The Letters of Whitfield Chase

From about 1859 to 1863 there was no correspondence from Whitfield to his family. He resumed writing home in 1863. The letters we have here are all from his family to him, with the exception of one excerpt from Whitfield to his sister Tempe.

Whitfield by 1862 was prospecting up the South Thompson River but by the fall of 1864 had returned to Kamloops determined to try his hand at ranching. He settled in the "Shuswap Prairie", just west of Little Shuswap Lake.

Sometime between 1865 and 1870, Whitfield married Per-soons, the daughter of Chief Cin-tsin-ki-a of the Neskonlith Band. Their first child (of ten) was born January 1, 1869. Over the next 13 years they had six girls and four boys.

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