Tales from the Vault: October 2011 Archives

Monday October 31, 2011

Tales from the Vault:

The lepers of D'Arcy Island

(British Columbia Archives)

Stephen Ruttan, the local history librarian with the GVPL, tells the story of the D'Arcy Island leper colony in his latest instalment of  his online series, "Tales from the Vault." 

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• May 2012
  • Wed., 16 – Black pioneer Mifflin Gibbs
     
  • Mon., 7 – "Worst Canadian" Trutch shaped B.C. aboriginal relations
     
• October 2011
  • Mon., 31 – The lepers of D'Arcy Island
     
• June 2011
  • Tue., 21 – The Sea Wolf
     
• February 2011
  • Tue., 1 – The man who ruined Captain George Vancouver
     
• June 2010
  • Tue., 22 – Franz Boas and the Yuquot Whalers' Shrine