Chad Reimer
August 05th, 2026
Meticulous archival research. Clear accessible prose. Nuanced scholarship. These and other salutary characterizations adhere to BC historian Chad Reimer’s voluminous output, which includes Chilliwack’s China Towns: A History (UBC Press, 2009), The Trials of Albert Stroebel (Caitlin Press, 2023) and most recently, A Refined Cruelty: The Nine Deaths of Robert Sproule (Caitlin Press $27). The nine deaths—eight hanging reprieves leading to a final dangle in 1885—were endured by an American prospector and miner who purportedly shot and killed another miner, Thomas Hammil, near Kootenay Lake. Prospective readers of this true-crime account will find themselves dangling, figuratively, alongside these colourfully rendered figures. 9781773861951
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