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Fraser River Canyon and road, n.d.
Fraser River Canyon and road, n.d.
TitleFraser River Canyon and road, n.d.
PhotographerCurtis, Asahel, 1874-1941
Daten.d.
NotesCaption on image: 57014, Asahel Curtis

Frazier River Canyon, Cariboo Trail. Gold discovered in Frazer 1857. Thousand of Americans flocked to new diggings, intensifying boundary conflict. Queen Victoria sent Royal engineers to Frazer in 1859 and they built road. Can still be seen.

Filed in British Columbia--Fraser River Canyon
Subjects (LCTGM)Canyons--British Columbia--Roads--British Columbia; Rivers--British Columbia
Subjects (LCSH)Fraser Canyon (B.C.); Fraser River (B.C.)
Location DepictedCanada--British Columbia--Fraser River Canyon
Digital CollectionAlaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
Order NumberAWC0683
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RepositoryUniversity of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division
Repository CollectionCanada Photograph Collection. PH Coll 393
Object TypePhotograph
Digital Reproduction InformationScanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004.
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