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	Gold Coast - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		GOLD COAST, that portion of the Guinea Coast (West Africa) which extends from Assini upon the west to the river Volta on the east.
		At this period, however, the home government, disgusted with the Gold Coast by reason of the perpetual disturbances in the protectorate and the trouble it occasioned, determined to abandon the settlements, and sent instructions for the forts to be destroyed and the Europeans brought home.
		Gold exists in quartz formation, chiefly in the valley of the Black Volta, and is found equally on the British and French sides of the frontier.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOLD_COAST.htm (6797 words)

	Gold Coast (British colony) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gold Coast was the name of a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.
		Gold Coast had long been a name for the region used by Europeans, due to the large gold resources to be found in the area, although slave trade was the main trade for a number of years.
		In 1946, British Togoland, the Ashanti protectorate, and the Fante protectorate were merged with the Gold Coast to create one colony, usually referred to as the Gold Coast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_Coast_(British_colony) (437 words)

	Ghana - THE COLONIAL ERA: BRITISH RULE OF THE GOLD COAST
		The Gold Coast Colony, established on July 24, 1874, comprised the coastal areas and extended inland as far as the ill-defined borders of Asante.
		British officials had first penetrated the area in the 1880s, and after 1896 protection was extended to northern areas whose trade with the coast had been controlled by Asante.
		With the north under British control, the three territories of the Gold Coast--the Colony (the coastal regions), Asante, and the Northern Territories--became, for all practical purposes, a single political unit, or crown colony, known as "the dependency" or simply as the Gold Coast.
	countrystudies.us /ghana/8.htm (583 words)

	British Empire: The Map Room: Africa: Gold Coast
		Again, the British were initially reluctant to take over yet more control in the area, but felt morally obliged to support their Fanti allies on the coast who would be crushed by any British withdrawal.
		In 1874 the settlements on the Gold Coast and Lagos were created as a separate crown colony, this arrangement lasted until 1886 when Lagos was itself separated from the Gold Coast administration.
		In 1946, British Togoland, the Ashanti protectorate, and the Fante protectorate were merged with the Gold Coast to create one colony.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/goldcoast.htm (1302 words)

	FACT SHEET: The Republic of Ghana at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The history of the Gold Coast before the last quarter of the 15th century is derived primarily from oral tradition that refers to migrations from the ancient kingdoms of the western Sudan, the area of Mauritania and Mali.
		The Gold Coast was renamed Ghana upon independence in 1957 because of indications that present-day inhabitants descended from migrants who moved south from the ancient kingdom of Ghana.
		British Togoland, the fourth territorial element eventually to form the nation, was part of a former German colony administered by the United Kingdom from Accra as a League of Nations mandate after 1922.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /deploy/info/africa/ghana/index.shtml (1136 words)

	Welcome to the Republic of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In due course, however, slaves replaced gold as the most lucrative trade along the coast, with the European slave buyers using the forts and adjoining buildings for their own accommodation and protection, as well as for storing the goods, mainly guns and gunpowder, which they would barter for slaves.
		The Gold Coast was regarded as the showpiece of Britain's colonies: the richest, the best educated, the first to have an elected majority in the legislature and with the best organized native authorities.
		The Gold Coast riots in 1948, which marked the start of the people's agitation for independence, were instrumental in changing British policy and drove home the point that colonialism had no future.
	www.ghana.gov.gh /visiting/ghana/history.php (1781 words)

	The British Empire
		Movements for the end of slavery came to fruition in British colonial possessions long before the similar movement in the United States; the trade was abolished in 1807 and slavery itself in Britain's dominions in 1833.
		Fighting between the British and French colonies in North America was endemic in the first half of the 18th century, but the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War (known as the French and Indian War in North America), left Britain dominant in Canada.
		The loss of Britain's 13 American colonies in 1776-83 was compensated by new settlements in Australia from 1788 and by the spectacular growth of Upper Canada (now Ontario) after the emigration of loyalists from what had become the United States.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/britishempire.html (1754 words)

	Gold Coast (British colony) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gold had long been a name for the used by Europeans due to the large resources to be found in the area.
		The colony was steadily expanded by wars local tribes the Ashanti Confederacy and other countries which hand colonies in the region.
		In 1946 British Togoland the Ashanti protectorate and the Fante were merged with the Gold Coast into colony usually referred to as the Gold In 1957 the colony became the independent state Ghana.
	www.freeglossary.com /Gold_Coast_(British_colony) (319 words)

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		The Gold Coast pavilion was the only one at Wembley designed by a woman—Decima Moore, a famous 19th century stage actress who was married to the governor of the Gold Coast.
		Other items of note in the pavilion included an executioner's hat made of deerskin and decorated with gold and deer's tails; a collection of ornate scales for weighing gold dust (the currency of choice of the Ashanti in the days before "progress"); and a large display of mineral wealth including gold, diamonds and manganese.
		Although agricultural exhibits are rarely gripping stuff, the Gold Coast Pavilion showed in miniature the peasant proprietor system developed over the years, with the work divided democratically.
	members.lycos.co.uk /bee1924/goldcoas.html (270 words)

