Vancouver Coal Company
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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89/ To Mr John {?Rohm]. If there had been twenty shafts [?] their lives might have been lost. Had the second shaft been a mile away they might have been n[?] off. Suppose a [?Thyl] had been put down at the end of the tent as it was extended another shaft would have when put down.
To Mr Young Had the drive from the engine house been [?] instead of timber it would have been safer
To Mry Hugo. I fit all the coal from the faces and [?latter] [?] to the enforcer would lessen the danger. Shovelling is nearly the same as widdling for raising dust. You can see the dust sparkle in your lamp in an airway Taken upon oath and acknowledged before me this 24th day of June on 1887} John Bryden W Wymond Walkem Cormer