Download or read book Gold Rush Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia written by Mike Parker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gold Rush Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia tells the fascinating stories of abandoned communities, not haunted buildings and paranormal encounters, although the occasional resident spirit does make an appearance. Ghost towns generally begin as industry-based communities of convenience for mining but when resources were depleted, marks slumped or demand outstripped production, their reason for being ended. The story of mining in Nova Scotia is one of Canada's oldest, yet is perhaps the province's best kept heritage secret. More gold was mined worldwide in the 1800s than during the previous five thousand years. Since Canada was one of the worlds largest gold producers, auriferous tales and legends abound from that era of motherlodes found and fortunes lost. Nova Scotia heralded the first of its three gold rushes 37 years before men braved Yukon's Chilkoot Pass heading to the Klondike. Adventurers from the world over were drawn to Nova Scotia's burgeoning nineteenth-century gold districts as was "a motley crew of day labourers, farmers, fishermen, ruined mechanics, drunkards and gamblers." An air of mysticism shrouding ghost towns holds a fascination for historians, social scientists, treasure and relic hunters, geocachers and nostalgia buffs. Mike Parker tells the story of characters and con men, industry and labour, prosperity and recession. Although abandoned gold mining settlements are the book's central theme, ghost towns built upon coal, iron ore and copper are featured as well. Scores of exhaustively researched images, supported by informative, entertaining text, tell the sad story of a great heritage that has been nearly erased from our history books.
Download or read book Buried in the Woods written by Mike Parker and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Bear River, Nova Scotia, Mike Parker has been called Nova Scotia's Storyteller, a reference to the diversity of themes covered in his many books of popular history. The best-selling author has been researching and writing about his native province for more than twenty years. This is his thirteenth book. Mike is affiliated with the Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary's University as a research associate. He is a graduate of Acadia University and a long-time resident of Dartmouth.
Download or read book Nova Scotia s Lost Communities written by Joan Dawson and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories and photos that bring the people and places of Nova Scotia’s historic past to life. Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone, one a casualty of long-ago colonial warfare and the other a victim of misguided urban renewal. In this fascinating book, author Joan Dawson looks at thirty-seven of this Canadian province’s lost communities: places like Electric City, Indian Gardens, and the Tancook Islands. Some were home to ethnic groups forced to leave. Others, once dependent on factories, mills, or the fishery, died as the economy changed or resources were depleted. But they were all once places where Nova Scotians were born, married, worked, and died. Featuring over 60 archival and contemporary photos and illustrations, Nova Scotia’s Lost Communities preserves those memories with fascinating insights.
Download or read book Renfrew Gold written by John Hawkins and published by Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gold Fields of Nova Scotia written by Wyatt Malcolm and published by Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau. This book was released on 1912 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Measures of Nova Scotia and Deep Mining written by Eugène Rodolphe Faribault and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia written by Mike Parker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an aura that cloaks islands in mystique and stirs the imagination. Nova Scotia would be an island if not for a narrow isthmus linking Canada's second smallest province to New Brunswick. The ocean waters surrounding Nova Scotia have proportionally more islands than anywhere else in the Atlantic. In fact, there are more than 3,800 islands that lie “scattered like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle” along nearly 5,000 miles of coastline. For Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia, Mike Parker has selected a treasure trove of 330 images and maps to produce a series of pictorial vignettes accompanied by a wealth of descriptive text. Legendary islands such as Sable, Seal, St. Paul, and Scatarie come to life, as do a score of others including Sambro, McNabs, Georges, Lawlor, Devils, Melville, Little Hope, McNutts, Oak, Isle Haute, Bon Portage, Liscomb, the Tuskets, the Canso Islands, and LaHave Islands.Featured are tales of abandoned settlements and homesteads, lighthouses and keepers, storms and shipwrecks, contagious diseases and mass burials. There are stories of lost cemeteries and ghostly apparitions, pirates and buried treasure, smugglers, spies and murderers, forts, prisons and secret passageways, even picnics, carnivals and merry-go-rounds. Ghost Islands of Nova Scotia is a virtual encyclopedia of our coastal past - a look back at a rugged, adventurous, dangerous, often lonely and sometimes tragic way of life.
Download or read book Bodie The Gold mining Ghost Town written by Kari Schuetz and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild reputation of Bodie was unmatched in the Old West. The California gold-mining town attracted a rough crowd. Bodie had gamblers, drinkers, gunslingers, and robbers all after riches. This high-interest childrenÕs title includes a wealth of information about the gold rush that once made Bodie a Òget richÓ destination.
Download or read book Nova Scotia Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Guide for Tourists and All Persons Interested in the Development of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia written by Alexander HEATHERINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia written by Gillian Rosemary Evans and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Practical Guide for Tourists Miners and Investigators and All Persons Interested in the Devolopment of the Gold Fields of Nova Scotia written by Alexander Heatherington and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Review of Gold Mining in Nova Scotia written by J. P. Messervey and published by Halifax : Nova Scotia, Department of Public Works and Mines. This book was released on 1928 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Measures of Nova Scotia and Deep Mining by E R Faribault Together With Other Papers Bearing Upon Nova Scotia Gold Mines microform written by Eugène Rodolphe Faribault and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Gold Seekers written by David G. Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nova Scotia Gold Fields written by Benjamin Silliman and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gold Seekers written by David Garfield Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
