Vancouver, BC

April 8th

Posted at 10 PM

My dear Mother,

Just a hurried line to say we made Vancouver O.K. & are now all entrained at Depot waiting to pull out at 10 p.m.

We had a beautiful passage over, the sun came out & it was fine & warm on the deck. We got in at 7 p.m. – had a good supper on board at 6 p.m. I must say we got a splendid send-off from Victoria. The march down to the boat is a day I'll never forget; I hadn't much of a chance of having many words with Pa & Dugald. I was rather rattled with all the Pems down in force, I must say it was awfully

BC Archives, MS-2685 Box 17 File 3 / OLIVER, William Edgar, 1867–1920. Victoria; lawyer. / Erroll P. Gillespie, correspondence outward, 1917–1919.