Shuswap district (B.C.)

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Administrative records relating to Forest Protection Plans

  • GR-0992
  • Series
  • 1929

This series consists of Forest Protection Plans, 1929, by S.E. Marling (288 pp.). Includes information on ranger stations, buildings, boats, equipment, fire lookouts, organization, trails, forest cover, causes of fires, and list of settlers with telephones.

British Columbia. Kamloops Forest District (1913-1978)

Annie E. Bostock interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Annie "Nan" Bostock discusses her father, Hewitt Bostock, a lawyer who came from Cambridge in 1888, and bought a ranch at Monte Creek; his decision to settle in the south Thompson because of the sunsets. She describes original settlers including Jacob Duck; details about the ranch; homesteaders and the influx of immigrants from 1908 to 1912. She tells how her mother and father met; ;their subsequent marriage and the eventual move to Canada from England in 1894. She continues with the story of how her father learned of her birth; her father's constituency while in politics; her earliest memories of growing up on the ranch; schooling; various characters involved with the train; details about roads in those days; livestock; and houses that her father built. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Annual improvement reports

  • GR-1060
  • Series
  • 1927-1930

This series contains annual improvement reports of the Shuswap Forest District. Includes descriptions of the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, ranger stations, lookouts, and cabins.

Canada. Environment Canada. Forestry Service

[Armstrong, Enderby, Salmon Arm] : [footage and out-takes]

Footage. Various shots of businesses, factories, farming, and social life in the North Okanagan and Shuswap regions. Armstrong shots include: overview of valley, Triangle Poultry Farm, main street businesses, rail yard and station, prosperous family at home, Golden Gate Cafe, Interior Provincial Exhibition livestock competition, horse race, fairgrounds. Enderby footage shows main street, including Sutherland's Bakery and King Edward Hotel, bus on highway, pasturing of cattle, celery packing. Salmon Arm subjects include Safe Community Store and other store fronts, box mill, fruit packing, a bottling plant, a man guzzling soft drinks, men examining a crop field, apple packing, railway station, more packing, Shuswap Lake. Last shots show a display of Okanagan apples and fruit (in the Okanagan or at the PNE, Vancouver?).

B.F. Young interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. B.F. Young describes his family background; his mother and uncle at Lumby; his father's background; how his father came to Canada; the town of Lansdowne; the Chinese people there; farming; in the area; a story about a fire in the town; people in the Armstrong area; cowboys and other characters; Captain Shorts' canal; general comments about farming and development in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Clayton Johnson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clayton Johnson : Kootenay logging and milling RECORDED: Parson (B.C.), 1972-10-18 SUMMARY: Clayton Johnson was born in 1919 and discusses the Depression years in the Shuswap area; fruit-farming; small operator versus large logging companies; and farming and logging in Parson, B.C.;

Constance Johnson interview

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Constance Johnson. Constance Johnson's family came from New Brunswick in 1911. Her father ranched at Silver Creek and later moved to Salmon Arm. Discusses childhood in Salmon Arm, ca. 1920; Indigenous people around Salmon Arm; household features of the early days; dairy farming, orchards, service jobs; youthful activities like lectures, dancing, drama, and visits of Governors-General, and Zane Grey.

Correspondence

  • GR-0747
  • Series
  • 1907

Letter to Provincial Archivist E.O.S. Scholefield from Anthropologist James A. Teit regarding Simon Fraser's identifications of the Shuswap, Chilcotin and Thompson River Indians.

British Columbia. Legislative Library

Correspondence

Letters from Anne (McQueen) Gordon written from Nicola and Kamloops (1887-1888), St. Thomas, Ontario (1890), Salmon Arm (1894-1895), Crow's Nest Landing, Phillipps, and Gateway (1897-1905), and Victoria (1912-1925). Two letters from Jessie McQueen, Lower Nicola, 1890-1891. Anne Gordon taught school in Nicola before her marriage. In Victoria she was involved with community and women's organizations and was head of the Homes Branch of the Soldier Settlement Board.

Correspondence and other material

  • GR-1228
  • Series
  • 1933-1954

This series contains general correspondence files regarding Provincial Forest Reserves coded MFR Supervision according to the Forest Service filing system described in Operational Manual with instructions to Forest officers ... (Victoria, 1942), pp. 109-110, 341-353. For a copy see GR-0944, Box 1. Files containing this code pertain to all correspondence and reports dealing with Forest Reserves, policy, methods of classification for Reserve, regulations, Orders-in-Council establishing boundary surveys, etc.

