Dawson City Community Profile gold, discovered in 1896 on nearby creeks, caused the Klondike gold rush which turned In1898, Dawson was the largest canadian city west of Winnipeg (40,000 http://www.yukonweb.com/community/dawson/
Extractions: Gold, discovered in 1896 on nearby creeks, caused the Klondike Gold Rush which turned this native summer fish camp at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon Rivers into the "Paris of the North". (The natives moved downstream to Moosehide.) The town was staked out by Joe Ladue and named after George M. Dawson, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada, who explored the region in 1887. In 1898, Dawson was the largest Canadian city west of Winnipeg (40,000 people) with telephone service, running water and steam heat. Elaborate hotels, theatres and dance halls were erected, with Andrew Carnegie donating $25,000 towards the building of a library in 1903. During 1899 the stampede for gold came to an end, and 8,000 people left Dawson that summer. By 1902, the population was down to less than 5,000. In 1902, Dawson was officially incorporated as a city. It was the seat of the Territorial Government from 1898. Major mining operations took over most of the Klondike gold beds in the years following the Gold Rush, but production declined after an all-time high in 1911. Higher gold prices caused a minor boom in the 1930's, but the last dredge was shut down in 1966. The Yukon's economic centre shifted to Whitehorse, which became the capital in 1953. Whitehorse was more accessible than Dawson due to the building of the Alaska Highway and cessation of riverboat travel. Today, tourism and gold mining are the major inductries, both taking place during the summer months. Approximately 60,000 people visit Dawson City each year.
Chilkoot Trail: Commemorating The Gold Rush Trails A bill establishing Klondike gold rush National Historical Park passed the US Congressand was signed into law on June 30, 1976.38. The canadian study group http://www.yukonweb.com/business/lost_moose/books/chilkoot/commemerating.html
Extractions: Chilkoot Trail Skagway civic and business leaders began to show an interest in preserving and interpreting gold rush resources as early as the 1930s. The idea of a "Chilcoot National Park"-to include the region around Skagway, Dyea, and the old Chilkoot Trail-was forwarded to U.S. National Park Service (NPS) officials in Washington. The idea was dropped after a few years, but interest began to grow again in the 1950s.[34] An NPS archaeologist, Paul Schumacher, spent time investigating some of Skagway's old buildings in June, 1959. Two years later, in July, 1961, historian Charles Snell evaluated the Skagway and Taiya river valleys for the National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings. He felt both Skagway and the Chilkoot Trail were "sites of exceptional value" and thus worthy to be nominated as historic sites.[35] By the 1960s, the Chilkoot Trail had been abandoned for more than 60 years and the route had become almost entirely obscured. But a meeting of state corrections and lands-division personnel revived interest in the trail, and reconstruction began shortly afterward. In May, 1961, the state of Alaska organized a party to survey the trail. It was brushed out as far as Sheep Camp and a cable for hauling supplies was installed across the Taiya River. Later, the government committed to a long-term program. In 1962 and 1963, a crew built cabins near Canyon City and Sheep Camp, and by the close of the 1963 season, the trail was open all the way to the summit.[37]
Gold Hunter: Books Before the gold rush The Great Klondike gold rush (Adventures in canadian HistorySeries) Author Pierre Berton, Paul McCusker Publisher McClelland Stewart http://www.goldhunter.com/books/Reference/Gold_Rush/
The Klondike Gold Rush Nor was Dawson the only canadian city to have dramatic growth dueto the Klondike gold rush. Vancouver, British Columbia saw its http://content.lib.washington.edu/GoldRush/
Extractions: Collections Advanced ... UW Libraries On August 16, 1896 Yukon-area Indians Skookum Jim Mason and Tagish Charlie, along with Seattleite George Carmack found gold in Rabbit Creek, near Dawson, in the Yukon region of Canada. The creek was promptly renamed Bonanza Creek, and many of the locals started staking claims. Gold was literally found all over the place, and most of these early stakeholders (who became known as the "Klondike Kings") became wealthy. Since the Yukon was so remote, word of this find spread relatively slowly for almost a year. On July 17, 1897, eleven months after the initial discovery of gold, the steamship Portland arrived in Seattle from Dawson with "more than a ton of gold", according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. With that pronouncement, the Klondike Gold Rush was on! Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon. Only 30,000 completed the trip. Many Klondikers died, or lost enthusiasm and either stopped where they were, or turned back along the way. The trip was long, arduous, and cold. Klondikers had to walk most of the way, using either pack animals or sleds to carry hundreds of pounds of supplies. The Northwest Mounted Police in Canada required that all Klondikers bring a year's worth of supplies with them. Even so, starvation and malnutrition were serious problems along the trail. The story of the Klondiker who boiled his boots to drink the broth was widely reported, and may well have been true. Cold was another serious problem along the trail. Winter temperatures in the mountains of northern British Columbia and the Yukon were normally -20 degrees F., and temperatures of -50 degrees F. were not unheard of. Tents were usually the warmest shelter a Klondiker could hope for.
