Gold. With that one little word and its promise of fabulous wealth, people from all parts of the world came to British Columbia in the 1850s and 1860s.
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Author:Boissery, Beverley
,Short, Bronwyn
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Boissery, Beverley
Summary:In 1839 fifty-eight men left Montreal for the penal colony of New South Wales. They were ordinary people who had been caught up in the political whirlwind of the 1838 rebellion.
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Greenwood, F. Murray
,Boissery, Beverley
Summary:In 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery.