Poor Man's Ditch
According to this despatch from 1861, Poor Man's Ditch was presumably somewhere along the Fraser River between Yale and Lytton. In the same despatch, Douglas mentions that the ditch is is seven miles long.
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Douglas, Sir James

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Fraser River

Lytton

Yale

The Colonial Despatches Team. Poor Man's Ditch. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/poor_man_ditch.html.

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