The Klondike Gold Rush: Documents Index Original Provincial Archives of British Columbia; Microfiche, canadian Institutefor a basic idea of Seattle's trade economy in the years after the gold rush. http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/curklon/
Extractions: in the Washington Public Schools DOCUMENTS INDEX Click on any of the numbers below to go to a source document, or scroll through the text index: Each of the documents in the curriculum materials has a number which corresponds to the number here, for coordination with sources and organization by subject. 1.Mary Hitchcock , Bering Sea, June 1898; from Melanie Mayer, Klondike Women: True Tales of the 1897-98 Gold Rush (Athens, Ohio, 1989), p. 56. 2.Inga Kolloen , Dyea Trail, March 21, 1898; from Melanie Mayer, Klondike Women (Athens, Ohio, 1989), p. 73. 3.Inga Kolloen , Dyea Trail, March 29, 1898; from Melanie Mayer, Klondike Women (Athens, Ohio, 1989), p. 78. 4.Martha Purdy , Summer 1898; from Melanie Mayer, Klondike Women (Athens, Ohio, 1989), pp. 102-103. 5.Flora Shaw , Lake Bennett, July 1898; from Melanie Mayer, Klondike Women (Athens, Ohio, 1989), p. 175.
Vancouver - Area History - Gold Rush And The Railway who gave up after the California gold rush of '49 managed to find over $500,000in gold. its independence by Britain, BC joined canadian confederation. http://vancouver.com/whattoexpect/areahistory/goldrush/
Extractions: 1849 was the magic year for gold in western North America. In British Columbia, the settlement on Vancouver Island around Victoria officially became a British Colony, the same year as the California Gold Rush. In 1858, gold was discovered in the lower Fraser River and more than 25,000 prospectors including many who gave up after the California Gold Rush of '49 managed to find over $500,000 in gold. By 1866, the BC and Vancouver Island colonies were united and population was flooding into the region, but an economy based on just fur trading and mining was not stable enough to sustain a full British colony. In 1871, four years after Canada was given its independence by Britain, BC joined Canadian confederation. The BC provincial government began encouraging the nascent agriculture and forestry industries and the drive for economic diversification which would characterize the next hundred years for BC began. The primary enticement for BC to join Canada, was a promised railroad linking the isolated West Coast to the eastern part of the country. While one crew was building from the east, across the Prairies and then through Roger's Pass, another crew was laying track from the West, up the Fraser River canyon and into the Thompson River valley. On November 7, 1885, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was pounded into the transcontinental track at Craigellachie, just east of Shushwap Lake. The first transcontinental train arrived just East of Vancouver in Port Moody on July 4, 1886. The following year, the railway was extended the last 20 kilometers into Vancouver and what would become the second largest port in North America began shipping and receiving goods as Canada's main gateway to the Pacific.
