Gold Dust On His Shirt: The True Story of an Immigrant Mining Family

Gold Dust on His Shirt is an evocative telling of the experience of a Scandinavian immigrant family of hard-rock miners at the turn of the century and up to World War II. Based on fascinating historical research, these are tales of arriving in ‘Amerika,’ blasting the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, work in the mines, and domestic life and labour struggles in company towns throughout British Columbia.

Part family history, part economic and social history, Gold Dust on His Shirt is an intrigu...