Sidney. At Vancouver was Colin §. Camp-
bell, who became superintendent when
Hussey died. David Stephenson was at
Wellington and later on was promoted to
Chief Constable at Nanaimo. J. D. Camp-
bell and Dan Campbell were covering
Esquimalt and Metchosin districts.

W. H. Bullock-Webster, who filled im-
portant Government positions later on and
is now practicing as a barrister in Victoria,
was at New Westminster ?. Some of the
men who worked occasionally as special con-
stables for the Provincial force when I
joined it were George M. Perdue *, Stephen
L.. Redgrave, Tom Palmer* and J. W.
Coburn, afterwards Mayor of Nanaimo.
It was about May, 1896 that I was taken
on the force and I was about three months
doing duty in the Victoria district before
I was sent to Quesnel.

Covers LARGE TERRITORY

When I went up there, there were very
few constables in the country, and so far
as I know I was the first to be stationed in
Quesnel, which was only a small place with
a few families living in it and not many
in the district around it. The Government
Agent for the Cariboo still had his office in
the old town of Richfield: but I think it was
about that, time that the office was moved
into Barkerville. Some of the constables
had other duties to perform which pre-
vented them getting out on patrol much °.
The one at Richfield was mining recorder,
and the man at 150 Mile House was Pro-

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vincial Collector. There were constables at
Quesnel Forks and at Chilcotin. Further
down the road the stations were at Clinton,
Lillooet, Ashcroft and Lytton. All the
constables had extensive districts to cover,
and the fact that their districts were so large
is a tribute to the peaceable nature of the
people and the respect they had for the law.
Most of the trouble and serious crime was
caused by the Indians of the Chilcotin
country who have always had a bad name.

William Albert Johnston and Abraham
Barlowe were my J. P.s. when I first came
to Quesnel, and they were always ready to
assist me. Both had been several years in
Quesnel and were members of the School
Board. Barlow was a storekeeper and
rancher. Johnston was a contractor and
later on he went in for farming. I never
had a couple of better magistrates, and
their decisions and actions were always fair
and just and both the police and the people
had confidence in them. In 1896 my terri-
tory was from Stuart Lake to the old 150
Mile House and from Hanceville practically
halfway to Clinton. East and west it
stretched from Chilco Lake clear across to
the Rocky Mountains. Jim Bain was at the
Forks, sixty miles east and we met halfway
up the Quesnel River somewhere about
Beavermouth.

Jim was a fine officer and as fleet-footed
as a deer. He had come up there about a
year before me and was there five or six
years.. At Barkerville there was a constable
who was also mining recorder. But as I
say his duties as recorder kept him there
pretty much. The police duties were cut
out soon after I came and were left to Jim
Bain and myself. Fred Rose had been at
150 Mile House for a couple of years before
I came and remained there until about 1905
when he was succeeded by Const. Yolland.
©. T. Hance was the constable stationed at
Hanceville.

As there had been an occasional attempt
to rob the stage, a police guard was put on
for four or five months each summer for
half a dozen years, but as time went on and
danger of any attempt of this kind died
out the guard was taken off. W. F. Allen,
F. Wollaston, H. Cochrane, R. Pyper,
Archie McKinlay and O. A. McKinlay
were men who were on this duty at one
time or another. The guard was on from

Barkerville to Ashcroft. The police Dost af
Barkerville was re-opened ® about 1909 and
G. J. Walker was the constable in charge
there for six years or so when it was cl

In the course of time the number of stations
were cut down. After Jim Bain left
Quesnel Forks it was open with another
constable for a year I think, and then it wa
closed, the work falling into my distrig.
There was a constable at Soda Creek fo; ,
few years after 1901, Pyper being the man,
but it was closed about the end of 199,
The work was divided between the cop,
stable at 150 Mile and myself.

Down the road, George Mitchell was a
Clinton when I came and was there for
several years after being succeeded in 19)|
or thereabouts by J. McMillan. At Lilloos:
there was always a good deal of changing
George Tinker and Dan Hurley were ther
about the time I came and earlier. George
Tinker died a couple of years ago. Dan
Hurley has been storekeeping for a good
many years now and doing well. Both of
them came there in quite early days. After
them there seemed to be a new man at
Lillooet every second year or so. D. G

*Died at Victoria this year.

“Later to become Chief of Detectives in Victoria's
city police.

“Later became Deputy Chief of Police, Victoria
City.

*A not uncommon situation in these days.

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