Talk:Gold Commissioner
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
