Joseph Juneau

Joseph Juneau (1836 - 1899) was a miner and prospector from Canada who was born in Saint-Paul-L'Hermite, in Québec. He is most famous for co-founding (with Richard Harris) the city of Juneau, Alaska, United States. The first major gold discovery in Juneau or Douglas Island (across from Juneau) was circa 1880. It has been the political capital of Alaska since 1906. Joseph Juneau, the co-founder of Juneau, Alaska This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Joseph Juneau, the co-founder of Juneau, Alaska This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... 1836 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... A prospector is normally a person who explores an area for natural resources such as minerals, oil, flora or fauna. ... Saint-Paul-LHermite is a town in Quebec, Canada. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... Richard T. Harris Richard T. Harris (1833 - 1907) was a Canadian miner and prospector. ... Juneau redirects here. ... General Name, Symbol, Number Gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11 (IB), 6, d Density, Hardness 19300 kg/m3, 2. ... Douglas Island is an island just west of Juneau, Alaska, slightly north of Admiralty Cove. ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1906 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

His Native American guide in southeastern Alaska was Chief Kowee. Kowee is credited with discovering much of the Juneau area. Joseph and Harris were sent with Kowee by George Pilz, an entrepreneur from Sitka. Juneau and Harris traded with the natives much of their grubstake (rations) for hoochinoo (alcoholic brews). Needless to say, the prospectors accomplished nothing. When they returned to Pilz empty-handed, he promptly sent them back to the Juneau area. There, Kowee took them beyond Gold Creek (which today flows beside the city's United States Federal Building[1]) to Silver Bow Basin. Today, a creek on Douglas Island is named Kowee Creek. Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st)  - Land 1,481,347 km²  - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... Sitka City and Borough is a borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, in the state of Alaska. ... Creek can be: A native American tribe, see Creek (people) The language of that tribe, see Creek language In US and Australian usage, a waterflow, smaller than a river, see Creek (stream) In UK usage, a tidal watercourse, usually drying to little or no flow at low tide, see Creek...

After the discovery of gold in Juneau, Joseph and Harris loaded around 1000 pounds of gold ore back to Sitka. Officially the pound is the name for at least three different units of mass: The pound (avoirdupois). ...

Quickly, Joseph helped to make the town of Juneau very popular. However, it is interesting to note that the town did not take up its current name right away; originally it was known as Harrisburg, Pilzburg, and Rockwell. Apparently, Joseph Juneau was able to bribe (buy votes from) enough of his fellow miners.

Joe Juneau also traveled in Dawson City, Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. He usually spent gold as fast as he got it but at the end of his life he owned a small restaurant in Dawson. Juneau died of pneumonia in Dawson; his body came back to the town that now bears his name in 1903. Both Joseph Juneau and Harris are buried in the city's Evergreen Cemetery. The City of Dawson is a town in the Yukon territory of Canada, located at a latitude of 64° 03 45 N and a longitude of 139° 25 50 W. The current population is approximately 2,000. ... A typical gold mining operation, on Bonanza Creek The Klondike Gold Rush was a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and gold prospecting in the Klondike near Dawson City in the Yukon Territory, Canada, after gold was discovered in the late 19th century. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Categories: Stub ...

External links

• Gold Rush Stories
• Joe Juneau (includes a picture of his grave)