Talk:Gold commissioner

will need cat
Only so many of these guys (invariably guys) have articles, and not all of those that might be out there have "gold commissioner" in the article, but there's going to be dozens for sure. Off the top of my head I know Caspar Phair, John Fall Allison and Andrew Charles Elliott were all GCs, and like elliott other elected officials and premiers even had been gold commissioners during their career. More on the duties and powers of the position will or could be added to the article; I've also contemplated at List of Gold Commissioners in British Columbia organized sortable table-wise like my other lists; theoretically these positions are the same as Mines Commissioner so that maybe can just be a redirect for now, although after gcs weren't appointed anymore it kept on as a title so maybe should remain separate; but similarly each Mining district - Similkameen Mining District, Cassiar Mining District, Lillooet Mining District, Stikine Mining District, and so on (maybe "Mines District" might be more correct; have to dig around the sources).Skookum1 04:59, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * which didn't get to my intended point - Category:Gold Commissioners in British Columbia needs creation; if that's not a good title please advise; do you think the "in british columbia" part is even needed, since this is such a unique title (so far as I know although maybe it had cousins in other parts of the Empire?)Skookum1 05:02, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Govt Agent Canada vs BC?
Never thought of that distinction, and as it turns out Government Agent currently is a redirect to Espionage, which is rather amusing though logical. The title was part of the BC government bureaucracy, at least in the context written about here; if there is a federal equivalent - ? - I'd say a distinct section, if not a distinct article, is called for. The term may have also been used elsewhere in the Empire, as it turns out is the case with Gold Commissioner; there should be Gold Commissioner (Australia) and Gold Commissioner (Africa) as well, although I don't know or rather doubt that the particular role in colonization/regime that the GCs played there may not have been as notable, or far-reaching, as in BC. So this page will need some diversification, maybe just subsections on Oz and SA and wherever else the term crops up (Govt Agent, that is), if it does.Skookum1 (talk) 21:19, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

This position was not exclusive to British Columbia
It was appointed throughout the British Empire where there were gold rushes - South Africa, Australia, New Zealand etc. I have put a world view tag on the article until these topics can be expanded. --Biatch (talk) 04:36, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

uncited/wrongly formatted material removed from article
Removed this:

Maintaining law and order Pistols Law and order Men are robbed Tents are cut open Tar and feathers Gold licences 30 shillings a month (3 dollars)

When diggers dug they have to organise the law and order themselves. Nearly every night robbers cut open tents and rob the diggers gold so, the diggers have to keep a pistol under their pillow. Diggers watched the people get punished and laugh at the robbers, one there's favourite punishments was putting on the robbers and then feathers on them. Diggers had to pay 30 shillings to dig gold. Keeping gold safe

Gold dust Warm matchbox Guard dogs Hand commissioner Kept there gold is special bag Kept wax to seal it Transported gold to major cities Bush rangers

Diggers usually found gold dust so they have to warm it up, so they kept it in a warm matchbox to melt it together. They kept guard dogs so they don't have to hide there gold. They would hand their gold to commissioner to keep it safe if they didn't have a guard dogs. Some kept there gold in a special bag and they kept wax on its opening to seal it, to transport the gold to major city to keep it safe from bush rangers.

The licence system Joe, joe Tied to a tree

Not really in the mood to format it in whatever way now; there might be usable stuff in it but it was below References and also "signed" by the IP user who added it.Skookum1 (talk) 07:17, 26 April 2014 (UTC)