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Today I went through vol 1 of the "Rogues Gallery," a set of old Vancouver police ledgers. One of the highlights was this man, about whom I know nothing except that he was definitely haunted by an upside-down ghost baby
And may I introduce you to Rita King, a "sporting woman" arrested 26 July 1898 for shooting Leslie McDonald in the Opera Resort Saloon
Vancouver police detained these two hooligans for stealing a HIVE OF BEES 
Any @TheZoneCast fans? I found your boy (detective) Angus McDonald "fighting on the public street" in April 1898 and drunk in public twice in autumn 1899 in Vancouver, BC. Looks like he paid the fine rather than doing jail time.
While we're at it, this is a callout for John Mulaney, who went back in time to be a stowaway on the steamship Empress of Japan in summer 1898, presumably for a bit in an upcoming show
While transcribing today I had a bit of a surprise when I stumbled across LONG COCK SUSAN arrested for drunkenness in August 1900, paid $5.00 bail
It's easy to spot Indigenous ppl in these arrest records, even when they're not listed as such:
1) No surname given 2) They're almost exclusively arrested for public drunkenness 3) They're also given more severe sentences than non-Indigenous offenders, as seen here
1) No surname given 2) They're almost exclusively arrested for public drunkenness 3) They're also given more severe sentences than non-Indigenous offenders, as seen here
Let me introduce you to J M Larney, a Norwegian logger wanted by US customs in 1905 for smuggling Chinese workers across the US-Canada border. Most importantly, his nickname was "Terrible Sweede" and HE WASN'T EVEN SWEDISH C'MON PEOPLE
How could I have forgotten about "Honkey the Mysterious Kid"
Escaped from the chain gang in February 1906.
Escaped from the chain gang in February 1906.
BEHOLD (some of) the fruits of my labors! Here's a map of arrests made by Vancouver Police between 1897 and 1914 colored by the recorded nationality of the person arrested. NB: This is just those entries for which I could find an address.
And here are those same arrests colored according to the charges made against the arrestee.
I've zoomed in on a particular part of the city in these. That's for two reasons: 1) It has the highest concentration of arrests and 2) as you can see from this 1911 map I've overlaid, it's the old industrial dockside area. Check out those steamship routes! #coastalhistory
Returning to this thread from 16 months ago because I finally combined the database sheets and corrected a bunch of coordinates for streets whose names have changed since 1910ish in preparation for moving the whole thing to Tableau.
