Flora Amelia Ross

The Remarkable Life of a Woman Born in the Colonial Era of the Pacific Northwest, Who Overcame Misogyny and Racism Directed at Her Métis Background to Devote Her Life to Nursing and Caring for Others

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In Her Own Footsteps

Flora Ross and Her Struggle for Identity

and Independence in the Colonial West

by D.J. Richardson

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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.

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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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Pandemic: Victoria(n) Style

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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Which Paul Hubbs Married Flora Ross?

D.J. Richardson

Apr 13, 2020
5 min

Which Paul Hubbs Married Flora Ross?

Flora Ross married twenty-seven year old Paul K. Hubbs, Jr. in 1859, in Victoria, contrary to some claims that she married a much older man.

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