". . .My first born came along, before the doors had been hung. We had only three rooms and a kitchen altogether. Of course the boy-baby was a wonder, a light-haired blue-eyed fair little fellow. When he was about a month or two old we found him dead in the bed one morning. The anguish felt at this is indescribable. The poor little fellow was buried in the garden where the holly now grows - close by our bedroom window. An oval of white daisies were planted around with a daisy cross in the centre."

Claude Douglas is now buried in the family tomb in Pioneer Square, Victoria, BC

The Helmcken Children Catherine Amelia Helmcken

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