Download or read book Slumach s Gold written by Rick Antonson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slumach’s Gold chronicles what is possibly Canada’s greatest lost-mine story. It searches out the truth behind a Salish man’s hanging for murder in 1891 and tracks the intriguing legend about him that grew after his death. It was a legend that turned into a drama of international fascination when Slumach—the hanged criminal—was mysteriously linked to gold nuggets “the size of walnuts.” The stories claimed that Slumach had placed a curse on a hidden motherlode to protect it from interlopers and trespassers just before he plunged to his death “at the wrong end of a five-strand rope.” Although many have attempted to find Slumach’s gold over the past 100 years, following tantalizing clues that are part of the legend itself, none have succeeded—or have they? Rick Antonson, Mary Trainer and Brian Antonson have diligently sifted through history and myth, separating fact from fiction, but leaving the legend intact—along with the promise of gold yet to be found by some future gold seeker.
Download or read book Gold in British Columbia written by Marino Specogna and published by marino specogna. This book was released on 2011-12-18 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation on placer gold and lode gold deposits located in British Columbia.Historic reference data is supplied as is common deposit types. The listings of known gold deposits includes information on geological formation and tonnage and grades.Tabulated lists of gold deposits in British Columbia is also included.This is a compilation and overview of gold in British Columbia by a seasoned explorationist in the field.
Download or read book Gold Rush written by Kathryn Anne Bridge and published by Canadian Museum of History. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some say that Western Canada began with the railway. In fact, it began with a gold rush. Relive the tumultuous days of gold's discovery in British Columbia's Fraser Canyon. Travel back to 1858 and meet some of the tens of thousands of fortune-seeking prospectors who dreamed of astonishing finds ? like the huge Turnagain Nugget. Find out how the gold rush attracted thousands of miners and entrepreneurs of various social and ethnic origins and forever transformed this once-remote region of the Pacific North West. Through photographs, artwork and artifacts ? including miner's tools, a real stagecoach and an exquisite gold box carved by Bill Reid ? this souvenir catalogue tells the fascinating story of gold's timeless allure.
Download or read book New Perspectives on the Gold Rush written by Donald J. Bourdon and published by Royal British Columbia Museum. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1858, reports of gold found on the Fraser River spurred tens of thousands of people--mostly men--to rush into the territory we now call British Columbia. They came with visions of fortune in their eyes. The lucky ones struck it rich, but most left penniless or died trying for the motherlode. Some stayed behind and helped build the colony and the province of British Columbia.
Download or read book Gold Panning in British Columbia written by Jim Lewis and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I want to gold pan; I want to strike rich. I've been searching for a stream of gold. It's these fortunes I never win that keep me searching for a stream of gold. And I'm getting old. I keep searching for my stream of gold; and I'm getting close." If those words sound like a common refrain, don't despair. With this newly compiled and expanded edition of Jim's previous three bestselling gold-panning guides to BC in your library, you'll know where to find streams of gold all over BC. Jim Lewis has been gold panning all across this province, and now he's sharing his fortune and spilling the motherlode about which creaks pan out. Each creek is well described and accompanied by clear directions and maps. In addition to disclosing his most treasured tips and tricks, Jim teaches you how to read the river and summarizes the mining history of each region. From what time of year to head out, what to bring with you and what to watch out for, Gold Panning in British Columbia covers the basics and beyond. You won't need a rainbow to help you find a pot of gold.
Download or read book Cariboo Gold written by Marian Templeton Place and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1970 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the late nineteenth-century gold rush to Canada's Fraser River, its hardships and tragedies, its rare success stories, and its effect on the settlement of northern British Columbia.
Download or read book Gold in British Columbia written by Marie Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influx of over 20,000 European and Chinese miners to the Fraser River in the spring of 1858, all of them hungry for gold, compelled the British government to declare the mainland, known then as New Caledonia, the Colony of British Columbia. In an attempt to capture the excitement of this period and the challenges faced by the colonial government during the years prior to Confederation, this book seeks to answer three vital questions: How did the gold rush unfold? Who were the participants? And what were the outcomes? Excerpts from the correspondence of government officials and from Matthew Baillie Begbie, the only Supreme Court judge in the Colony of British Columbia for most of that period, provide insight, humour and new perspectives into the actual gold rush events and the enormous task of establishing law and order during one of the major social upheavals of North America. In this history, readers will meet the miners, First Nations peoples, Hudson's Bay personnel, governors, royal engineers, assistant gold commissioners, steadfast community leaders, and women who trekked over the mountains-a kaleidoscope of colourful people and events.
