Letters to the Editor Faulty memory?

It is extremely rare that I bother to write on the accuracy of articles in a paper, but in your May 30 edition you carry a story on your editorial page by Franc Joubin that, if he is going to publish memoirs, perhaps should be corrected.

The beginning of the article, complete with picture, suggests the incident takes place at the Pioneer gold mine in the Bralorne area of the province. The very next paragraph refers to Zeballos and other references of the “sawmill launch” tends to confuse me as to the actual location and the accuracy of the incident.

I can understand the use of a “launch” in the Zeballos area of the New Privateer mine, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, but not by any stretch of my imagination can I visualize a “boat” on the Cadwalder River at the old Pioneer mine.

To put this article together, I think there must have been more than Black Angus pouring down the booze and more than one bottle of rum from the bootleggers, or the rum was of a little higher proof than what is available today

Yours truly and confused. Eric N. Ascroft Vancouver, B.C.