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Pages from the book of labourer James Deans, another labourer at Craigflower. Known as The Rustic Rhymes of a Rural Rhymester and comprising two exercise books, the poetry of James Deans ranges from his thoughts on his new home in British Columbia to odes to friends and those who died when the Point Ellice Bridge collapsed in May 1896.

British Columbia Archives, James Deans fonds, S/B/D34, 1845-1901.