Ah Luck et al
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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1885 [CORONER] 30/85
INQUISITION. Canada Province of British Columbia District of Nanaimo
An inquisition indented taken at East Wellington British Columbia, the fourteenth day of October in the forty ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria, before me, William Wymond Walkem Doctor of Medicine, gentleman, one of the Coroners for our Lady the Queen, for the Province of British Columbia aforesaid, upon the view of the body of Ah Hem, Bon You, Leu Sing, Wah Shung and Ah Luck then and there and within the jurisdiction of the said Coroner, lying dead, upon the oaths of Joseph Ramsay, Frank [Haufesin?] Duncan McLeod, James Frame, W McTaggash [?], Allen Smilley and Samuel B. Roberts good and lawful men of the District of Nanaimo aforesaid, in the said Province of British Columbia, who being now here sworn and charged to enquire, on the part of our said Lady the Queen, when, where, how and after what manner, the said Ah Hem - Bon You, Leu Sing, Wah Shung and Ah Luck came to his their deaths do say upon their oath, that Ah Hem Bon You Leu Sing, Wah Shung and Ah Luck came to their death on the 13th day of October by a car falling down the
BC Archives GR-0431 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Box 4 File 1 Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.