Minor Gold Rushes 1859-1869
- Blackfoot Gold Rush, 1859
- Similkameen Gold Rush, 1861
- Rock Creek Gold Rush
- Peace River Gold Rush, 1861 (a.k.a Finlay Gold Rush)
- Stikine Gold Rush, 1861
- The Finlay and Peace-Finlay Gold Rushes prompted the declaration of the Stickeen Territories, which lay north of the colony's boundary, the line of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, extending to the 62nd parallel, west of the Rockies.
- Shuswap Gold Rush (Spallumcheen River)
- Cherry Creek Gold Rush (Cherryville)
- Big Bend Gold Rush, 1865
- Omineca Gold Rush
- Wild Horse Creek Gold Rush (Fisherville and Fort Steele)
- Goldstream Gold Rush at the Goldstream River in 1863
- Leechtown in 1864-5
- Burnt Basin Gold Rush
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