	Ghana - Britain and the Gold Coast: The Early Years
		Two major factors laid the foundations of British rule and the eventual establishment of a colony on the Gold Coast: British reaction to the Asante wars and the resulting instability and disruption of trade, and Britain's increasing preoccupation with the suppression and elimination of the slave trade.
		Local British, Dutch, and Danish authorities were all forced to come to terms with Asante, and in 1817 the African Company of Merchants signed a treaty of friendship that recognized Asante claims to sovereignty over large areas of the coast and its peoples.
		When the British government allowed control of the Gold Coast settlements to revert to the British African Company of Merchants in the late 1820s, relations with Asante were still problematic.
	countrystudies.us /ghana/7.htm (1220 words)

	Colonial History of Marine Fishing and Property Rights in Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first British ship reached the shores of what is now Ghana in 1553, opening a long history between England and that part of the world.
		The British Colony at Cape Coast was eventually established in 1874 by way of the local judicial system.
		For those Africans living near the castle, the British court system was less complicated and less expensive than the court of the chiefs, and for this reason, British law caught on quickly among the coastal Fanti.
	globetrotter.berkeley.edu /macarthur/marine/papers/walker-2.html (563 words)

	former colonies
		These were all colonies, most of which were renamed after their independence.
		Gold Coast - A British colony since 1874, it became independent as Ghana in 1957.
		The colonies of Vancouver Island, New Caledonia, Upper Canada and Lower Canada (later, the Province of Canada), Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, plus the territory of Rupert's Land, spent much time reorganizing themselves into various patterns; they all eventually became part of Canada.
	www.findthelinks.com /history/former_colonies.htm (829 words)

	Cape Coast - Ghana - Mark Moxon, Travel Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cape Coast, however, remained an English fort throughout the war, became the centre of English administration of the Gold Coast until the capital moved to Accra in 1877, and only changed hands again at Ghana's independence in 1957.
		The fort went to seed a bit under British rule, especially after the capital was moved to Accra, and by 1960 it was home only to the town's main post office, the law courts, the port's customs house, and a prison in one wing of the fort.
		In Cape Coast Castle there are two turrets on opposite ends of the battlements that look out directly at the two other forts; this is because the two smaller forts functioned as look-out posts that could signal the main castle in case of invasion from the sea.
	www.moxon.net /ghana/cape_coast.html (2647 words)

	Kofi Annan - Center of the Storm. Who Does What? Trusteeship Council \| PBS
		The Trusteeship Council was established to administer former colonies held by Axis powers during World War II or that had formerly been under the oversight of the League of Nations.
		Some had hoped that the decolonization of other colonies would be placed under the trusteeship system, but this never happened.
		British Togoland became the first trust territory to gain independence when it combined with the Gold Coast, a British colony, to form Ghana.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/un/who/trust.html (462 words)

	Gold Coast: British Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The British ruled the Gold Coast from 1874 till 1957 when the natives fought for and gained their independence.
		Initially, the British tried to rule the natives by themselves but by 1916 under the rule of the Governor, Sir Hugh Clifford, they had decided to include some educated Africans.
		The Gold Coast only gained her independence after political parties which were based in the Gold Coast were formed.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~abaksmat/colonial.htm (333 words)

	Ghana - Post Report - e Diplomat
		When the Gold Coast became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain its independence in 1957, the name was changed to Ghana, after an ancient African empire (700–1200 B.C.E.) along the Niger River.
		The University of Ghana at Legon (near Accra), the University of Cape Coast in the Central Region, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi are well-established and have broad, comprehensive curricula (though UCC emphasizes training secondary teachers and KNUST emphasizes science and technical education).
		Formerly a fishing village, it became the capital of the Gold Coast in 1877 and remained the capital after Ghana's independence in 1957.
	www.ediplomat.com /np/post_reports/pr_gh.htm (11736 words)

	Phoenician Gold Mines of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
		Gold was, according to biblical and secular writings, the principal export of Ophir.
		In any event, the gold for export awaited him, and had not to be obtained and afterwards taken down to the coast after his arrival.
		For the gold of Ophir was known to the Idumeans before the time of David, and the Book of Paralipomenon (the Chronicles) records the fact that this prince received a portion of it.
	phoenicia.org /zimbabwe.html (5459 words)

	The Sun Never Set on the British Empire
		In 1909 the British Empire encompassed 20% of the land area of the Earth and 23% of its population.
		The Union of South Africa was formed from the British colonies of the Natal and the Cape Colony, together with the subjugated Boer Republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.
		The flag of the Union was, significantly, an archaizing Dutch flag, with an orange instead of a red stripe, and the flag of Britain, the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal on the middle stripe.
	www.friesian.com /british.htm (6479 words)

