Henry James Caldwell, 1864-1903

• Born in 1864 in New Brunswick.
• In 1903, the news covered the gruesome death of 38-year-old surveyor Harry Caldwell, who blew himself up while fishing with dynamite in Esquimalt waters.
• The unusual circumstances of Caldwell’s death led to a coroner’s inquest to determine whether the death was an accident or suicide. 
• Henry Caldwell is buried at Ross Bay Cemetery.
• Loyalist Ancestors:  Captain Simon Baxter,  1730-1804 & Benjamin Milliken,  1728-1791