Nova Scotia Gold Fields
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Gold mines and mining
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Author :
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Gold mines and mining
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Author : Benjamin Silliman
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Gold mines and mining
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Author : Wyatt Malcolm
Publisher : Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 31,21 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Gold
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Author : Walter H. Prest
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Industrial Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 27,59 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Gold
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Author : Hugh Fletcher
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Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Geology
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Author : Mike Parker
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ghost towns
ISBN : 9781897426043
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.
Author : James Furman Kemp
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Geology
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Author : George Ferdinand Becker
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Gold mines and mining
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Author : Wyatt Malcolm
Publisher : F.A. Acland
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Gold mines and mining
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Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee appointed to obtain information as to the extent and resources of the Canadian gold fields and the best means of their development
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 1865
Category : Gold mines and mining
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