The Bennett Sun

The Bennett Sun

Mining
Media
Newspaper
British Columbia

The Bennett Sun is a newspaper in northern British Columbia aimed at the local people of Bennett, now an abandoned town next to Lake Bennett. The paper has a range of news pieces and advertisements. Most notably the source has an editorial news piece called ‘Mining and Chance’ about the comparisons of gold mining and chance by Juneau Milner. This editorial news piece in the newspaper is significant because it highlights the theme of the gold rush that occurred in British Columbia and in Bennett which was created during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–99 at the end of the White Pass and Chilkoot Trails. Moreover, with Bennett being a town created from out the gold rush, the Sun's target audience most likely the miners in the town.

Bennett Lake, B.C. : Bennett Sun Printing and Publishing Co.

The University of British Columbia

https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcnewspapers/bensun/items/1.0314939#p2z-2r0f:

22 January 1900

Sebastian Cook

The University of British Columbia Archives (10.14288/1.0314939)

English

Textual - printed newspaper

20th century British Columbia