Saturday, September 9, 2017|
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 [...]
Thursday, September 7, 2017|
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 [...]
Monday, September 4, 2017|
FraserFEST is a celebration of the Fraser River emphasizing environmental stewardship, First Nations reconciliation and sustainable development to attract people to B.C.’s largest, most iconic river. This year’s festivities included 12 community events staged at venues along the Fraser River, including Fraser Canyon communities like Xatśūll, Williams Lake, Lillooet, Boston Bar, Yale and Hope. [...]
Thursday, August 31, 2017|
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 [...]
Saturday, August 26, 2017|
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. [...]
Sunday, August 20, 2017|
Richard Wright and Barkerville’s Theatre Royal have been taking their “Mrs. McGinley’s Gold Rush Variety Show” on the road to to bring a smile to the faces of people forced from their homes by B.C.’s wildfires and raise a little cash for their relief on the side. They’ve performed in Quesnel and 100 Mile [...]
Saturday, August 19, 2017|
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 [...]
Friday, August 18, 2017|
August 18, 2013: (YALE HISTORIC SITE) We’re celebrating a decade of building on the New Pathways to Gold with a look back at significant dates in the Society’s history. Today we’re remembering August 18, 2013, when NPTGS Co-chair Terry Raymond was the MC at festivities marking the 150th anniversary of the Cariboo Waggon Road in Historic [...]
Sunday, August 13, 2017|
August 20, 2013: (LILLOOET) University of British Columbia prof Henry Yu and his crew set out on the Cedar-Bamboo Fraser River Rafting Expedition, August 20-22, from Lillooet to Yale. A joint-project of the New Pathways to Gold Society (NPTGS) and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C., the expedition took a party of Chinese [...]
Wednesday, August 2, 2017|
August 3, 2011: The 1861 Gold Rush Pack Trail Ride was a rollicking recreation of the opening chapter of the Cariboo Gold Rush. In the summer of 2011, 10 members of the R.E. Living History Group (RELHG) assembled at the Weaver Creek Trailhead in Keithley Creek and embarked on their historic quest to tackle [...]
