21. BC Gold Rush History and women who wander through the pages of BC and canadian history heroes Real Slow,cowboy poetry and prose poems; Barkerville A gold rush Experience (Review http://goldrushbc.com/bcgoldhist.htm

What you'll find here: Books and recordings Fascinating stories Resources for teachers Links ... Search this site Good news for genealogists! Genealogy resources include links and research assistance for tracking your BC and gold rush ancestors. We also have posted rosters of those who made the overland treks to Canada's goldfields, 1858-1862. Check here for your family name. Help support BC's gold rush history. Join the Friends of Barkerville and Cariboo Goldfields Forthcoming projects: This Hard Land: Stories from British Columbia's gold creeks Sawney's Letters The Anderson Project Meet the men and women who wander through the pages of BC and Canadian history - heroes and villains, visionaries and shysters, ordinary folk and extraordinary lives Ride Around Real Slow , cowboy poetry and prose poems Barkerville : A Gold Rush Experience ( Review Overlanders : The Epic Cross-Canada Treks for Gold, 1858-1862 ( Reviews Rough But Honest Miner (CD and cassette) and Castles in the Air (accompanying book) Reclaimed Music and Stories of BC's 1860s Gold Rush ( Reviews In a Strange Land: A pictorial record of the Chinese in Canada 1788-1923 ( Reviews Sawney's Letters - The Anderson Project (forthcoming) This Hard Land: Stories from British Columbia's gold creeks (forthcoming)

22. Barkerville: A Gold Rush Experience on Williams Creek are told in this new, revised edition of a canadian bestseller whichchronicles the time, the fortunes and the follies of goldrush Barkerville http://goldrushbc.com/brkrvlle.htm

Barkerville: A Gold Rush Experience Revised edition of a Canadian top seller - over 23,000 copies in print Stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this new, revised edition of a Canadian bestseller. The historic town of Barkerville , in the heart of British Columbia, is flourishing again today as it did over 100 years ago, this time under the care of professional and amateur historians. Author Richard Thomas Wright has unearthed much of the area's history in this book, which chronicles the time, the fortunes and the follies of gold-rush Barkerville. This book brings to life the men and women of the creeks, who came in search of gold and left their mark on B.C. history. The book includes information on the area, including hikes, campsites, accommodations and places of interest. It features many historic photos and a complete index. Amazon.com review:

23. How To Find Your Gold Rush Relative: Sources On The Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushe Pan for gold Database of people in the Yukon, 18961900 http//www.gold-rush.org/ghost-07.htm.CD-ROM DATABASES. canadian Genealogy Index, 1600s-1900s - Family http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist/parham.html

Site Map Text Only Home Search ... Home HOW TO FIND YOUR GOLD RUSH RELATIVE: SOURCES ON THE KLONDIKE AND ALASKA GOLD RUSHES (1896-1914) Compiled by R. Bruce Parham, May 1997 (Updated April 2001) National Archives and Records Administration-Pacific Alaska Region Anchorage, Alaska Presented by The Alaska Gold Rush Centennial Task Force This guide is intended to provide a basic list of Alaska and Yukon genealogical resources for individuals who were in the north during the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rushes (1896-1914). While not comprehensive, the information includes promising and up-to-date sources with others that may be obscure and un-indexed. This guide includes: Major Alaska Repositories Major Yukon Repositories Repositories Outside Alaska and Yukon Genealogical Societies ... Newspaper Indexes and Guides Many of the repositories have guides to their archival, manuscript, and photograph collections and specific finding aids to their Gold Rush materials. The list of active genealogical societies includes information on how to hire individuals or groups to do research. The Internet has become a valuable genealogical research tool and, as such, addresses for sites particularly in Alaska and Yukon are included. The sources listed are at the larger Alaska or Yukon libraries; some items may be borrowed on interlibrary loan through your local public library.

