1860-06-02
H. E.
His Excellency
1860-07-01
Walter Moberly
(1832-1915)
Civil engineer and surveyor helped to construct the Dewdney Trail and Cariboo Road.
1860-07-04
Julia Elizabeth (Hyde) Trutch
(1827-1895)
Married Joseph Trutch in 1855.
1860-07-13
Joseph William Trutch
(1826-1904)
Engineer, surveyor, politician, and office holder. First Lieutenant Governor of BC (1871-76), appointed dominion agent in BC with responsibility for railway matters and Indian issues (1880-89), knighted in 1889, returned to England in 1900 leaving his Fairfield estate in Victoria.
1860-08-25 TRAVEL DIARY
British North American Boundary Commission
Between 1857 and 1862 a joint commission of the US and Great Britain surveyed and marked the international boundary (49th parallel) as established by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.
1860-08-25 TRAVEL DIARY
Fort Keremeos / Similkameen
Hudson’s Bay Company post (1860-72) located in the Similkameen Valley (Keremeos, BC), established after the closure of Fort Okanagan in Washington Territory.
1860-08-30 TRAVEL DIARY
chickamin
Chinook jargon meaning “money”.
1860-09-06
Thomas Glennie
(?-?)
Moved to Hope in 1860 with wife Susan Louisa (Moir) Glennie, then deserted her in 1864.
1860-09-06
Susan Louisa (Moir) Glennie
(c. 1814-1906)
Married Thomas Glennie in 1857, mother of Jane Shaw (Moir) Dewdney and Susan Louisa (Moir) Allison, children from previous marriage.
1860-09-11
wawa
Chinook jargon meaning “speech” or “talk”.
1860-09-16
George Rashleigh Gompertz
(c. 1833-1866)
Chief constable and postmaster of Williams Lake (1861-64).
1860-09-16
Mabel Hope Charles
(1860-1931)
Daughter of William & Mary Ann Charles born in Hope, BC. Married David McEwen Eberts in 1884.
1860-09-20
Edward Howard Sanders
(1831?-1902)
Gold commissioner at Yale from 1859, later Stipendiary Magistrate and county court judge.
1860-10-03
William George Cox
(c. 1821-1878)
Magistrate, gold commissioner, justice of the peace working in the Rock Creek, Cariboo, Columbia and Kootenay districts.
1860-11-15
Edward Chaloner Knox
(1815-1896)
Captain in the Tyrone Fusiliers in the 1860s in Ireland.
1860-11-17
iktas
Chinook jargon meaning “things” or “belongings”.
1860-12-02
Holy Trinity Church
New Westminster Anglican church built in 1860, burned in 1865.
1860-12-21
Henry Pering Pellew Crease
(1823-1905)
Lawyer, politician, office holder, judge.
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Peter O’Reilly’s 1860 diary has been transcribed by volunteers and staff of the Vancouver Island Local History Society and is for informational purposes only. Researchers interested in this diary are advised to consult the original document housed at the Royal British Columbia Museum & Archives, found in MS-2894, the O’Reilly family fonds.