The Fraser River courses through more than one half ... miners who had traveled the strenuous land route all the way from California via the Cascade Mountains and Okanagan Valley.

Though the Fraser River does not cross the border as the Columbia does, the Fraser is intimately tied to the lands and waters ...

At about 6:45 p.m. PT Monday, the leading edge of the flood had reached Big Bar on the Fraser River, about 70 kilometres downstream of the Chilcotin-Fraser confluence. There, the flood reached ...