Lee Sam
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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The wheel. Then I joined the boat I was goven to understand that I had nothing to do with navigating the boat.
To the [?]. I have a [?] certificate. Have been 2 years on the route. We were within 5 or 600 yards of Cadbro Point. The Enterprise had [rounded?] the point. The could have gone within 70 yards of the beech [beach]. I dont think the Rithet was too close in shore. I never thought the enterprise intended to cross our bows. I thought it was the tide. I don't think there was any mistake in the whistles.
To the [?]. The tide whirls round at that point and the [?] has [fat?] like effect in it. I have seen the Rithet take heavy sheers coming up there with a strong flood tide.
I was disobeying orders in going with the pilot house. The master and quartermaster were the only two men who steered.
Laughlain McLean (signature)
The above depositions of Edward [?], Donald, Henry J. Bishop, Jacob Lenz, Stewart Keenan, Robert Nard and Laughlain McLean were severally takem upon oath and acknowledges at the place first above mentioned on the seventh day of August 1885 before me.
Armin Pharson (signature)