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There is another side of life grasped by means of this new world of
experience, and that is, the spiritual side that lies between conduct
and ideals; children have always accepted the supernatural quite readily
and it is not to be wondered at, for all the world is new and therefore
supernatural to them. Magic is done ... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
In choosing a story a teacher should be aware of the imperishable part
of it, the truth around which it grew; sometimes the truth may seem a
very commonplace one, sometimes a curious one. For example, very young
children generally prefer stories of home life because round the family
their experience gathers: the subje... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Much that has been said about the method and aim of stories might apply
to those taken from the Bible, but they need certain additional
considerations. Here religion and morality come very closely together:
the recognition of a definite personality behind all circumstances of
life, to whom our conduct matters, gives a... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
If the children can realise something of the sense in which Christ
helped human beings, then some of the incidents in His life might be
given, such as His birth, His work of healing, feeding and helping the
poor, and some of His stories, such as the lost sheep, the lost son, the
sower, the good Samaritan. It is diffic... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Besides such anthologies as _The Golden Staircase,_ E.V. Lucas's _Book
of Verses for Children,_ and others, we must go to the Bible for poems
like the Song of Miriam, or of Deborah, and the Psalms; to Shakespeare
for such songs as "Where the Bee Sucks," "I know a Bank," "Ye Spotted
Snakes," either with or without musi... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
How, then, can we provide for their experience of this side of life? We
have tried to do so in the past by object and nature lessons, but we
must admit that they are not the means by which young children seek to
know life, or by which they appreciate its beauty. We have been trying
to kill too many birds with one ston... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
In a school situated in S.E. London in the midst of rows of monotonous
little houses, and close to a busy railway junction, a miracle was
performed: the playground was not very large, and of the usual
uncompromising concrete. The children, most of whose fathers worked on
the railway, lived in the surrounding streets, ... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
If the children enjoy so intensely the colour of the leaves and flowers
they will be glad to have the opportunity of painting them; this is as
much a part of nature work as any other, and it should be used as such,
because it emphasises so strongly the side of appreciation of beauty, a
side very often neglected. It is... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Another important feature in nature experiences is the excursion.
Froebel says: "Not only children and boys, but indeed many adults, fare
with nature and her character as ordinary men fare with the air. They
live in it and yet scarcely know it as something distinct ... therefore
these children and boys who spend all t... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
There is another side to nature work. Froebel says: "The things of
nature form a more beautiful ladder between heaven and earth than that
seen by Jacob; not a one-sided ladder leading in one direction, but an
all-sided one leading in all directions. Not in dreams is it seen; it is
permanent, it surrounds us on all sid... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
AFTER THE NURSERY STAGE
Undoubtedly the aim of the transition class is partly to continue by
means of games and dramatic play the kind of knowledge gained in the
Nursery School; but it has also the task of beginning to organise such
knowledge, as the grouping into tens and hundreds. This organisation of
raw material ... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Tom ||| = 3 singles.
After doing this a good many times he could be told that this is a
universal method, and he would doubtless enjoy the purely puzzle
pleasure in working long sums to perfect practice. This pleasure is very
common in children at this stage, but too often it comes to them me... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
The piece of apparatus is less abstract only in degree than the figures
on the blackboard, because neither represents real life or its problems:
in abstract working we are merely going off at a side issue for the sake
of practice, to make us more competent to deal with the economic affairs
of life. There is a place fo... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
This idea has often been only half digested, and consequently it has led
to a very trivial kind of application; a nature lesson of the "look and
say" description has been followed by a painting lesson; a geography
lesson, by the making of a model. If the method of learning by doing was
the accepted aim of the teacher ... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
This is what we should mean by saying that handwork is a method of
learning.