	HolidayCity Flash Travel Article - The Perth Royal Mint - a Golden Legacy
		Western Australia was, and remains, a formidable land, with its expanses of rocky desert and never-ending coast.
		The numbers only began to grow significantly in the late 1890s, when the first gold strike in that inhospitable landscape precipitated a gold rush and brought settlers whose frenzied hopes and determination were barely enough to conquer the land.
		By 1931, when the use of gold coins was ended, the Perth Mint had issued over 106 million British sovereigns and nearly 735,000 half-sovereigns, identical to the coinage produced by other Royal Mints around the world.
	www.holidaycityflash.com /australia/perth_goldmint1.htm (641 words)

	gold coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gold Coast Accommodation There's a wide variety of accommodation options available on the Gold...
		The Gold Coast is located in the South-east corner of Queensland, Australia.
		The Gold Coast was formed in 1821 when the British government took over...
	www.factsaboutgold.info /gold-coast.aspx (250 words)

	NiiCa Republic Of Ghana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The story of the Gold Coast’s journey to freedom is an epic one; and, for centuries, its outcome seemed unpredictable.
		The moral authority of the Gold Coast Government to make such a request had been reconfirmed by the elections, which had been held the previous month, in July 1956.
		The Gold Coast had been claimed as a British colony in 1850, six years after the signing, at Cape Coast in 1844, of the bond between Britain and the coastal chiefs, which introduced the principles of British law and justice.
	www.niica.on.ca /ghana/GoldCoastRoad.aspx (1485 words)

	FAMILY AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR IN URBAN TOGO
		After the war, the eastern part of Togoland was placed under the control of a French administration and the western part was attributed to the Gold Coast, a British colony by the League of Nations.
		In May 1956 a United Nations-supervised plebiscite voted in support of incorporating the western part of Togoland to the British Gold Coast; this territory became the Republic of Ghana in 1957.
		The British and especially the French built on the German infrastructure after the Germans lost their colony in the First World War.
	www.uaps.org /recherche/family.htm (4688 words)

	Nootka Sound Hiking Tours Nootka Island, Vancouver Island West Coast Trail,
		This is one of the more remote, less traveled west coast hiking destination with a fabulous assortment of mammal, bird and marine wildlife, important historical significance and many outstanding scenic rewards.
		Nootka Sound and the community of Gold River received tremendous media coverage worldwide in July 2001 when Luna the Killer Whale became a media sensation when he turned up in Nootka Sound after being separated from his pod in Puget Sound in Washington.
		The adjacent lighthouse is one of the few remaining manned lighthouses and one of the most stunning on the B.C. coast.
	www.westcanadatours.com /hiking/west_coast.shtml (808 words)

	George Christian James: Pioneer in Africa
		His remarkable life and contribution to the Gold Coast of Ghana was highlighted in a paper presented by Margaret Rouse-Jones at a conference on Henry Sylvestre-Williams and Pan-Africanism: A Retrospection and Projection, organized by the University of the West Indies, and Oberlin College, Ohio in January 2001.
		Among his other outstanding achievements in the Gold Coast was the prominent role he played in the opening up of the Ashanti region to legal practitioners.
		In that position he looked after the well being of Liberian citizens in the Gold Coast many of whom were brought in as indentured servants or as government employees in the Sanitary Department.
	www.thedominican.net /articles/christian.htm (710 words)

	Ghana
		Ghana was the first colony in sub-saharan Africa to gain its independence, on 6th March 1957, under the rule of Kwane N’Krumah.
		It was extended to include part of the former German colony of Togoland at the end of World War I in 1919.
		Following the elections won by Dr Krame Nkrumah and his Party in the early 1950's, the Gold Coast and British Togoland became in 1957 the independent state of Ghana.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002739/AfricaSite/LMCountryGhana.htm (202 words)

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		In 1471, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail to the coast of Ghana.
		The British gained the upper hand and took control of the Gold Coast.
		Through the struggles of some politicians, the Gold Coast gained independence in 1957 and it was renamed GHANA after the ancient Ghana Empire.
	www.okyeman.com /history.htm (294 words)

	Ghana
		The history of the Gold Coast before 15th century is based on oral traditions recorded early in this century.
		In 1821, the British Government took control of the British forts on the Gold Coast.
		In December 1946, British Togoland became a United Nations Trust territory, and in 1957, the United Nations agreed that the territory would become part of Ghana when the Gold Coast achieved independence.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Ghana.html (398 words)

	PMI Ventures LTD. (TSXV: PMV): Follow-Up No 2
		Sefwi Gold Belt, lying 30 kilometers to the west, hosts three producing gold mines with historic production of about 5 million ounces of gold, and current reported gold resources to the order of 12 million ounces.
		The Goknet land holdings that are the subject of the letter of agreement contain numerous historical gold showings and gold anomalies that have been identified by prospecting, trenching and limited shallow drilling by earlier exploration programs.
		These data suggest that deep diamond drilling in the areas of the previously obtained high grade (15 to 50 g/t) but generally narrow, gold intersections, and other untested high gold in soil and geophysical anomalies, may outline deep seated bodies with potentially high grades and considerable dip extensions.
	news.goldseek.com /ZihlmannInvest/1054074787.php (1233 words)

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