SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Louise McFadden : Lardeau Valley, 1910-1952 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Louise McFadden discusses Slim Hatfield. Parents came to Argenta from Switzerland. Cleared land on flats and established the Evergreen Cattle Ranch. Construction of Corra Linn Dam changed the ecology of delta at head of Kootenay Lake. Describes parents' early years in Argenta. Father raised cattle and boarded pack horses during the off-season. Father's death, mother moved away. Farm leased to a number of different people. Paul Stevens. Trips on sternwheelers as a young child. Barrow, retired engineer, lives in Johnsons Landing. TRACK 2: Quakers moved into Argenta. Working on roads to pay property taxes. Building of Hamill Creek canyon road.