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Fraser Canyon War
Date
1858
Location
Fraser Canyon, Colony of British Columbia
Parties
White miners
Nlaka'pamux
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The Fraser Canyon War, also known as the Canyon War or the Fraser River War, was an incident between white miners and the indigenous Nlaka'pamux people in the newly declared Colony of British Columbia, which later became part of Canada, in 1858. It occurred during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, which brought many white settlers to the Fraser Canyon area. Largely ignored by Canadian historians,[1][2] it was one of the seminal events of the founding of the colony. Although it ended relatively peacefully, it was a major test of the new administration's control over the goldfields, which were distant and difficult to access from the centre of colonial authority at Victoria in the Colony of Vancouver Island (New Westminster had recently been surveyed as the de jure capital, but the de facto capital was in Victoria, where the Governor was located).
^Claiming the Land, Dan Marshall, UBC Ph.D Thesis, 2002 (unpubl.)
^McGowan's War, Donald J. Hauka, New Star Books, Vancouver (2000) ISBN 1-55420-001-6
The FraserCanyonWar, also known as the CanyonWar or the Fraser River War, was an incident between white miners and the indigenous Nlaka'pamux people...
The FraserCanyon is a major landform of the Fraser River where it descends rapidly through narrow rock gorges in the Coast Mountains en route from the...
The FraserCanyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1858 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British...
describes the Fraser River basin downstream of the FraserCanyon. The term is sometimes used outside British Columbia to refer to the entire Fraser River sections...
militias involved were formed mostly of Americans. Shortly after the FraserCanyonWar the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, including areas...
1858 in British Columbia were related to the Yakima War in Washington Territory FraserCanyonWar (1858) – Colony of British Columbia (white irregulars...
The FraserCanyon Indian Administration was a First Nations tribal council government composed of five bands in the FraserCanyon and Thompson Canyon areas...
The American Indian Wars were numerous armed conflicts fought by governments and colonists of European descent, and later by the United States federal...
Indian Reservation bear his name. Battle of Port Gamble Cayuse WarFraserCanyonWar "Leschi: Justice In Our Time". Washington State Historical Society...
Road to Lillooet in the upper FraserCanyon, in order to bypass hostile territory in the lower Canyon (see FraserCanyonWar). There are also small rapids...
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The Canadian Forces were involved in the 1950–1953 Korean War and its aftermath. More than 30,000 Canadians participated on the side of the United Nations...
territories are located in the inland portions of the basins of the Columbia and Fraser Rivers. These tribes mainly live in parts of the Central and Southern Interior...
The history of Canada during World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. While the Canadian Armed Forces were eventually...
known accounts that describe the number of warriors in a war party. The structure of a Haida war party generally followed that of the community itself,...
River) the Inantoinu Band (in Joseph Canyon – known as saqánma ("long, wild canyon") or an-an-a-soc-um ("long, rough canyon") – and along Lower Joseph Creek...
2023-01-06. Gibson, James R. (1997). The Lifeline of the Oregon Country: The Fraser-Columbia Brigade System, 1811-47. University of British Columbia (UBC) Press...
Hill's Bar at the onset of the FraserCanyon Gold Rush and was considered a "friendly Indian" during the FraserCanyonWar of that fall, which took place...
disputes, in which these villagers acted as arbitrators, never joining any war party". The fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company established a presence...
War. However, it contributed to peacekeeping forces in 1973 to help enforce the Paris Peace Accords. Privately, some Canadians contributed to the war...
British in the event of a war was not presented until 29 August 1939, days before the start of the war. On the eve of World War II, the Canadian Militia's...
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