Introduction: The Klondike Gold Rush In International Perspective the Klondike gold rush. Over the course of the three days, various aspects wereexplored, reflecting the interdisciplinary orientation of canadian Studies in http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/review/19intro.htm
Extractions: in International Perspective In the nineteenth century, two Scots left Dumferline to seek riches in North America. Andrew Carnegie headed for the United States and made his fortune in steel. James Dodds left for the Klondike in 1898, and his letters back to his parents do not suggest that he made a great success. "This is a very strange country," he wrote from Dawson City, "from the surface down . . . ." Nonetheless, for a brief time in the late 19 th and early 20 th century, the Klondike was synonymous with wealth, opportunity and freedom. It was hardly surprising that would-be gold miners from Scotland to New Zealand and from across North America would decamp from the routines of everyday life and head for the gold fields in the Yukon. One hundred years after the news of major gold strikes in the Klondike region reached the outside world, it is time to take stock of the continuing allure of this, the last of the great gold rushes. New perspectives have developed, and old ones have been revisited in the attempt to assess the broader context in which this major event took shape. This interest springs from continued curiosity about this profoundly important event and from growing interest in the impact of the gold rush on the Yukon Territory. The passage of time has created distance from the events, without diminishing public fascination in the remarkable stampede into the far northwest of North America.
Extractions: Introduction In accordance with the dictates of NPS-28 (the agency's Cultural Resource Management Guideline), an administrative history describes how a park was conceived and established and how it has been managed to the present day. The park's legislative history and important issues in planning, land acquisition, development, public relations, and other topics of ongoing management concern are emphasized. This study has endeavored to fulfill those goals as they apply to Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. This park, which was authorized by Congress in a bill signed by President Gerald Ford on June 30, 1976, is composed of four separate units: three units located in and around Skagway, Alaska, and one unit located within the Pioneer Square Historic District in downtown Seattle, Washington. All four units witnessed a flurry of historical activity during the 1897-1899 Klondike Gold Rush period. This park has several special characteristics which pertain to it. A number of parks, for example, are located in more than one state, and several parks are also composed of more than one distinct unit. But no park has one unit that is so distant from the others. Because of that separation, NPS officials decided shortly after the park's authorization that two superintendents, as well as two administrative staffs, would be necessary. Another factor that makes the park a relative rarity is the location of the park's Skagway unit in the midst of Skagway's business district. This fact has made the NPS, for better or worse, a major influence in Skagway's economic and political life. The park's location along the Canadian border, and the necessity to act in concert with Canadian authorities from time to time, is another aspect of park operations that Klondike shares with few other NPS units.
Is It Too Late For The Gold Rush? 29 column, Four Ways to Get In on the Next gold rush. Another canadian,Bruce Love, wrote gold is a very dangerous and volatile market. http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/supermodels/10067030.html
Extractions: Are investors rushing into gold just as most of the upside has been all but mined out? That's what plenty of readers accused me of recommending after my Jan. 29 column, Four Ways to Get In on the Next Gold Rush. Truthfully, the gold bug left me cold until I ran across a news item on Bloomberg a couple of weeks ago. On Jan. 22, the wire service reported that European Union finance ministers had agreed to report foreign savers' interest income to their home tax authorities. While that bureaucratic action might sound like an innocent attempt to wring more taxes out of citizens who are wealthy enough to have foreign bank accounts, it sounded like a power grab that takes the Continent one step back toward its dark days of totalitarianism and it is likely to be one more reason that smarter Europeans might turn increasingly to gold as a store of wealth instead of bonds, equities or paper cash. Offshore havens exist in places such as Switzerland and Luxembourg because people particularly persecuted minorities, but also the reasonably paranoid rich have learned the hard way that governments sometimes do bad things, and it may be a good idea to have some wealth legally tucked out of the reach of your home authorities. If paper wealth is suddenly going to come under greater scrutiny for the sake of a few extra dimes' worth of tax receipts, then one of the few alternative options for well-to-do Europeans will be gold.
