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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet (December 23, 1874 Sangerville, Maine - July 7, 1943 Nassau, Bahamas) was an American-born British Canadian gold-mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He earned his fortune in Canada and moved to the Bahamas in the 1930s for tax purposes. He was murdered in 1943 under notorious circumstances in the Bahamas. The cause of his death and the details surrounding it have never been entirely determined, and have been the subject of several books and four films. Oakes was born in Sangerville, Maine; his father was a prosperous lawyer. He graduated from Bowdoin College[1] in 1896 and then spent two years at the Syracuse University Medical School.[2] However, in 1898, he left medical school before graduation and made his way to Alaska at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush in hopes of making his fortune as a prospector. For the next 15 years, he sought gold around the world, including California and Australia, before finally striking it at Kirkland Lake in Northern Ontario, Canada, in 1912. This mine is located in rocky wilderness about 600 km north of Toronto, Ontario, near the province's border with the province of Quebec.

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