**Exhibit 31.1**

 

CERTIFICATION

Pursuant to Section 302 of theSarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

 

I, ROBERT R. MCEWEN, certify that:

 

1.               I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of US Gold Canadian AcquisitionCorporation (The “Company”) for the quarter ended September 30, 2007;

 

2.               Basedon my knowledge, this Report does not contain any untrue statement of amaterial fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statementsmade, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, notmisleading with respect to the period covered by this Report;

 

3.               Basedon my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial informationincluded in this Report, fairly present in all material respects the financialcondition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company as of, and for,the periods presented in this Report;

 

4.               TheCompany’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishingand maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange ActRules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting(as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the Company andhave:

 

## ***a.***              Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused suchdisclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, toensure that material information relating to the Company, including itsconsolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities,particularly during the period in which this Report is being prepared;

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## ***b.***              Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused suchinternal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision,to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reportingand the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordancewith generally accepted accounting principles;

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## ***c.***               Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls andprocedures and presented in this Report our conclusions about the effectivenessof the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period coveredby this Report based on such evaluation; and

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## ***d.***              Disclosed in this Report any change in the Company’s internal controlover financial reporting that occurred during the Company’s most recent fiscalquarter (the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, theCompany’s internal control over financial reporting; and

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*e.**               The Company’s othercertifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluationof internal control over financial reporting, to the Company’s auditors and theaudit committee of the Company’s board of directors (or persons performing theequivalent functions):*

 

## ***f.***                  All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design oroperation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonablylikely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarizeand report financial information; and

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## ***g.***              Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or otheremployees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal control overfinancial reporting.

 

 

Dated: November 14, 2007

 
|   | /s/ Robert R. McEwen              |   |
|--------|-----------------------------------|--------|
|   | Robert R. McEwen, Chief Executive |
|   | Officer and Chairman              |

 

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