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"Oh,
don't you know that the ship we sailed in was called the Thames
City, so the silly Editor tried to make us believe that we were
living in a real city? Do you remember, Hughie, the horrible
murder that he said took place one day, when an old gentleman
named 'Jimmy' was found dead, and his body horribly
mutilated?"
"Yes,
the fool Editor tried to make us all believe it was a real murder,
when it was only Cooper (our butcher) who had cut the throat of an
old sheep, to save its life. Wasn't it silly on the part of
the Editor? But it made our fathers and mothers and all the
men laugh, and I think we youngsters laughed, too."
-- REMINISCENT
OF PIONEERS, Daily Columbian, Wednesday, October
13th, 1909
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According to
Woodward:
Cooper was a
Detachment butcher.
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Cooper's Regimental Pay
, as a Sapper was 1s. 2 1/2d. per Diem plus Working Pay of 1s. to 4s
per Diem. |
Appears to have
died or left B.C. by November 1907.
However...
New
Westminster
7th July 1860
To His Excellency James Douglas
Sir,
I have the honour to represent to you the benefit that would
acrue in maintaining the discipline of the Detachment of Royal
Engineers serving in this Colony, if these men,
Sapper James Alexander, RE
Sapper Robert Robertson, RE
Sapper James Cooper, RE
who are now undergoing a sentance of Imprisonment in the Jail at
Victoria for the crime of Desertion, be sent to England to the
Head Quarters of the Corps at Chatham.
If Your Excellency will sanction
this step, I will communicate with the Naval Commander in Chief
with a view to passage being
provided for them in the first Man-of-War ordered home.
Captain Parsons RE, will deliver
this letter to Your Excellency and is authorized by me to carry
out the measure after he shall have received your approval of
it.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient,
humble Servant,
RCMoody
Col. Commanding |
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