To Allan’s left, you can see the conrete plinth where the plaque/panel used to be. He first learned about gold dredging in the river when he read an interpretive panel downtown, which has since been removed. If you grew up in Edmonton, maybe you went through a confusing childhood learning process that went something like this:ġ) Going to Klondike Days, and associating Edmonton with a gold rushĢ) Getting older and learning that the Klondike was somewhere else, and concluding that Edmonton was just a gateway, with no gold industry of its ownģ) Realizing no, there was in fact both gold panning and gold dredging in Edmonton, beginning in at least the 1800s.Īllan did not grow up in Edmonton. ![]() Allan Farrell asks what’s up with a picture of a gold dredge he saw on a plaque downtown, and where the gold in the North Saskatchewan River comes from.
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