Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush

by Gerry Boyce

Where did Ontario's first gold rush take place? Not, as you might think, in the Kirkland Lake or Timmins areas of Northern Ontario, but in the Madoc-Eldorado area of Hastings County, less than an hour's drive from busy Highway 401.

The discovery was made in August 1866. Thousands of miners and speculators soon arrived from British Columbia, California and elsewhere. They included "Cariboo" Cameron of British Columbia mining fame.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0920474748
• ISBN13: 9780920474747
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Natural Heritage Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 10.0"