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Roddy Moffat interview : [Orchard. 1964]

CALL NUMBER: T0375:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Roderick "Roddy" Roy Moffat discusses how his father came out to the Chilcotin from Ontario and began ranching near Alexandria. Moffat offers several stories about his father when he drove a stagecoach. He discusses the tests necessary for a person to be a driver for the BC Line Company. He describes horses and drivers and the relationship between the two. There are many more stories about freighting days. Jerk-line teams had anywhere between four and twelve horses and three carriages. He describes how the horses were handled just outside of Ashcroft when the road became hilly and curved.

TRACK 2: Mr. Moffat discusses the competition between freighters to get the business of the Hudson's Bay Company out of Quesnel, alcohol consumption being a problem to achieving the contract, and then more on freighting. His father invented the snow roller for easier freighting in the winter. He describes the town of Barkerville. He discusses Chinese people as ranchers and as miners in the region. He discusses the Pinchbeck farm as the first farm in the area in Williams Lake and other early ranches: Levy Ranch in Soda Creek, McGuiness Ranch, 4 Mile Ranch, Sam Bohanon Ranch and that was all the farming until Quesnel. He describes many people in the area, old timers, and miners. Steve and Andrew Olsen are two characters he discusses, other Moffatts in the area, Alexander Flats, irrigation, the Hudson's Bay post at Alexandria, and the war between the Chilcotin Indians and the Alexander Indians.

CALL NUMBER: T0375:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Moffat describes the trail used by the Chilcotin Indians to invade the Alexander Indians, and how this route was used by Simon Fraser. He describes farmland and how technology has improved its uses. He discusses cattle farming near Quesnel. He describes his childhood and schooling. [TRACK 2: blank.]

William Harrison interview

RECORDED: Blind Bay (B.C.), 1984-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Outfitted climbing camps for Canadian Alpine Club for over 30 years. Various other climbing parties outfitted. Some camp locations. Swiss climbing guides noted. Conrad Kain had own outfit. Other climbers. Description of topographic survey work, 1923 to 1925, under Harris and Bridgeland. Smithsonian geological expedition (Walcott) in southern Rockies. Started as wrangler, circa 1916, for Walter Nixon. CPR dude trips to Lake of the Hanging Glacier. Supplied prospectors/mines in Purcell Mountains. Guiding territory was upper Kootenay Valley. Madeleine Turner. Jim Boyce. Curly Phillips. Hired local men. Freighting work around Radium Hot Springs. Fire warden for Palliser/Ross rivers area. Packing on Big Bend Highway survey, 1928. Columbia Valley trail. High construction during the Depression. TRACK 2: Locations on west slopes of Rockies. Alpine Club camps. Some backcountry dangers. Sold horse outfit in 1978. Over sixty years of horse work in the mountains. Previous tape recording at Archives of Canadian Rockies, Banff.

Frontier busters

The item is a video copy of a promotional film. It depicts mines and mineral resources in the North -- Alaska, Yukon Territory, Northwest Territories and northern B.C. -- and the role played by the White Pass and Yukon Route. The White Pass container ship "Frank M. Brown" leaves Vancouver and sails to Skagway, where its cargo is unloaded through modern technology. The freight is shipped by rail to Whitehorse, where it is transferred to trucks for transport to various mining operations. Mining of asbestos (Cassiar), copper (Whitehorse), silver-lead-zinc (Mayo), tungsten and lead (Ross River), and iron (Snake River). White Pass's involvement: efficient tranportation, integrated equipment, and increased freight tonnages.

Take four giant steps

The item is a video copy of an industrial film. It depicts the steps taken to transport 3,000 tons of oil search equipment from Vancouver to Bell River in the northern Yukon, where three companies -- Amerada, Marathon and Hudson's Bay -- combined to drill a well. BC footage includes White Pass and Yukon steamer going up the coast, and White Pass and Yukon Route from Skagway to Whitehorse.

Boston Bar

Item consists of a photograph of Boston Bar, showing freight wagons. The photograph is attributed to Richard Maynard, but could possibly be a Dally photograph.

Norman King interview

RECORDED: Golden (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Horse freighting for local mines. Getting started in guiding in the 1930s. Class A licence. Advertised in Field and Stream. Minor horse troubles. Blaeberry River: pack trail, hunting cabins, tents, brother Ron helped guide and cook. Mr. Linberg, Ken Jones also guided in the Blaeberry Valley. More outfits appeared after WWII; ex. Sid Webber, Parker. King's outfit had sixteen horses. Bill Romaine helped. Others: Robisons, Charley Lawrence. Guide wages. Recollections and incidents. TRACK 2: Bears raided his cabins. Also hunted in the Spillimacheen Valley. Pack for international water commissioner on the Wood River in the 1960s. Acting in a movie, "The Silent Barrier" in 1932 for $6.50 a day. Old local guides in Golden history book.

Howard Carson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard Carson RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977?] SUMMARY: Howard Carson discusses homesteading in the Peace River region in 1928. Ms. MacDougall: teacher, friends, and boarder with family. School days. Local colour. A posse goes after a wolverine; a forty-pound weasel. Clay Martin or "his place" mentioned several times. Second half of tape has a great deal of interesting information concerning freighting with horses in the winter.

Living memory : Pack trains

SUMMARY: "Pack Trains", #16 in the series, consists of recollections of the pack trains in the early days of settlement on the Skeena; of the Spanish and Mexican packers; and of one legendary packer known as "Cataline".

Living memory : Cayuse Jack

SUMMARY: "Cayuse Jack" is the eighth episode in the series. Sperry Cline recalls packer Cayuse Jack Graham, a memorable character of the Skeena Country.

Arthur Youngern interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Arthur T. Youngern describes how he came to Soda Creek in 1911; he describes Soda Creek, freighting for the government road crews, freighting between Ashcroft and Soda Creek in 1912, prospecting and the discovery of mica beds on Mount Brew; homesteading in Beaver Valley from 1912 to 1918, old timers remembered, John Likely and Frank Kirby, a description of Quesnel Forks and Keithley in 1911. [TRACK 2: blank.]

People in landscape : Freightboat journey

SUMMARY: An on-the-spot account of a journey in a small coastal freightboat that delivers supplies to logging camps and stores in and around the inlets and islands on the mainland and northern side of the Gulf of Georgia. Voices heard include: Captain Peter Sherst, Captain Mim DeCrop, and Mr. O.H. New.

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