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Author Crawford Kilian talks about revisiting, updating and republishing his ‘Go Do Some Great Thing.’
Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter @olapalooza. SHARES Mifflin Gibbs arrived in 1858 to become a successful retailer, real estate speculator, Victoria city councillor and builder of BC’s first railway. Crawford Kilian’s account of BC’s ‘remarkable’ Black pioneers remains foundational.
Kilian photo for The Tyee by Amy Romer.
“The climate is most beautiful; the strawberry vines and peach trees are in full blow… All the colored man wants here is ability and money. It is a God-sent land for the colored people.” Wellington Moses, a member of the Pioneer Committee quoted in Crawford Kilian’s book