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Review

New Perspectives on the Gold Rush

By Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | p. 164-66

Review

The Gold Will Speak For Itself: Peter Leech and Leechtown

By Patrick Dunae

BC Studies no. 189 Spring 2016 | p. 160-164

article

Civilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Leisure in Colonial British Columbia, 1860–1871

By Alice Gorton

Barkerville

gold rush

Identities

race and racism

sexuality

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | p. 273-299

article

Sovereign Intentions: Gold Mining Law and Mineral Staking in British Columbia

By Dawn Hoogeveen

colonialism

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

mining

mining

BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | p. 81-101

article

The Archaeology of 1858 in the Fraser Canyon

By Brian Pegg

archaeology

archaeology

Fraser Canyon

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

mining

mining

Nlakapamux

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 67-87

article

Gold on Haida Gwaii: The First Prospects, 1849-53

By Robert Galois

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Haida

maritime history

mining

mining

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 15-42

article

Adapting to Miners’ Practices: The Development of Gold Mining Law and the 1863 Mining Board

By Thomas Mills

Cairboo

Fraser River

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

legislation

mining

mining

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 43-65

article

Gold in the Documents: Estimating Placer Mining Excavation Volumes in the Fraser Basin, British Columbia Using Historical Sources

By Andrew David Nelson

Fraser River

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

mining

mining

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 89-113

article

The New Gold Rush: Placer Mining in the Fraser Watershed

By Tara Lamothe-Ammerlaan, Daniel Brendle-Moczuk, Glenn Grande, Amy Crook

environment

environment

mining

mining

salmon

salmon

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | p. 115-134

article

Donald Fraser, the London Times, and the Gold Rushes of British Columbia

By Kenton Storey

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

immigration

immigration

immigration

immigration

newspapers

BC Studies no. 193 Spring 2017 | p. 65-88

Review

Lives Lived West of the Divide: A Biographical Dictionary of Fur Traders Working West of the Rockies, 1793-1858 Volumes 1-3

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson

BC Studies no. 184 Winter 2014-2015 | p. 142-44

article

A New Take on an Old Town: New Directions in Research on Barkerville and the Cariboo

By Christopher Douglas Herbert

Barkerville

Cariboo

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

historiography

historiography

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 13-27

article

Eldorado Vernacular: Barkerville and Its Buildings

By Jennifer Iredale

architecture

Barkerville

cities and towns

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 27-49

article

Barkerville’s Thomas Robson Pattullo in Life and Death: The Memorial Album as Aide-Memoire

By Don Bourdon

Barkerville

Crawford, John Wallace

Dally, Frederick, Pattullo

Dufferin, Thomas

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Pattullo, Thomas Robson

photography

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 49-79

article

The Hudson’s Bay Company in Barkerville

By Ramona Boyle, Richard Mackie

Barkerville

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

trade and commerce

Wark, John McAdoo

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 79-109

article

“Into That Country to Work”: Aboriginal Economic Activities during Barkerville’s Gold Rush

By Mica Jorgenson

aboriginal people

aboriginal people

Barkerville

Bowron Lake

Dakelh people

economy

employment

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Stąatąimc or Stląatląimx (Lillooet)

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 109-137

article

Kwong Lee & Company and Early Trans-Pacific Trade: From Canton, Hong Kong, to Victoria and Barkerville

By Tzu-I Chung

Barkerville

chinese

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Kwong Lee & Co.

Kwong Lee & Co.

Kwong Lee & Co.

trade and commerce

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | p. 137-161

Review

Barkerville and the Cariboo Goldfields

By Mica Jorgenson

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | p. 154-56

Review

Sturgeon Reach: Shifting Currents at the Heart of the Fraser

By Ken Brealey

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | p. 183-85

article

The Extralateral Right in British Columbia and the Western United States: A Comparison of the Mining Law, 1850-1900

By Logan W. Hovis

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

law

mining

mining

mining

United States

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | p. 79-97

article

The Lowe Brothers, 1852-70: A Study in Business Relations on the North Pacific Coast

By J. Maurice, S. Careless

business

Colony of British Columbia

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

Lowe brothers

United States

BC Studies no. 2 Summer 1969 | p. 43118

Review

Edward S. Curtis, Above the Medicine Line: Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West

By David Mattison

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | p. 184-5

article

The Early Years of Ashcroft Manor

By Edward Philip Johnson

agriculture

Colony of British Columbia

Cornwall family

gold rush

gold rush

gold rush

BC Studies no. 5 Summer 1970 | p. 43182

Review

All Roads Lead to Wells: Stories of the Hippie Days

By David Stouck

BC Studies no. 177 Spring 2013 | p. 195-96

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