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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?
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- Daryl's Playground
- B25 bomber at Spindle Canyon
- Pitt Lake may be the next of the great gold fields
- William Moresby
- The Road to Stu Brown's Gold?
- Moody and Florence Reed
- Slumach Baptism and Interment Records
- A Long Time Coming
- Remembering Slumach
- Second Meeting of the Lost Mine of Pitt Lake Society
- Stu Brown's Letters
- Garibaldi Trip August 1940
- Mike Boileau's Quest for Gold
- Jackson's Letters
- Peter Slumach (continued)
- Pitt Lake Reserve 29 April 1914
- Preliminary Hearings and Assizes, November 1890
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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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