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1897: Fictitious but accurate BC CPE, i.e. w/lotsa CJ

Summary by Chinook Jargon
Many thanks to reader Alex Code for spotting this interesting old article… Be warned, it’s as racist as they came in 1890’s British Columbia. It’s also surely a political attack on Joseph Hunter MPP (equivalent to today’s MLA, yeah?), probably for his having dammed Quesnel Lake in 1896, enabling miners — many of whom were Chinese — to prospect successfully in the bed of the South Fork River.  The real victim (image credit: Land without Limits) I…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Saturday, December 13, 2025.
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