RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-06 SUMMARY: Imbert Orchard interviews an unidentified man and woman about Soda Creek, then recording shifts to another location. Discussion of the history and background of the Bryant family.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to ranching and pioneer life in the Chilcotin region of B.C.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-27 SUMMARY: Mr. Harold Stuart remembers the Redstone area from 1920 to 1950, his father Andrew Stuart, Indians, the fur trade, grocery shipments from Williams Lake to Redstone, Benny Franklin, A.P. Lee, E. Penrose, who established the Redstone reserve, and murders. Then, Miss Christine Stuart continues about murders, a history of an early doctor, a description of E.P. Lee, and Indian and white relations. Then Mr. Stuart remembers and Indian old timer, Grande Bouche, and an Indian legend.

RECORDED: Hagensborg (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: At the time of this interview, Christine was living in the house in which she was born and had also raised her own family. She worked at the store her father built in Hagensborg, near Bella Coola. Bella Coola was very isolated, only served by boat, until the settlers built a road to Anahim Lake, and thence to Williams Lake.

The collection mainly consists of oral history interviews with Cariboo district residents, mainly recorded by Dr. John Roberts and Reg Beck. It also includes some radio coverage of special events in the area. Some of this material was recorded for (or broadcast by) CKCQ Quesnel or its sister station, CKWL Williams Lake.

The series consists of records created by the Department of Lands between 1882 and 1923. It contains a Coast Land District, Range 2 lot register for lots 1-693. The register lists the lots in numerical order and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchaser, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

The series consists of records created by the Department of Lands between 1888 and 1953. It contains a Coast Land District, Range 3 lot register, covering lots 1-720. The register lists the lots in numerical order and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchaser, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

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.

The series consists of photocopies of three letters and a written "sketch" sent to friends and a brother in England. Hargreaves arrived in Victoria from England on July 2, 1862. The letter of Sept. 1, 1862 describes his first attempt to reach the Cariboo, from which he turned back, his work as a survey assistant in the Cowichan district, and his reaction to the articles written by Donald Fraser, the London TIMES correspondent. The second letter, Jan. 9, 1865, describes a trip to Cariboo in 1863 and the third item is a "sketch of a trip I made in the winter of 1875" describing a CPR exploratory survey in the Chilcotin. The final item, a letter of Feb 6, 1878, continues the account of his survey work in 1875, describing work in the Salmon (Kimsquit) River Valley at the head of Dean Channel, and in the Kemano River.

The series contains letters concerning the publication of short stories and "Three Against the Wilderness"; a letter to the Game Commissioner re the antlerless deer season; a letter from his brother in England re family matters; various financial records; notebooks; typescript and galley proofs of "Three Against the Wilderness"; manuscripts of short stories and clippings.

This series consists of Correspondence files of the Cariboo District Forester relating to timber sales, 1917-1933. Includes logging inspection reports, timber sale reports, status inquiries, surveys, and sale contracts.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: Mr. Dan Lee, of Hanceville in the Chilcotin, tells the story of his father Norman Lee and his journey from England in 1887, early work, going into the fur trading business with Hugh Bayliff, roads in the area, the fur business, the Lee Ranch, mail delivery, comments on the local Indians, Mrs. Hance and other early white women of the area, the Bechers and their stopping house at Riske Creek.

Daybook, 1906-1910 and 1920-1926.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dean Holt talks about the Bryant family and other people of the Tatla Lake area, 1922 to 1935. Mr. Holt describes his family background; how he came to the Chilcotin at the age of sixteen; family details; his first impression of the area; the Bryant family at Tatla Lake; details of a journey with the Bryant family to a homestead at Tatla; Bob Graham and his family; more on the Bryant's journey; people in the area and the quality of life there; Dan Puckett; Piper and Old Ballou. TRACK 2: More on Old Ballou; homemade whisky; stages; Lester Dorsey; and comments on the Bryants.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dennis Walker recalls the journey from England to Vancouver with his parents in 1892, and their eventual move to the head of Bute Inlet; his father's name was William George Walker. He ;then describes building a homestead; the slow influx of other settlers; the growth of the community around Mr. Walker's original home site; social events in the community of Bute Inlet; various attempts by his father to sell farm produce in Vancouver; the problems which arise from being so far from the market; and stories of other families in the town. TRACK 2: Mr. Walker continues by describing; a trip with other youths up the Southgate River to the Chilcotin; a description of the salmon spawning season; comments on wildlife in the area; the death and burial of three Walker children; the destruction of the township by fire; an anecdote about original settler Tony Bernhardt; the death of Shorty Hibbs at the hands of the Indians; comments on coast and interior Indians; the unused Mallard Company Tannery; the climate and physical setting of the township; his father's departure for work in Vancouver; the gradual departure of the other settlers when the railroad failed to materialize; and; his travels through BC, especially Barkerville, as a machinist.