24. "How To Find Your Gold Rush Relative": Text Only Page - Alaska Historical Collec Register with Indexes to the Microfiche Series of the canadian Institute for Choate,Glenda J. Skagway, Alaska, gold rush Cemetery History and Guidebook. http://www.library.state.ak.us/textonly/hist/parham.html

Alaska Historical Collections Home Search Site Map SLED ... Back to Graphic Version How to find your Gold Rush relative: sources on the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rushes (1896-1914) Compiled by R. Bruce Parham, May 1997 (content updated: December 2000) National Archives and Records Administration-Pacific Alaska Region Anchorage, Alaska Presented by The Alaska Gold Rush Centennial Task Force This guide is intended to provide a basic list of Alaska and Yukon genealogical resources for individuals who were in the north during the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rushes (1896-1914). While not comprehensive, the information includes promising and up-to-date sources with others that may be obscure and un-indexed.  This guide includes: Major Alaska Repositories Major Yukon Repositories Repositories Outside Alaska and Yukon Genealogical Societies ... Newspaper Indexes and Guides Many of the repositories have guides to their archival, manuscript, and photograph collections and specific finding aids to their Gold Rush materials. The list of active genealogical societies includes information on how to hire individuals or groups to do research. The Internet has become a valuable genealogical research tool and, as such, addresses for sites particularly in Alaska and Yukon are included. The sources listed are at the larger Alaska or Yukon libraries; some items may be borrowed on interlibrary loan through your local public library. For the next decade or so, readers will see many books celebrating the centenary of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rushes. For additional information on the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rushes, see the following sources:

25. Canadian Firms Keen On Joining Diwalwal Gold Rush - Aug. 27, 2002 chief Nueva Ecija killings put cops on alert Ka Roger Attack on US troops 'selfdefense'canadian firms keen on joining Diwalwal gold rush PROVINCIAL ROUNDUP. http://www.inq7.net/reg/2002/aug/27/reg_8-1.htm

Tuesday Aug. 27, 2002, Philippines CEBU DAILY NEWS INQ7 news on your PDA Tabang Mindanaw Home ... Global Nation Canadian firms keen on joining Diwalwal gold rush By Joel B. Escovilla Inquirer News Service DAVAO CITY-Canadian mining firms have not wavered in their desire to invest on gold extraction on Mt. Diwata in Compostela Valley. Robert Collette, Canadian Ambassador to the Philippines, however, said that Canadian mining firms would like to see the outcome of the government's takeover of the gold-rush area, which is also known as Diwalwal. Earlier, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the closure of mining operations in Diwalwal because of violence among rival mining outfits. The environment department said the area would be eventually opened, not only to small-scale miners, but also to foreign mining firms. Collette's statements came after Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Ruth Pierce announced that four Australian mining companies were looking at developing mining areas in the country, including Mt. Diwata. Pierce said the "improved peace and order situation" of the country makes it very appealing to the Australian mining firms to invest.

26. Using Refraction Seismic Exploration For Placer Gold Mining In The Cariboo Searching for preglacial channels in the Cariboo gold area using seismic refraction techniques.Category Science Earth Sciences Geophysics...... We have three claims on Grouse Creek and canadian Creek. The Cariboo gold rush tookplace in the 1860's and it is estimated that close to 1 billion dollars in http://www.angelfire.com/mi/cariboogold/

Placer Prospecting in the Cariboo, British Columbia, Canada Welcome to our website that focuses on our placer prospecting in the famous Cariboo refraction seismic surveys to see if we could find old pre-glacial channels that the old time miners couldn't find due to the cover of glacial till. We have three claims on Grouse Creek and Canadian Creek . Although we have found many channels, it seems the shallow ones have been scoured out by the glaciers, and the others are too deep for us to investigate (50-70 ft.). The Cariboo Gold Rush took place in the 1860's and it is estimated that close to 1 billion dollars in placer gold was found, at today's price. The area has been glaciated leaving the valleys filled with glacial clay and rocks. You have to get below this layer to find the rich pre-glacial gravels. Drop us a line! More profiles Cariboo Gold Prospect Refraction Seismic - How it Works! ... Map of Barkerville Area Visitor # Created July '98 Updated January 2002

