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allowed the thinking time to figure out just who they are. Gold was a

definite plus to the gold rush, but few people actually came out terribly

rich, others started businesses that have thrived to the present day, such is

the story of Thomas Andrew Firth.

Firth was born and grew up in Ontario, Canada. In his youth he took

a brief trip to Pennsylvania and disappeared from family records. He

resurfaced at the age of 31 to join the Klondike Gold Rush. Firth did not

find gold in the land of the Yukon, so to make the best of his

circumstances, he started a business. The business he started was the Firth

Insurance Agency Brokerage, founded in 1906. The agency is run to this

day by Firth’s family members. (Gold Rushers, WWW) Firth and many

others started business like this, beginning economic growth in the

Yukon.

An organization that specializes in the history of the gold rush, and

personal accounts conducted an interview with firth’s grandchildren. It

shows through their eyes how their Grandpa went through the gold rush.

Ghosts of the Gold Rush spoke with Firth’s grandchildren, Nancy

Houston, 44, and Ton Firth, 50, both live with their families in

Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Here are a few excerpts:

GHOSTS

How did your grandfather end up in the middle of the Klondike gold

rush?

NANCY HUSTON

My understanding is he was looking for work, as all young men were

in that time, and he was traveling across the United States with a

couple of friends picking up odd jobs here and there and found

himself in the West at the time the Portland came in – July 17, 1897 -

into Seattle. As everybody else, he was all excited about the gold in

the Klondike, and thought that he and a couple of his buddies would