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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 |
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Cariboo Shack A gold miners' shack in the Cariboo during the
gold rush of the 1860s. ID #10017 |
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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 |
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Klondike Migrants Pioneer migrants to Dawson City during the
Klondike Gold Rush, including two women. ID #20783 |
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Early Klondikers Early Klondikers arriving via Skagway, Alaska,
1897, during the Klondike Gold Rush. ID #20784 |
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Gold Bottom Gold Bottom Village, Yukon Territory, 1900, a
typical early gold-rush settlement at Hunker Creek. ID #20785 |
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Early Ontario Mining Two miners examining Northern Ontario
quartz for precious metals, probably relating to gold prospecting in the early Porcupine
district. ID #21726 |
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Summit of Dome The Summit of Dome in the new Porcupine
Gold Field, opened in 1909 in Northern Ontario. ID #21727 |
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Hollinger Stamp Mill The original Hollinger Stamp Mill, 1910,
now preserved at Timmins, Ontario as a monument, after helping begin one of Ontario's greatest
gold mines. ID #20506 |
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Hollinger Mine Pouring gold at the Hollinger mine, Ontario,
1918. ID #21932 |
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Gold Mining Gold mining at the Granada Shaft, Rouyn, Quebec,
1927. ID #21850 |
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