DCHP-3

gold town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a town whose economy is based on neighboring gold mines.

Quotations

1952
The ten­-thousand-population-in-three-years predicted for the expanding gold town proved to be a myth.
1955
"In a country growing as rapidly as Canada and in a region with the prospects which seem ahead for Northern Ontario, it would be a hardy pessimist who would firmly deny the gold towns a future," the report continues.