Treasures of the Queen Charlottes

Episode 111: Treasures On The Queen Charlotte's - The story of how quartz laced with gold was found along the beaches of The Queen Charlotte Islands.
Many of the first gold hunters that arrived in British Columbia
were ex-49'ers that had participated in the California Rush. The
rush began when a Haida First Nations brave sold a 27-ounce nugget in Fort Victoria for 1,500 Hudson’s Bay Company blankets.