Copper River (B.C.)

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  • BC Geographical Names Information System.. Locality, NE of Terrace; rescinded 1956.

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Carl and Christine Lavergne interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1950s and 1960s : history of house, description of Usk, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1951-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carl Louis Lavergne (edger, monkey wrencher) was born on December 18, 1914 in Ontario. Mrs. Lavergne (railway cook) was born on September 10, 1917. Background about their parents. Arrival in Terrace. Different forestry jobs. Description of Terrace on arrival. Settled in Terrace. Met Mrs. Lavergne in 1956]. Mrs. Lavergne's arrival in Terrace -- first in 1954, then in 1956. Moved to Copper River in 1960. History of house built by Bill Haggen. Types of animals raised at Copper. Power facilities. Food storage and canning procedures. Medical facilities. Location and description of hospital. Social activities. Bank robbery at the Royal Bank in the late 1950s. Arthur Clore [?]. Pat Beaton [?]. Description of Usk, B.C. Road to Usk. Old highway and roads in Terrace. Development of Terrace. House along highway to Copper River. Evidence of army. How bridges between Prince Rupert and Hazelton got named. Road to Kitimat. Hot springs. Effect of development of Kitimat on Terrace. Social atmosphere of Kitimat. Development of shopping centres. Change in people. Various characters. Original farm at Copper River. TRACK 2: Original farm continued. Johnny and Ida Haggen. Phone and light service. Subdivision at Copper River. Fishing and hunting.

Joseph Gardner interview

CALL NUMBER: T1223:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner : recollections of a riverboat man, 1895-1950 : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner leaves Dewdney in 1894 to go to Hazelton with his aunt, he describes the trip by steamer to Port Essington and then by Indian canoe on the Skeena to Hazelton,; on the return trip to Port Essington he meets up with his father who was mate for Captain Bonser and he takes a position as a waiter on the "Caledonia" (1895). He recalls the "Old and New Caledonia",; adventures on the "Caledonia", hunting on Finlayson Island, incidents with pack dogs, freight, crew and passengers on the "Caledonia", "Boston Bill" and his deck hand work (1898). TRACK 2: Captain Gardner continues speaking about his work aboard the "Caledonia", "lining", Kitselas Canyon -- hazards and navigation, the Skeena and Stikine Rivers, impressions of Hazelton (1894), Yukon gold and it's; impact: swindlers and mental illness, "drifting" downstream on the Skeena, wreck of the "Mount Royal", the 30 Mile River in the Yukon, river incidents and memories of Captain Bonser.

CALL NUMBER: T1223:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner : recollections of a riverboat man, 1895-1950 : part 2 PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Gardner continues with recollections of his life on a riverboat, an incident between a captain and an engineer, crews on the Skeena and Yukon boats, the Copper River explosion ;-- 1908, wreck of the steamer "Sophia", navigating the Copper River, "reading the water", sounding the water, the Skeena River -- Port Essington to Kitselas vs. Kitselas to Hazelton, "jumping the bars;" and his early memories of Dewdney and Hatzic area farmers. TRACK 2: Captain Joseph Gardner speaks about his father, Captain Gardner who was born in Mission, his grandfather George Clinton Gardner an international surveyor and continues with a summary of his father's career. He ends this interview speaking about incidents in the Yukon.

Peter Benoit interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : military occupation, changes in sawmilling PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Wilfred Benoit was born on March 18, 1927 in Terrace B.C. Background about parents until their settlement in Terrace in 1920. Description of early life on Queensway. Food storage. Life during the depression. School life from 1934. Games. Jobs during the war as water boy in the construction of military camps and workman in the electrical installation at the airport in 1943. Changes in Terrace in the war years. Postwar growth in the sawmill industry. Other changes caused by the military. People's feelings towards Japanese Invasion and precautions taken against it. Skeena Mutiny. Mining of the Skeena Bridge. Departure of the Army. Feelings toward the departure of the military. Effects of the military on social life in (town) Terrace. Description of the business community in Terrace during military occupation. Postwar sawmill development approximately 1947, 1948. Forest Management and Tree Farm License. Location of sawmills. Work at Copper River Mill owned by Cooper and Haggen. Sawmill machinery. TRACK 2: Changes in the forest industry. Processes of making boards. Automation of industry. Changes in loading. Changes in Terrace. Teenage lifestyle in the early 1940s as compared with today. Farming. Food storage. Fertilizers and insecticides before the war. Strawberry growing in the late 1920s. Communication before and after the war. Power facilities in the 1940s. Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Road development to Kitimat. Use and development of hot springs.

Steve Tomecek interview

CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve J. Tomecek (prospector, logger, trapper, farmer) was born on August 20, 1904 in Czechoslovakia. He came to Quebec in 1928. Worked in Saskatchewan, white-fish fishing at Fort McMurray. Loss of supplies. Walking one hundred miles in three days. Rabbit dinner cooked by Indians. The call of the wilderness. Came to Rosswood in 1930. Washing gold in Douglas Creek. Working on the telegraph line. Logging for George Little. Trip up the Stikine River. Living on game and fish. Crossing river by cable. Extracting gold. High cost of supplies. Finding gold in Douglas Creek. Taking out poles with horses. Raft making. Earning one hundred dollars per day during the year 1937. Small logging camps. Confused prospector looking for Snow Mine. Hiking up Goat Mountain. Changes in staking claims. Accident in bush at age 65. TRACK 2: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood. CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood.

