Gold Panning
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of British Columbia Institute of Technology student Ann Davie panning for gold a sluice box at the mining display during BCIT's Career Exposition. Other students are visible panning for gold along with her.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- April 1975
- Collection/Fonds
- Columbian Newspaper collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 16.5 x 14 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 480-337
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2003-02
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of British Columbia Institute of Technology student Ann Davie panning for gold a sluice box at the mining display during BCIT's Career Exposition. Other students are visible panning for gold along with her.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- King, Basil
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Newspaper clipping attached to verso of photograph reads: "CAUGHT BY THE FEVER / The days of hard-bitten, gold-smitten men during B.C.'s gold rush are long gone but the precious yellow metal still has an irresistible lure. Ann Davie of Coquitlam and other students at the B.C. Institute of Technology caught the fever while panning for gold - real gold - in a sluice box at the mining display during BCIT's Career Exposition Friday."
- Geographic Access
- Willingdon Avenue
- Street Address
- 3700 Willingdon Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Douglas-Gilpin Area
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