Chinaman (Name Unknown)
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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Province of British Columbia New Westminster District
To wit
Information of witnesses severally taken and acknowledged on the behalf of our Sovereign Lady the Queen before me, Charles Newland Trew, Coroner for the Said district touching the death of a Chinaman name unknown. At the Donnelly House on the 2nd day of September in the year of our Lord 1875 on an inquisition then and there taken on view of the body of the said Chinaman there lying dead at a point two miles above the said house.
BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 1 File 6 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.