Three Dollar Dreams - Brossura

Three Dollar Dreams - The Coal Tyee Society Presents

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Descrizione libro Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Shelf Wear To Edges And/Or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ The Coal Tyee Society Presents - Three Dollar Dreams From The Back Cover: Three Dollar Dreams Between 1848 and 1900, every coal miner who came to Vancouver Island had a dream. For some it was just to find a better life, for others it was to become rich and powerful. The adventure of beginning again and making the rigorous voyage around Cape Horn was just what Andrew Muir had in mind until he found himself in irons and living on bread and water. Like so many miners, John McGregor thought that he could do better in the gold fields of California, but his son William proved a miner could make a good life working in the coal fields. Robert Dunsmuir wanted his own coal seam and he found it. It made him the richest man in British Columbia and one of the most hated . Ellie Lowe became an orphan when her father fell down the shaft at East Wellington mine. When Robert Kilpatrick married her he gave her security and wealth but her happiness was short lived . John Greenwell dreamed of a day when the union would make the mine a better place to work. It made him into a fighter and left him settling for three dollars a day. These early immigrants and adventurers arrived on Vancouver Island only to find themselves struggling to survive, often facing death in unsafe mines. Here, once again, miners were forced to fight for the rights and safe working conditions that already existed in the lands they had left-a struggle a Three Dollar Dream. Codice articolo 010752

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