Hazels Winter Trail of Fate in British Columbia
Miss Hazel Weir, a Granville stenographer engaged to Jack Barrow, becomes private secretary to her employer Mr. Bush and faces coercive advances. After a suicide scare and escape to Cariboo Meadows, Hazel ends up in a remote cabin with Roaring Bill Wagstaff. Winter isolation, survival routines, and a fragile bond form amid danger and longing.
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Hazel
Jack Barrow
Cariboo Meadows
British Columbia
Roaring Bill
Wegstaff
Bill
Therce
Tadlan
Hinzel
The Fires of Spring in the North
Hazel endures spring’s arrival under Roaring Bill Wagstaff’s control traveling toward Bella Coola. The pair trek through sunlit mountains and starry nights, Hazel yearning for home while Bill plans a voyage to Bella Coola and Vancouver, with Hazel set to depart by noon after a long journey north.
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Bill
Hazel
Bll
Bill Wagstaff
Tie
Bil
Bill Wagatoff
The Drone of the Hive on the Stanley D Departure
A black smoke plume rises as Hazel and Bill Wagstaff leave the Bella Coola hotel for the Stanley D voyage to Vancouver. Wagstaff offers money and advice while Hazel contemplates escape and a possible return to the Meadows as the ship powers out to sea.
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Bill Wagstaff
Hazel
Bella Coola
Bill
Vancouver
Ladysmith
West End
Hazel’s Spring Freedom Sparks Prerogative Exercise
In the spring Hazel gains freedom and then uses the prerogative long held by women. What she did remains to be revealed in the next installment.
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Hazel
Thousands Die of Heart Disease in 1916 Mortality
Vital statistics show heart disease caused 114,171 deaths in 1916, the leading cause nationally. Tuberculosis claimed 101,806 lives and pneumonia 96,334, while personal crises numbered 10,102, below ten year averages. The piece notes unreliable St Swithin's day weather and an odd aside on quiet unwelcome praise.
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Bertrand W. Sinclair
Little Brown & Co
North
Caariboo Meadows
Silk
Noaring Bil
Pacific
Babine Range
Naas
New York
St. Swithin’s
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