But handwork has its own absolute place as well. A child wants to
acquire skill in this direction even more consciously than he wants to
learn: if he has been free, in the nursery class, to experiment with
materials, and if he knows some of h... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
If a teacher is to take handwork seriously, and not as a pretty
recreation with pleasing results, she should be fully conscious of all
that it means, and apply this definitely in her work: it is so easy to
be trivial while appearing to be thorough by having well-finished work
produced, which has necessitated little ha... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
CHAPTER XXV
EXPERIENCES OF THE LIFE OF MAN
This aspect of experience comes in two forms, the life of man in the
past, with the memorials and legacies he has left, and the life of man
in the present under the varying conditions of climate and all that it
involves. In other words these experiences are commonly known a... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
This working outwards from actual experiences, from the home country to
the foreign, from actual contact with real things to things of
travellers' tales, is the only way to bring geography to the very door
of the school, to make it part of the actual life.
The beginning of history, as of geography, lies in the child's... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
How are these cravings usually satisfied in the early stages of history
teaching of to-day? As a rule a series of biographies of notable people
is given, regardless of chronology, or the children's previous
experiences, and equally careless of the history lessons of the future;
Joan of Arc, Alfred and the Cakes, Gordo... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
The geography syllabus, even more than the history one, depends for its
beginnings at least on the surroundings of the school--out of the mass
of possible materials a very rich and comprehensive syllabus can be
made, beginning with any one of the central points already suggested.
Above all there should be plenty of pi... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
[The need for a map will come early in the first part of the course, and
the need for a globe in the second.]
HISTORY
This grows naturally out of the geography syllabus and might be taken
side by side or afterwards.
The development of industries.
The growth of spinning and weaving from the simplest processes, bri... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
When a child is ready to read and write the process need not be a long
one: by wise delay many tedious hours are saved, tedious to both teacher
and children; they have already learnt to talk in those precious hours,
to discriminate sounds as part of language training, but without any
resort to symbols--merely as somet... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
CHAPTER XXVII
THE THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER
The _first_ thing that matters is what is commonly called the
personality of the teacher; she must be a person, unmistakable from
other persons, and not a type; what she has as an individual, of gifts
or goodness, she should give freely, and give in her own way; that she
s... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
The _next_ thing that matters is that all children must be regarded as
individuals: there has been much more talk of this lately, but practical
difficulties are often raised as a bar. If teachers and parents continue
to accept the conditions which make it difficult, such as large classes,
and a need to hasten, there w... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
The _sixth_ thing, that matters is the cultivation of the divine gift of
imagination; both morality and spirituality spring from this; meanness,
cowardice, lack of sympathy, sensuality, materialism, quickly grow where
there is no imagination. It refines and intensifies personality, it
opens a door to things beyond the... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
INDEX
Abrahall, Miss H.,
Adam and Eve question,
Adler, Dr. Felix,
Aim of education and of human life,
America, Kindergartens in,
Anderson, Professor A.,
Animals and nature study,
Apparatus. _See_ Equipment
Arithmetic,
transition class,
Arnswald, Colonel von,
Art training, drawing, etc.,
_See also_ Colour, Rhythm... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Fairy tales,
Field, Eugene, verses of,
Findlay, Miss,
Fisher, Mr.,
Fleming, Marjorie,
_Floor Games_,
Flowers and plants, 93, 201. _See also_ Garden, Nature Work
Folsung,
Formalism,
Freedom--
apparent result at first,
definition,
Froebel on,
Montessori, Dr., work of,
vital principle,
warning against int... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Junior School. _See_ Transition Classes and Junior School
Keilhau,
Kindergarten Band,
Kindergartens, America,
first English,
Froebelian principles _See_ Froebel,
Germany,
_Kids' Guards_,
London School Board Infant Schools, proposed introduction,
perversion of system in Infant Schools,
Schrader, Henriett... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
Reading and writing,
age for,
matter and methods, phonic method, etc.,
Recapitulation theory of play,
Recreation theory of play,
Reed, Miss,
Religion,
age for first teaching, _See also_ Stories
Reproducing, _See_ Imitative Play
Results, payment by,
Rhythm and rhythmic training,
Robinson Crusoe stage of history t... | The Child Under Eight | Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach) | 1861 | 1932 | ['en'] | 21 | {'Child psychology', 'Child development', 'Education'} | PG10042 | |
KLONDYKE NUGGETS
A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest
Territories and Alaska
BY
JOSEPH LADUE
Founder of Dawson City, N.W.T.
