The grave records of St. Peters' Roman Catholic Church suggest that Father Morgan gave the Christian name "Peter" to Slumach at his baptism, It is a given name he would have shared with his spiritual guide, catechist Peter Pierre.
Writers about the legendary gold of Pitt Lake sometimes invented a non-Native first name for him, but the only and complete name the man himself and those around him knew during his life time was just "Slumach."
A request for a transcript of the register of Slumach's baptism went out recently to the archivist of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver to confirm that he indeed was given the name "Peter."
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Nature does not need a ghost to guard a mine.
In 1891,in New Westminster BC, an elderly Native man was hanged for murder. Today, legends of epic proportions link him with rich gold findings in the mountains around Pitt Lake and multiple killings. What do we really know about this man and where did the legends come from?
Award Winning Web site
The Slumach site received the Web site Award for 2008 from the British Columbia Historical Federation and David Mattison
Memorable quotations
A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.
Gold makes a fool of us all the time. Nature does not need a ghost to guard a mine.
Gold is where you find it.
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