Gold Rush Homework Helper
Australia's population and prosperity boomed in the early 19th century with the discovery of gold. News of the Rush spread around the world, bringing many immigrants to Australia to try their luck. Life on the diggings was rough and dangerous. Learn more about this turning point in Australia's history with this Canterbury City Library StudyZone Guide.
Internet Sites
Gold 150: Celebrating 150 Years of Australian Gold Rush History
The Australian Gold Rush
Heron's Reef Historical Gold Diggings
Gold !
Windows on Victoria - Gold
Gold Rush - The Discovery of Australian Gold
The Sovereign Hill Education Service Internet Site
Aussie Gold Locations
Books
The gold rushes : striving for wealth / Barrie Sheppard. Port Melb., Vic. : Echidna Books, 2004.
J622.34 SHE
Australia : an illustrated history : from Dreamtime to the new millennium / A. K. Macdougall. Rowville, Victoria : Five Mile Press, 2004. (see. chapter 5, The golden years, 1851-1860)
R994 MAC
Welcome, Stranger : the amazing true story of one man's legendary search for gold, at all costs / as told by his great-granddaughter, Denise Deason. Camberwell, Vic. : Viking, 2005.
994.54 DEA
Eureka stockade a pictorial history / Geoff Hocking. Rowville, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2004.
994.57 HOC
Daily life on the goldfields / Kimberley Webber. South Yarra : Macmillan Education Australia, 2001.
J994.031 WEB
The gold rushes / John & Jennifer Barwick. Port Melbourne, Vic. : Heinemann, 2001.
J994.031 BAR
Gold! Gold! Gold! : a dictionary of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes / Bruce Moore. South Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 2000.
994.03 MOO
Eureka rebellion / Barrie Sheppard. Port Melbourne, Vic. : Heinemann Library, 2000.
J994.57 SHE
Australia's gold rushes/ Robert Coupe. Frenchs Forest, NSW : New Holland, 2000.
994.031 COU
Gold prospecting / Douglas M Stone. Shepparton, Victoria : Outdoor Productions, 1999.
622.342 STO
The gold rush / John Barwick. Port Melbourne, Victoria : Heinemann, 1999.
994.031 BAR
Rush for gold: Australia 1851-1870 / Mimi Colligan, Melbourne : Australia Post, 1999.
769.564 COL
Eureka Stockade / Alan Boardman. Sydney : Scholastic,1997.
994.5 BUT
Videos
Eureka [videorecording] / Bill Peach. [Sydney?] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1988.
AV994.5 PEA
Land of gold[videorecording] : / written and presented by Bill Peach ; produced and directed by Bill Steller. [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983.
AV622.3422 PEA
Finders Keepers [videorecording] : / written and presented by Bill Peach ; produced and directed by Bill Steller. [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983.
AV622.994 PEA
The golden age [videorecording] : / written and presented by Bill Peach ; produced and directed by Bill Steller. [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983.
AV622.3422 PEA
Victoria's golden heritage [videorecording]. [Australia] : Full Focus, [19--?].
TRAVEL
Subject headings
- Australia - Gold discoveries - Juvenile literature.
- Gold.
- Gold -- History.
- Gold industry.
- Gold -- Juvenile literature.
- Gold miners.
- Gold miners -- Victoria.
- Gold miners -- Victoria -- History -- Juvenile literature.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Gold mines and mining -- Australia.
- Gold mines and mining -- Australia -- History.
- Gold mines and mining -- Juvenile literature.
- Gold mines and mining -- Victoria.
- Gold miners - Victoria - History - Juvenile literature.
- Gold mines and mining -- Western Australia.
- Gold mines and mining - Australia - History - 19th century - Juvenile literature.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Prospecting -- Australia.
Shelf numbers
- 338.2
- 338.27
- 553.4
- 622.0994
- 994.4
- 994.5