Explorer, Miner and Prospector
September, 1897
PREFACE.
The extraordinary excitement arising from the reports of the discovery
of Gold in the Klondyke region in the gre... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
Dawson City is now the most important point in the new mining regions.
Its population in June, 1897; exceeded 4,000; by June next it cannot be
less than 25,000. It has a saw-mill, stores, churches, of the
Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist and Roman Catholic denominations. It is
the headquarters of the Canadian Northwes... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
I have found I have suffered more from winter cold in Northern New York
than I ever did in Alaska or the Canadian Northwest.
I have chopped wood in my shirt-sleeves in front of my door at Dawson
City when the thermometer was 70 degrees below zero, and I suffered no
inconvenience. We account for this from the fact that... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
There are still good diggings at Circle City in Alaska, but nearly all
the miners have left for Klondyke, not being satisfied with the pay dirt
which they were working. I know at least 20 good claims in Circle City.
Fort Cudahy, or as it is sometimes called Forty Mile Creek, is now
practically exhausted as a mining ca... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The Yukon district, which is within the jurisdiction of the Canadian
Government and in which the bulk of the gold has been found, has a total
area, approximately, of 192,000 square miles, of which 150,768 square
miles are included in the watershed of the Yukon. Illustrating this, so
that it may appeal with definitene... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"We have described some of the beauties of the Yukon basin in the summer
season, but this radiant picture has its obverse side.
"Horseflies, gnats and mosquitoes add to the joys of living throughout
the entire length of the Yukon valley. The horsefly is larger and more
poignantly assertive than the insect which we kno... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The next people to enter the country for trading purposes were Messrs.
Harper and McQuestion. They have been trading in the country since 1873
and have occupied numerous posts all along the river, the greater number
of which have been abandoned. Mr. Harper is now located as a trader at
Fort Selkirk, with Mr. Joseph L... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The number of persons engaged in mining in the locality mentioned has
steadily increased year by year since the date of Mr. Ogilvie's survey,
and it is estimated that at the commencement of the past season not less
than one thousand men were so employed. Incident to this mineral
development there must follow a corres... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"For the purpose of ascertaining officially and authoritatively the
condition of affairs to which the correspondence referred to in the
next preceding paragraph relates, the Honorable the President of the
Privy Council, during the spring of 1894, despatched Inspector Charles
Constantine, of the Northwest Mounted Polic... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
[Footnote 1: The detachment was made up as follows:--Inspector C.
Constantine, Officer Commanding Yukon Detachment N.W.M. Police;
Inspector, D.A.E. Strickland; Assistant Surgeon, A.E. Wills; 2 Staff
Sergeants; 2 Corporals; 13 Constables.]
"As it appears quite certain, from the report made by Mr. Ogilvie on his
return ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
I am devoting a special chapter to the outfit for travellers, and will
therefore deal in this chapter with the route only.
The traveller having paid his fare to Seattle should on arrival there
have not less than $500. This is the minimum sum necessary to pay his
fare from Seattle to Juneau, purchase his outfit and sup... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
He now starts for Lake Lindeman from the head of the Pass, a distance of
eight miles--the distance from Dyea to Lake Lindeman being 31 miles.
At Lake Lindeman he commences to make his boat, for which he has brought
the proper supplies in his outfit, with the exception of the timber,
which he finds at Lake Lindeman. He... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
After leaving the White Horse Canyon he goes down the river to the head
of Lake Labarge, a distance of 14 miles. He can sit down and steer with
the current, as he is going down the stream all the way. It is for this
reason that in returning from the diggings he should take another
route, of which he will get full part... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
The total journey from Seattle to Dawson City has taken about two
months. In connection with this trip from Juneau to Dawson City, it is
perhaps better to give the reader the benefit of the trip of Mr. William
Stewart, who writes from Lake Lindeman, May 31st, 1897, as follows:--
"We arrived here at the south end of th... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"We worked two days bringing the stuff over from the canyon to the hill
above the lake. Saturday we worked all day packing down the hill to the
lake, and came here on a scow. We were out yesterday morning cutting
down trees to build a boat. The timber is small, and I don't think we
can get more than four-inch stuff. I... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The details of the information in the following article are given by Mr.
