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gold seeker
DCHP-2 (Oct 2016)
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n. — Mining
one who searches for gold.
Type: 5. Frequency — The term has a modest claim to Canadianness by virtue of domain frequency (see Chart 1). While gold rushes peopled much of British Columbia and the Yukon in the late 1850s and the late 1890s, respectively, gold seekers are not unique to Canada. In the Canadian North, however, gold seeking activities are probably more prevalent today than in other regions, which explains Chart 1.
See also COD-2, which labels the term "esp. Cdn".
See also COD-2, which labels the term "esp. Cdn".
Quotations
1884
The West for you, girls! for our Canada deems / Love's home better luck than a gold-seeker's dreams.
1913
C.E. Riley, as Boy of 17 Becomes Gold Seeker and Sees Many Stirring Sights in Northern in Northern Cities
1979
And to the thousands of tourists who venture up here every year in memory of the Klondike gold rush, a ride on the era's unique narrow-guage railway through treacherous mountain passes, once journeyed by gold seekers, is a must.
1985
Most gold-seekers arrived via ship in Skagway, situated along the Alaska panhandle, and then trekked over the Chilkoot and White Pass trails to the Yukon River.
1991
Then, in 1898, the Klondike Gold Rush and its rag-tag assortment of gold seekers turned this traditional Han Indian fishing place at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers into a tent town of 40,000.
2003
First nation people have lived in and along the Yukon River far longer than the gold seekers who stole the land, suggests the Star's Vince Fedoroff.
References
- COD-2
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