farmdigger;
I doubt if a ban will become world wide.
Take my location, as an example, there have been only two battles, here. The first was the killing of traders, by Deneh, at a fort (not a real fort) at the mouth of the Beaton River, around 1730... UBCs Knut Fladmark dug that site several years ago.
Second battle, was much later and some were killed, but the Metis carts were all pushed over the (so called) cliff above (old) Fort St. John.... there will not be any metal to find, as the carts were ALL wood and rawhide.
Above the Old Fort St. John site, there are thousands of graves of people (mostly Deneh and Cree) who died in a measles epidemic, around 1900. My bro-in-laws grandfather, did most of the burying, as he was the Factor of the Hudsons Bay Post, and the HBCo were, more or less, law here, at that time. A real potential job for GPR, because NONE are marked.
I traipsed all over that hillside, as a teenager, but missed the graves... they were not visible, even then, I stuck to established trails, is probably why I never fell in, like some have. We HAD to stick to the trails because of rampant Opuntia fragilis (prickly pear, northern specie.)
Since I had relatives, in N.Washington and Idaho, who died of measles, around 1897, I figure it took 3 to 4 years, to get to N.BC. Slow! Not like now.
Jes some fun his-story, there.
goldigger (Brian)
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