Canadian Tourism Commission in time in the bustling restored goldrush town of Latter-day gold seekers near QuébecCity. businesstobusiness site of the canadian Tourism Commission http://www.canadatourism.com/en/ctc/mediacentre/editorial/gold.cfm
Extractions: Where there was once a gold rush, there is now the opportunity for tourists to learn all about this most sought-after of precious metals and maybe even find a few nuggets of their own. In Dawson City, Yukon, the heart of the great Klondike Gold Rush, visitors are welcome to pan for free, and keep the gold they find, at Free Claim #6 on historic Eldorado Creek (1-877-465-3006 or www.dawsoncity.com ). In BC's Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, where Billy Barker discovered gold more than a century ago, travellers can step back in time in the bustling restored gold-rush town of Barkerville, where activities include gold panning and shopping at the old-fashioned General Store (250/994-3332 or www.barkerville.com ). In Québec's Abitibi region, where gold was discovered in 1923, the former Lamaque Gold Mines in Val-d'Or have been converted into an interpretation centre called Cité de l'Or, where visitors can tour the mine and the nearby village built by the company for its workers (819/825-7616 or www.citedelor.qc.ca
Canadian Gold Producers the legendary Klondike gold rush began in the Yukon, This event marked the beginningof one of the most productive periods in canadian gold mining, as well as http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/ms/efab/mmsd/minerals/gold.htm
Extractions: Canadian Gold Producers Mineral and Metal Commodity Reviews List of Producers Gold has been the ultimate symbol of wealth from earliest civilizations to the present. It has been sought after and fought over more than any other human possession. Even though it is too soft for weapons or tools, people have treasured gold for its decorative and monetary value for at least 8000 years. Properties of Gold Gold is a bright, shiny yellow metal, notable for its great density - 19.3 times the weight of an equal volume of water and valued for its extreme ductility, high resistance to corrosion, lustrous beauty, and for its scarcity. Because it is the least chemically active of all metals, gold usually occurs in the free or uncombined state. It sometimes is found as nuggets, flakes or 'dust' in gravel or sand along creeks and streams; these deposits are called placers. More often today, gold is found in veins or dispersed in bedrock. Also, much gold is now recovered as a by- product of base-metal mines. Gold in Canada
CM Magazine: Klondike Gold Rush The Klondike gold rush lasted only a few years a blink in the eye ofhistory. But it is an important part of canadian history to record. http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol3/no14/klondike.html
Extractions: Review by Harriet Zaidman. excerpt: A Klondike adventurer, Luella Day, commented on the seemingly elusive quality of gold: "it is a curious but a historical fact that either in the frozen North or the pestiferous tropical swamps Nature hides her stores of gold to lure men to seek at the risk of their lives." Whether this statement is universally applicable is impossible to ascertain, but it was certainly true in the Klondike. Klondike Gold Rush is part of the History Alive Series , published by IDON East Corporation of Ottawa. This series has been planned well. It makes history interesting, informative and appealing to Canadian students. The writing style is appropriate but appeals to a broad range of ages. The information is easy to access, and the presentation of the information is unique and consistent with the subject matter. Archival writing and pictures abound with appropriate explanations, making this one of the better publications on CD-ROM. Klondike Gold Rush runs on any 386 computer or better, using Windows 3.1, 3.11 or Windows for Workgroups. It requires 4 MB of memory and a VGA display or better.
