1 The terms vaccination and inoculation were and are often confused and used interchangeably. It is likely that it was inoculation that was the common technique used in the 1862-63 epidemic. See Byron Plant, "'The Most Dreadful Scourge of Which the Human Race is Subject’: The 1862 Small Pox Epidemic and Aboriginal People in British Columbia" (Unpublished honours thesis, University of Victoria, April 2001), 41. See also glossary of terms.
2 British Columbia Archives (BCA), Alexander Charles Garrett, Reminiscences, 1832-1924 unpublished manuscript, 26.
3Daily British Colonist, 30 April 1862, 3.
4 Garrett, Reminiscences, 26.
5 Garrett, Reminiscences, 26.
6Daily Press, 11 June 1862.
7 Byron Plant, "The Most Dreadful Scourge of Which the Human Race is Subject": The 1862 Small Pox Epidemic and Aboriginal People in British Columbia (University of Victoria: Unpublished honours thesis, April 2001), 9.
8 Cole Harris, "Social Power and Cultural Change in Pre-Colonial British Columbia," in BC Studies 115-116 (Autumn/Winter 1997/98) 55.
9 Anglican Archives of British Columbia (AABC), Bishop George Hills, Columbia Mission Report, 26 April 1862, 9.
10 Hills, Columbia Mission Report, 23 June 1862, 16.