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Object ID
1972.009.002
Title
Portrait of William Edge.
Description
Framed (wooden & gilt - elaborately embossed) picture of William Edge who was killed in the Haney, B.C. slide in 1880.
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Edge, William Fredrick, ( - 1880)
In 1875, William Fredrick Edge, from Dublin, Ireland, and his wife Harriet Mighton (1833-1927) purchased a riverfront farm just downstream from the Derby Townsite, B.C. He died in 1880 after a mudslide in Haney, B.C., caused a great wave to sweep across the Fraser River and over his orchard.
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