British Columbia. Kamloops Forest District (1913-1978)

David Fraser interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fraser recalls people and events around Adams Lake from 1900s to 1950s, including the first white inhabitants, a prospector Andy McClone; story about the rescue of a trapper with scurvy; Jack Wallace of Sunset Creek; and about a trapper Bill Anderson who died of a stroke. He describes the Adams River Lumber Company; a horse-logging operation that once employed 400 men. He recalls a colony of Seventh Day Adventists that lasted four years on upper Adams Lake. He tells about the failed attempt to settle Doukhobors on upper Adams in early 1950s. He tells about a man who robbed the U.S. army payroll and used the money to start the Cariboo Lodge on the lake, but was eventually caught. The lodge was taken over by a German named Jacob. Fraser operated the steamboat "A.R. Hellen" on the lake for the Adams River Lumber Company, and was involved in the rescuing a mentally ill Swede and others who became sick. He describes the system of dams built by the Adams Lake Lumber Company to transport logs down to mill in Chase. Mr. Fraser concludes with an account of how he came to lower Adams Lake beginning with birth in N.B.; work in Saskatchewan; then Vancouver before going to Adams Lake where his brother lived, and where he married and settled. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Diary

Series consists of correspondence, 1904, and diaries April - June 1904, winter 1905-1906, and August 14 - October 10, 1907 concerning trapping and prospecting, Tumtum Creek, Shuswap district and of a reconnaissance survey made for lumber company from Fort St. Ann across Wapiti Pass to the Big Salmon River and back.

[D.M. Sinclair films]

Amateur film. Travel footage showing places and scenery in British Columbia's southern interior, including the Okanagan, Boundary, Arrow Lakes, Slocan, Shuswap, Nicola and Big Bend regions. Also includes footage showing activities in Zeballos and vicinity during the gold rush there: mining, community celebrations and sports, a flood, and various transport aircraft serving the area. There is also footage showing logging operations, presumably on Vancouver Island.

Edward Poole Coles interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. E.P. Coles describes how he came to the northwest in 1905 when he was seventeen, after being prompted to do so by some people he met on the boat from England; his first impressions of the; area; the area which used to be called Grand Prairie, including anecdotes about people and events there; stories about a remittance man; stories about cowboys; and stories about taking cattle to load; on the trains. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Ethel B. Byers interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. E.B. Byers discusses how her father, George Coburn, from New Brunswick, was coming west and eventually met her mother in Shuswap and decided to stop his voyage and marry her. Mrs. Byers tells the story of how he decided to come west and other anecdotes about her father and a character named Pat Burns in Winnipeg; how her father worked as a brakeman for the CPR; the story of her mother, who was Susan Jenny MacBryne, and stories about how that side of her family came to Canada; how her grandfather started a cattle ranch near Chase Creek; the story of her grandparents marriage in Kelowna and stories about her grandparents' family growing up near Shuswap. Mrs. Byers then offers her earliest memories about growing up in the area, including names of families; stories of studying; piano and organ in Kamloops; her first ever dance when she was eleven years old; old timers, including people traveling to the gold mines by camel, and an old Indian woman who could not walk, until she became to frightened by the sight of a camel, that she was able to run a trip to Kamloops as a child; her father's homestead in Turtle Valley and anecdotes about when she was a baby there and ate a caterpillar; how her father started a sawmill to supply the Kamloops Power Company with fuel for their boilers; how her grandfather supplied the CPR with milk for years; and more anecdotes about mills in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

[Fires 67 No. 1]

Stock shots. Shots in and from a bird-dog plane showing forest fire and airtankers making drops. At tanker base, crew mixing fire retardent. Air crew, ranger and dispatcher at [Kamloops?] base. Suppression crew loading truck and driving through forest. Fire lookout observing smoke. Many shots of telephone and radio use. Shot in and from fire patrol plane. More airtanker drops. Extensive footage of ground crew, caterpillar tracks, trucks and other equipment fighting fire.

