 27, 2012: (LILLOOET) There were prayers for the dead and lessons for the living on a special rafting trip down the Fraser River commemorating the 150th anniversary of the devastating 1862 smallpox epidemic. Three members of the NPTGS Board of Directors took part in the five-day trip from Sheep Creek to Lillooet. [...]

Friday, August 19, 2011: (SPUZZUM) Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon MP Mark Strahl and Spuzzum First Nation Chief Mel Bobb unveiled a “Kilometre Zero” marker that heralded the start of work on the Tikwalus Trail above Alexandra Lodge. The trail restoration articulates some of the 10,000 years of Spuzzum First Nations’ history in the area. The trail [...]