Handbook to the new Gold-fields
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[...]every acre of land on the western side of the Rocky Mountains. And now, for the third time, we are recalled to the same territory, no longer as the goal of the adventurous trader or the battle ground of the political agitator, but as a land of promise-a new El Dorado, to which men are rushing with all the avidity that the presence of the one, thing which all men, in all times and in all places, insatiably desire is sure to create." This El Dorado lies between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific; it is bounded on the south by the American frontier line, 49 degrees of latitude, and may be c...
Chapters (41)
- R M Ballantyne "Handbook to the new Gold-fields"
- Introduction.
- Handbook to the New El-Dorado.
- Chapter One.
- Richness and Extent of the Gold Fields.
- Chapter Two.
- Climate, Productions, and Soil.
- Vancouver’s Island.
- Fraser and Thompson Rivers.
- Sources of the Columbia.
- The Athabasca District.
- Saskatchewan, Assineboin, and Red River District.
- Chapter Three.
- Routes, etcetera.
- Chapter Four.
- Description of Coasts, Harbours, etcetera.
- Chapter Five.
- Native Tribes.
- Appendix.
- Correspondence Relative to the Discovery of Gold in the Fraser River District, in British North America.
- Number 1.
- No. II.
- No. III.
- No. V.
- No. VI.
- No. VII.
- No. VIII.
- No. X.
- No. XII.
- Enclosures Number 12.
- No. XIII.
- Charter Incorporating the Hudson’s Bay Company.
- Comparison between Price of Labour in Australia and California or British Columbia.
- Treaty made between the United States and Great Britain in regard to the Limits Westward of the Rocky Mountains, June 15, 1846.
- Form of Licence Granted to Diggers.
- Proclamation Issued by Governor Douglas.
- General Sufferance for the Navigation of Fraser River.
- Advantages possessed by British Columbia over Australia as a Field for Emigration.
- Prices of Provisions, etcetera, at the Gold Fields.
- Table of Distances from Victoria (Vancouver’s Island) to the Lower Portion of the Mines.
- The Bill for the Government of the North American Colonies.
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