Dragon Creek
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Dragon Creek is a creek located in the Cariboo
region of British Columbia
. The creek was discovered in the 1860s by a Frenchman nicknamed The Dragon because of his fighting abilities. The creek has been mined using drifting, sluicing, hydraulicking and drilling.
Cariboo
The Cariboo is an intermontane region of British Columbia along a plateau stretching from the Fraser Canyon to the Cariboo Mountains. The name is a reference to the woodland caribou that were once abundant in the region...
region of British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
. The creek was discovered in the 1860s by a Frenchman nicknamed The Dragon because of his fighting abilities. The creek has been mined using drifting, sluicing, hydraulicking and drilling.