Ah Baw
As part of the Chinese Historical Wrongs Legacy Initiative, we’ve digitized a small selection of inquests and inquiries from 1872 to 1934, found in series GR-0431. These were chosen to reflect the experiences of early Chinese immigrants to B.C. – their living and working conditions, and their unfortunate accidental or unusual deaths. They range from a woman working in a brothel in Barkerville who died of natural causes to three sawmill workers who died from malnutrition. Learn more.
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[CORONER]
Inquisition.
Wellington
Wellington District Vancouver Island B.C.
An Inquisition indented taken at Wellington British Columbia, the 14th day of June in the 43rd year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, before me, Warner Reese Spalding, gentleman, one of the Coroners for our Lady the Queen, for the District aforesaid, upon the view of the bodies of James Dolan and Ah Baw then and there and within the jurisdiction of the said Coroner, lying dead, upon the oaths of Moses Webb, foreman, Richard Hawkins, William Noye, William Hodges, Joseph Hoskin, Phillip Parsons Jurors
good and lawful men of Wellington aforesaid, in the District, who being now here sworn and charged to enquire, on the part of our Lady the Queen, when, where, how, and after what manner, the said James Dolan, & Ah Baw came to his death, do say upon their oath, that James Dolan
BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 3 File 1 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.