James Blower’s Gold Rush: A Pictorial History of the Southern Lakes and the Atlin Gold Rush documents the logistical corridors connecting the Chilkoot and White Pass trails to the subarctic goldfields of northern British Columbia. Blower details the rapid rise of tent cities and boatyards along the shores of Lake Bennett and Lake Lindeman, where thousands of stampeders built improvised wooden flotillas to navigate the upper Yukon and Southern Lakes waterways. The narrative captures the construction of the White Pass and Yukon Route railway and the unique portage railroad at Taku that moved freight between Graham Inlet and Scotia Bay on Atlin Lake. Through archival photographs, the volume illustrates the grueling labor, sternwheeler operations, and spatial evolution of these subarctic transit hubs.

Atlin (B.C.) History, Bennett (B.C.), British Columbia Southern Lakes, Frontier and pioneer life British Columbia Atlin, History, Illustrated works, Klondike gold rush Pictorial works, Lake Bennett (B.C. and Yukon), Lindeman (B.C.), Navigation British Columbia Southern Lakes, Scotia Bay (B.C.), Stikine Region (B.C.), Taku (B.C.)

Includes historical photographs from the Glenbow-Alberta Institute collections and map on lining papers.

Includes historical photographs from the Glenbow-Alberta Institute collections and map on lining papers.