Kubasek, Joseph Matthew
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Joseph Kubasek was born in Yugoslavia(?) around 1884. He died on June 16, 1935 in Princeton, BC.
He came to Princeton around 1905 and was employed at the Tulameen Mine. He lived on Railway Avenue in Princeton at the time of his death.
On June 16th, 1935, he ate what he thought were mushrooms but were actually toadstools. He became ill and later died at the Princeton Hospital.
George Dobie, president of the former Miners’ Union, speaking at a gathering of striking and unemployed workers inferred that Kubasek had starved to death. However, his claim was proven false at the inquest into Kubasek’s death.
Kubasek was one of the workers instructed to return to work (the mine strike had begun two weeks previous) and he would have been given relief had he complied. Men were ordered to report to Road Foreman for work. Some refused and relief was cut off on June 6th. (It is unknown whether Kubasek was one of them).
Death registration (BC Archives); Princeton Star, June 13, 1935, page 1; June 27, 1935, page 1