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‘A Form of Society So Crude’: Death in The Cariboo
In this post, we are looking at five murders committed in the Cariboo region from 1862 to 1864. Starting with the killing of Averena Rice Aka: ’The Scotch Lassie’ After 1861, musicians, magicians, actors and touring minstrel troupes from San Francisco began to spend time in the Cariboo goldfields entertaining the ‘settlers so wild, Continue reading
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Death on Alfred Waddington’s Road: The 1864 Tsilhqot’in War
The steamer Emily Harris arrived in Victoria Harbour from Nanaimo on the morning of Thursday, May 12, 1864. Among the passengers on board the vessel were three men—Edwin Mosely, Peter Petersen and Philip Buckley, the only survivors from a party of seventeen men employed in building a road from Bute Inlet to Fort Alexandria and Continue reading
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Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 