Frank Beaton and the Fort St. John Fur Trade


Entry Date: 1922-04-03
Content: Sakura? left this morning mail arrived Mr Suig + Osbourne + wife arrvd from Edmonton some trouble in Post Office with Capt Haight + Barber in the ev in afternoon. about 10 P. M. Haight came across and held up L. Kitty + Guy Robinson and finished up by shooting Guy Robinson in the shoulder? with a Revolver Const Barber came down and arrested Haight started to snow towards evening and contined snowing nearly all night
Page Number: 90
PDF Page Number: 96
People Mentioned: unknown Sakura
unknown Suig
unknow Barber
L. Kitty
Guy Robinson
Places Mentioned: Post Office

Images from MS-0749 courtesy of Royal BC Museum, BC Archives.

Pdf Info:

The Hudsons Bay Company Fort St. Johns Daily Journal for 1920 to 1924 (Frank W. Beaton)

Journal of events Fort St Johns Post for September 1920 to March/May of 1923

British Columbia Archives MS-0749 Box 2, File 14: Frank Beaton

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