Ken Coates: Students Drawn Into Canadian History With Interactive Virtual Archive He Designed
Waterloo, ON (AHN) - The Klondike Gold Rush attracted 40,000 people from all over the world to Canada's Yukon, to try their luck at finding gold. Now, a website geared towards students is hoping young detectives can piece together clues and answer the question of who started the it all. Ken Coates, a University of Waterloo historian has written the mystery and is inviting students to solve the famous Canadian case.
He told the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, "your job is to do the detective work to piece together the story of what happened".
Along with William Morrison, a history professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, Coates created material for a virtual archive. The site includes government reports, maps, letters and images dating back more than 100 years. The website suggests there are four possible candidates that may have found the gold first in August 1896.
Coates told his local newspaper "there is a great debate about who discovered the gold that touched off the most famous gold stampede in history... The Klondike gold rush is perhaps the only event in Canadian history that is known around the world".
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He told the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, "your job is to do the detective work to piece together the story of what happened".
Along with William Morrison, a history professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, Coates created material for a virtual archive. The site includes government reports, maps, letters and images dating back more than 100 years. The website suggests there are four possible candidates that may have found the gold first in August 1896.
Coates told his local newspaper "there is a great debate about who discovered the gold that touched off the most famous gold stampede in history... The Klondike gold rush is perhaps the only event in Canadian history that is known around the world".