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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 