A.H.H. Heming, the artist who accompanied Mr. Whitney in his journey
towards the Barren Lands, and the data may be accepted as correct, as
they were secured from the Hudson Bay officials.
"The details of the inland Canadian route, briefly, are a... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Canadians can leave here on a Monday at 11.15 A.M., and reach Edmonton
on Friday at 7 P.M. From that point, a party of three men with a canoe,
should reach Fort Macpherson easily in from 50 to 60 days, provided they
are able-bodied young fellows with experience in that sort of travel.
They will need to take canoes fr... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Parties travelling alone will not need to employ guides until they get
near Fort Macpherson, and from there on to the Klondyke, as the rest of
the route from Edmonton is so well defined, having been travelled for
years, that no guides are required.
"You don't need a couple of thousand dollars to start for Klondyke
to... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
The return trip to the United States is usually made by the Yukon
steamers from Dawson City direct to St. Michael via the Yukon and Anvik
River, thence by ocean steamer from St. Michael to San Francisco."
The following letter is interesting to the prospector as showing the
difficulties to overcome up the Taiya Pass to... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
Finally, the summit was gained, McLeod being the first of the party to
reach the top. After resting and changing their clothes the descent was
commenced. McLeod and his chums purchased sleighs, on which they loaded
their goods and hauled for five miles. This was extremely laborious
work, and the men were so used up wo... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
Miles
Head of canoe navigation, Taiya River 5.90
Forks of Taiya River 8.38
Summit of Taiya Pass 14.76
Landing at Lake Lindeman 23.06
Foot of Lake Lindeman ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"J. Dalton, a trader, has used a route overland from Chilkat Inlet to
Fort Selkirk. Going up the Chilkat and Klaheela Rivers, he crosses the
divide to the Tahkeena River and continues northward over a fairly open
country practicable for horses. The distance from the sea to Fort
Selkirk is 350 miles.
"Last summer a Jun... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"In Chilkat Inlet there is not much shelter from the south wind, which
renders it unsafe for ships calling there. Capt. Hunter told me he would
rather visit any other part of the coast than Chilkat.
"To carry the survey from the island across to Chilkoot Inlet I had to
get up on the mountains north of Haines mission, ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"On the 6th of June 120 Indians, men, women and children, started for
the summit. I sent two of my party with them to see the goods delivered
at the place agreed upon. Each carrier when given a pack also got a
ticket, on which was inscribed the contents of the pack, its weight, and
the amount the individual was to get... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"While paying them I was a little apprehensive of trouble, for they
insisted on crowding into my tent, and for myself and the four men who
were with me to have attempted to eject them would have been to invite
trouble. I am strongly of the opinion that these Indians would have been
much more difficult to deal with if ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"While at Juneau I heard reports of a low pass from the head of Chilkoot
Inlet to the head waters of Lewes River. During the time I was at the
head of Taiya Inlet I made inquiries regarding it, and found that there
was such a pass, but could learn nothing definite about it from either
whites or Indians. As Capt. Moore... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The timber line on the south side of the Taiya Pass, as determined by
barometer reading, is about 2,300 feet above the sea, while on the north
side it is about 1,000 feet below the summit. This large difference is
due, I think, to the different conditions in the two places. On the
south side the valley is narrow and ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The Tagish are little more than slaves to the more powerful coast
tribes, and are in constant dread of offending them in any way. One of
the privileges which the coast tribes claim is the exclusive right to
all work on the coast or in its vicinity, and the Tagish are afraid to
dispute this claim. When my white man as... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"These two canoes travelled about 3,000 miles by rail and about 1,000
miles by steamship before being brought into service. They did
considerable work on Chilkoot and Tagish Inlets, and were then packed
over to the head of Lewes River (Lake Lindeman), from where they were
used in making the survey of Lewes and Yukon R... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"In the summer months there is nearly always a wind blowing in from the
coast; it blows down the lakes and produces quite a heavy swell. This
would not prevent the canoes going with the decks on, but, as we had to
land every mile or so, the rollers breaking on the generally flat beach
proved very troublesome. On this ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The distance from the head to the foot of the cañon is five-eighths of
a mile. There is a basin about midway in it about 150 yards in diameter.