CM Magazine: Gold Rush Women. Essentially, the women who settled on the canadian side of the gol d fields divisionsof territory meant little to these men and women during gold rush years. http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol5/no4/goldrushwomen.html
Extractions: Review by Ian Stewart. excerpt: Women have made their minds up to go to the Klondike, so there is no use trying to discourage them...our wills are strong and unfailing. There are a few things, however, women should carefully consider before starting on this really perilous journey. First of all, delicate women have no right attempting this trip. It means utter collapse. Those who love luxury, comfort, and ease would better remain at home. It takes strong, healthy courageous women to stand the terrible hardships that must necessar ily be endured.... Annie Hall Strong December 31, 1897 One in every ten people who went to the Klondike in the 1890s was a woman. In fact, Murphy and Haigh tell us, it was probably a woman who panned the first gold on Rabbit Creek near the Yukon River and started Canada's famous gold rush of 1896. The authors' twenty-three biographical sketches examine the lives of women who typify the collective experience of the "fair sex" in gold-rush times. The biographies move historically from the Aboriginal wives, who kept the first white prospectors alive, through women's lives in the gold-fields and the boom-towns of the Klondike, then into the modern era.
Sharefin's GOLDEN Bookstore canadian Reserves As Of January 1, 1981 - Copper, Nickel, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum,Silver, gold by W gold rushES After The gold rush - by Archie Satterfield. http://www.sharelynx.net/Books/GoldBook17.htm
Sharefin's GOLDEN Bookstore Towers Of gold, Feet Of Clay The canadian Banks by Walter Stewart. Ways Harsh Wild - Adventure Hardship During The Yukon gold rush by Doris Andersen. http://www.sharelynx.net/Books/GoldBook4.htm
Powell's Books - Used, New, And Out Of Print One Man's gold rush A Klondike Album by Murray Morgan Publisher Comments When EricA toaction to canadians outside Quebec to rebuild a revived canadian nation http://www.powells.com/usedbooks/Canada.1.html
Extractions: Skagway went from a one-cabin settlement to a lawless boomtown practically overnight after word reached Seattle and the rest of the economically depressed United States in 1898 that prospectors working for years in the Klondike had discovered gold. After the boom, Skagway's leaders recognized quickly that the town had tourism potential and so moved the gold-rush buildings into one district in 1903. The National Park Service began buying those buildings more than 70 years later, and now the 862-resident town itself is pretty much a museum catering to cruise passengers and Chilkoot Trail adventurers.
National Postal Museum not represent all the routes proposed by various entrepreneurs during the gold rush,they were is, but the route is being pushed by the canadian government as http://www.si.edu/postal/gold/tappentrails.html
Canuxploitation: Cult Goes North-- The Tax Shelter Gold Rush Cult Goes North The Tax Shelter gold rush. In researching films for this site, Ihave come across many canadian Bmovies that weren't actually made by canadians http://home.ica.net/~paulc/canux/article/taxshelter.html
Extractions: + Email Comments Cult Goes North: The Tax Shelter Gold Rush In researching films for this site, I have come across many Canadian B-movies that weren't actually made by Canadians. That's because when the Canadian government designated Canadian film productions as tax shelters, many other countries wanted to get in on the act as well. Unfortunately, its impossible to talk about tax shelter films without first discussing tax shelters themselves. In 1967, the Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) was born. Their mandate was to stimulate a feature film industry in Canada by giving funding in the form of loans, awards and grants, and they were given an initial budget of $10 million. This money lasted only four years. Since the CFDC was intended to function primarily like a bank, this was not exactly the kind of profit statement the federal government had originally envisioned. When they were given another $10 million in 1971, the CFDC decided to change their focus. Now, they looked to finance films they thought would be successful at the box office, with the intention of creating a commercial base on which to build a strong Canadian feature film industry. To create more cash flow, they eased the Canadian regulations on Federal income tax in 1974. Money used in the production of a Canadian feature film was now eligible for 100% Capital Cost Allowance (CCA), instead of 30%. This tax-free investment had producers tripping over themselves to get their cash hidden, and many directors from south of the border and across the pond came to take a shot at making a Canadian film. Unfortunately, these new investors began contributing large amounts of money for film budgets, but then only allowing a small portion to be used for the actual production of the movie.
