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Yale St. John the Divine Church Collection
About the historic site
Yale, British Columbia, was an important town during the Fraser River and Cariboo gold rushes. News of gold discovered on the Fraser River spread far and fast in 1858. This caused a rush of miners, many of them from the gold-fields in California, to flood into Yale on their way north to locate the 'mother load' of gold. The town of Yale then witnessed a construction boom, and quickly turned into a major supply and navigation point to the upper Fraser River. Few original buildings in Yale have survived until today; some early residential homes, St. John the Divine Church, and the banks and bars of the Fraser River echo Yale's gold rush past. St. John the Divine Church is managed by the BC Heritage Branch. For visitor information, visit the BC Heritage web site at www.heritage.gov.bc.ca
About the collection
The collection at St. John the Divine Church consists of 400 ecclesiastical and textile artifacts, c.1870. The Church was built in 1863, and some artifacts such as pews date from its inception. Each artifact has a database record and has been photographed, but most of the artifacts are not on display in the Church. The best way to view the artifacts is through the on-line collection via the Gold Rush Town of Yale web site at www.tbc.gov.bc.ca/culture/schoolnet/yale.
About the web site and on-line collection
Artifacts database records are searchable from the collections section of the Gold Rush Town of Yale web site. Nearly each record is accompanied by a digitized image, which allows the on-line exhibit of artifacts to be accessed and useful to researchers and Internet users.
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