Below are excerpts from just a few of the newspapers online that are held at the University of British Columbia Library (Archives):
Article about Hughie Cameron in the Similkameen Star newspaper, published Aug 24, 1901, "Golden Camp McKinney," "History of the Discovery," "The Father of the Camp," "The Cariboo Mine."
-Born at Cape Breton, N.S.
Similkameen Star, published Nov 20, 1907
"Of the 90 who stayed at Cariboo the first winter, seven were women--Mrs. Winnard, Scotch Jennie, afterwards Mrs. Allan...Lizzie Roddie, who married A.D. McLaness, of Fort Alexander, Mrs. Richard Cameron, Mrs. Ben Van Volkenburgh, a Mrs. Donnelly, Mrs. John A. Cameron, wife of Cariboo Cameron, and a French woman."
"Mrs. John A. Cameron died on October 23rd, and Cameron and myself took the body to Victoria, the return trip took 66 days, and for 14 days of which it was more than 40 degrees below zero."
"It was on the 22nd of August, 1862, that Jno. A. Cameron and myself staked the well known Cameron claim on Williams creek, from which about a million dollars was taken. Yours, truly, Robert Stevenson."
Kootenay Mail, published Apr 28, 1894:
A story about John "Cariboo" Cameron was included.
Cross-posted at my Detour Through History blog.
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