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Abstract 150 years ago, the carefully-planned Presbyterian settlement of Dunedin was torn apart by the discovery that nearly every stream in Otago was laden with gold. The population exploded, adding the accents of Greece, Tipperary, Victoria, California, Guangdong and the King Country to the Scots burr which had been predominant. Almost immediately a myth of identity emerged, typified by goldfields balladeer Charles Thatcher’s ‘Old Identity and New Iniquity’ and boosted by the histrionics of a press enamoured of the romanticised machinations of the Otago goldfields ‘digger’. This popular mythology conflates the imagery of California, Victoria and early Gabriel’s Gully to perpetuate stories of desperate, gold-mad miners swarming across the province fighting, drinking and whoring away sparse winnings in a vast and lawless land, where bodies float down the Clutha, diggers battle corrupt police and vast fortunes are won and lost. This thesis seeks to construct a de-mythologised account of the rush for Central Otago gold, examining the engineering processes, social dynamics and communal relationships implicit in the development of claims, the construction of goldfields structures, the growth of towns and the emergence of financial networks. This explains and reveals the social, technological and economic developments of the gold rush that wrought a profound change on the Otago landscape and to New Zealand’s history. Focussing on the New Zealand Department of Conservation’s historic reserve at Bendigo as an exemplary site, this thesis focuses on the people of the goldfields who left traces of themselves in archives, letters, newspapers, court records and in the heritage landscape to explain their mining, commercial and family lives, and concludes by exploring the remnants of their existence in the relic-strewn ghost-town. By elucidating the depth and breadth of relationships, processes and lives of the residents, miners and merchants, I refute the pervasive myth of innocent simplicity around the era to replace it with a surprisingly complex reality. This complexity is revealed in the new conclusions I draw around the myriad processes behind identity formation, rush events, water race construction, quartz mine development and labour relations, merchant finances and heritage remnants.

In this dissertation the author has attempted to assemble all the bits of information extant in the county. Much of it comes from primary sources and secondary accounts. To this has been added a smaller amount of information gathered by personal interview with reliable individuals; principally teachers, who have been in the teaching service for many years and who were connected with the events described. While no history can be called complete, the information here assembled can be the basis for those who wish to continue a history of the county schools, in years to come. The interest in Rush County history which has been recently renewed by the revival of the Rush County Historical Society is contemporaneous with the writing of this "History of Education in Rush County."

The A.J. Goddard, a steamboat built for the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898, wrecked in 1901 on Lake Laberge, Yukon Territory, where it lay undisturbed until its rediscovery in 2008 by the Yukon River Survey Project, directed by John Pollack. The complete and undisturbed nature of the wreck site, which is the only known site from this period to show such remarkable preservation, provides an unparalleled opportunity for studying the construction features of one of the Klondike steamboats and its associated material culture. The wreck of the A.J. Goddard is the only known surviving example of a small, prefabricated sternwheeler from the Yukon River's sternwheeler days. Due to the nature of its construction and building material, the A.J. Goddard represents a period of vast change in shipbuilding techniques, and is part of the fascinating juxtaposition between traditional wooden boats and a new, prefabricated industrial solution to boatbuilding. Work thus far has revealed that the A.J. Goddard possessed a simple design and construction, likely not one developed specifically for the Yukon River. It appears that the need to carry it over a mountain influenced its design more than the qualities of the Yukon River. Modifications were made over the course of its short career to make it more suitable, but its tragic end indicates that it was not a good choice for open-water navigation, though it admirably and successfully fulfilled its mission of serving throughout the gold rush. Though it was not ideally suited for the river and lakes environment where it was built, the quickness and ingenuity with which the vessel was constructed made it one of the few vessels, out of the thousands that set out for the Yukon in the summer of 1898, to actually make it to Dawson in time for the gold rush without being delayed by ice in the north, as so many were. Field seasons were conducted in 2009 and 2010 that focused on recording the boat's construction features and artifacts. Select artifacts were recovered for study and display in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory with the intention of creating an exhibit for the Yukon public.

The purpose of this research is to present the design and development of a routing system, custom developed for a fence manufacturing company in the continental US. The objective of the routing module of the system is to generate least cost routes from the home-center of the company to a set of delivery locations. Routes are evolved for a set of customer locations based on the sales order information and are frequently modified to include rush orders. These routes are such that each delivery is made within a given time window. Further, total truckload of all delivery locations over any particular route is not allowed to exceed the weight and volume capacities of the truck. The basic system modules such as user interface functions and database are designed using MS Access 2000. An interface module to retrieve data from existing ERP system of the company is developed to import pick-ticket information. A customer inter-distance maintenance module is designed with the abilities of a learning tool to reduce information retrieval time between the routing system and the GIS server. The Graphical User Interface with various screen forms and printable reports is developed along with the routing module to achieve complete system functionality and to provide an efficient logistics solution. This problem, formulated as a mixed-integer program, is of particular interest due to its generality to model problem scenarios in the production shop such as job-shop scheduling, material handling, etc. This problem is coded and solved for instances with different input parameters using AMPL/CPLEX. Results of test runs for the company data show that the solution time increases exponentially with the number of customers. Hence, a heuristic approach is developed and implemented. Sample runs with small instances are solved for optimality using AMPL/CPLEX and are used to compare the performance of the heuristics. However, test runs solved using the heuristics for larger instances are compared with the manual routing costs. The comparison shows a considerable cost savings for heuristic solutions. Further, a what-if analysis module is implemented to aid the dispatcher in choosing input parameters based on sensitivity analysis. In conclusion, further improvement of the routing system and future research directions are proposed.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2002. Graduate Programme in Ethnomusicology. / Typescript. Name on certificate page: Christopher James McDonald. Appendices include musical and lyric transcriptions. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 571-602). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ82808.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-66).

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1972.