Diaries of H.E. Church, 1890-1933; account book and personal papers of R.H. Church, 1927-1969; business papers re the Church ranch; papers of the Big Creek Stock Breeders Association, 1923-1969. H.E. Church emigrated from England to Canada in 1886. He homesteaded on Sheep Creek in Southern Alberta from 1887 to 1897, farmed at Comox, B.C. from 1897 to 1902, and in 1903 moved to Big Creek, B.C.

The series consists of a diary kept by Hargreaves while a member of "W.X.Y." division during a C.P.R. survey of Bute Inlet, 1872. Also includes a typescript diary and survey notes, May to October 1874, kept while surveying between Burrard Inlet and Pender Harbour.

Diary of a survey carried out for the Water Rights Branch, August and September, 1929, between Chilco Lake and Bishop River and between Franklyn Arm of Chilco Lake and the forks of the Southgate and Bishop Rivers, with a view to determining the possibility of diverting Chilco Lake either by a tunnel through Mt. Chilco or by a Tunnel from Franklyn Arm to Southgate River. Also contains survey notes and pencil sketches. Map transferred to Map Collection, accession 18445.

RECORDED: Chilko Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Weir was born in Ontario, and at the age of 18 joined the North West Mounted Police, where he served for two years. Later he became a cowboy, a policeman and a cattle range detective.;

CALL NUMBER: T3150:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: How Dr. Nelson, Dr. Roy Carlson and Dr. Rudi Haering became involved in exploring Alexander Mackenzie's trail through central BC and looking for the source of a form of obsidian used in trade among native people; their first adventures travelling by horse in a pack train. TRACK 2: Following Mackenzie's trail from Haering's Blackwater Ranch; confirming Mackenzie's fish story; impressions of the landscape; camping along the route; discoveries of obsidian; local residents; finding the trail; crossing the Blackwater River to Kluskus; church at Kluskus; wildlife on the trail; Indians at Kluskus; artefacts.

CALL NUMBER: T3150:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Trail from Kluskus to Pan Phillips' dude ranch; obsidian in the Ulkatcho mountains; travel to Dean River; trip to Vancouver to have rock analysed; visit to Ulkatcho village. TRACK 2: Trail through Tanga Lake; trip over Mackenzie Pass to the Bella Coola River and down to Bella Coola; visit to Mackenzie's rock; canoe trip down the Bella Coola River; radio contact with the outside world; brief comments on the trip as an experience.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Roy Carlson describes his part in the trip over Alexander Mackenzie's trail to find the source of mysterious forms of obsidian used in native trade; visit to the Trudeau ranch; travel on horseback; Kluskus village, its church and archaeological sites; the obsidian trade and why it is studied; adventures while travelling from Blackwater Ranch to Tanya Lake, through Mackenzie Pass to Bella Coola; finding sources of obsidian. TRACK 2: Information from locals; sources of obsidian and the trade along the trail; comments on ranching in that part of the Chilcotin.

CALL NUMBER: T3149:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The obsidian trail : [tape 1] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Rudi Haering tells how he became involved in exploring the trade route along Alexander Mackenzie's trail through BC, and looking for the source of a form of obsidian used in trade among native people; X-ray techniques in archaeology; trade routes; how the three scholars (i.e., Haering, Carlson, and Nelson) got together to find the source of the mysterious obsidian; findings; problems along the trail. TRACK 2: Finding the trail from Mackenzie Pass to the Bella Coola Valley; trip from the Blackwater Ranch to Mackenzie Pass through Kluskus and Ulkatcho; Burnt Bridge Creek; canoeing down the Bella Coola River with natives; Indian story about Mackenzie.

