Drawing on firsthand accounts, this paper will explore the experience and response of Australian and New Zealand miners to the Canadian administration of the Klondike Goldfields (1897-99).  The majority of the Australasian cohort of over 700 were experienced miners, knowledgeable as to best practice goldfield management and with a deeply ingrained sense of fair play for miners.  Given that Canada was a British Dominion, their expectation was the Klondike would be run along familiar lines.  However, what they found instead were disadvantageous mining regulations long since abandoned or modified back home in combination with an authoritarian administration and an openly corrupt bureaucracy, including members of the Northwest Mounted Police. Protests were made, including an unsuccessful attempt to organise a Miners Association to represent concerns to Canadian authorities.  The words "Eureka Stockade" were muttered, if quietly.  Some improvements were achieved with changes to some mining regulations and the outing of corrupt practices, but the core issue of an accountable administration could not be addressed. This was chiefly because the Canadian goldfield, managed from distant Ottawa, was the product of different circumstances to those which, over some fifty years, had created the practices found on Australasian goldfields in the 1890s.