Ah Ping
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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Ah Chung sworn in Chinese form
Lee Why interpreter
Ah Ping run car Ah Chung pick Ah Ping went out to get false [illegible] to go in together came in and cut cap Ah Ping run the car a little farther he Ah Chung stop to put up a post.
Ah Chung in the face Ah Ping one set back Ah Chung see cap fall over Ah Ping holla and started to run the drift was full of dirt.
By coroner: was the ground properly timbered
About 3ft 6 inch apart
By Juror: Had Ah Ping just brought car in
Some time before
BC Archives, GR-0431 Box 2 File 1 / BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. / Inquisitions / inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.