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Yukon Gold was a Canadian reality television series produced by Paperny Entertainment that aired on History Television. The series followed four or five placer mining crews as they searched for gold over the four-month Yukon mining season. The series was acquired in the United States by the National Geographic Channel and aired starting in 2013 ...
Dredge No. 4 (Hän: Lëzrą Kä̀nëchà "s/he is looking for money") is a wooden-hulled bucketline sluice dredge that mined placer gold on the Yukon River from 1913 until 1959. It is now located along Bonanza Creek Road 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of the Klondike Highway [ 1 ] near Dawson City , Yukon , where it is preserved as one of the ...
Gold Rush (season 4, in Guyana, with placer diamond mining) Outback Opal Hunters, a reality TV series featuring opal mining in Australia; Resource extraction TV shows in Canada. Yukon Gold, a cancelled reality TV series featuring placer gold mining in northern British Columbia (seasons 1 & 4) and Yukon
In September 1916, Hughes appointed Boyle an honorary lieutenant colonel of the militia, allowing Boyle to wear a uniform which he embellished by adding in maple leafs made of Yukon gold. [10] In London, Boyle also met in London a prominent American engineer and businessman, Herbert Hoover , who was a member of the American Committee of ...
Leroy Napoleon "Jack" McQuesten (1836–1909) was an American pioneer explorer, trader, and prospector in Alaska and Yukon; he became known as the "Father of the Yukon."." Other nicknames included "Yukon Jack," "Captain Jack," "Golden Rule McQuesten," and "Father of Al
Discovery Claim is a mining claim at Bonanza Creek, a watercourse in the Yukon, Canada. It is the site where, in the afternoon of August 16, 1896, the first piece of gold was found in the Yukon by prospectors. The site is considered to be the place where the Klondike gold rush started.
Quaker Oats bought 19.11 acres (7.73 ha) of land in the Yukon Territory of Canada for the price of US$1000 and printed up 21 million deeds for one square inch (6.5 cm 2) of land. On advice of counsel, Quaker Oats set up and transferred the land to the Great Klondike Big Inch Land Company to make the company the registered owner and manager of ...
Gold Trails and Ghost Towns is a Canadian historical documentary show, created and produced by television station CHBC-TV in Kelowna, British Columbia for Canadian syndication and hosted by Mike Roberts with historian/storyteller Bill Barlee. The show was filmed in a studio which resembled an old trapper's cabin.