Blue Gold Rush Blue gold rush. Globally, 1.4 billion people do not have enough drinking water; The canadian government refused either to yield on the question of http://mondediplo.com/2005/03/10water
Cariboo Gold Rush Trail The gold rush Trail offers you opportunities to experience its fascinating BOWRON LAKE LODGE is a canadian owned and operated family business that has http://www.landwithoutlimits.com/?p=44
Extractions: Contact Us Help Search Canada Site ... A to Z Index RESOURCES Current Economy Money International Issues About Business LEARN ABOUT Key Indicators Economic Concepts Key Economic Events Economy Overview ... Other Useful Links RETURN Home CHECK THIS OUT Budget 2005 Speech from the Throne Economic and Fiscal Update Where Your Tax Dollar Goes Event Thousands of people were lured into the remote Cariboo region by the discovery of gold during the late 1850s. Located in south-central British Columbia and extending from the eastern edge of the Coast Mountains to within 70 km of the Alberta border, the Cariboo region is about 600 km north of Vancouver. The sudden rush for spoils in the territory provoked the British government to create the colony of mainland British Columbia in 1859 to provide administrative and other support to thousands of miners. Most of the miners came from the overcrowded California gold fields. The majority were American; others English, Scots, Irish, Italian, Spanish and Australian. Gold was discovered in dozens of creeks in the Cariboo region. Creeks named Williams, Canadian, Downy, Wolfe and China echo the origins of their finders. The preserved gold rush town of Barkerville offers us a glimpse of the gold boom to this day.
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City Rises On Golden Wave 10000 Seattle men and boys left town for the Alaskan and canadian gold fields; And gold rush Seattle became notorious for wideopen gambling and http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/centennial/january/golden_wave.html
Extractions: 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. 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.
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Extractions: 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. Select 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 Links Feedback and GuestBook View Guestbook Entries Search our site! Choisir 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 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.
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Extractions: var gMenuControlID=0; var menus_included = 0; var jsPageAuthorMode = 0; var jsSessionPreviewON = 1; var jsDlgLoader = '/specialenglish/Archive/loader.cfm'; var jsSiteID = 23; var jsSubSiteID = 77; var kurrentPageID = 74894; document.CS_StaticURL = "http://author.voanews.com/specialenglish/"; document.CS_DynamicURL = "http://author.voanews.com/specialenglish/"; Text Only Search V OICE OF A MERICA VOA Home Special English Home Transcript Archive Subscribe to E-mail ... Radio Programs Find Us on TV Stories by E-mail Contact Us Find a Story By Subject By Program Listen Stream Download Help Watch Weekly TV English Learning Games With Words Wordmaster Other Resources EXLORATIONS â October 1, 2003: Klondike and Alaska Gold Rush, Part 1 (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And this is Richard Rael with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we begin the first of two programs about the discovery of gold. Huge amounts of gold. Enough gold to make a person extremely rich. Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada. The discovery took place on a warm August day in eighteen-ninety-six. (THEME) VOICE ONE: George Carmack and his two Indian friends, Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie, were working near the edge of a small river in western Canadaâs Yukon Territory. The area was just across the border from Alaska, which was owned by the United States. The men were using large steel pans to search for gold. They placed dirt and rocks in a pan and then filled it about half way with water. Slowly, they moved the water around in the pan until most of the dirt and water washed away. This left only very small rocks.
Extractions: (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. [Image Removed] Skagway, Alaska VOICE TWO: And this is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell the second part of our story about the discovery of gold in the area of Canada called the Yukon. We tell about the thousands of people who traveled to Alaska and on to Canada hoping that they would become rich. (THEME) VOICE ONE: Last week, we told how three men discovered huge amounts of gold near the Yukon River in northwestern Canada. Their discovery started a rush of people traveling to the American territory of Alaska and across the border to Canada. History experts believe that between twenty and thirty-thousand people traveled to the area. [Image Removed] A publication about the Klondike. Newspapers printed stories that said it was easy to become rich. All you had to do was pick up the gold from the ground. Books and magazines told how to travel to the area and the best method of finding gold. However, most of this information was false. It was not easy to find gold. It was extremely hard work under very difficult conditions. VOICE TWO: [Image Removed]
Extractions: (THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: [Image Removed] A gold nugget. And this is Richard Rael with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we begin the first of two programs about the discovery of gold. Huge amounts of gold. Enough gold to make a person extremely rich. Our story begins in an area called the Klondike in the Yukon Territory of western Canada. The discovery took place on a warm August day in eighteen-ninety-six. (THEME) VOICE ONE: George Carmack and his two Indian friends, Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie, were working near the edge of a small river in western Canada's Yukon Territory. The area was just across the border from Alaska, which was owned by the United States. The men were using large steel pans to search for gold. They placed dirt and rocks in a pan and then filled it about half way with water. Slowly, they moved the water around in the pan until most of the dirt and water washed away. This left only very small rocks. This method was a very good way to find small amounts of gold. The three men had often worked like this in an effort to find gold. But they had never been very successful.
