Canoe Passage

Canoe Passage (49˚04'00" 123˚08'00" Mouth of Fraser R, S of Westham I). Named for the hundreds of hopeful gold miners who took this route, many of them in canoes, during the 1858 Fraser R gold rush. Their purpose in doing so was to avoid the checkpoint at the mouth of the river’s main channel, where the purchase of a $5 mining licence was enforced, as was the payment of a stiff 10 percent customs duty on all imported goods. The passage was originally named South Channel by Capt George...

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