Chapter 5 - Miners’ Angels and Dance Hall Queens

A cold wind sighs through the evergreens. They cast deep, gloomy shadows across the old burying ground on the outskirts of Barkerville where weathered wooden headboards, time-darkened stone and rusty wrought iron straggle along the steep hillside. Almost 750 kilometres north of Greater Vancouver by road, this lonely little cemetery is where the luckless of Cameronton and Richfield staked their final claims—although by the 1880s those mining camps were gone, absorbed by Barkerville, the...

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