Talk:Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

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I've begun the process of expanding this article, although it is not yet completed. I wanted to comment on a certain bit I've extracted:

and European settlers outnumbering the indigenous First Nations peoples on the west coast of Canada

This is incorrect and has been removed; the non-native settlers did not outnumber the natives in British Columbia until after the building of the CPR, and even then not until after 1900; even in the Fraser Canyon the indigeneous Sto:lo and Nlaka'pamux and St'at'imc were not outnumbered despite the tens of thousands of newcomers; native numbers in this region were not reduced until after the great smallpox epidemic of 1862, which was a few years later. Also, the phrasing of the last bit is a common fallacy when writing of events in British Columbia prior to 1871, i.e. when it was not part of Canada; it was simply easier to delete this phrase than to substitute "on the British Columbia Coast"; and the population statement was incorrect in any case.

Skookum1 01:26, 31 October 2005 (UTC)