Victor Harbord Harbord

Click here to read a poem celebrating the dedication of the Peace Arch in 1921, written by Victor Harbord Harbord under the pseudonym Justin Wilson. What has that to do with Slumach? Victor Harbord Harbord was the journalist who, in 1926, interviewed Jason Allard mentioning gold in connection with Slumach for the first time. (Click here for a transcript of the article.) It would be interesting to see if he has written before about "Slumach's gold." The following note from the Peace Arch pages shows that he did not only write for The Province:

The poet’s granddaughter, Lynda Daddona, lives in Burnaby. “His occupation was as a writer and he was the Fraser Valley correspondent for the Vancouver World newspaper, which merged into the Vancouver Sun,” [in 1924] she said. “Victor Harbord Harbord wrote his newspaper articles under his own name, but his poetry was written and often published under the pen name Justin Wilson.

Victor was born in Ireland in 1872, was raised in Bath, England and spent much of his adult life managing a tea plantation in Ceylon and in New Guinea. He died in New Westminster in 1943.”