Biographie
He was raised as Ferdinand Boulanger.
He headed for the California Gold Rush in 1949. Deserting from a ship at panama he changed his name to Peter Baker.
He went on to the Fort Colville Gold Rush where he met James Houston.
He found gold around Rock Creek and Tranquille and along the Thompson and Fraser Rivers.
He taught the natives how to pan for gold and traded their findings for tobacco. His scheme worked briefly until the HBC Chief Trader McLean at Fort Kamloops bought their gold and warned them only to sell gold to him. Afterwards he settled at Albion BC.
Références
Waite, Donald E. (1977)
