Irene Kelleher lived all her life in the shadow of her inheritance.
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Attracted to the future British Columbia by a gold rush beginning in 1858, Irene\'s White grandfathers had families with Indigenous women.
To be mixed was to not belong.
The combination of White and Indigenous descent that Irene embodied was beyond the bounds of acceptability by a dominant White society.
Her local community in British Columbia\'s Fraser Valley all too often treated her as if she was invisible.
Irene Kelleher lived all her life in the shadow of her inheritance