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• The Bralorne Mine sits in a gold belt. In the 1870s, Chief Hunter Jack started to open up the area to chosen prospectors. Chosen, because he ran a ferry across the Bridge River, completely impassible without a boat.
• There’s evidence that he had a placer mine nearby, further up the creek. A mine so rich he was known to give out small golden nuggets at potlatches!
• In 1897, some of the prospectors he led founded the grounds that would eventually become Bralorne Mine.
• The company’s heyday came during the early 1930s as gold prices weren’t as aected by the Great Depression, and Bralorne Mine employed hundreds of people during one of the 20th century’s hardest times.