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British Columbia Volume 36, No. 2 BRITISH COLUMBIA Spring2003 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation Courtesy Eileen Sutherland Above: Port Essington on the Skeena. Page 6. Murdered by a scab The British land claim at Nootka Worries about BC’s archives Summers on the Skeena ENCLOSED: subscription BC Tree Fruits challenged forms for (1) the Prince George conference, (2) free A significant inspector of fisheries workshops prior to the conference, and (3) a free day The Orpheum celebrates 75 years tour to Fort St. James following the conference. British Columbia Historical News British Columbia Historical Federation Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation PO Box 5254, Station B., Victoria BC V8R 6N4 Published Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Under the Distinguished Patronage of Her Honour The Honourable Iona Campagnolo. PC, CM, OBC Editor: Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia Fred Braches PO Box 130 Honorary President: Helen B. Akrigg Whonnock BC, V2W 1V9 Phone 604.462.8942 Officers [email protected] President: Wayne Desrochers Book Review Editor: 13346 57th Avenue, Surrey BC V3X 2W8 Anne Yandle Phone 604. 599.4206 Fax. 604.507.4202 [email protected] 3450 West 20th Avenue First Vice President: Jacqueline Gresko Vancouver BC, V6S 1E4 5931 Sandpiper Court, Richmond BC V7E 3P8 Phone 604.733.6484 Phone 604.274.4383 [email protected] [email protected] Second Vice President: Roy J.V. 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Publications Assistance: Nancy Stuart-Stubbs ISSN 1195-8294 2651 York Avenue, Vancouver BC V6K 1E6 Production Mail Registration Number 1245716 Phone 604.738.5132 [email protected] Publications Mail Registration No. 09835 Writing Competition—Lieutenant-Governor’s Award: Member of the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers Helmi Braches PO Box 130, Whonnock BC V2W 1V9 The British Columbia Heritage Trust has pro- Phone 604.462.8942 [email protected] vided financial assistance to this project to support conservation of our heritage resources, gain further knowledge and increase public understanding of the complete history of British Columbia. Our Web site <bchistory.ca> is hosted by Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC While copyright in the journal as a whole is vested in the British Columbia Historical Federation, copyright in the individual articles belongs to their respective authors, and articles may be reproduced for personal use only. For reproduction for other purposes permission in writing of both author and publisher is required. Volume 36, No. 2 BRITISH COLUMBIA Spring 2003 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation 2 A Working Man’s Dream: The Life of Frank Rogers WANTED by Janet Mary Nicol The British Columbia Historical Federa- 6 My Skeena Childhood tion is looking for a volunteer to take by Eileen Sutherland over as editor of BC Historical News start- ing in September. 14 Was John Meares BC’s Most Successful Real Estate Agent? Previous editing experience could help by John Crosse but more essential are interest in local 16 A Palace of Entertainment: history, sustained dedication, and a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Vancouver’s Orpheum turns Seventy-Five It’s the editor who creates the journal, by Chuck Davis sets its standards, and decides its contents. 21 We Can’t Dispose of our Own Crop: Challenges to BC The editor needs imagination, judgement, vision, and the courage to make deci- Tree Fruits and the Single Desk Marketing System sions. by Christopher Garrish This is a challenging task but also a re- 26 The Demolition of the BC Archives warding and unique learning opportunity. by Reuben Ware Interested? Call Editor Fred Braches for 28 Alexander Caulfield Anderson more information at 604.462.8942, or send an e-mail: <[email protected]> An Ideal First Inspector of Fisheries by Rod N. Palmer 32 BOOK REVIEWS KEEP YOUR SUBMISSIONS COMING & 38 REPORTS YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS UP TO DATE Peter Corley-Smith by Robert D. Turner Yes, there are uncertainties around the BC Sudies Conference by R.A.J. (Bob) McDonald editorship but that should not cause Lardo vs. Lardeau by Greg Nesteroff anyone to hesitate submitting manu- scripts for future publication, nor 40 ARCHIVES AND A RCHIVISTS should anyone hesitate to extend their School Archives Program in Mission BC by Valerie Billesberger subscription. 41 STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND by Ted Affleck We know that there will be a succesor. The Saga of the Sternwheeler Enterprise We only don’t know yet who it will be. I am confident that a new editor 42 TOKEN HISTORY by Ronald Greene will be selected long before the fall, The British Columbia $10 and $20 Coins but I invite you, our readers, to help finding more canditates. 43 WEB-SITE FORAYS by Christopher Garrish If you think that someone would be 44 FEDERATION NEWS interested or could be the one to do the job, please let me know. Don’t be bashful submitting your own name. “Any country worthy of a future should be interested in its past.” Suggestions, enquiries, and applica- tions will be kept confidential. W. Kaye Lamb, 1937 the editor BC HISTORICAL NEWS - SPRING 2003 1 A Working Man’s Dream The Life of Frank Rogers by Janet Mary Nicol Janet Mary Nicol is a N 18 April 1903, as a heavy rain fell, the banite knows the houses on his own street.” teacher, writer, and longshoremen’s union led more than Longshoremen formed a union in 1888 and had former union organizer, eight hundred mourners to the old city been on strike ten times by the century’s turn, yet living in Vancouver. O cemetery above the blue inlet and overlooking their basic rights were far from assured. It was this mountains around Vancouver. They came to bury world Rogers first entered at age 24. union organizer Frank Rogers, placing an anchor- A fedora shading his eyes, Rogers walked to shaped wreath with the word “martyr” inscribed work, we can imagine, along a wood-planked This spring marks the at his grave. The funeral was the largest gathering sidewalk, dressed in grey pants with wide suspend- 100th anniversary of the of trade unionists the city had experienced. Rogers ers and a long-sleeved white shirt. Passing hotel death of labour organizer was only thirty years old when he was shot late at saloons, shooting galleries, and warehouses, he Frank Rogers night on a waterfront picket line a few blocks turned off Gore Street, crossed the CPR tracks from his rented room. He died two days later in and joined a long queue of men standing on the hospital. A strikebreaker hired by the Canadian wharf beside a moored sailing ship. The head ste- Pacific Railway was arrested for his murder but vedore selected men for the day’s work at 35 cents later acquitted in court. Rogers’s murder remains an hour. If Rogers made the cut, he fell in with unsolved. the chosen gang, unloading cargo from the ship’s Many aspects of Frank Rogers’s life are a mys- hold, ropes and pulleys creaking. A foreman’s whis- tery. No photos exist of him, and details of his tle directed the gang’s movements. The Alhambra personal life are sketchy though his exploits as a hotel saloon, situated in Gastown’s oldest brick union organizer made the front pages of local structure still known as the Byrnes Block, was a newspapers. His next of kin are not recorded in popular place for waterfront workers after a ten- official documents and his funeral, which was paid hour shift. Surely Rogers would be there, leaning SOURCES for by union members, was not attended by fam- against its bar, holding a beer, and talking union.
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