Angel of Cassiar they called her. A remote gold mining district in northern British Columbia, Cassiar attracted a party of 200 prospectors up from Nevada to try their luck. Nellie Cashman came with them, opened a boarding house, and set about prospecting just like the men. Strikes, Gold Strikes, in the Far North Unlike …
Category Archives: MInerals in the Far North
First Woman of the Klondike
The first woman of the Klondike struck gold in the Klondike, but still lived the saddest life on record. Born Shaaw Tiaa, native Tagish, she married a Tlingit man and bore him a daughter. A flu epidemic killed them both. When Shaaw Tiaa’s sister passed away she married the widower, a white man named George …
Glacier, the Valdez Glacier
Women Came to the Klondike Too The Valdez Glacier looked easy, and in 1897 and 1898 when promoters invited gold rushers to take “The All American Route” to the Klondike, they had yet to learn that hustlers offering helpful advice were just about the only people making money from the Klondike Gold Rush. They …
Minerals and Gold
Minerals seeded the streams and rivers of the isolated far north. If the rugged country offered animals with exquisite pelts, it also offered gold. But for a very long time the tiny, scattered populations of First Nations natives and fur traders knew nothing of minerals or gold. Outsiders Inevitably Came to the Far North …