27. RCMP Centennial Museum - Origins Of The RCMP, Part 12 Two days later, a canadian Orderin-Council created the separate Yukon they werefirmly established just in time for the spectacular Klondike gold rush. http://www.rcmpmuseum.com/museum/Origins/origins12.html

This page uses JavaScript. The site should work if you do not have a Java-enabled browser put you may experience a few problems. We apologize for the inconvenience. RCMP Museum ~ Musée de la GRC Museum Home Page Museum Lobby and Information RCMP Historical Information Support the Museum!! Friends of the MP Museum Information Friendly Notes Newsletters RCMP Veterans Information Interesting Sites Feedback and GuestBook View Guestbook Entries Search our site! Entrée du musée Renseignement du musée Information Historique de la GRC Support the Museum!! (Anglais) Friends of the MP Museum Info (Anglais) Friendly Notes Newsletters (Anglais) RCMP Veterans Information (Anglais) Liens Intéressants Feedback and GuestBook (Anglais) View Guestbook Entries (Anglais) Recherchez! On to Part 13 On to Part 13 Klondike Gold Rush On May 20, 1894, Commissioner L.W. Herchmer directed Inspector Charles Constantine to set out for the Yukon's headwaters. S/Sgt. Charles Brown accompanied the Inspector, who was now well versed in the several government departments he would represent. One of his primary objectives consisted in letting the people of the Yukon know that a Dominion Agent was establishing roots. Almost two and a half months later, travelling by foot, boat, and on horseback, Constantine and Brown arrived at Fort Cudahy near the town of Fortymile. It was August 7th, 1894 — and who could predict that gold would soon be discovered? For the moment, Constantine and Brown had few pressures with only 1,000 miners, traders and trappers in the Territory. Yukon temperatures, Constantine was told, range from -77°F in the nine-month winter to 120°F in the summer. The environment itself would provide the greatest initial challenge.

28. Tour The RCMP Centennial Museum reinforce canadian authority over the territory. The Force was in place before thehordes of enthusiastic miners came north, and by the height of the gold rush http://www.rcmpmuseum.com/museum/tour/eng3.html

This page uses JavaScript. The site should work if you do not have a Java-enabled browser put you may experience a few problems. We apologize for the inconvenience. RCMP Museum ~ Musée de la GRC Museum Home Page Museum Lobby and Information RCMP Historical Information Support the Museum!! Friends of the MP Museum Information Friendly Notes Newsletters RCMP Veterans Information Interesting Sites Feedback and GuestBook View Guestbook Entries Search our site! Entrée du musée Renseignement du musée Information Historique de la GRC Support the Museum!! (Anglais) Friends of the MP Museum Info (Anglais) Friendly Notes Newsletters (Anglais) RCMP Veterans Information (Anglais) Liens Intéressants Feedback and GuestBook (Anglais) View Guestbook Entries (Anglais) Recherchez! Next Part Gold Diggers and War By 1896 a new challenge appeared for the Mounted Police. After Tagish Charlie and George Carmack discovered gold in August, the Klondike Gold Rush was on. Inspector Charles Constantine, however, had been dispatched to the Yukon in 1895 to establish a Force presence and reinforce Canadian authority over the territory. The Force was in place before the hordes of enthusiastic miners came north, and by the height of the gold rush in 1898, the Yukon NWMP contingent had grown from 19 men to 285, as law and order faced severe challenge in the frenzy of discovery. More Gold Rush info.

29. Natural Resources - Canadian Heritage Gallery canadian Heritage Gallery. ID 20705. Cariboo Shack A gold miners' shackin the Cariboo during the gold rush of the 1860s. ID 10017. http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/naturalresources0500.htm

