Jeremiah Gilbert Bristol arrived in B.C. from England in 1858 and went to the Goldrush on Fraser's River where he married a native woman Mary, of the Thompson River Indians. He worked for Billy Ballou, the express man, and later operated a full time canoe transportation service between Yale and New Westminster during the winter. With the arrival of the railway in 1886 Billy's canoe business became redundant and he turned to farming on an Island in the Fraser River just below Hope-now known as Bristol Island, where he lived out his life. He died in 1909 at age 79. (Info from "Forging a New Hope", 1984, Hope Museum. Friesen Printers. P. 48, 1984.
An early 1858 gold rush miner who stayed. He ran a regular canoe service
between Yale and New Westminster till the coming of the railway. (credit:
BC Archives #A-02022)
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