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. There are few events that capture the public imagination the way gold rushes do. They personify the American Dream that goal so far out of reach for so many over the past century. For the men and women who abandoned farms, factories, and families in the quest for fortune, that elusive dream often represented all the hope they had left. While gold rush history has long been the lucrative preserve of popular historians, two new books provide long-overdue scholarly attention to the history of gold rushes and the men and women who participated in them in Canada and the United States. Historian Malcolm Rohrbough, well known for his Trans-Appalachian Frontier, moves his attention much further west in this long-awaited study of the California gold rush of 1849. Sally Zanjani picks up where Rohrbough leaves off in the 1850s, providing the first book-length treatment of the history of women prospectors, not only in California, but all the way to British Columbia, Alaska, and the Yukon.
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Extractions: The Klondike gold rush began in July of 1897 when two ships docked in San Francisco and Seattle carrying miners returning from the Yukon with bags of gold. The press was alerted and papers carried the story to the masses. Soon, miners of all shapes and sizes, called "stampeders", were on their way to the gold fields. Within six months, approximately 100,000 gold-seekers set off for the Yukon. Only 30,000 completed the trip. Most stampeders knew little or nothing about where they were going, so pamphlets were available to help them on their way. Many of the pamphlets contained little or no real information and made outrageous claims of wealth to be had by everyone. Outfitters sprang up overnight that were happy to sell the stampeders whatever they needed to get started. This included food, clothing, tools and camping, mining and transportation equipment. Helping the outfitters in this regard were the Northwest Mounted Police who required all stampeders to have one years supply of goods before they allowed them across the border into Canada. This was roughly one ton of goods per person. Towns such as Seattle made fortunes outfitting the miners. List of the supplies carried by a typical stampeder.
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Extractions: By Mark Stevenson MEXICO CITY - A surge in world gold prices is attracting U.S. and Canadian companies eager for another crack at the Latin American lodes that once enriched the Old World. But their modern-day methods - strip mines and cyanide-based refining - are meeting fierce resistance. "The indiscriminate exploitation of our mines and forests with no ethical commitment is placing at risk the very purpose of creation - human life and future generations," Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, warned last month. The battle has mobilized Indian groups, environmentalists, farmers and religious leaders, and sometimes has turned violent. In January protesters fired shots, threw stones and put up barriers of burning tires to stop a truck bringing equipment to the Marlin strip mine, owned by Glamis Gold of California, in the western Guatemala town of Solola.
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Extractions: Save Over 40% Off the Cover Price! "How-To" Archives Current Issue Web Links Complete Index of Features 500 Brickwall Solutions ... Publisher's Clearance Special Alaska-Yukon Goldrush Participants Can you find an ancestor in this list of over 24,200 goldrush participants? A B C D ... Z One hundred years ago, on August 17, 1896, American George Carmack and his Tagish First Nations friends Dawson Charlie and Skookum Jim panned for gold on a small tributary of the Yukon River called Rabbit Creek. According to legend, Carmack dreamed of salmon with gleaming gold nugget eyes in blue- green water and was led to the creek, where he and his two friends discovered a huge quantity of gold. They quickly staked their claims and renamed Rabbit Creek, "Bonanza." Greatest Gold Rush in History
Extractions: Published in University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 69, Number 1 Winter 1999/2000- Letters in Canada To see more articles and book reviews from this and other journals visit UTPJOURNALS online at UTPJOURNALS.com Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men and Community in the Klondike Charlene Porsild. University of British Columbia Press. xiv, 250. 19.95 Gold Diggers of the Klondike: Prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898-1908 Bay Ryley. Watson and Dwyer. 108. $19.95 Reviewed in University of Toronto Quarterly by Ken Coates The Klondike Gold Rush remains a historical enigma. It is, arguably, the single most famous event in Canadian history and yet it rarely gets more than passing mention in Canadian history texts and lectures. The Klondike holds an important place in American popular culture - there is a strong line from Jack London and Charlie Chaplin through to Sergeant Preston's saloon at Disneyland - but has a much less dramatic hold on Canada's historical memory. Were it not for the literary contributions of Pierre Berton, whose book Klondike did much to popularize gold rush history, few Canadians would give the gold rush in the Yukon more than a passing thought. The books by Porsild and Ryley bring the broader perspectives of the historical profession, particularly recent writing on women's history, to bear on the North, but they also endeavour to provide a distinctive contribution to the history of the Canadian North. The ideas in both books are not always new, and they tend to repeat, particularly in Ryley's case, conclusions that have already figured in the understanding of the Klondike Gold Rush and the evolution of Northern Canadian history. Porsild's account, in contrast, offers a depth of research and insight that has long been absent from studies of the Klondike experience and is therefore particularly welcome.
