Centreville

CENTREVILLE was a MINING camp on McDame Crk about 150 km north of DEASE LK. It appeared in the fall of 1874 after Henry McDAME, a prospector, struck GOLD and sparked a rush to what turned out to be the most productive creek in the CASSIAR district. In 1877 a miner washed out a 73-oz nugget, the largest ever found in BC. By the 1890s the gold was exhausted and the site abandoned.

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