11am-1pm
Brian Antonson, Author of “Slumach’s Gold”
Fred Braches, Author of “Searching for Pitt Lake Gold”
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?
11am-1pm
Brian Antonson, Author of “Slumach’s Gold”
Fred Braches, Author of “Searching for Pitt Lake Gold”
Members of the Lost Mine of Pitt Lake Society met in Abbotsford on Sunday to share information and plans for this coming summer’s explorations with Evan, who visited from Melbourne.
Kru Williams, David Muise, Adam Palmer, Don Froese and Taylor Star
On the red carpet at Dunbar Theatre, Vancouver BC
“Sitting on the cell bench Slumach drew a map for Peter of the location where he found the nuggets. Peter memorized the drawing and then destroyed it. Years later he redrew the map. A daughter traced out three copies, however the original and the copies were destroyed in the 1930s in a house fire.” Donald Waite, Kwant’san, 1972
Not a map drawn by Slumach therefore but a map drawn by Peter Pierre “from memory” years later. Pierre and Slumach would have been very familiar with the landscape and they would not need a map to explain where to go. Why then drawing a map at all as it was of no apparent use to Peter Pierre himself? Why those three copies? Were they selling maps to gold hunters?
According to the same source, Aunt Mandy, Slumach found (or traded) never more than $75 worth of gold. No mine — no untold riches. And no map!