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Steamer into Oblivion

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Author: James, Rick

Date: June/July 2009

Geographic Location: Pacific Coast (B.C.); British Columbia - Cape Caution; British Columbia - Kimsquit

Material Type: magazine article

Abstract: Questions still remain about the fate of those aboard a doomed West Coast steamer, "Geo. S. Wright" in January 1873. Were they massacred? If so, who did it?

Author: James, Rick

Role: Author

Date: June/July 2009

Person: Dudower, Alfred; Harris, Charles Reynold,; Coma, Billy

Corporation: HMS Rocket (Gun vessel); Ringleader (Sloop); Geo. S. Wright (Ship); Oregon Steamship Company; Victoria British Colonist

Topic: Shipwrecks

Geographic Location: Pacific Coast (B.C.); British Columbia - Cape Caution; British Columbia - Kimsquit

Material Type: magazine article

Physical Description: photographs

Source Title: Beaver

Volume: 89

Issue: 3

Pages: 24-48

Abstract: Questions still remain about the fate of those aboard a doomed West Coast steamer, "Geo. S. Wright" in January 1873. Were they massacred? If so, who did it?