The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Nanaimo Packet
The Nanaimo Packet was a schooner that was taken into custody on 30 May 1869, because its captain had
illegally provided alcohol to a group of First Nations.1 Authorities would later confiscate the vessel and fine its captain $500.2
1. G. P. V. Akrigg and H. B. Akrigg, British Columbia Chronicle, 1847-1871 (Victoria: Discovery Press, 1977), 374.