The CANADA DAY showing is exposed in a roadcut, 500metres west of the mouth of Girl Creek, on the south side of Carpenter Lake, approximately 6.5 kilometres east of Gold Bridge.
The showing is often referred to as the Road zone, located approximately 700 metres west of the Kelvin prospect and is hosted at the same dike contact. The north-northwest trending shear zone here is 3 to 4 metres wide and bleached with chloritic, sericitic and pyritic alteration. The vein occupies a shear within amygdaloidal, pillowed greenstone and black silicified argillites of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex and altered, 2 to 4 metre wide felsic dikes.
The vein strikes 160 degrees with a vertical dip, is approximately 3 to 5 centimetres thick and is exposed up the hillside for approximately 15 metres. The vein consists of white quartz and carbonate, with lessor pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite, and accessory arsenopyrite and stibnite. Adjacent to this vein are similar veins mineralized with pyrite, only some of which are along the margin of an altered, silicic, porphyry dike of probable Tertiary age; akin to dikes related to veins north of Carpenter Lake (Congress - 092JNE029). The best assays ran 5.8 grams gold per tonne, 0.83 per cent arsenic and 0.035 per cent antimony (Assessment Report 14344).
The Kelvin and Olympic areas saw initial development in the mid 1930s and again in the mid 1940s with underground drifting plus some drilling on the Kelvin prospect. In 1980, Noranda Mines Ltd. undertook geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and magnetometer surveying in the area. Big I Developments Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, grid soil geochemical sampling in the area in 1985, as well as extending southward with prospecting up Girl Creek (south of the Kelvin prospect and Canada Day showing) and up Howe (Marquis) Creek south of the Olympic prospect.
Avino Mines and Resources Ltd. acquired the Minto property to the north of Carpenter Lake and the Olympic property south of the lake in 1987, and conducted programs of soil sampling, airborne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling through to 2005. A representative sample taken from a vein in 1989 assayed 1.73 grams per tonne gold, 0.7 gram per tonne silver and 0.36 per cent arsenic (Taseko-Bridge River Mapping Program, Sample 89BGA-13-3-4A).
In 2022 and 2023, Endurance Gold Corp. conducted prospecting and geochemical orientation and sampling surveys on their Olympic property and on the Sanchez property to the east, as part of their Reliance Gold project. These surveys established parallel northwest trending targets across the Kelvin, Minto-Olympic and Enigma-Dauntless areas (Assessment Report 41676).