CALL NUMBER: T3149:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The obsidian trail : [tape 2] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Retracing Mackenzie's route from Blackwater Ranch on horseback and wagon; campsites; wildlife; artifacts; local ranches; more on campsites; Kluskoil Lake. TRACK 2: Pan Phillips' ranch; looking for obsidian in Ulkatcho mountains; more about Kluskus; other travellers; trail from Eliguk Lake to Ulkatcho; Mackenzie's accomplishment; visit to Mackenzie's rock; Saugstad house at Hagensborg.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chilcotin ranching in the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Dude Lavington. He talks about starting a cattle ranch 60 miles west of Quesnel in 1931; cutting roads; hunting; and the origin of his name "Dude".

Family papers (certificates, correspondence re his daughters hospitalization): papers re cattle (grazing, brands, sales, etc.); papers re guiding and trapping; correspondence re land; papers re mining; bills.

CALL NUMBER: T1785:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Elmer Purdue tells a story about hunting near Soda Creek and eating a groundhog; when he first met the Bryant family; a story about a mean old timer named Lou who attacked Mr. Purdue; people in the area; Bull Canyon; his first impressions of Cyrus Bryant who was fixing an out-of-tune piano; Mr. Madden who lived near Soda Creek; working at Gang Ranch; the Bryant family as he remembers them; and what his life was like when he met them. TRACK 2: Mr. Purdue continues by describing when the Bryant family arrived at Tatla Lake on Christmas; the trail from Alexis Creek to Bella Coola; Benny Franklin; more stories about life with the Bryant family at Tatla Lake; differences in the personalities of the Bryant children; stories about the children; hunting in Tatla Lake; working odd jobs for food.

CALL NUMBER: T1785:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1970?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Purdue discusses more homes in which the Bryant family lived (while looking at pictures); a Bryant family dog named Sandy; a teacher named Brown; more stories. [NOTE: Mrs. Phyllis Bryant Kellis is also present at this interview, and offers some comments to encourage Mr. Purdue's recollections.] [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0373:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Emil Richard Krebs and his wife Gertrude Krebs recall their experiences in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region. Mr. Krebs discusses his father, Fred Krebs, who settled in Vernon. Mr. Krebs describes Okanagan ranches and Vernon circa 1908. He discloses his first experiences in the Chilcotin in 1928, Chilcotin ranches, several anecdotes, how he took up land at Dog Creek, the settlement of the Dog Creek area, the Chinese population, wild horses, and the trap line at Canim Lake in 1939. TRACK 2: Mr. Krebs offers an anecdote about trappers, pioneers at Canim Lake, the story of Buckskin Joe, the Indian population, the town of Likely, Quesnel Forks, and anecdotes about mining in the Keithley Creek-Likely area.

CALL NUMBER: T0373:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Gertrude Krebs, born in McLeod Lake in 1900, recalls Cariboo life. She offers the details of her birth, a brief summary of her life to 1919, a fire in Williams Lake, Williams Lake in the 1920s, and the first Williams Lake Stampedes. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Eric Collier describes the Chilcotin region from 1922 to 1945. He describes the Big Bar Lake country from 1920 to 1922 and his early experiences: fishing, mosquitoes, fencing, his cousin Harry Marriott, and the Big Bar Lake Dude Ranch. He also describes the early settlers such as Frederick M. Becher, the attitude of Chilcotin pioneers, roads in the Chilcotin, the Becher House at Riske Creek, a description of F.M. Becher and more on the Becher House, and more on the pioneer R.C. Cotton. TRACK 2: The discussion of R.C. Cotton is continued, as well as Mrs. Becher, social aspects of Chilcotin life, the character of the region during World War II, the Lee family and other pioneers, the silver fox trade, Bristol Place Stopping House and Ranch, the Chilcotin Bridge on Sheep Creek Hill, Pat Burns and the cattle trade.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Desroaches spent most of his life as a cowboy in the Chilcotin; he arrived in the Cariboo in 1929.;

Stock shots. Shows an experimental controlled burn in a young stand with slash; burn is started by ground crew. Men attach pheremone container to tree infected with mountain pine beetle; wetting down area prior to burning; igniting the tree; dead beetles. Slash burning sequence. Many shots of fire by day and night. Also includes aerial views of burn area and fire guard.