Bralorne

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Historic Canadian gold mining community

title: "Bralorne" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bridge-river-country", "designated-places-in-british-columbia", "mining-communities-in-british-columbia", "gold-mines-in-british-columbia", "populated-places-in-the-squamish-lillooet-regional-district", "unincorporated-settlements-in-british-columbia", "ghost-towns-in-british-columbia", "company-towns-in-canada"] description: "Historic Canadian gold mining community" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bralorne" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Historic Canadian gold mining community ::

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Bralorne ( ) is a historic Canadian gold mining community in the Bridge River District of British Columbia, some 130 km on dirt roads west of the town of Lillooet.

Background

Gold has been the central element in the area's history going back to the 1858-1860 Fraser River Gold Rush. Miners rushed to the Cayoosh and Bridge River areas looking for placer deposits, One named Cadwallader looked for the outcroppings on the creek that is now named for him and turned out later to be the site of the richest hard-rock veins in the region. Early exploratory parties of Chinese and Italians in the upper Bridge River basin were driven out by Chief Hunter Jack, who himself had a secret placer mine somewhere in the region, believed to be in upper Tyaughton Creek. and whose big-game hunting territory this also was. During the 1870s Hunter Jack began to invite chosen prospectors into the valley, and ran a ferry across the Bridge River that virtually all entering the region had to cross. Among these were those who would eventually discover the hard rock lodes on Cadwallader Creek. Though styled the Bridge River Gold Rush, in this early period there were so few who had made it into the district that there were only forty residents during the 1890 Census, prompting the naming of one of the claims "Forty Thieves".

Bralorne today

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Since 2002, rising gold prices have led to new exploration in the area and plans for re-opening the Bralorne Mine, and nearby Pioneer Mine. In 2014, a realtor put the Bralorne's "third townsite", Bradian, on sale for $1 million. Around 2016, the entire town was sold for just over one million dollars. It is a ghost town consisting of some 20 dwellings last occupied in the 1970s.

Climate

|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Bralorne |Jan record high C = 11.0 |Feb record high C = 14.4 |Mar record high C = 20.0 |Apr record high C = 30.6 |May record high C = 35.6 |Jun record high C = 33.9 |Jul record high C = 37.8 |Aug record high C = 36.1 |Sep record high C = 35.6 |Oct record high C = 30.6 |Nov record high C = 15.6 |Dec record high C = 11.1 |Jan record low C = -36.1 |Feb record low C = -31.7 |Mar record low C = -28.3 |Apr record low C = -17.2 |May record low C = -8.9 |Jun record low C = -2.2 |Jul record low C = -1.7 |Aug record low C = -1.1 |Sep record low C = -5.6 |Oct record low C = -18.9 |Nov record low C = -28.9 |Dec record low C = -29.4 |Jan high C = -5.0 |Feb high C = 1.8 |Mar high C = 5.0 |Apr high C = 10.1 |May high C = 15.7 |Jun high C = 18.9 |Jul high C = 22.7 |Aug high C = 21.9 |Sep high C = 17.8 |Oct high C = 10.0 |Nov high C = 1.3 |Dec high C = -2.6 | year high C = |Jan mean C = -8.5 |Feb mean C = -2.9 |Mar mean C = -0.4 |Apr mean C = 4.3 |May mean C = 8.6 |Jun mean C = 11.7 |Jul mean C = 14.7 |Aug mean C = 14.2 |Sep mean C = 10.7 |Oct mean C = 5.0 |Nov mean C = -2.0 |Dec mean C = -5.9 | year mean C = |Jan low C = -12.0 |Feb low C = -7.6 |Mar low C = -5.8 |Apr low C = -1.6 |May low C = 1.3 |Jun low C = 4.5 |Jul low C = 6.6 |Aug low C = 6.5 |Sep low C = 3.4 |Oct low C = -0.1 |Nov low C = -5.3 |Dec low C = -9.1 | year low C = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 91.2 |Feb precipitation mm = 51.6 |Mar precipitation mm = 40.3 |Apr precipitation mm = 29.2 |May precipitation mm = 26.3 |Jun precipitation mm = 33.3 |Jul precipitation mm = 27.9 |Aug precipitation mm = 30.2 |Sep precipitation mm = 38.9 |Oct precipitation mm = 78.7 |Nov precipitation mm = 89.7 |Dec precipitation mm = 101.0 |year precipitation mm = | unit precipitation days = | Jan precipitation days = 11 | Feb precipitation days = 7 | Mar precipitation days = 7 | Apr precipitation days = 6 | May precipitation days = 6 | Jun precipitation days = 7 | Jul precipitation days = 5 | Aug precipitation days = 7 | Sep precipitation days = 7 | Oct precipitation days = 10 | Nov precipitation days = 11 | Dec precipitation days = 11 | year precipitation days = |Jan snow cm = 80.8 |Feb snow cm = 34.1 |Mar snow cm = 25.3 |Apr snow cm = 10.4 |May snow cm = 2.7 |Jun snow cm = 0.0 |Jul snow cm = 0.0 |Aug snow cm = 0.0 |Sep snow cm = 7.3 |Oct snow cm = 9.8 |Nov snow cm = 45.7 |Dec snow cm = 55.2 |year snow cm = |unit snow days = |Jan snow days = 9 |Feb snow days = 5 |Mar snow days = 5 |Apr snow days = 2 |May snow days = 0 |Jun snow days = 0 |Jul snow days = 0 |Aug snow days = 0 |Sep snow days = 0 |Oct snow days = 2 |Nov snow days = 6 |Dec snow days = 8 |year snow days = |source = Environment and Climate Change Canada{{cite web |url= https://climate.weather.gc.ca/doc/En56-60-2-1982.pdf |title= CANADIAN CLIMATE NORMALS VOLUME 2 TEMPERATURE 1951–1981 |publisher=Environment and Climate Change Canada |access-date=3 June 2024}} |title= CANADIAN CLIMATE NORMALS VOLUME 3 PRECIPITATION 1951–1981 |publisher=Environment and Climate Change Canada |access-date=3 June 2024}}

References

The Canadian Press. (2017). "The Canadian Press Stylebook". [[The Canadian Press]].
BC Dept of Highways viewpoint sign, Bralorne-Gold Bridge Road, often quoted in all sources.
Campbell, Barbara. (August 2007). "Environment in focus". [[Canadian Mining Journal]].
(2016-07-09). "Ghost Towns of BC: Bradian, the Million Dollar City |".
(19 August 2014). "Ghost Town Mysteries: Bradian, B.C., a ghost town for sale". Global News.

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