Big Bend Gold Mines

Big Bend Gold Mines

British Columbia,
Gold Rush
Transport
Advertisement
Steamboat
Commerce

This source is an advertisement targeted towards miners, promoting a government subsidised transport links from San Francisco to Victoria and New Westminster. The advert says that there is a ‘splendid Government Wagon Road’ from Yale to Savana Ferry. The advert also shows the distances in miles it takes to get to the locations by steamers. In the wider context of gold rush promotion, government subsidised transport links provide a clear example of government intervention to increase the attractiveness of a dangerous, but potentially profitable endeavour. By marketing the journey as in investment, it is clear that the chamber of commerce where aware of the problems miners had, and wanted to make it as easy as possible to get people to and from the mines with as little inconvenience as possible.

Victoria Chamber of Commerce

Royal British Columbia Museum, Archives, Visual records collection, item C-05572

http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/big-bend-gold-mines

1863

Robert Catarinicchia

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English

Textual - printed Advert

19th century British Columbia