This basin is circular in form, with steep sloping sides about 100 feet
high. The lower part of the cañon is much rougher to run through than
the upper part, the fall being a... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"On the 11th of August I met a party of miners coming out who had passed
Stewart River a few days before. They saw no sign of Dr. Dawson having
been there. This was welcome news for me, as I expected he would have
reached that point long before I arrived, on account of the many delays
I had met with on the coast range... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"I reached Stewart River on the 26th. Here I remained a day taking
magnetic observations, and getting information from a miner, named
McDonald, about the country up that river. McDonald had spent the summer
up the river prospecting and exploring. His information will be given in
detail further on.
"Fort Reliance was r... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
DESCRIPTION OF THE YUKON, ITS AFFLUENT STREAMS, AND THE ADJACENT
COUNTRY.
"I will now give, from my own observation and from information received,
a more detailed description of the Lewes River, its affluent streams,
and the resources of the adjacent country.
"For the purpose of navigation a description of the Lewes ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
[Footnote 4: The connecting waters between Lake Bennet and Tagish Lake
constitute what is now called Caribou Crossing.]
"The hills at the upper end of Lake Lindeman rise abruptly from the
water's edge. At the lower end they are neither so steep nor so high.
"Lake Nares is only two and a half miles long, and its greate... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Dr. Dawson includes Bove Lake and these two arms under the common name
of Tagish Lake. This is much more simple and comprehensive than the
various names given them by travellers. These waters collectively are
the fishing and hunting grounds of the Tagish Indians, and as they are
really one body of water, there is no ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Marsh Lake is a little over nineteen miles long, and averages about two
miles in width. I tried to determine the width of it as I went along
with my survey, by taking azimuths of points on the eastern shore from
different stations of the survey; but in only one case did I succeed, as
there were no prominent marks on ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"No streams of any importance enter any of these lakes so far as I know.
A river, called by Schwatka "McClintock River," enters Marsh Lake at the
lower end from the east. It occupies a large valley, as seen from the
westerly side of the lake, but the stream is apparently unimportant.
Another small stream, apparently o... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"About midway in this stretch the Tahkeena River[5] joins the Lewes.
This river is, apparently, about half the size of the latter. Its waters
are muddy, indicating the passage through a clayey district. I got some
indefinite information about this river, from an Indian who happened to
meet me just below its mouth, but... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"I cite these as instances of what one meets with who comes in contact
with Indians, and of how trifles affect them. A sojourn of two or three
days with them and the assistance of a common friend would do much to
disabuse them of such ideas, but when you have no such aids you must not
expect to make much progress.
"La... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The width of the Lewes River as it leaves the lake is the same as at
its entrance, about 200 yards. Its waters when I was there were murky.
This is caused by the action of the waves on the shore along the lower
end of the lake. The water at the upper end and at the middle of the
lake is quite clear, so much so that t... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The Teslintoo[6] was so called by Dr. Dawson--this, according to
information obtained by him, being the Indian name. It is called by the
miners 'Hootalinkwa' or Hotalinqua, and was called by Schwatka, who
appears to have bestowed no other attention to it, the Newberry,
although it is apparently much larger than the L... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The water of the Teslintoo is of a dark brown color, similar in
appearance to the Ottawa River water, and a little turbid.
Notwithstanding the difference of volume of discharge, the Teslintoo
changes completely the character of the river below the junction, and a
person coming up the river would, at the forks, unhesi... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"To make sure that I understood the Indian aright, and that he knew what
he was speaking about, I got him to sketch the river and lake, as he
described them, on the sand, and repeat the same several times.
