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Author: Giga-fren
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English[en]
The Chilcotin had little contact with the influx of gold miners along the Fraser River in 1859-60, but they did suffer heavy population loss in a SMALLPOX epidemic shortly thereafter. In 1861 a pack-train trail was established from the Bella Coola Valley through Chilcotin territory to the developing gold mine centres to the eastward and work was begun on a wagon road from Blue Inlet to the interior.
French[fr]
Les Chilcotins, dont la langue est l'athapascan ou le déné, sont au nombre de 2753 (en 1996) et ils habitent la région située entre le fleuve Fraser et la chaîne Côtière, dans le centre Ouest de la Colombie-Britannique.