Download or read book Claiming the Land written by Daniel Patrick Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Native American Studies. This trailblazing history focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush--the third great mass migration of gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall's history becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of British Columbia's "founding" event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. Marshall unsettles many of our most taken-for-granted assumptions: he shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into their own hands, and conducting extermination campaigns against Indigenous peoples while forcibly claiming the land. Drawing on new evidence, Marshall explores the three principal cultures of the goldfields--those of the fur trade (both Native and the Hudson's Bay Company), Californian, and British world views. The year 1858 was a year of chaos unlike any other in British Columbia and American Pacific Northwest history. It produced not only violence but the formal inauguration of colonialism, Native reserves and, ultimately, the expansion of Canada to the Pacific Slope. Among the haunting legacies of this rush are the cryptic place names that remain--such as American Creek, Texas Bar, Boston Bar, and New York Bar--while the unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty continues to claim the land.
Download or read book British Columbia and Yukon Gold Hunters written by Donald E. Waite and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the 19th century gold rushes in British Columbia and the Yukon. Includes archival photographs and hand-drawn maps.
Download or read book Fraser Gold 1858 written by Netta Sterne and published by Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1858 proved to be the most eventful in western Canada as waves of American miners made their way to the Fraser River country, joining hundreds of Indians, Vancouver Island colonists, and former fur trade employees in the gold fields. The newcomers were some of the earliest pioneers of British Columbia.
Download or read book Searching for Pitt Lake Gold written by Fred Braches and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart, concise analysis of the legend of Slumach’s Gold, which strives to uncover the truth behind this mythical gold deposit said to be hidden north of Pitt Lake. British Columbia is gold country, and with gold comes legends that have been passed down through the generations. Ever since the Fraser Canyon gold rush, prospectors and adventurers have been looking for a mysterious, exceedingly rich gold deposit in the watershed of Pitt Lake, first mentioned in a small newspaper entry in November 1869. Over time, as the story spread, the man at the centre of this legendary gold start was endowed with the identity of Slum.ook, better known as Slumach, a Katzie man who was ultimately hanged in 1891 for shooting and killing another man in anger. The legend of the gold grew into that of an exceedingly rich deposit known as "Slumach's gold." This book presents, unravels, and dissects the legends of the gold of Pitt Lake, and tells the stories of some of the daredevils and venerable prospectors who searched for the mythical gold at their peril.
Download or read book Placer Gold Production of British Columbia written by Stuart S. Holland and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Creeks Ghost Towns written by Neville Langrell Barlee and published by Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to gold creek and ghost town country where towns stand in another century, the echoes of history are audible, and the wilderness is still just a glance away. From the sagebrush, desert country of southern valleys of the Okanagan and Similkameen across to the high grandeur of the East Kootenays, the southern interior of BC remains an entrancing region. To some people it is the ghost town country, and area where half a hundred towns stood in another century and names like Sandon, Phoenix, Ferguson and Cascade City were familiar words. To others it is the land of gold creeks, for there was a time when streams like Perry, Granite, Rock and Wild Horse drew thousands of miners in their never ending quest for Eldorado. Fortunately, some of this area remains relatively unchanged and even today the wilderness is but a glance away and beyond the traveled routes, the trail blazing country still beckons. For that rather unique breed, those who feel at ease in places far off the beaten path or deep in the back country where the echoes of history are still audible and the atmosphere of half-forgotten eras lingers on, we hope that this book will be enjoyable, for it is for those individuals that is in intended.
Download or read book Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island written by Richard Charles Mayne and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Gold Fields of Cariboo written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge. This book was released on 1862 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold and Grand Dreams written by Marie Elliott and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the richest gold claims in British Columbia lay along the Quesnel River and its creeks. And there some of the grandest mining schemes were hatched.
Download or read book Cariboo the Newly Discovered Gold Fields of British Columbia written by Returned digger and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