"I afterwards met Mr. T. Boswell, his brother, and another miner, who
had spent most of the summer on the river p... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Assuming this as the main river, and adding its length to the
Lewes-Yukon below the junction, gives upward of 2,200 miles of river,
fully two-thirds of which runs through a very mountainous country,
without an impediment to navigation.
"Some indefinite information, was obtained as to the position of this
river in the... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Just below the Big Salmon the Lewes takes a bend of nearly a right
angle. Its course from the junction with the Tahkeena to this point is
generally a little east of north; at this point it turns to nearly west
for some distance. Its course between here and its confluence with the
Pelly is north-west, and, I may add, ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Eight miles below Little Salmon River, a large rock called the Eagle's
Nest, stands up in a gravel slope on the easterly bank of the river. It
rises about five hundred feet above the river, and is composed of a
light gray stone. What the character of this rock is I could not
observe, as I saw it only from the river, ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Six miles below this, as already noticed, Rink Rapids are situated.
They are of no great importance, the westerly half of the stream only
being obstructed. The easterly half is not in any way affected, the
current being smooth and the water deep.
"Below Five Finger Rapids about two miles a small stream enters from
th... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"At the mouth of the Pelly the Lewes is about half a mile wide, and here
too there are many islands, but not in groups as at Ingersoll Islands.
"About a mile below the Pelly, just at the ruins of Fort Selkirk, the
Yukon was found to be 565 yards wide; about two-thirds being ten feet
deep, with a current of about four ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Mr. Campbell dropped down the river, and met some of the local Indians
who returned with him, but the robbers had made their escape. I have
heard that the local Indians wished to pursue and overtake them, but to
this Mr. Campbell would not consent. Had they done so it is probable not
many of the raiders would have es... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"With reference to the tales told him by the Indians of bad people
outside of their country, I may say that Mackenzie tells pretty much the
same story of the Indians on the Mackenzie when he discovered and
explored that river in 1789. He had the advantage of having Indians
along with him whose language was radically t... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Under present conditions the Company cannot very well compete with the
Alaska Commercial Company, whose agents do the only trade in the
district,[8] and they appear to have abandoned--for the present at
least--all attempt to do any trade nearer to it than Rampart House to
which point, notwithstanding the distance and... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"From Pelly River to within twelve miles of White River the general
course of the river is a little north of west; it then turns to the
north, and the general course as far as the site of Fort Reliance is due
north.
"White River enters the main river from the west. At the mouth it is
about two hundred yards wide, but ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Between White and Stewart Rivers, ten miles, the river spreads out to a
mile and upwards in width, and is a maze of islands and bars. The survey
was carried down the easterly shore, and many of the channels passed
through barely afforded water enough to float the canoes. The main
channel is along the westerly shore, ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Thirty miles or so above the forks on the other branch there are
falls, which McDonald estimated to be from one to two hundred feet in
height. I met several parties who had seen these falls, and they
corroborate this estimate of their height. McDonald went on past the
falls to the head of this branch and found terrac... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
[Footnote 10: This was at one time a trading post occupied by Messrs.
Harper & McQuestion.]
"About thirteen miles below Stewart River a large valley joins that of
the river, but the stream occupying it is only a large creek. This
agrees in position with what has been called Sixty Mile Creek, which was
supposed to be a... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
Messrs. Harper & Co. have a trading post and a saw-mill on an island at
the mouth of the creek; both, of which are in charge of Mr. J. Ladue,
one of the partners of the firm, and who was at one time in the employ
of the Alaska Commercial Company.]
"Six and a half miles above Port Reliance the Thron-Diuck[12] River of
... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Forty Mile River[13] joins the main river from the west. Its general
course as far up as the International Boundary, a distance of
twenty-three miles, is south-west; after this it is reported by the
miners to run nearer south. Many of them claim to have ascended this
stream for more than one hundred miles, and speak ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The length of the so-called cañon is about a mile. Above it the river
up to the boundary is generally smooth, with swift current and an
occasional ripple. The amount of water discharged by this stream is
considerable; but there is no prospect of navigation, it being so swift
and broken by small rapids.
