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Beginning of the California Gold Rush.
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Hudson's Bay Company had collected gold in small quantities from First Nations in New Caledonia.-During the 1850's, 424,000 British and 914,000 Irish would come to America.
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Sewing machine invented-First double decker bus used in transit.-Gold found in New South Wales, Australia.-Sir James Douglas was appointed the second governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island.
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Americans ascending the Columbia River discover gold in British territory.
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News of gold on the Thompson River leaks out. By the summer of 1857, miners arrive on Fraser and Thompson Rivers from Washington and Oregon.
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Sir James Douglas, worried about the Americans claiming British territory in the Cariboo
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-Gold Rush brought immigrants from Hong Kong to the port of Victoria
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Cariboo Gold Rush bring men and women from all over to the Cariboo.
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British North American Act establishes Dominion of Canada.
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Gold rush starts dwindling