Gold Harbour
Gold Harbour is the unofficial name for
Englefield Bay ; see the
Mitchell Inlet entry for more information on the conflicts over gold there in the mid-1850s.
1. Andrew Scott, The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2009), 184.
Mentions of this place in the documents
Englefield Bay Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Grey, Third Earl Henry George
15 April 1852, CO 305:3, no. 6485, 103. Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Grey, Third Earl Henry George
28 May 1852, CO 305:3, no. 7372, 113. Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pakington, Captain John Somerset
2 August 1852, CO 305:3, no. 9399, 123. Gray, Nutter to Pakington, Captain John Somerset 19 August 1852, CO 305:3, no. 7949,
524. Boys, Reverend Thomas to Cuffe, 3rd Earl of Desart John Otway O'Conner 11 October
1852, CO 305:3, no. 9263, 495. Douglas, Chief Factor Governor Vice-Admiral Sir James to Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke
of Newcastle Henry Pelham Fiennes 26 July 1853, CO 305:4, no. 9498, 61.
The Colonial Despatches Team.
Gold Harbour. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871 , Edition 2.5, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria.
https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/gold_harbour.html .
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