The word migrated north with the 49ers to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in an adapted form, ""rancherie"". It survives in British Columbia as a somewhat archaic but still commonly used word, in rural areas and small towns, as well as in general First Nations English usage, meaning the residential area of an Indian Reserve. It especially means the historical residential area, as opposed to newer subdivisions. It was further extended to refer to other non-white residential communities, such as the Kanaka Rancherie in early Vancouver, British Columbia, which came to house the city's Kanaka (Hawaiian) residents. In an even more truncated form, "the Ranche" was used to refer to the Tlingit portion of Sitka, Alaska.