Canadian Heritage Gallery Home Page Galleries Natural Resources Previous Page ... Next Page Natural Resources Click on the thumbnail to view the image, and for information about ordering reproductions. Gold Mining Cariboo Gold Diggings In 1858 gold was first discovered along the lower Fraser river and later on the slopes of the Cariboo Mountains in British Columbia, as pictured here. ID #20705 Cariboo Shack A gold miners' shack in the Cariboo during the gold rush of the 1860s. ID #10017 Yukon Gold Field Map Map showing the routes to the Yukon Gold Fields during the Klondike Gold Rush and indicating the new Yukon Provisional Territory. ID #20782 Klondike Migrants Pioneer migrants to Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush, including two women. ID #20783 Early Klondikers Early Klondikers arriving via Skagway, Alaska, 1897, during the Klondike Gold Rush. ID #20784 Gold Bottom Gold Bottom Village, Yukon Territory, 1900, a typical early gold-rush settlement at Hunker Creek. ID #20785 Early Ontario Mining Two miners examining Northern Ontario quartz for precious metals, probably relating to gold prospecting in the early Porcupine district.

30. Yukon Territory - Canadian Heritage Gallery Highway The crucial umbilical cord of much of the canadian North the gold BottomVillage, Yukon Territory, 1900, a typical early goldrush settlement at http://www.canadianheritage.org/galleries/places5300.htm

Canadian Heritage Gallery Home Page Galleries Yukon Territory Previous Page ... Next Page Yukon Territory Click on the thumbnail to view the image, and for information about ordering reproductions. Dawson Klondike Camping A camping-ground at Dawson, Yukon, in the Klondike Rush of 1898. ID #10021 Dempster Highway Dempster Highway The crucial umbilical cord of much of the Canadian North: the historic Dempster Highway, Yukon Territory. ID #23015 Emerald Lake Tatshenshini Valley Looking over the length of Tatshenshini Valley in northern British Columbia. ID #23172 Gold Bottom Village Gold Bottom Gold Bottom Village, Yukon Territory, 1900, a typical early gold-rush settlement at Hunker Creek. ID #20785 Hunker Creek Gold Bottom Gold Bottom Village, Yukon Territory, 1900, a typical early gold-rush settlement at Hunker Creek. ID #20785 Kaskawulsh Glacier Kaskawulsh Glacier An aerial view of the spectacular Kaskawulsh Glacier in Yukon Territory. ID #23016 Kathlene Lake Kathlene Lake Shimmering Kathlene Lake in Kluane, Yukon Territory. ID #23028 Click on the thumbnail to view the image, and for information about ordering reproductions.

31. Centre Of Canadian Studies-con972 Wilderness. Michael Hellyer, canadian High Commission, London, OtherNorths Baffin Island and James Bay. L. BRIDES OF THE gold rush. Chair http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/conf/1997/day2.htm

Saturday 3 May Back Venue: Royal Overseas League, 100 Princes Street Session IV: Saturday 09.00 - 10.30 F. IMAGES OF THE KLONDIKE Chair: Frank Howie, Queen Margaret College Princes Suite Jim Burant, National Archives of Canada Visual Documentation of the Klondike Gold Rush Brent Slobodin and Amanda Graham, Yukon College Panning the Rush: Images of the Klondike in Contemporary Yukon Society Pat Bates and Michael Smith, Alberta Klondike! The Gold Rush of the 1890s to the Gold Rush of the 1990s: Leisure and Recreation and the Invention of Tradition G. INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS Chair: James Sturgis, Birkbeck College, London Robert Louis Stevenson Room H.G. Jones, North Carolina Prelude to Sutter's Mill and the Klondike: The First Mining of Gold in the United States, 1799-1829 Michael Evans, Auckland Institute and Museum Seeking the "equilibrium of tranquility": power and authority in Australasian gold rush communities Kenneth Coates, Waikato The Klondike Gold Rush: A World History Perspective Coffee: 10.30 - 11.00

32. Centre Of Canadian Studies-con973 of the Environmental Impacts of the Klondike gold rush. Search for Recognition asDiscoverer of Klondike gold. The Malevolent North in canadian Literature and http://www.cst.ed.ac.uk/conf/1997/day3.htm

