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A #NovaScotian co-discovered the Klondike's #gold...but it wasn't the happy occasion you'd think!
Robert Henderson was born in #Pictou County in 1857. He became obsessed with finding gold after reading Alaskan histories as a child.
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He left home at the age of 14, prospecting for #gold in Australia, New Zealand, and Colorado, before heading to the Canadian north. He arrived in the Yukon in 1894 and prospected several areas before Joe Ladue convinced him to try Indian River.
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Ladue, a miner and sawmill operator, believed the unexplored Indian River had great potential and he grubstaked Henderson to explore the area in exchange for a share of any profits.
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#Pictou’s George Mercer Dawson led the expedition that surveyed the intern'l boundary between Alaska and Yukon. The expedition left Ottawa on April 22, 1887 and traveled into the Yukon’s wild, remote country to record its geography, geology, botany, native languages and legends. Image
Even though Dawson endured frail health most of his life – he had Pott’s disease, aka tuberculosis of the spine - he carried out some of the most strenuous surveys attempted in #Canada and did more than anyone else to create a modern map of the Canadian West.
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🇨🇦#Canada #FridaysForFuture International update #ClimateStrike #'s for #ClimateActionWeek:
🇨🇦1,000,000 people🇨🇦 Thus 1 out of every 6 strikers globally was Canadian🇨🇦 as well as we were 3rd globally for total # of strikes. Thanks to all local organizers & national supporters.
1000 #Calgary AB
15 #Cambridge ON
40 #Campbellton NB
20 #Camrose AB
15 #Canmore AB
15 #Cannington ON
150 #CapAuxMeules QC
300 #Caraquet NB
300 #Chambly QC
200 #ChathamKent ON
65 #Chibougamau QC
400 #Chillwack BC
40 #Clare NS
45 #Clinton ON
500 #Collingwood ON
80 #Compton QC
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