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Cattle ranching in the Nicola

SUMMARY: The story of cattle ranching in the Nicola Valley: its beginnings in the days of the Cariboo gold rush, and the work of ranchers and cowboys at the Douglas Lake Cattle Company. The voices heard are: Bill Brennan; Alex Bulman; Gerald Guichon; Fred Irwin; Doug Palmer; and Martin Starret.

Charles and Christine Sutcliffe interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Christine Sutcliffe discusses her background and her early life and the Douglas family. She describes the Great Canadian Northern Railroad. Mr. Sutcliffe discusses his background, and Indians in Creston area around 1909. He also discusses logging, the Burns Meat Company and the Douglas family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charles Bell interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charlie Bell recalls his father; George Bell, who in 1872 pre-empted land on Fairfield Island in Chilliwack; other early settlers; Sheep Macdonald; freighters Joe Deroche and Sam Macdonald; old timers; the Garner family; the family farm and farming in the area; local Indians; the Kilby Store and the Menten family; the Deroche area and Nicomen Island; local characters; Malcolm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charles Gibson interview

CALL NUMBER: T0552:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ashcroft, B.C., 1897-1951 PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1951 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gibson tells story of his grandfather, Charles Henry Gibson, who came to Ashcroft in 1897. Discusses his grandfather's career as an entrepreneur and rancher; he was one of the leading citizens of early Ashcroft. Father was educated in private school in Victoria. Mother's family described. Family ranches sold out in 1951. Relations between Chinese and Indians. TRACK 2: Gibson learned Chinese as a child. The Chinese in the agricultural economy of Ashcroft. Chinese life and customs described. Cataline described. Cataline as a businessman. Experiences of Gibson's maternal grandfather, Francis Webb, as a stipendiary magistrate in Ashcroft. (The voice of Dr. John Roberts is also heard.)

CALL NUMBER: T0552:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ashcroft, B.C., 1897-1951 PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1951 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on Cataline and Judge Henry Castillou. Gibson family suit against the CPR over water rights. Social life in Ashcroft. Leading citizens of Ashcroft. Fraternal orders. TRACK 2: blank. (End of interview) (The voice of Dr. John Roberts is also heard.)

Charles Graham interview

RECORDED: Lasqueti Island (B.C.), 1975-03-12 SUMMARY: Charles Graham talks of coming to Canada in the early 1900s; up to the Queen Charlotte Islands; Masset in the early 1900s; boats on the coast; logging; logging camp stores [stories?]; life in general; dairy farming, Fraser River; Lasqueti Island in the 1940s; homesteading on Lindbergh Island; boatbuilding.;

Charles Moore interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charles Moore lived in Creston from 1908 on and was a land surveyor in the area during the 1890s. He describes Victoria in the 1880s, and offers anecdotes about surveying in Creston (including accidents while surveying), and about early settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charles Newby interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Newby discusses his father's arrival in 1882; his mother's family, the Bicknels, who came in 1876; the family homestead in Sardis; drainage problems; Vedder River; life on the homestead; Dr. Henderson; schooling; anecdotes of family life and childhood. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charlie Shaw interview

