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Akrigg, G.P.V. and Helen B. Akrigg. British Columbia Chronicle, 1847-1871: Gold & Colonists. Vancouver: Discovery Press, ©1977.

Bartlett, Jon. The Young Man from Canada: BC Songs from the PJ Thomas Collection (sound recording). New Westminster: J. Bartlett & R. Ruebsaat, ©2003.

Bellshaw, John Douglas. Colonization and Community: the Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, ©2002.

Bowen, Lynne. Boss Whistle; the Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember.  Lantzville: Oolichan Books, ©1982.

Bowen, Lynne. “King of the Castle.” Horizon Canada. Quebec: Centre for the Study of Teaching Canada, ©1987, pp. 1712 – 1717.

Bowen, Lynne. Robert Dunsmuir: Laird of the Mines. Montreal: XYZ Publishing, ©1999.

Bowen, Lynne. Three Dollar Dreams. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, ©1987.

Britannia: a Company Town (video). Montreal: National Film Board, ©2000.

Duclos, Noel G.  Packers, Pans and Paydirt; Prospecting to the Cariboo.  Quesnel: Arthur Duclos, ©1995.

Elliott, Gordon R., Barkerville, Quesnel & the Cariboo Gold Rush. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, ©1958.

Evans-Atkinson, Norman. The Old Miners (sound recording). Victoria: Provincial Archives, ©1977.

Farley, A.L. “Resource Use.” Atlas of British Columbia: People, environment, and resource use. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, ©1979. pp. 72-77.

Fraser Gold! (video). Richmond: Imagemedia Services, ©1994.

Hall, Ralph. Goldseekers. Victoria: Sono Nis Press, ©1972.

Harris, Lorraine. Gold Along the Fraser. Victoria: Hancock House, ©1984.

Harris, Lorraine. Barkerville; the Town that Gold Built. Surrey: Hancock House, ©1984.

Hewson, Edith. Dunlevy: a Story of the First Cariboo Gold Strike, from the Diaries of Alex P. McInnes. Kamloops: Goss Publishing, 1999.

Hinde, John R. When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island. Vancouver: UBC Press, ©2003.

Langley, Rod and Lynne Bowen. One Hundred Years Below (video). Richmond: Imagemedia Services, ©1992.

Langston, Laura. Pay Dirt! The Search for Gold in British Columbia. Victoria: Orca Books, ©1995.

Ludditt, Fred W. Barkerville Days. Vancouver: Mitchell Press, ©1969.

McNaughton, Margaret. Overland to Cariboo; an Eventful Journey of Canadian Pioneers to the Gold Fields of British Columbia in 1862. Vancouver: J. J. Douglas, ©1973.

May, Dave. Sandon, The Mining Centre of the Silvery Slocan. Kaslo: D. May, ©1986.

Mayse, Susan. Ginger; the Life and Death of Albert Goodwin. Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, ©1990.

Neering, Rosemary. Gold Rush. Toronto: Fitzhenry, ©1974.

Newsome, Eric. The Coal Coast; the History of Coal Mining in B.C., 1835 - 1900. Victoria: Orca, ©1989.

Norris, John, "The Vancouver Island Coal Miners, 1912-1914: a Study of an Organizational Strike," BC Studies 45:56-72, ©1980.

 Patenaude, Branwen. “Gateway to Gold.” Horizon Canada. Quebec: Centre for the Study of Teaching Canada, ©1987, pp.??

Peterson, Jan. Black Diamond City: Nanaimo, the Victorian Era. Surrey: Heritage House, ©2002.

Peterson, Jan. Hub City: Nanaimo from 1886-1920. Surrey: Heritage House, ©2003.

Ramsey, Bruce. Barkerville; a Guide to the Famous Cariboo Gold Camp. Langley: Sunfire Publications Limited, ©1987.

Rekstan, Terry. The Dunsmuir Saga. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, ©1991.

Rivers of Gold (video). Kelowna: CHBC Television, ©1997.

Thomas, Philip J. “Mining: Prospecting, Coal and Hard Rock Mines.” Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Saanichton: Hancock House, ©1979, pp. 129 – 147.

Thomas, Philip J. “The Fraser River and the Cariboo Gold Rushes.” Songs of the Pacific Northwest. Saanichton, Hancock House, ©1979, pp. 36 – 51.

Town, Florida. The Lively Ghost of Howe Sound. Port Coquitlam, Bookus Press, ©2000.

Waite, Donald E. The Cariboo Gold Rush Story. Surrey: Hancock House, ©1988.

Wright, Richard Thomas & Cathryn Wellner. Castles in the Air; Music & Stories of British Columbia’s 1860’s Gold Rush. Williams Lake: Winter Quarters Press, ©2000.


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