More Outcasts and Oddballs

After all these years, and millions of words, I’ve never tired of reading and writing about BC eccentrics. 

Many of them, sad to say, were tragic, sometimes the authors of their own misfortune, other times the victims of circumstance. Some of them simply marched to different drummers. 

Most of them had stories to tell and some, if only briefly, caught the attention of newspaper reporters who were ever on the alert for the out-of-the-ordinary. 

Another look at some of these now forgotten pioneers in this week’s BC Chronicles.

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PHOTO:  Every new arrival in pioneer BC had a story to tell—not always a happy one. —BC Archives