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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

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France Apr 22/17

Friend Billy

I take the greatest pleasure in writing you these few lines in answer to your always looked for & very interesting letter and to let you know that I am still lucky enough to be on top yet and in good health & going strong yet. this is certainly the worst climate a white man ever got into it has been raining or snowing all the time [illegible] well say there never was just as much mud anywhere as there is here I got your letter some time ago but haven't had an opportunity to answer it till tonight. Things have been pretty warm around the neck of the

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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