Research Catalog

Title

Paddy Wilson's gold fever / by James R. Stevens.

Author

Stevens, James R.

Publication

[Thunder Bay, Ont. : Upland Pedlars Press, 1976?]

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilson, Claude R.

Description

109 p. : ill; 28 cm.

Summary

"This book is the personal narrative of a veteran prospector and cook. He worked in the mines and diamond drilling camps on the Red Lake gold fields in Northern Ontario, the Gold Eagle Mine on McKenzie Island, for the McAndrew Diamond Drilling Company, the Paul Orr Prospecting Company, the Howey Gold Mine, the Cochenour-Willans Gold Mine, the Madsen Red Lake Gold Mine, the Morrisett Co., the Hasaga Gold Mine, the Starrat-Olson Mine, the McFinley property in Red Lake, the Dickenson Gold Mine.

Series Statement

Upland Pedlars Press collectors copy

Subject

• Wilson, Claude R
• Gold miners > Ontario > Biography
• Gold mines and mining > Ontario > History

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Based on three manuscripts written by Claude R. (Paddy) Wilson in 1948.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Rush into Red Lake [Northwestern Ontario] -- The Thirteenth child -- Gold fever -- Lone woman on the trail -- Ojibways on the trail [Ojibwa Indians, Aboriginal or Native peoples] -- False alarm -- Hot times at Gold Pines -- Trouble on the trail -- The Red Lake Caper -- Henry and Lulu's -- Timmins snowshoeing -- The dam at Ear Falls -- Lost in the bush North of Kenora -- A job or was it a job? -- Round-up in Kenora -- The Nipigon men -- Training session at Camp Fourteen -- Lost in the bush -- The devil looks after his own -- Guiding Yankee playboys -- I meet my first Yankees -- Regiment Mary at Golden Arm -- Bearing with them -- Trial in the Bush -- Record trout at Medicine Stone -- As rich as Sir Harry Oakes.

ISBN

092009600x (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 7147321
• SCSB-11919530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library