Lee Gee and Young Gow
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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Cumberland Feby 27/19
That we your jury empanelled to inquire into the cause of the death of Lee Gee and Young Gow, find by evidence, addressed before us, that the said Lee Gee and Young Gow, on the 24th and 25th day of February, nineteen hundred and nineteen (1919) at a certain place is known as no 4 yard, situated near Cumberland BC, came to their deaths as the result of a railway collision, and where the jury return a verdict of accidental death, we wish to add the following writer that we suggest in future that locomotives should proceed in front of passenger coaches. Wm Henderson Foreman Edward H Jones, JJ Harwood George Edward Willis Charles Reynolds Robert Dunn Webster, Joseph Shaw Coroner