High Slack

High Slack: Waddington’s Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864 traces the attempt to build a road from Bute Inlet up the Homathko Valley to the British Columbia gold fields in the 1860s.  The voices and images of historical figures involved reveal how entrepreneurship, a smallpox epidemic and mistreatment of First Nations people led to the only major native/incomer confrontation in the Canadian province and that historical event’s contemporary relevance.


High Slack: Waddington’s Gold Road and the Bute Inlet Massacre of 1864,     
New Star Books, Transmontanus series, Vancouver, 1996, 119 pages.