^{FN1 Ch21} OED.

^{FN2 Ch21} R. D. Evans, "Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia," NSHS, #25, p. 17. Incidentally, the California gold rush occurred in 1848.

^{FN3 Ch21} T. S. Ashton, An Economic History of England: The 18th Century (London: Methuen, 1955), p. 177.

^{FN4 Ch21} Paul Johnson in his work, The Birth of the Modern (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), p. 862.

^{FN5 Ch21} Evans, "Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia," NSHS, #25, pp. 21 & 24.

^{FN6 Ch21} John Hartlen, "John Campbell - A True Prospector and a Good Geologist," NSHQ, #9:4, pp. 319 & 328. It has been thought that "the legislature lost its collective balance and elevated gold mining to the first place in the economy. For the historian of gold this event was fortuitous, as the annual reports to the House of Assembly provide every kind of useful statistic, even though gold mining remained utterly peripheral to the province's economy." (Julian Gwyn, "The Parrsboro Shore-West Indies Trade ...", NSHR, #13:1, p. 1.)

^{FN7 Ch21} Evans, pp. 24 & 33.

^{FN8 Ch21} Evans, "Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia," NSHS, #25, p. 28. For a complete list of places in Nova Scotia where gold mining took place, see David E. Stephens' "Gold Fields of Eastern Nova Scotia," NSHQ, #1:2.

^{FN9 Ch21} "John Campbell - A True Prospector and a Good Geologist," NSHQ, #9:4; also see, John Hartlen, "When Waverley Wished for Gold," NSHQ, #7:4, p. 335.

^{FN10 Ch21} John Hartlen, "Nova Scotia's Four Great Gold Rushes," NSHS, #41, p. 65; see also, Stephens, "Gold Fields of Eastern Nova Scotia," NSHQ, #1:2, p. 146. Hartlen observed that Waverley was never to become a major gold producer. ("When Waverley Wished for Gold," NSHQ, #7:4, p. 336.)

^{FN11 Ch21} Hartlen, "Nova Scotia's Four Great Gold Rushes," NSHS, #41, p. 66.

^{FN12 Ch21} Evans, "Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia," NSHS, #25, pp. 35-6.

^{FN13 Ch21} Evans, "Early Gold Mining in Nova Scotia," p. 44.

^{FN14 Ch21} Hartlen, "Nova Scotia's Four Great Gold Rushes," NSHS, #41, p. 67.

^{FN15 Ch21} Hartlen explained that in 1927, the exporting of gold became legal once again. Further, the demand for gold was not as high as had been when countries were on the gold standard. For example, Canada left in 1931. (NSHS, Vol #41, p. 68.)