Wiggs O'Neill interview

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1912 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William John "Wiggs" O'Neill begins this interview speaking about the establishment of the Henkel farm on Francois Lake, the story of Harry "Buccaneer" Morgan's adventurers in the Boer War, old man Jeffrey -- a Scotsman who pre-empted land in the Bulkley Valley, Mrs. H. Long's wedding day and Joe Merryfield's story about a Chinese miner and his Indian wife at Manson Creek. TRACK 2: Wiggs; O'Neill tells a story about a Kitselas Indian bootlegger named "Queen of Kitselas", the origin of Smithers and the Hubert site.

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More details about the "Queen of Kitselas" are provided -- including: the Kitselas magistrate (C.W. Clifford), Canon March and the Kitsumkalum policeman -- Tom Parsons. Wiggs O'Neill continue;s with a story about Father Coccola and an injured man from Francois Lake and the start of the St. Eugene mine in the Kootenays. Included are stories of Port Essington (Spokeshoot) the "summer capital;" of the Cassiar district (Port Simpson was the "winter capital") and a description of local celebrations of the Coronation of King Edward VII (1902). TRACK 2: This tape begins with a Wiggs O'Neill story about a drinking party in Essington involving the local magistrate and a commercial traveller, continues with the first municipal elections at Port Essington (1907) and the first fisherman's strike, 1899.

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1912 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Wiggs O'Neill talks about the musical abilities of the local Indians, Walter Wright -- first mate to Captain Bonser, Cunningham's wharf in Port Essington, details about the steamboats, passenger loading and embarkation, steamer captains and engineers, steamer operations, bell signals between the Captain and engineer, the activity of the steamboat leaving the dock, the cordwood piles on the Skeena River and more on the boat signals. TRACK 2: More about the signals aboard the steamboats between the captain and the engineer, noises of the paddles and the noise of the exhaust. Wiggs O'Neill provides some information about the machinery, engines and construction of the steamboats. He talks about the activities of the passengers on board the boat, the excitement of the trip, the element of danger on the Skeena River, the role of the crew, types of passengers, Sir Richard McBride's visit to Hazelton, Mrs. Campbell Johnson, settlers and the crew.

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1912 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Wiggs O'Neill continues speaking about the crew of the steamboats, provisions, steamboat construction, meals and dining, "bootlegging" by the steward, gambling, sleeping accommodations, washing facilities, the main cabin, crew's quarters, the engine and boiler areas, loading the wood, overnight stops, "lining", music from the Indian crew and navigating the Kitselas Canyon. TRACK 2: More; details are provided about navigation through the Kitselas Canyon, "lining", ringbolts, the wreck of the "Mount Royal", an incident with Captain Bonser and a potential accident and Captain Bonser's character.

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1912 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Wiggs O'Neill describes Port Essington (Spokeshoot) during its heyday, Bob Cunningham, Indians of the lower Skeena, shipping at Port Essington, steamer schedules, currency, high and low water, the town of Kitselas, the travelling season, the riverboat journey and stops along the Skeena: Kitsumkalum, Kitwanga, Hazelton and New Town. TRACK 2: This tape continues with more details about the riverboat journey: Kitselas, New Town, Lorne Creek, Cedarvale (Minskinisht) and Rev. Tomlinson, Captain Jackman, the Copper River area, supplies and provisions and Kitwanga. Information is provided ;about Captain Bonser's crew members including: Paul Kato (a Japanese carpenter) and a story about a repair, purser -- Gordon Lockerby, engineer -- Pat Hicky on "Caledonia" and the rivalry between Captain Johnson and Captain Bonser. Wiggs O'Neill speaks about Kitwanga and Rev. Price, and the steamboat's arrival at Hazelton.

CALL NUMBER: T0315:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The riverboat era on the Skeena River PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1912 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This tape continues with recollections about the steamboat's arrival in Hazelton, Hazelton's role as the river terminus and transportation centre, the town site and buildings, Jim Kirby -- provincial policeman, the "stone cellar" liquor outlet and Jim May. Information about local characters and incidents is related including: Joe Doyne, "Mocassin-Face Jenny", John Hetherington and a spiked cake prank, a bear-skin prank and Gordon Lockerby, and mock trials on the steamboats. TRACK 2: Wiggs O'Neill recalls passenger and cargo accommodation onboard the steamboats, "traveller men", names; of local hazards along the river: "Hole-in-the-wall", "Devil's Island", "Beaver Dam", "Devil's Elbow", "Whirlygig", "Hornet's Nest" and the wreck of the "Pheasant" and the "Northwest". He describes ;a typical steamboat, size, draft etc, the railway construction boom and a drowning.