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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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but it won't be very long now till we will be back among them again what one miss most is some good old McDonalds Chewing Lob for when we are out at night we can't smoke at all its then that a good old chew tastes good but it is impossible to get any tobacco over here that is fit to chew Well Billy I want you to remmber us to all the people around and give the ladies & children our warmest thanks for their good work done for us out here the people of Barkerville, Stanley & Quesnell sure have done lots for us fellows and we certainly do appreciate it that is all we can do till we get back again

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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