Innholdsfortegnelse for 53.2 Summer 2020 i British Columbia History

Looking for 7th Canadian Cavalry Field Ambulance Descendants I would like to submit a request subsequent to the article, “From Private to Patient: One Soldier’s Story,” written about my grandfather Ralph Forrester, that was published in your Winter 2019 edition of British Columbia History. Firstly, I would like to thank Mr. Bruce Davies, curator of the Craigdarroch Castle, for his interest in my grandfather’s story and for writing this article. I have done extensive research work on my grandfather’s life including a visit to the First World War battlefield in France where he was injured, but as anyone looking into the past realizes, the more you learn, the more you want to know. I am particularly interested in being in touch with anyone else who may have a relative who…

“Dr.” Snepper objected strenuously, but Judge Grant solved the situation with the remark, “Of course, he pared corns.”1 Snepper was accused of being a podiatrist, a foot specialist not a medical doctor in an often farcical, yet fundamentally serious inquiry into medical malpractice that took place over four spring days in Vancouver in 1913.2 The Medical Association of British Columbia had made application for the inquiry, exercising its powers under the Medical Act. At issue was the conduct of four Vancouver medical doctors associated with the British Columbia Hospital Association. The Honourable David Grant, then junior judge in the Vancouver County Court, was assigned the case.3 Despite its name, the British Columbia Hospital Association (BCHA) was not a government-sanctioned body, but rather a private business operated out of a set…

Pluck, Luck & Grit: Charles A. Bayley in Colonial British Columbia (1851-1869) by Jim McDowell (Richmond: Jem Publications, 2018) Charles Bayley emigrated from England to Vancouver Island in 1850 to work for the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). Less than a year after he arrived in Victoria, Bayley was appointed schoolmaster of the HBC school for boys and in 1853 was transferred to the school in Nanaimo. Bayley set his sights on new opportunities and opened a hotel in Victoria on the eve of the 1858 gold rush, failed at farming, became a politician, and ran a pack train to the Leech River gold rush. Read it for: a cross-section of Vancouver Island narratives during the HBC era including settler-colonialism, education, gold rushes and politics. Don’t miss the author’s candid reflections…

What if your city mascot disappeared for ten years, travelled the world unescorted, then turned up in a Scottish pub, clad in a kilt and modified to serve as a beer tap? It happened in Prince George in the 1960s and 1970s, although the globetrotting mascot in question is actually a replica of the real thing: a four-foot-tall, 150-pound, metal version of the city’s iconic Mr. PG, built by the local Lions Club as a mini mascot of its own. “The Rotary Club made the first [official] Mr. PG mascot in 1960, and the Lions Club wanted to do something similar, to make a smaller version and have him travel to different events and clubs with them,” says Alyssa Leier, Curator at The Exploration Place Museum and Science Centre in…

The longevity of what we do as historians and the power of technology have been top of mind for me these days. Recently, I received an email from Seattle researcher Phil Goldenman wondering where he might obtain the endnotes from “The Hudson’s Bay Company and Kettle Falls Salmon,” an article by Chris Bogan published in the Fall 1996 edition of the BC Historical News (now British Columbia History). The back issues of the magazine are available to researchers around the world through our partnership with UBC Library and their digital Open Collections. Chris Bogan was the 1995 winner of the scholarship essay prize. The essay was condensed for publication in 1996 and contains a note that any researcher who wishes for “a copy of the original (with its 109 footnotes)…

British Columbia Hospital Association (BCHA) Ada Elizabeth Berry—head nurse at BCHA Dr. Samuel Sigfried Blumberger — doctor at BCHA Agnes Mary Coxhill — wife of Snepper, later wife of Samuel Cummings Charles Will Craig — lawyer Dr. Henry B. Ford — doctor at BCHA Dr. Arthur Sterling Murphy — doctor at BCHA Henry Moses Snepper — manager of BCHA Dr. Walter Clifford Whitteker — doctor at BCHA BC College of Physicians and Surgeons Dr. Saul Bonnell — president of the BC College of Physicians and Surgeons Honourable David Grant — junior judge in the Vancouver county court John K. Kennedy — lawyer Dr. Arthur Percival Proctor — BC College of Physicians and Surgeons…

Dr. Louise Aall: Sixty Years of Healing in Africa by Alan Twigg (Ronsdale Press: Vancouver, 2019) $21.95 Gold in British Columbia: Discovery to Confederation by Marie Elliott (Ronsdale Press: Vancouver, 2019) $24.95 In Nature’s Realm: Early Naturalists Explore Vancouver Island by Michael Layland (Victoria: TouchWood Editions, 2019) $45 Not Extinct: Keeping the Sinixt Way by Marilyn James and Taress Alexis (Maa Press: Nelson, 2018) $30.00 Once Well Beloved: Remembering A British Columbia Great War Sacrifice by Michael Sasges (Royal BC Museum: Victoria, 2019) $17.95 Riding the Continent: Hamilton Mack Laing edited by Trevor Hughes (Ronsdale Press: Vancouver, 2019) $19.95 Service on the Skeena by Geoff Mynett (Ronsdale Press: Vancouver, 2019) $21.95 SS Princess Sophia: Those Who Perished by Judy Thompson and David R. Leverton (Maritime Museum of BC, Victoria) $19.95…

A hundred years ago the Gothic Revival tenet was still alive in architectural circles for church design. In November, 1922, a new Knox Presbyterian Church, with basement, vestry, balcony, bell tower, entrance lobby, and office was opened at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Brunswick Street in downtown Prince George. The site was chosen to serve as a focal point due to population shifts into the City of Prince George from the earlier communities of South Fort George and Central Fort George. The heritage value of this building rests as the only remaining Gothic Revival design in the city. It is also one of two known structures remaining which were designed by British Architect Henry Wilson, who had established an office in South Fort George in 1913. His practice in…

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