Frederick Tregillus Letters from the Cariboo Boys
Letters to Frederick James Tregillus from Barkerville men who served in the First World War: Joseph Callanan, J.H. Ellis, George Freeman Killam, George Gilchrest, R. Norris, Mr. and Mrs. Nowosky, John Petterson, Ernest Seeley, N.W. Thompson, George Turner, and John Benjamin Westover. Learn more.
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BC Archives MS-0426
*All transcriptions are provided by volunteers, and the accuracy of the transcriptions is not guaranteed. Please be sure to verify the information by viewing the image record, or visiting the BC Archives in person.
BC Archives MS-0426
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and although it is much better than the mud it is bad enough it will sure be fierce when the frost goes out but there is no sign of a thaw yet so there is no use bidding the devil good morning till you meet him It is sure an awfull looking country here nothing but a big rolling open country with the remnants of towns & villages scattered here & there all over one would hardly think that it ever was a settled farming community nothing but old torn up trenches & shell holes and deep dugouts It has been hard driving to get Fritz out of them
BC Archives, MS-0426 Box 1 File 6 / TREGILLUS, Frederick James, 1862 - 1962. Barkerville, miner. / Correspondence from John Benjamin Westover, 1916 - 1917.
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