Articles About Flora Ross, Her Family, and Her Time

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Articles about Flora Ross, her family, her time, and people who lived in her community, will be posted here from time to time.

Contributions from other authors that relate to this subject matter are welcome.

Stephen and Lucinda Boyce: San Juan Island Settlers Who Arrived Earlier than Previously Reported

D.J. Richardson

Feb 1
4 min

Stephen and Lucinda Boyce: San Juan Island Settlers Who Arrived Earlier than Previously Reported

Stephen and Lucinda Boyce were resident on the island far earlier than March 1860, and as early as late July 1859.

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Which Paul K. Hubbs Married Flora Ross, Part Two: The Evidence

D.J. Richardson

Oct 14, 2020
5 min

Which Paul K. Hubbs Married Flora Ross, Part Two: The Evidence

This article provides the evidence that proves that Flora Ross married Paul Kinsey Hubbs, Jr., who was only ten years Flora's senior.

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The (Not So) Hidden Lives of LGBTQ Residents in Nineteenth Century Victoria

D.J. Richardson

Jul 6, 2020
5 min

The (Not So) Hidden Lives of LGBTQ Residents in Nineteenth Century Victoria

Finding evidence and detail about LGBTQ relationships in the historical record can be a difficult search, and often requires reading between

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The Women of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island

D.J. Richardson

Jun 15, 2020
9 min

The Women of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island

The "Pig War" of San Juan Island ... is also story about women, just not a story that has ever been told in any detail.

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Before the Colonies Had Divorce Laws: Escaping a Toxic Marriage in the Colonial West

D.J. Richardson

May 18, 2020
10 min

Before the Colonies Had Divorce Laws: Escaping a Toxic Marriage in the Colonial West

In the mid-19th Century, divorce law in the Canadian colonies was a patchwork of inconsistency.

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D.J. Richardson

May 5, 2020
3 min

Pandemic: Victoria(n) Style

The modern concept of a pandemic is novel to the recent memory of our society. But in Victorian times, it was a regular occurrence for...

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The Day When Flora Ross's Farm Connected Vancouver Island to the World

D.J. Richardson

Apr 24, 2020
4 min

The Day When Flora Ross's Farm Connected Vancouver Island to the World

On April 24, 1866, Victoria waited to be connected to the world by a telegraph line completed at the San Juan Island farm of Flora Ross.

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When Flora Ross Invented a Gentler Straightjacket

D.J. Richardson

Apr 20, 2020
3 min

When Flora Ross Invented a Gentler Straightjacket

As Matron of B.C.'s first "Asylum for the Insane," Flora Ross invented a "chemise" to replace the traditional straightjacket.

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Flora Amelia Ross

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In Her Own Footsteps

RECENT ARTICLES

Articles about Flora Ross, her family, her time, and people who lived in her community, will be posted here from time to time.

Contributions from other authors that relate to this subject matter are welcome.

Stephen and Lucinda Boyce: San Juan Island Settlers Who Arrived Earlier than Previously Reported

Which Paul K. Hubbs Married Flora Ross, Part Two: The Evidence

The (Not So) Hidden Lives of LGBTQ Residents in Nineteenth Century Victoria

The Women of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island

Before the Colonies Had Divorce Laws: Escaping a Toxic Marriage in the Colonial West

Pandemic: Victoria(n) Style

The Day When Flora Ross's Farm Connected Vancouver Island to the World

When Flora Ross Invented a Gentler Straightjacket