“Men don’t wear pistols in Canada!”

[u/Borealbound]

The photographic, archaeological & written evidence seems to suggest otherwise.

Don‘t even make me delve into the first legislation against firearms ownership which dominion of Canada implemented and where those laws applied and who they were used against.

[u/infinus5]

Fun fact about the first shot. The miners are guarding their discovery because it was free mill gold on surface. Poplar creek area of the kootaneys BC.

[u/DonAzuld → u/infinus5]

They should have just stayed inside and phoned the police.

[u/Borealbound → u/DonAzuld]

Claim jumpers will fuck your shit up. 

[u/infinus5 → u/Borealbound]

i am not 100% sure on when the law changed but not long ago claim jumping was still considered a serious enough offense that people could be shot over it (it was considered a grand theft or similar crime).

[u/Borealbound → u/infinus5]

Should be treated the same way as horse theft. 

[u/infinus5 → u/Borealbound]

in the cariboo rush Judge Begbie (the Hanging Judge) would have put you in the stockade for horse theft and confiscation of claims or possessions for claim jumping.