Florence and Andrew Fyall interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Florence Fyall describes her father, Fred Folkard, who came to Canada from England with her brother in 1904; she came with her mother in October of that year; how her father was a flour miller; her uncle, George Folkard; the homestead in the area; her memory of coming over from England by boat; her impressions of Enderby upon arrival by train; living in a log cabin; animals in the area including bears; living life in the area; a fire which burnt all of the land except for the house; anecdotes about what life was like including various characters; and teachers in her school days. Then; Andrew Fyall describes how he came into the country on March 18, 1912, upon landing in Vernon; his first impressions; getting offered work as a bartender but electing to work outdoors; other jobs he worked at; homesteading; buying and selling property; contracting bailing hay; a trucking business; and what life was like. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Florence Wilson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence Wilson recalls her father and mother and life in Falkland and Vancouver, 1892 to 1900. She discusses her father, Falkland Warren, and his background; how her brother came to Canada; more on her father's background; memories of arriving in Armstrong with her family; a trip by wagon to Falkland where her father had bought a ranch; her mother's reaction to pioneer life; her mother and father moved to Vancouver; more on her father's military career; school days in Vancouver; the ranch at Falkland and incidents of life there. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Form of Accounts book

Series consists of a Form of Accounts book. An administrative manual, this volume contains a circular (dated 30 March 1867) from Roderick Finlayson, Chief Factor at Fort Victoria, to the officer in charge of the Shuswap District. This circular outlines the rules for conducting business and gives examples of 48 forms to be used in administering that business.

Frances Bell interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Frances Bell describes where she was born at Chase Ranch; her father, James Ross, who was born in Scotland and came to Canada in 1863, and landed in Victoria; his adventures in the Big B;end country; a description of her father, including his interests; the thirty-year age difference between her father and mother; details about her family; how her father fell in love with the area around Chase; her mother Sarah Chase; old Mr. Chase who was a school teacher; details about his life; the school built near Shuswap; the origins of the town of Chase; her schooling in New Westminster; Louis Cummings and other early settlers; how pace of life in these days is much faster than in the old days; and cattle ranching. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Frank Kappel interview : [Imbert Orchard, 1966]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Kappel describes how he came from Wales with a friend, Loland Salt, after seven years in Germany, because English was the language of Canada, and because the family of the woman he; was engaged to had land out by Shuswap Lake. He describes his first impressions upon coming into the area; remittance men; the process of building a house; selling wood; settling at Notch Hill; hostility aimed at the British; the first settlers at Chase; the first sawmill in the area, and the family who started it; the development of more sawmills; his property at Celista and the first settlers there; the timber industry at that time; having to clear land in order to get a patent to farm it in Magna Bay; his time in WWI; his job as a fire warden; other jobs he has worked at; how much he loved; his outdoor work; his work decoding German messages during the war; and his impressions of Indigenous peoples. TRACK 2: Mr. Kappel continues by discussing sawmill activity in the area; how in 1926 the company; he worked with built a sawmill in Canoe, then later sold it; a man who was rumoured to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce; an anecdote about a murder; the discovery of gold at the big bend of; the Columbia at Seymour Arm [?]; details about Sicamous; Notch Hill; growing apples at Salmon Arm; families in the area; game in the Shuswap area; how his wife liked the country; various odd characters; salmon runs before the slide at Hell's Gate; stories about various old timers and characters.

Frederick W. Hodson papers

Diaries, 1917-1939 (11 volumes), also contains loose material; correspondence, 1913-1968, literary manuscripts; newspaper and magazine articles; reminiscences, 1915-1929 (preliminary and final drafts). Numerous photographs removed to Visual Records. Microfilm of diaries, 1917-1929 [Reel A00232], microfilm of reminiscences (final draft), omitting chapters 1-3 [Reel A00233].

Gift of Mrs. F.W. Hodson, Shawnigan Lake, 1967 and 1974.

Finding aid: reel/file list.

Guy Collings interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Guy Collings discusses his father, artist Charles John Collings, who came to Canada from England in 1910 to paint; their background in England; more on the life of his father; advertising in England to come to Canada; details on his father's paintings and painting supplies; what Sicamous was like when he arrived; details on the Seymour Arm; going back to England in 1920 with the intention of staying until his brother contracted rheumatic fever and they had to come back; the fruit season and canning small fruits; and people who lived in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Collings continues ;by discussing the quietness of life in the area; how their parents liked living in the area; land cleared in the area; irrigation and planting fruit trees.

