BC Gold Rush
Primary/Secondary Sources
Primary Sources
BC Archives Collection Search
https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/mines-and-mining-gold
How to Use the BC Archives Online Collection
Cariboo Gold Rush Primary Sources
https://www.cariboogoldrush.com/primary/
http://cariboogoldrush.csp.net/site/en/index.php?area=primary
Royal Fisk Gold Rush Letters
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/royalfisk
The Canadian Letters and Images Project
https://www.canadianletters.ca/
Music of the Gold Rush
https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/listen/?view=listen
Canadiana Online
http://online.canadiana.ca.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/
Full text online collection of books, periodicals, government publications, newspapers, annual reports, and pamphlets documenting written Canadian history for the past three and a half centuries. Particularly strong in literature, women's history, Indigenous studies, travel and exploration, and French Canada.
https://www.canadiana.ca/search?q0.0=su%3A%22Gold+mines+and+mining+--+British+Columbia.%22
Historic Newspapers
https://www.quesnelmuseum.ca/research/search-newspapers
https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers
The British Colonist Newspaper
Books Online: Open Library UBC: Gold Mine
https://open.library.ubc.ca/search?q=gold%20mine&collection=bcbooks
The Governor's Letters
Daily Life in Victoria before and after the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush
https://www.govlet.ca/en/cc1.php
Royal BC Museum: Gold Rush
https://gold.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/watch/
Secondary Sources
The Canadian Encyclopedia
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/fraser-river-gold-rush
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gold-rush-sparked-american-interest-in-bc-feature
Britannica Online
Username: pcslibrary2
The password is the usual one.
Canada's History
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/peace-conflict/reconsidering-the-gold-rush
Canada History Project: Gold Rush Fever
https://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1871/1871-05-gold-rush.html
Video from Royal BC Museum
https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/pathways/bcs-gold-rush/watch/
BC Campus Case Study 1: The Gold Rush
https://opentextbc.ca/geography/chapter/5-4-case-studies/
Encyclopedia of British Columbia
Gold Mining in BC
https://canagoldresources.com/investors/gold-mining-in-bc/
Gold Rush Trail
https://goldrushtrail.ca/history/
Gold Colony
https://opentextbc.ca/preconfederation/chapter/13-9-the-gold-colony/
National Film Board Videos
https://www.nfb.ca/subjects/history-canada-1867-1919/gold-rushes/
How a Black pioneer helped the boom of northern B.C.'s gold rush
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/john-robert-giscome-history-1.7103203
Related Books at PCS Secondary Library
The law and the lawless : frontier justice in British Columbia and Yukon, 1858-1911
Call #: 364.109 DOW edited by Art Downs.
Call #: 622 GIN Gintzler, A.S.
The First Nations of British Columbia : an anthropological overview
Call #: 971.004 MUC Muckle, Robert James.
Conflicts, changes, and confederation, 1770-1867
Call #: 971.03 NEL Nelson, Sheila.
From the Atlantic to the Pacific : Canadian expansion, 1867-1909
Call #: 971.05 NEL Nelson, Sheila.
Call #: 971.1. PET Pethick, Derek, 1920-
Go do some great thing : the Black pioneers of British Columbia
Call #: 971.1 KIL Kilian, Crawford, 1941-
Pay dirt! : the search for gold in British Columbia
Call #: 971.1 LAN Langston, Laura, 1958-
Call #: 971.9 MUR Murphy, Claire Rudolf Haigh, Jame G.
Chilkoot Trail: heritage route to the Klondike
Call #: 971.9 NEU Neufeld, David
The klondike quest: a photographic essay 1897-1899
Call #: REF 971.9 BER Berton, Pierre, 1920-2004.