Talk:Richard Blanshard
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[edit] More dirt needed
Douglas' nasty treatment of Blanshard is a whole story in and of itself; I'm surprised there's no mention of it here but I guess that's because the source is mostly the Dict of Cdn Biog; I'll try and flesh it out using Akrigg and a couple of other sources I have on hand here. Other than being forced to live on a cattle ship, and then in a leaky room in the fort, Blanshard finally left; apparently he also was your sensitive aesthete type and envisioned something like an arts colony, a "New Athens" on the Pacific, but I'll dig up more on that as it's not in Akrigg; I heard it on CBC long ago. The "near Port Hardy" thing concerns the coal strike at Fort Rupert, I think, and the shelling of the Nahwitti village there in retribution for the killing of a couple of miners who had fled the fort when it looked like the Royal Navy (or Marines?) were going to attack.Skookum1 21:48, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