Sunday 4 May Back Venue: Royal Overseas League 100 Princes Street Session VII: 10.00 - 11.00 M. BRITISH REACTIONS TO THE GOLD RUSH Chair: John Othick, Queen's University, Belfast Princes Suite John Davis, Birkbeck College, London The Klondike Gold Rush as seen through the British Press Colin Coates, Edinburgh Yukon Street, UK N. ON THE WAY TO THE KLONDIKE Chair: Barry Moody, Acadia University Robert Louis Stevenson Room Karl Gurcke, Klondyke Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway An Armchair Tour of the Chilkoot Trail Coffee: 11.00 - 11.30 Session IX: 11.30 - 13.00 O. MINING RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT Chair: Ged Martin, Edinburgh Princes Suite Frank Duerden, Ryerson Polytechnic Approaching the Question of the Environmental Impacts of the Klondike Gold Rush P.-C. Guiollard, Fichous, France Current Placer Mining in the Klondike: Industrial and Small-Scale Operations Lunch: 12.30 - 14.00 (Registered Delegates Only) Session X: 14.0 - 15.00 P. KLONDIKE BIOGRAPHIES Chair: Colin Coates, Edinburgh Princes Suite Doug Whyte, National Archives of Canada

33. Is Canada Missing The .com Gold Rush? com gold rush? BY WARREN CARAGATA From Maclean's Ecommerce is poised to change theway goods and services are delivered to you. But are canadian companies up http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2000/07/goldrush.html

Sign in Sign out cart Contact Us Search: Site Store Laugh With Us Recipes Article Index Laugh With Us Subscribe Gift Subscription Word Power Crossword NOW WITH OVER 800 WINNERS! Canadians from coast to coast are receiving thousands in cash and prizes! Click here for free entry into Reader's Digest Canada's EZwin.ca. Friday, April 4th, 2003 Home EZwin.ca Magazine Letters ... Printer Version Perfect for any occasion or to announce the perfect gift: a Reader's Digest gift subscription. Challenge friends and family in this daily interactive quiz . Free and fun register to play today Shop On-line Canadian products, Canadian prices. Exclusive books, music collections, videos and more, and no credit card necessary! Free Catalogue Send for a free catalogue filled with the very best from Reader's Digest Canada. Order form Is Canada Missing the .com Gold Rush? BY WARREN CARAGATA From Maclean's E-commerce is poised to change the way goods and services are delivered to you. But are Canadian companies up to the challenge? T HE SCENE is a picturesque little Italian town featured in an IBM television commercial for electronic commerce. A stuffy-looking American couple stumble across a small shop that looks as ancient as the woman who runs it.

34. Klondike Gold Rush Klondike gold rush, touched off by the 17 Aug 1896 discovery of placer gold on Rabbit(later find was the result of a tip by a canadian prospector, Robert http://www.atlinlakehouseboattours.com/klondike_gold_rush.htm

Klondike Gold Rush Klondike Gold Rush, touched off by the 17 Aug 1896 discovery of placer gold on Rabbit (later Bonanza) Creek, a tributary of the Klondike R, by George Washington Carmack and his Indian brothers-in-law, "Skookum Jim" and "Tagish Charley." This accidental find was the result of a tip by a Canadian prospector, Robert Henderson, now credited as codiscoverer. The gold rush that followed was confined that first year to the Yukon interior. Miners already on the scene staked every creek in the Klondike and Indian river watersheds, including the fabulously rich Eldorado. The world did not learn of the strike until some of these newly rich pioneers reached the West Coast by steamship in mid-July 1897.. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's description of "a ton of gold" actually touched off the stampede. The effect on the depressed economy was instantaneous as hoarded funds were freed to finance some 100 000 amateur goldseekers who started N that fall and winter. The rich went all the way by water; the poor struggled over the White Pass and Chilkoot Pass, then down the Yukon R in handmade craft; the foolhardy took the "all-Canadian" routes through BC or out of Edmonton and found themselves spending 2 years on the trail. Soon much of Alaska and the Canadian Northwest was speckled with men and pack animals. Every Canadian community from Winnipeg to Victoria was permanently affected by the boom. The Canadian North was seen as something more than frozen wasteland: Klondike fever was the catalyst for a chain of later mineral discoveries. Sixty steamboats plied the Yukon. The new town of Dawson at the Klondike's mouth, with a floating population of some 30 000, became the largest community N of Seattle and W of Winnipeg, boasting telephones, electricity and motion picture theatres. Prostitution was tolerated; saloons, dancehalls and gaming parlours ran wide open except on Sundays.