Harry and Margery Aldred interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frederick Harry Aldred talks about life in Oyama and Vernon, 1906 to 1919. He and his father shared the same name. He describes how his parents came to the Okanagan in 1906 and he followed in 1907; his father ran a store at Oyama; he offers an anecdote about boats and roads in the area; he discusses Price Ellison; his arrival and first impressions; how his English accent was a problem at school; his impressions of Vernon and its people; trips to Mabel Lake; working on land at Mabel Lake; hard times; memories of Oyama and Mabel Lake; Sailor Jack's cabin and comments about drinking. TRACK 2: Mr. Aldred continues with an anecdote about the arrival of the Aberdeens in Vernon; Vernon people versus Coldstream people; fruit growing; Price Ellison and Cornelius O'Keefe; Chinese people; Vernon's red light district; an anecdote about the mayor. Then Mrs. Aldred [nee Margery K. Dobson] discusses the background of her father, Alan Dobson; living in England and in the Okanagan; impressions of Enderby; feelings on her return to Canada near the end of the First World War; life in Oyama and meeting her husband. Then Mr. Aldred discusses Oyama in 1907; lumbering; church services; ;an inquisitive real estate man; the store at Oyama; and the name Oyama.

Harry Ferguson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry A. Ferguson describes his father's life as a gold miner who came over in 1862 from Belfast via San Francisco; he went to Barkerville; he built a hotel in Clinton and then bought a hotel on the south side of the lake in 1885; in 1874 his father took the first horses to Alberta with 300 head for the Mounted Police; a description of his father's journey is given; and he describes growing up in Salmon Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Henry Copeland interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Henry Copeland discusses the WWI years spent in the 5th Battalion "The Fifth Western Cavalry", of Paton, Saskatchewan. Training in England. How he found out about the War. Conditions at the front (armament). To France in 1915 at Ypres. Routines at the front. A special raid. Winter on the Somme. A close call. Vimy -- the barrage and the attack. Return to Canada, to Manitoba and move to B.C. The farm at Notch Hill near Salmon Arm. Incident with soldier's settlement board. First Christmas. Hard times. The coffee shop and store. The Depression years. Christmas just before the Depression, a funny story. Depression conditions. Christmas for the poor (dinners). Family matters. Christmas dinner, presents. Notch Hill background. A story of a Christmas in the Depression.

[Highway building at Salmon Arm]

Amateur film. "A rock-crushing site; asphalt is loaded into a truck. At road-building site the truck dumps the asphalt. The road is graded and rolled. MIXERS: The camera records the operation of two giant machines, fed by trucks. The trucks dump gravel from crusher into huge scoops which raise the rock, dumping it into the mixer which digests it until processed, at which time the asphalt is moved in buckets to a hopper under which sits a truck ready to receive the material. The truck, once filled, drives away and is replaced by another. There are several complete shots of this operation. Scene of work yard in wild country where crushers and other machines are operating and filling trucks. Truck dumping fill with grader waiting. Grader grading. Shovel working. Blasting a sandy bluff. Huge machine moving dirt overhead, seems to be scraping it off the road then dumping it behind. Heavy dirt movers assemble on the road and drive by. Many shots of carryalls, from many angles. Forms and some already-poured cement posts for a large bridge across a gully. Many-good shots of a crane moving dirt." (Colin Browne)

James A. (Sandy) Graham interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James A. "Sandy" Graham describes how he was born in Cultrafarm (Shuswap), BC, in 1880 how his father Thomas Graham came from Belfast in the 1870s, and the story of how his father bought a house from Jimmy Ross on the Thompson; the story of how his mother came to the area; incidents about the railroad coming through in 1885; a boat called the "Enderby" which was a side wheeler; Mr. Fortune, the man who ran the boat, including details about his character; details about Mrs. Fortune and the whole family; other families in the area including that of Senator Bostock and the Campbell family; various characters including Jimmy Leighton; steamboats when he was a child, during the time of railroad construction; early days at Chase and the development there from 1908 to 1912; how the sawmill industry affected the town; Jimmy Ross's store there; Mr. Chase, and stories about crossing the river on a scow with all of his household goods. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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