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D.J. Richardson

Jul 6, 20205 min read

The (Not So) Hidden Lives of LGBTQ Residents in Nineteenth Century Victoria

Finding evidence and detail about LGBTQ relationships in the historical record can be a difficult search, and often requires reading between

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D.J. Richardson

Jun 15, 20209 min read

The Women of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island

The "Pig War" of San Juan Island ... is also story about women, just not a story that has ever been told in any detail.

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D.J. Richardson

May 18, 202010 min read

Before the Colonies Had Divorce Laws: Escaping a Toxic Marriage in the Colonial West

In the mid-19th Century, divorce law in the Canadian colonies was a patchwork of inconsistency.

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D.J. Richardson

May 5, 20203 min read

Pandemic: Victoria(n) Style

The modern concept of a pandemic is novel to the recent memory of our society. But in Victorian times, it was a regular occurrence for...

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D.J. Richardson

Apr 24, 20204 min read

The Day When Flora Ross's Farm Connected Vancouver Island to the World

On April 24, 1866, Victoria waited to be connected to the world by a telegraph line completed at the San Juan Island farm of Flora Ross.

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D.J. Richardson

Apr 13, 20205 min read

Which Paul Hubbs Married Flora Ross?

Flora Ross married twenty-seven year old Paul K. Hubbs, Jr. in 1859, in Victoria, contrary to some claims that she married a much older man.