passenger list to canada for gold rush

[smayne]

can anyone help in tracing my ggrandfather on a passenger list or any info, leaving england to go to canada , he went there for the gold rush, not sure what year but was home on the census for 1901.  his name was william henry mayne , from nottingham, he went alone, leaving his family behind. born abt 1870 in devon. many thanks smayne .

[geniecolgan]

Hi,

there is a Wm. H. Mayne arriving 4 Apr 1900 on the Tunisian, Liverpool to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

His age was 32 and he was a shoemaker.

If he was back in England for the 1901 census, he gave up looking for gold pretty quickly   

[smayne]

thanks for reply, i had seen that entry on find mypast, but cant tell if it was my relative, occupation is difficult to tell, as he did several things. it does seem strange if it was as it was a long way to go and as you said he gave up quick. not sure if there is anything else to search , there doesnt seem to be an entry for a return, one of those mysteries , thankyou anyway.

[geniecolgan]

I did have a quick look for his return trip but didn't see him.
Most curious 

[smayne]

thankyou . as i dont know what year he went this makes it harder i guess to find
 i can only go by the years he was on the census 1891 and 1901 , so somewhere in between.  he may have used a variation on his name, as the census either call him henry mayne or william mayne. or both. will keep trying to look though.

[Lydart]

The Cariboo gold rush got under way in1860; the Klondike rush in 1897.

So it would seem he went for the Klondike !   Maybe he never got there ?  It was a hard, hard trek up snow covered passes, with prospectors having to carry everything they needed on their backs ... food, tents, tools ... and many never made it. 

[smayne]

thats sounds quite possible, cant imagine him doing that, he looked rather a frail man on photos . thanks for the thought.