Seek your fortune by panning for gold and relive the exhilaration of an old-fashioned Canadian gold rush. Will you strike it rich or be left in the dust?
Young prospectors will hit the motherlode of old-fashioned adventure by panning for gold on the Plaza! Watch a demonstration, and then try your luck at one of the oldest and simplest methods of finding this precious metal. Experience the hard work and exhilaration of panning, and discover the difference between real and fool’s gold. Relive the colourful, tumultuous history of the gold rushes that inspired tens of thousands of migrants to seek their fortune out West in the 1800s, travelling up the Fraser River, north through the Cariboo interior and eventually to the Klondike. Whether you strike it rich or you’re left in the dust, you’ll get a rush out of this 24-karat experience in honour of the exhibition Gold Rush! – El Dorado in British Columbia.
This activity is weather permitting.
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