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before 1976
Lillooet, British Columbia
Informant said that on a mountain bench above Lillooet she saw among the pine trees what at first appeared to be two tree trunks moving slowly. She realized they were huge legs and feet. Only the bottom four feet of…
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Date unknown
British Columbia
Bruce McKelvie, an journalist and historian who had a file of sasquatch reports, was interviewed by John Green and Rene Dahinden about 1957. He said that a friend of his had shot and killed a sasquatch, but he was not…
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Date unknown
Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
An elderly Indian at Bella Bella told John Green and Bob Titmus that he had seen an ape watching him from a tree, a long time ago. No further information recorded.
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Date unknown
Bella Bella, Gunboat Passage, British Columbia
Cliff Kopas told John Green and Bob Titmus that two apes had been seen at Gunboat Passage near Bella Bella, a large one with a small one dancing around its knee. Indians also told the story. Witness(s) presumably would have…
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Date unknown
Klemtu, Aristazabel Isl, British Columbia
Starr (last name) said his father and brother had both watched and heard an ape on Aristazabel Island. No further information recorded.
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before 1940
Brittania Beach, Anvil Isl, British Columbia
Charles Cates, then mayor of North Vancouver, told John Green and Rene Dahinden that an Indian friend of his was one of a party sleeping in a tent on Anvil Island, in Howe Sound, when a sasquatch stuck its head…
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Date unknown
Harrison Hot Springs, Fraser Valley Dis, British Columbia
Lewis Hall told John Green that his father, Matthew Hall, who had been in the Fraser Valley since 1858, knew a Scottish Hudson Bay Company man who had seen a family of sasquatches in the Harrison area.
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Jun 1884
Yale, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
This story in the Victoria Colonist, July 3, 1884, was presented as an apparently-serious dispatch from a correspondent at Yale. In the early 60's August Castle, an Indian at Yale, said he remembered the incident although he had not seen…
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Dec 1904
Port Alberni, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Newspaper stories tell of four men from Qualicum, A.B. Crump. J. Kincaid, T. Hutchins and W. Buss, hunting near Horne Lake when they came upon a wild man, apparently young, with long matted hair and beard and a profusion of…
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early 1900's
Campbell River, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Mike King was a very well-known timber cruiser, woodsman and entrepreneur. The newspaper stories so far found do not tell of his experience at the time that it took place, but in connection with later sightings on Vancouver Island. One…
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Apr 1905
Comox, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Captain Owens, steamboat pilot from Nanaimo, told by John Fraser at Union Bay that local Indians in a canoe had seen what they thought was a bear on the beach between Union Bay and Comox. One man fired at it…
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1905
Kemano, Gardner Canal, British Columbia
An old story on the B.C. coast, heard by William Freeman from his father. Billy Hall, hunting with another man, saw two animals in an opening in the mountainside and shot, killing one. The other one took it by the…
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Jun 1905
Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
James Kincaid, one of four men who reported seeing a wild man near Horne Lake in 1904, wrote from Little Qualicum to the government agent at Nanaimo on June 18 saying that he overtook on his bicycle what he thought…
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early 1930's
Klemtu, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Joe Robinson, Klemtu, told Bob Titmus that his father while hunting near a lake 25 miles east of Klemtu saw two 5-foot, hair-covered black creatures playing around as they walked downhill towards the lake. It was dusk, he had a…
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Jun about 1930
Klemtu, Swindle Isl, British Columbia
Tom Brown was present as a child at Kwakwa, where Klemtu people once lived on the west side of Swindle Island (Indian Reserve 7) when the adults heard a noise of something walking in the shallow water, and saw and…
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May 1934
Harrison Mills, Chehalis Reserve, British Columbia
Newspaper story, presumably by J.W. Burns, states that Mrs. Caulfield was washing clothes in a rivulet when she heard a buzzing sound, looked up and saw a huge man covered with hair from head to foot standing just a few…
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Sep 1935
Harrison Hot Spring, Morris Valley, British Columbia
No witnesses are named in this newspaper story, presumably written by J.W. Burns, and some elements of the story appear fanciful. Two hairy giants are said to have come leaping and bounding out of the forest, crossing bog and swamp…
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Mar 1934
Harrison Hot Spring, Morris Creek, British Columbia
Newspaper story refers to unnamed Indian fishing from a canoe on Morris Creek when a huge rock landed close enough to almost swamp the craft. He looked up and saw a fierce sasquatch on a shelving ledge above him, stamping…
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about 1937
Osooyos, Anarchist Mountain, British Columbia
Jane Patterson went looking for rhubarb in the old garden of an abandoned house near her ranch. She ducked under a tree branch and confronted 10 feet away a light brown creature like a monkey, but larger than herself, sitting…
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early 1940's
Coombs, Vancouver Isl, British Columbia
Alex Oakes in early 1940's saw "damn near human" covered with hair run from a field across the road and into the bush, clearing two fences on the run, with long hair flying from its shoulders. It was brown and…
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late 1940's
Klemtu, Central Coast Dis, British Columbia
Bob Titmus was told that several Klemtu Indians hunting from a boat saw three or four large, very heavy, dark hair-covered creatures on shore. Story to vague to put much stock in.
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about 1945
Osooyos, Anarchist Mountain, British Columbia
Mrs. Hazel Smith told John Green that her brother-in-law, Don Dainard, of Rock Creek, B.C. while riding southwest of the Patterson ranch at Bridesville, saw an animal sitting on a log which took off running faster on its hind legs…
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1947
Bella Coola, Burke Channel, British Columbia
Bill Mounce was on a tug between Kwatna Inlet and South Bentinck in Burke Channel, about 200 yards from the south shore. He and the skipper saw an animal the colour of a grizzly walking upright on large rocks on…
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about 1950
Kemano, Kitlope River, British Columbia
Chuck Davis, commercial fisherman, recalled being told by Indians from Hartley Bay about a sasquatch seen at Kitlope River in 1950. Witnesses were Johnny Paul, Kemano Channel, and Whyler Robinson, Hartley Bay.
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1952
Terrace, Skeena Valley, British Columbia
Man from Terrace visiting N.J. Dyck's dinosaur park told him that he saw something standing beside a main road, slowed down and stopped his car. The creature, standing upright, watched him for a while then turned and walked away. It…