Canada
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Hugh Monroe
By Jim Helvey, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53005166 South of the Canadian border, in the Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park, stands the imposing feature that is Rising Wolf Mountain. The author James Willard Schultz named the mountain in honour of his friend Hugh Monroe, a former Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) and American Fur Company Continue reading
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An Ingrain Swindler
As reported in The Victoria Daily Chronicle, Thursday, 24 September 1863. ‘An Ingrain Swindler– The Police are after a man who lately served a term of imprisonment at New Westminster for swindling Billy Ballou, the ex-Expressman, out of $35, about one year and a-half ago by representing that a certain bag contained gold dust when Continue reading
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The 1915 Vancouver Bridge Fires
By Matthews, James Skitt, Major (1878-1970) – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1612556 Shortly before 4 a.m. on Thursday, 29 April 1915, a watchman working for the Pacific Box Company noticed smoke rising from the Connaught Bridge, spanning False Creek, Vancouver. The Connaught Bridge, a four-lane, 1,247 metres (4,091 ft) long medium-level steel bridge, was opened to traffic Continue reading
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First World War Veteran Killed in Wolf Attack?
When the First World War broke out, Carl Lynn enlisted in the Canadian army at North Battleford, Saskatchewan. He served as a sniper for four years in the trenches of the Western Front. After returning from Europe, Lynn worked as a fur trapper in northern Saskatchewan. It was ‘in the hinterland of Saskatchewan’where he lost Continue reading
Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 