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Chung Chi

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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BC Archives GR-0431

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Mr. Potts:- Your theory is that that lamp B did not cause the explosion? A: There was a probability of it causing the explosion. Of course you have got another lamp there too under the same circumstances.

By a Juror:- How far was that lamp "B" from the face? A: I should judge about 30 feet down the road from the working face.

Q: Had the clothes hanging there any signs of being disturbed? A: Not much; a slight deposit of dust on them. The only part of the mine where I found caking dust was there, on that car nearly loaded there; very fine dust over it, but with that exception there was nothing much disturbed. The lamp was further down the road than the car, about 20 feet perhaps further down.

Alynn da Fansos[?]

Taken upon oat and acknowledged this 14 day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and three before Mr James Abrams Coroner

BC Archives GR-0431 Box 6 File 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL Inquisitions/inquests conducted by coroners in British Columbia.

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