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Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys

Letters to Frederick James Tregillus from Barkerville men who served in the First World War: Joseph Callanan, J.H. Ellis, George Freeman Killam, George Gilchrest, R. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Nowosky, John Petterson, Ernest Seeley, N.W. Thompson, George Turner, and John Benjamin Westover. Learn more.

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BC Archives MS-0426

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plan from Wilson & W. S. they as a people showed that they know how to fight to the bitter end & when a war once starts it is best to carry on to a compleet victory. Please say in your next if the 25$ & letter telling of my sending it via Pay M reached you. Give my regards to all my old friends up there not forgetting the Kiddies. I hope your Quartz Claim is proving up well or that you have been able to put a deal through for it. Living must be very high there now. My sisters who are good houskeepers & also keep a/cs say it costs 3 times as much all round to live in England now as it did in 1914 Jan Feb & March. Please give my respects to Mrs. Tregillus also Frank Stevens wished to be remembered to you

I am Yours very truly Ernest Seeley

BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 5 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from Ernest Seeley, 1915 - 1919.

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