Tulameen

TULAMEEN  () is an old townsite on the flats at the junction of Otter Creek and the Tulameen R, 25 km northwest of PRINCETON. Used as a campsite by local FIRST NATIONS people and then by FUR BRIGADES in the 1850s, it was crowded with miners in 1861 during a short-lived GOLD RUSH into the valley. Interest in local mineral deposits was rekindled in the 1880s; in 1901 the provincial government laid out a townsite. Despite initial optimism, the...

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