"From Forty Mi... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"Such legends as this would be of interest to ethnologists if they could
be procured direct from the Indians, but repeated by men who have little
or no knowledge of the utility of legendary lore, and less sympathy with
it, they lose much of their value.
"Between Forty Mile River and the boundary line no stream of any ... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
"The current from the boundary down to the confluence with the Porcupine
is said to be strong and much the same as that above; from the Porcupine
down, for a distance of five or six hundred miles it is called medium
and the remainder easy.
"From Stewart River to the mouth of the Yukon is about 1,650 miles, and
the onl... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
This manner of living is quite common amongst beginners, and soon leads
to debility and sometimes to scurvy. Old miners have learned from
experience to value health more than gold, and they therefore spare no
expense in procuring the best and most varied outfit of food that can be
obtained.
In a cold climate such as t... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
In the matter of clothing, of course, it must be left to the individual
taste and means of the purchaser, but the miners usually adopt the
native costume of the region. The boots are generally made by the coast
Indians and are of different varieties. The water boot is made of seal
and walrus. It is important to take a... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
The following tools should he brought as part of the outfit:--These will
be found absolutely necessary to build a boat at Lake Lindeman:--
1 jack plane,
1 whip saw,
1 cross-cut saw,
1 axe,
1 hatchet,
1 hunting-knife.
6 pounds of assorted nails,
1 pound of oakum,
5 pounds of pitch,
150 feet of rope,
1 Juneau sled.
It i... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
CHAPTER V.
MINERS' LUCK.
The reports already received of the finds of gold seem beyond belief but
the greater part of them are actual facts, and the following came under
my personal observation:--
Alexander McDonald, on Claim No. 30, Eldorado, on the Klondyke, started
drifting on his claim with four men. The men agre... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
Perhaps the most interesting reading in the _Mining Record_ is the
letters written by men in the Klondyke to friends in Juneau. Here is one
from "Casey" Moran:
DAWSON, March 20, 1897.
"FRIEND GEORGE: Don't pay any attention to what any one says, but come
in at your earliest opportunity. My God! it is appalling to hear... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
This is a brief description of the gold region in the Northwest.
For further and more detailed information on Routes and Distances,
Transportations, Mining Laws, How to Stake a Claim, Where to Register
Your Claim, Modes of Placer Mining and Quartz Mining, Return of Gold
from the Diggings, Mortality, Cost of Living, et... | Klondyke Nuggets: A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest | Ladue, Joseph | 1855 | 1900 | ['en'] | 16 | {'Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries', 'Alaska -- Gold discoveries'} | PG10043 | |
CHRONICLES OF CANADA
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes
Volume 12
THE FATHER OF BRITISH CANADA
A Chronicle of Carleton
By WILLIAM WOOD
TORONTO, 1916
CONTENTS
I. GUY CARLETON, 1724-1759
II. GENERAL MURRAY, 1759-1766
III. GOVERNOR CARLETON, 1766-1774
IV. INVASION, 1776
V. BEL... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Lady Dorchester burnt all her husband's private papers
after his death in 1808; so we have lost some of the most
intimate records concerning him. But 'grave Carleton'
appears so frequently in the letters of his friend Wolfe
that we can see his character as a young man in almost
any aspect short of self-revelation. The... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
At the beginning of 1759 Wolfe was appointed to command
the army destined to besiege Quebec. He immediately
submitted Carleton's name for appointment as
quartermaster-general. Pitt and Ligonier heartily approved.
But the king again refused. Ligonier went back a second
time to no purpose. Pitt then sent him in for the ... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 | |
Next to Wolfe himself Carleton was the busiest man
in the army throughout the siege of Quebec. In addition
to his arduous and very responsible duties as
quartermaster-general, he acted as inspector of engineers
and as a special-service officer for work of an
exceptionally confidential nature. As quartermaster-general
... | The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton | Wood, William | 1864 | 1947 | ['en'] | 23 | {'Canada -- History -- 1775-1783', 'Canada -- History -- 1763-1867', 'Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808'} | PG10044 |
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