Handbook to the new Gold-fields

About this eBook

Author

Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

F1001: North America local history: Canada

Subject

British Columbia -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

23389

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23389

Release Date

November 7, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."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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