The "stepstone" for all potential prospectors during the 1898 Klondyke Gold Rush. People arrived by ship in Skagway, AK, than had to schlepp around 100s of kg of supplies up the valley and up the pass. On top of the pass (the border between Alaska and B.C.) there was a weigh scale where Canadian official checked if goldrushers had enough supplies to last one winter in the Yukon. They ...
For hundreds of thousands of years, the Yuba River steadily washed sand and gravel out of the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada and deposited it onto the flat floor of the Sacramento Valley. This gradual process changed abruptly when James Marshall discovered gold in the races of Sutter's Mill in 1948. Miners flooded the area, and the California Gold Rush—and its controversial environmental le...
From Wikipedia: Grace Cathedral is located in San Francisco, California. It is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California.
It was founded it 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The Cathedral is the daughter of historic Grace Church. The first little chapel was built in the gold rush year of 1849, and the imposing third church, for a time called Grace "Cathedral...
Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 21 was a domestic scheduled flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada via Prince George, Fort St. John, Fort Nelson and Watson Lake on Thursday, July 8, 1965. The Douglas DC-6 plane crashed near 100 Mile House, British Columbia, taking the lives of all 52 aboard. An inquest determined that the explosion was the result of a bom...
Location Surigao Gold District, Mindanao Island, Region XIII. Geographical Coordinates Latitude: 9°10’00” - 9°20’30” Longitude: 125°30’00” - 125°34’00 Tenement Mineral Production Sharing Agreement No. (MPSA) 134-99-XIII awarded May 20, 1999. MPSA covers 7,679 hectares Commodity Gold Geology and Mineralization The area is characterized by greenschist overthrust by ultramafics, unconformably over...
A challenger for the title of world's largest weather vane is located in Whitehorse, Yukon. The weather vane is a retired Douglas DC-3 atop a swiveling support. Located beside Whitehorse International Airport, the weather vane is used mainly by pilots to determine wind direction. The weather vane only requires a 5 km/hour wind to rotate.
This is clearly a plane from Air Canada. Note the distinct "AIR CANADA" on the side of the plane. The colors, and the maple leaf as well are those displayed by planes from Air Canada.
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