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Jack Henry and Chief Constable John Kelly coming down from the Cronin Mine with deceased Jack Pekoe (Picco)
- Date Range
- July 1916
- Collection
- Gilbert Clarke Killam fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Collection
- Gilbert Clarke Killam fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Gilbert Clarke Killam
- Fonds No.
- PF26
- Item No.
- P1094
- Accession No.
- 1982.10
- Physical Description
- 1 postcard: b&w; 14 x 9 cm
- Scan Resolution
- 96 dpi
- Date Range
- July 1916
- History / Biographical
- Pekoe (Picco) carried the mail into the Cronin Mine. He would go into Silverking basin, cross over into Hyland basin and then down to the mine. In the winter of the 1915/1916 he was reported missing. Several attempts to look for him were made, but snow conditions and the large snowslide on the trail made a thorough search impossible until Spring. His body was found the following July and carried out by Chief Constable John Kelly of the B.C. Provincial police (left) and local packer Jack Henry (right). Ref. From Swamp to Village by Lynn Shervill
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Identified left to right: Chief Constable Jack Kelly; Jack Pekoe (Picco); Jack Henry
- Written on back of postcard: "This man was packing mail to the Cronin mine in the fall, reported missing, the police sent a search party, after the snow went the following July. The body was found, apparantly overtaken by a snowslide, by Kelly the policeman, and Jack Henry. 1920? "
- Negative copy also available.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail
