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Dawson City, snug on the banks of the Yukon and Klondike rivers in Canada's far-north, now lives off its past as epicentre of one of the largest peacetime migrations ever, the Klondike gold rush, when... 
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Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman. The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more. The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, and Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times that this was the film that he most wanted to be remembered for. Though a silent film, it received an Academy Awards nomination for Best Sound Recording. A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FhPYptZoDg Download page:
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First aired on Airplay (08/01/13) Historian and biographer Charlotte Gray only found out from a newspaper article that her non-fiction book on the Canadian gold rush, Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike, was being turned into a...
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In 1923, two years before Charlie Chaplin made his Klondike film The Gold Rush, a Canadian woman named Nell Shipman was there first with The Grub Stake
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Archeologists have found new clues about the music early Klondike stampeders were listening to during the Yukon Gold Rush, thanks to recordings found aboard a 110-year-old shipwreck. Via Scott Scanlon
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Klondikers carrying supplies ascend the Chilkoot Pass in 1898. A new circumpolar project wants to better manage resource development so it benefits communities. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON) [excerpt] Throughout the North, but especially in northern Canada, resource development has often proven to be devastating for Arctic peoples and communities. Take Yukon’s gold rush, which saw 100,000 people to travel to the Klondike region of between 1897 and 1899 to prospect for gold. That influx of people that caused devastating effects on the indigenous peoples, said Chris Soutcott of Lakehead University during a Sept. 19 presentation at the Nunavut Research Institute in Iqaluit. Soutcott spoke about a project called RESDA, short for “Resources and Sustainable Development of Resources in the Arctic.” The project will try to provide communities with information so they avoid the kinds of problems caused by the Gold Rush or by the whaling industry based on Hershel Island in the beginning of the 20th century. The huge northern research project, which involves 60 researchers across the circumpolar world, hopes to help communities in Nunavut get more out of resource development, Soutcott said. The international team of researchers will present their findings to the communities they study after the project wraps up, he said. Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., a partner in this project, plans to advise the researchers on “the types of good research in their region.” These could include looking at communities where mining takes place so “we would know the best ways of doing that mine and the mining benefits to them,” he said. The RESDA project’s overall goal is to make sure northern communities can better manage development. [...] The project, which is getting money from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, also plans to open an office in Iqaluit and hire a part-time co-ordinator.
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