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About Eliza Parkin

"The Lavinia and John Malpass family shared a crowded duplex with Jane and John Biggs on Chapel Street. Their daughter Eliza recalled,

Here they seldom allowed the central fireplace to go out, banking it with coal each night. There was usually a pot boiling over the fire. Water was carried in powder cans up the steep banks of the gully for her father's bath when he came home at night from the mine. The Spring at the ravine became a popular place for young people to meet, and several romances began when a boy offered to carry a girl's pail up the bank".

From the book, Black Diamond City

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Eliza Parkin's Timeline

1848
May 2, 1848
England, United Kingdom
1865
January 29, 1865
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
1867
February 4, 1867
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
1868
August 6, 1868
1869
November 6, 1869
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
1871
July 11, 1871
Nanaimo, Nanaimo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
1873
April 7, 1873
Nanaimo, Nanaimo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
1875
May 26, 1875
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
1876
December 5, 1876
Nanaimo, Nanaimo Regional District, British Columbia, Canada