Death and Disappearance
Prospector Stanford Corey said in 1926 that in the thirty years he prospected there he had “not seen the marks of any other person ever having entered the land.” The newspapers, however, had a different view: a stream of adventures risking life and limb hunting for the lost treasure. Underlining the dangers of exploration in the Pitt Lake region, newspapers claimed that since 1900 some two dozen prospectors and treasure hunters looking for Pitt Lake’s gold lost their life by natural causes or fell victim to “Slumach’s Curse.” Remarkably only the death or disappearance of five seemed worth reporting.
- (1910) George Blake. and son George from Coquitlam BC: crushed by a falling tree as they were sleeping in a tent.
- (1932) Robert Allan Brown alias “Volcanic” Brown: disappeared in an exceptionally heavy snow storm.
- (1951) Alfred Gaspar from Langley, BC: disappeared.
- (1961) Lewis Earl Hagbo from Bremerton, WA: died of a heart attack.
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