Barkerville days /
"When Alfred William Luddit came to Canada at an early age from his birthplace in Birmingham, England his stonemason father located in Regina and travelled over much of Saskatchewan at his trade. His son was to be interested in rock not for its building qualities but for what it would yield in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Qualicum Beach, BC :
Caitlin Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 2nd edition. |
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| Summary: | "When Alfred William Luddit came to Canada at an early age from his birthplace in Birmingham, England his stonemason father located in Regina and travelled over much of Saskatchewan at his trade. His son was to be interested in rock not for its building qualities but for what it would yield in minerals. In 1927 Fred Ludditt moved to the Kootenays in British Columbia and prospected for some years in mining districts around Nelson. In 1930 he made his first contact with the famed Cariboo gold area, where he placer mined on the Fraser and Quesnel Rivers. He settled in the historic Barkerville camp and lived there until 1937. While mining and exploring in that region he became a student of old records and reports in search of leads for placering or lode mining ground. He read what he could find, printed or hand-written, talked with old-timers of the mining game in the area. Out of this grew a fascination with the almost literally unwritten history of the country. His research notebooks through the years began to comprise a history vital with the words and the personalities of many of the men who, as youths, had been in touch with old Cariboo days and with the almost legendary figures of the camp. There followed for Ludditt a five-year interlude in mining at the Zeballos camp on the West Coast of Vancouver Island but when that was done he returned to Barkerville with a feeling that this was his chosen and spiritual home. Then he began in earnest his often-discouraging campaign to save Barkerville as an historic site and to leave for posterity in book form this unique record of Barkerville days."-- |
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| Item Description: | "Foreword, Karin Ludditt"--Cover. Originally published: Vancouver : Mitchell Press, 1969. Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 182 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781773860954 177386095X |