35. Gold Coin Shop: History The gold rush of 1848, says Brands, was a watershed in American history, helpingmold the Home gold History American gold canadian gold European gold http://www.goldcoinshop.com/history_of_gold.html

Gold Coin Shop - Gold and Silver coins/bullion from around the world Saint Gaudens,Sovereigns,Ducats,Gold Maple Leafs,Krugerrands,Francs. Tax Free Gold Home INTRODUCTION The History of Precious Metals GOLD COINS US Gold Coins Canadian Gold Coins European Gold Coins Other Gold Coins SILVER COINS Silver Coins COMMEMORATIVES LINKS Gold Investor Gold There are three reasons why people have alwasy placed a high value on gold: its beauty, its usefulness, and its scarcity. Gold is a soft yellow metal. It is one of the heaviest elements, 200 cubic centimeters weights over 540 kilograms. Gold is also one of the most easily worked metals. It is so easy to hammer and shape that less than one gram of gold can ge beaten into a sheet two meteres square. Unlike other metals, gold does not tarnish in the presence of air and can remain bright and shiny for ever. And this is probably one of the reasons why people have always valued it. Gold has been mined and used for centuries. In the United States, gold fever reached its height in the 19th century. 1848 saw the start of the California gold rush. More than $500 million in gold was to be mined in California over the next decade. In 1896, a similar gold rush occurred in Alaska. The worlds largest gold deposits were discovered in South Africa in 1886. These deposits are still being mined for gold, diamonds, and many other minearls even today.

36. Loading L4U IPAC Summary, This program introduces students to an important aspect of their environmentand to an integral part of canadian agriculture the gold rush (SSS0017). http://drc.sd62.bc.ca/DT000178.HTM

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37. Eye - After The Gold Rush - 11.16.00 After the gold rush. Love 'em or hate 'em, Geddy Lee and rush are probably among the 1most recognizable canadian alive (well, it would be a tie between him and http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_11.16.00/music/lee.html

CONTENTS Latest issue This issue LISTINGS Movie showtimes Music listings Theatre Dance ... Etc. COLUMNS Love Bites Feelings Pink Panther Sign Language ... ABOUT EYE eye - After the gold Rush Rock ambassador Geddy Lee takes off once again to the Great White North BY CHRIS ROLFE Love 'em or hate 'em, Geddy Lee and Rush are probably among the most recognized Canadians on the planet and in light of recent political passings, one could argue Geddy is indeed the No. 1 most recognizable Canadian alive (well, it would be a tie between him and Shatner). But despite Lee's iconic status, one question remains for hardcore Rush fans: is Geddy's new solo album, My Favourite Headache (released Nov. 14 on Anthem/UMG), worthy of both his international notoriety, and of the glorious Dominion he comes from? With Rush on extended hiatus, and with no politicians yet offering exotic foreign posts, Lee decided to spend the last year working on new songs with guitarist and kd lang co-writer Ben Mink. After 22 albums with Rush, Lee claims it wasn't an easy task to become a "solo artist." "I just found myself with this time available," he says, "and I needed to do some writing. Fortunately, things seemed to work out with Ben, where we could collaborate and still remain friends. We realized what we were writing was special, and decided it was not something to be shelved."

38. The Red Lake Museum - Gift Shop Red Lake, and his experiences in the canadian Armed Forces. Included are fifty shortstories and anecdotes about colorful personalities from the gold rush era. http://www.redlakemuseum.com/html/body_giftshop.html

