[3] In the winter of 1852–53, a Scottish shepherd named Peter Brown was killed near present-day Nanaimo by two natives, one from Cowichan the other from Snuneymuxw.

[6] On 14 January 1913, the SS Oscar was loaded with dynamite, black powder, and coal from Departure Bay bound for Howe Sound.

It had left Nanaimo Harbour and had gotten as far as Entrance Island when Captain Alexander McDonald realised the weather was too bad to proceed and that there was a fire near the ship's boilers.

The explosion was so great, windows all over Nanaimo were shattered, debris was propelled into town, and the post office clock stopped working at 1:55.

[7] On 10 September 1918, sixteen men lost their lives when the hoisting cable frayed on the cab that was lowering miners into the mine.

It is a one-storey, Edwardian cottage and the historic place is confined to the building footprint and adjacent two-acre grounds.