Work and whisky comprised the cycle of life for many loggers on the coast of British Columbia in the first decade of the twentieth century. Following is one of my early magazine pieces, published in the magazine section of the Vancouver Sun, May 5, 1951. The year was 1906. “As you walk down the […]
Tag: Accidents
Fatal blast dampens Compact meeting
A reform newspaper unleashes its most vitriolic prose in a report of a meeting by supporters of Upper Canada’s Family Compact. The meeting, however, comes to a shattering end. From the Hamilton Free Press, April 12, 1832, reprinted in the Brockville Recorder, April 26. We understand a meeting was called at the Village of Victoria, […]
God’s profaners suffer fatal accidents
There would have been fewer fatal accidents in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1825 if more people devoted Sunday to worship and rest, as commanded by the “highest authority,” according to the York (now Toronto) Upper Canada Gazette, the voice of colonial authority and the notorious Family Company. The Gazette claimed that two-thirds of the colony’s […]