Edgar Fawcett spent his boyhood days in and around Fort Victoria when the future capital of B.C. was still a Hudson’s Bay Co. outpost.
His memoir, Some Reminiscences of Old Victoria, has become a highly priced collector’s edition.
It was Edgar Fawcett’s classic Reminiscneces that inspired me to write about British Columbia history.
But Edgar Fawcett was no saint. At least one of his boyhood pranks had long lasting repercussions for which he, much of a lifetime later, expressed neither regret nor remorse.
You can read all about it in next week’s Chronicles.
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