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Trove of Klondike Gold Rush artifacts donated to UBC
By Leonard Linklater
Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Ottawa
Saturday, May 22, 2021
You could call it the motherlode of Klondike Gold Rush artifacts.
It's a massive trove of historic books, letters, journals and other objects, amassed over the years by a moneyed collector and now donated to the University of British Columbia (UBC).
"It's an extraordinary collection. There's nothing like it, because of its size, and the kind of material it covers, and also the years that it covers," said UBC librarian Susan Parker.
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"There's thousands of different kinds of things — everything from photographs, to letters that people wrote home, you know, just an incredible array."
Most of the material dates from the years between 1894 and 1904, when Dawson City, Yukon, was transformed almost overnight from a small dot on the map to, for a time, the biggest Canadian city west of Winnipeg.
The collection was built over decades by Order of Canada member Phil Lind, who's the former right-hand man to the late telecommunications tycoon Ted Rogers, founder of Rogers Communications.
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/klondike-gold-rush-artifacts-lind-c...
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