Prince Albert's Flats, located roughly 5 km below Yale, is named after the husband of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.1
Bancroft described the flats as a highly auriferous digging site that could give employment to thousands of miners, allowing each twenty-five feet frontage and five hundred feet depth.2 In this despatch, Douglas offers a more moderate estimate of the flat's gold yield, writing that Prince Albert's Flats will afford profitable employment to hundreds of Miners for
years to come.
1. Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, vol. 32, History of British Columbia 1792-1887 (San Francisco: The History Company, 1887), 464.