Union Bar
Union Bar, one of the many bars situated along the
Fraser River, was located about 4 km north of
Hope.
According to
this despatch, Union Bar was rich with silver lead, a number of tons of which were sent to
New Westminster for a quality assessment. Considerable gold was also discovered at Union Bar;
1
Bancroft notes that 20 men earned $4 to $5 a day.
2The Fort Yale, a sternwheeler, forced its way through a rough stretch of the
Fraser at Union Bar in April, 1861; its boiler exploded, leaving four dead and two missing.
3
- 1. Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 32, History of British Columbia 1792-1887 (San Francisco: The History Company, 1887), 441.
- 2. Ibid., 444.
- 3. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Chronicle, 1847-1871 (Victoria: Discovery Press, 1977), 218.