Museum Gift Shop The Museum giftshop features a variety of items relating to the history of the area. We have postcards, t-shirts, books, and historic maps. BOOKS North for Gold, the Red Lake Gold Rush of 1926 , by Ruth Russell. ($20.00). This book yields a wealth of fascinating details about the people who came in search of gold, and the economic contribution the Red Lake mines have made to the Canadian economy. It also illustrates the links between Red Lake and the other major Canadian gold rushes, such as the Klondike and the Porcupine. North for Gold is easy to read, entertaining, and very informative. It is the only book still in print about the Red Lake Gold Rush of 1926. 210 pages, 14 photographs. Hardcover. Placer Dome’s Campbell Mine, Canada’s Richest Gold Mine, by D.F. Parrott. ($20.00). On a bitterly cold January afternoon on 1944, George Campbell and his cousin Colin Campbell, staked three mining claims on the south shore of Balmer Lake, near what is now the townsite of Balmertown. Five years later the Campbell Red Lake Mines went into production, and for many years, was known as Canada’s richest gold mine. This book documents both the personal life and mining activities of George Campbell, from his childhood in Massey, Ontario, to his marriage to Gene, and their flamboyant lifestyle following the discovery. 128 pages, 89 photographs. Hardcover.

39. Gold Rush Sled Dog Association -- Envelope Sales Past & Present Payment. To order by mail, send full payment in canadian funds to GoldRush Trail Sled Dog Association Box 4274 Quesnel, BC V2J 3J4 Canada http://www.wellsbc.com/sleddog/envelopes.html

Gold Rush Trail Sled Dog Association British Columbia, Canada SOUVENIR ENVELOPES CARRIED BY DOG TEAM NOW OFFERED FOR SALE 1999 will mark the seventh year that Gold Rush Trail Sled Dog Race organizers have printed a specially-designed "Carried By Dog Team" envelope. These collector's items are stamped and post-marked in Quesnel B.C., carried by sled dog teams to Wells B.C. where they are stamped and put into the regular mail system and delivered throughout the world. The artwork on these envelopes in exceptional, each envelope includes a special printed message describing the race and the history of the area. These envelopes are now available to interested collectors on the following terms: 1993 Northern Winter Games all the above envelopes...not stamped or cancelled $5.00 (Note: 1993 and 1996 envelopes have been sold out) 2000 specially stamped in St. Valentine, Quebec envelopes....stamped and cancelled $10.00 (Note: 1993 envelopes have been sold out, very few 1996 left) 1996 special oversized envelope with Canadian Inuit series stamps $20.00 1996 special oversize envelope with Canadian Inuit series stamps and cancelled $30.00

40. City Rises On Golden Wave Crowds jammed Seattle's docks, headed for the gold fields of the Yukon River and its tributaries, Category Society History West gold rushes Klondike...... Seattle men and boys left town for the Alaskan and canadian gold fields; even Andgold rush Seattle became notorious for wideopen gambling and prostitution. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/january/golden_wave.html

This story ran in The Seattle Times on January 7, 1996 By Sharon Boswell and Lorraine McConaghy Special to the Times Crowds jammed Seattle's docks, headed for the gold fields of the Yukon River and its tributaries the region of Alaska and Canada known to adventurers and residents alike as the Klondike. Backed by local newspapers and the Chamber of Commerce, Seattle became the West Coast portal to the Klondike. Photo Credit: Seattle Times. I N 1896,"DOWNTOWN SEATTLE" WAS JUST A FEW BLOCKS OF DENSE URBAN CONSTRUCTION between First and Third avenues, on either side of Yesler Way. Respectable commerce moved north up the avenues away from the heart of the city in Pioneer Place, now known as Pioneer Square. Saloons, gambling dens and brothels stretched to the south. When newcomer Alden J. Blethen bought his first stake in The Seattle Times that year, Seattle was raw and broke a frontier seaport on the long downside of a boom-and-bust economy. Recent completion of the Great Northern Railways transcontinental track to the city revived hopes that Seattle might become the commercial hub for a great hinterland of timber, wheat and coal. But the town still suffered the after-effects of 1893s national panic, when distant investors withdrew their funds from local projects. Seattle couldn't meet its own payrolls, and a stream of jobless men abandoned the city in search of better prospects. Overnight, everything changed. On July 17, 1897, the steamer Portland docked in Seattles harbor carrying 70 ordinary men who had brought back a million dollars in gold from the streams of the Yukon River. Their fantastic stories coursed through the city streets.

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