Tofino Chapter 5 notes

"Outrages and Disorders" - Notes on Sources

“It is in my view worthless…” Archibald Barclay’s comments are cited by Terry Reksten, The Illustrated History of British Columbia. Reksten also provides statistics about the early population of Vancouver Island.

“News about prices…” Sproat, Scenes and Studies of Savage Life.

James Douglas on the dogfish oil trade, cited by John Hayman, Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition.

“merely a box of water...,” Hayman, Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition.

“A sea of savagery,” John Heast Lord ,cited by Barry Gough, Gunboat Frontier.

“repress and over-awe…” Richard Blanshard cited by Terry Reksten, The Illustrated History of British Columbia.

“It is expedient…” James Douglas cited by Jean Barman, The West Beyond the West.

“a fist of iron in a glove of velvet,” cited in Gough, Gunboat Frontier.

Quotations describing Barrett-Lennard’s trip, unless otherwise indicated, are from Travels in British Columbia: With a Narrative of a Yacht Voyage around Vancouver’s Island.

“It is with great pleasure that I inform you...,” Admiral Denman is cited in the Illustrated London News. Denman is also cited at length by Sproat, Scenes and Studies of Savage Life.

“These people do not believe in the existence of a Supreme Being…” Justice David Cameron cited in B.A. McKelvie, Tales of Conflict.

“From the refusal to admit Indian testimony…” Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby, cited in Gough, Gunboat Frontier.

The Illustrated London News article about the Kingfisher incident is detailed and highly significant, providing a contemporary international perspective. “Conflict with the Indians of Vancouver Island” Illustrated London News, Issue 1295; Saturday December 31, 1864; pg. 664; London, England.

“seemed utterly unconcerned with our arrival…” Wentworth Mist’s log, cited in Peter Johnson, Glyphs and Gallows.

“I shot the man, as he was coming...,” British Colonist, 23 June 1869.

“Then and there …” from Father Maurus Snyder’s personal papers, Mount Angel Abbey Archives.

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