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iN PHOTOS: Historic gold panning in Princeton

A man hunched over a bucket panning for gold.
Washing gold on the end of Harold Avenue in 1910. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum

For most gold panners these days it’s a fun hobby. It’s just something to do and a good way to spend a day enjoying nature. But these images show people for whom it was a way of life a hundred years ago.

Princeton and District Museum and Archives has hundreds of photos that show a snapshot of the years following the gold rush.

If just seeing some pictures isn’t enough, you can always watch a tutorial online, grab a pan, find a river and try to find some treasure yourself.

If you have some photos you’d like us to feature, send them to news@infonews.ca.

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A Granite Creek coach from Princeton in 1908. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum
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A group of people panning gold on the streets in Princeton in an undated photo. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum
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A sluice flume on Granite Creek in 1900. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum
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Placer mine at Schubert’s pool in 1928. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum

A note was written with the photo above, “The lake is beautiful and a lovely place to swim.”

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Group photograph of pioneers of Granite Creek in 1895. SUBMITTED/Princeton Museum

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Jesse Tomas

Jesse Tomas is a reporter from Toronto who joined iNFOnews.ca in 2023. He graduated with a Bachelor in Journalism from Carleton University in 2022.

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