28: Glass slide Chinese Coolie Labour Corps Pictures made in coloured sands to mark a festival, on Vancouver Island.

The men were delayed at Vancouver Island, because of the explosion at Halifax. Instead of travelling across Canada by train, the men were embarked again, and sailed south through the Panama Canal, called at Jamaica and thence to Britain.


Order number: MS 380660, G. Cormack (glass slide box)
Date(s) of creation: 1916
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

Order number: MS 380660, G. Cormack (glass slide box)
Summary: The men were delayed at Vancouver Island, because of the explosion at Halifax. Instead of travelling across Canada by train, the men were embarked again, and sailed south through the Panama Canal, called at Jamaica and thence to Britain.
Access status: Open
Format: Archive