Hill's Bar

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Hill's Bar, officially Hills Bar in the provincial gazette, was the most famous and also one of the richest gold-bearing bars on the Fraser River during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. The associated town, now vanished, was one of the settings of what is known as McGowan's War, a complicated confrontation between two groups of Californian miners which involved local British magistrates and prompted fears that American annexationists would usurp British authority, resulting in an armed expedition from Victoria.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Canyon_Gold_Rush
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Coordinates:   49°32'17"N   121°25'44"W
This article was last modified 10 years ago