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Part 3 - Modern Times - Slumach

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“This is it—this is <strong>Slumach</strong>’s mine” <br />

Tommy Williams April 1952 <br />

Chief Coquitlam Williams, <br />

now ancient and blind, <br />

was, according to his son <br />

Tommy Williams, the last <br />

living link with <strong>Slumach</strong>. <br />

In April 1952, a Vancouver Province journalist-­photographer<br />

team, guided by Tommy Williams, <br />

went looking for the mine. <br />

Tommy Williams says they reached the site, but the <br />

whole area was under deep snow. They staked a claim.

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