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charlie Shaw talks about his experiences in the Okanagan and other recollections from 1886 to 1911. Mr. Shaw outlines several experiences: his father was the first Reeve of Burnaby; Sha;w was sent east as a boy; returned to Armstrong and became a printer; worked in Penticton; knew Robert Service in Dawson City; his father's background; childhood memories of the Vancouver area; his mother's family; details of his father's business; his move to Kamloops; returning to help his uncle print a paper in Armstrong; Armstrong and the area around 1900; stories about Cornelius O'Keefe; George Anderson; S.C. Smith and his lumber business; development in the Penticton area and Penticton social life. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw continues with more on the development of Penticton including the business and settlers; starting the newspaper there; a lengthy discussion of printing and printing techniques; work on the newspaper; anti-Chinese agitation in Penticton and elsewhere; the "Komagata Maru"; incident in Vancouver in [1914]; more about Penticton and its growth to 1906; alcohol; Price Ellison; social life in the Vernon area; social behavior and manners.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw discusses the anti-Chinese feeling in Armstrong; a story of an anti-Chinese prank; the moral character of Armstrong; Lord and Lady Aberdeen in Vernon and their effect on Vernon soci;ety; Kelowna in those days; J.M. Robinson and Naramata; a description of Robinson; real estate promoters "Breezy" Lee and "Windy" Young; an anecdote about Colonel Sam Hughes inspecting militia at Vern;on; and a remittance man and his wager. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw recalls Dawson City in 1906 and 1907, including how he came to Dawson; a story about a newspaper serial; details of travel to and from Dawso;n City; gold dust as currency; the value of money; goods in Dawson City; sled dog teams; Adam Cruickshank; Smith and his gambling house; law and order; moral attitudes in Dawson; prostitutes; drinking; and Christmas.NOTE: The sound quality on this track is not up to par with the other tracks.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw continues by describing Dawson City from 1906 to 1910, including entertainment; Robert W. Service and his verse; and the people of Dawson. He discusses Grand Forks as a mining community in 1907; more on the people of Dawson; a wager on the Johnson/Burns fight in 1907; the Liberty gold mine near Grand Forks; various people in the Grand Forks area at the time; an Englishmen in the Okanagan and his wager; and remittance men. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charlie Wray interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charlie Wray discusses his parents move from England to Vancouver; his father's wanderings from place to place looking for work before ending up at Pender Harbour. Mr. Wray then discusses various places: False Creek; Squamish; Bowen Island; Roberts Creek; Hidden Bay; Nelson Island and Pender Harbour. Wray describes his work in a quarry for W.C. Ditmars and Charlie Irvine of Irvines Landing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Charlotte Fatkin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charlotte Fatkin recounts her family's arrival in BC in 1889. She married Mr. Fatkin in 1908 and moved to Bradner in 1911 to grow daffodils and start a bulb business. She talks about the BC Electric shipping flowers; other bulb growers in the area; tulips; the Bradner Flower Show. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Chief Martin Morigeau interview

CALL NUMBER: T0880:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chief Martin Morigeau describes the first settlers of the Columbia Valley. His grandfather, Francois, was the second man in the Columbia Valley after David Thompson. Francois quit HBC and farmed while in Washington; Martin's father did the first farming in the Columbia Valley; Martin's father and others moved to Alberta in 1904; they did threshing for the whole area; describes experiences threshing; Martin is chief of the Kootenays. TRACK 2: Chief Morigeau describes the abundance of salmon in the Columbia River before the construction of Grand Coulee Dam; Martin discovered Indian skeletons at Rocky Mountain House; captured and trained a bald eagle; he describes cougar hunting.

CALL NUMBER: T0880:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chief Morigeau tells hunting and mining anecdotes. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Clara and David Maxwell interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. David Maxwell recalls early memories of Saltspring Island. His father, John Maxwell, settled at Burgoyne Bay in the 1860s. David Maxwell discusses farming; cattle rustlers; his family background; wildlife; Indians; early settlers and settlement; hotels; stores; roads; Black and Kanaka settlers. Mrs. Clara Maxwell recalls her father, Theodore Trage, who came to Saltspring Island in the 1860s, and settled at Beaver Point. More on early settlers and agriculture on Saltspring Island; domestic life. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Clara Clare interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Clara Clare discusses her experience as an Indian child at All Hallows School in Yale BC. She describes Spuzzum BC, and the flood of 1894. TRACK 2: Mrs. Clare offers her memories of people and events around Yale in the 1890s.

Clara Hersley interview

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Clara Hersley RECORDED: Nanoose Bay (B.C.), 1982-02-09 SUMMARY: Clara Hersley discusses background and youth: she was eldest daughter of Theo Frederiksen; grandfather came in first settlement, and he tried to build a dyke by himself; she had to walk 2 miles to school every day; C.B. Christensen was teacher; chores; catalogues for Christmas gifts; description of making butter; haying- all pitched in, water came up under stacks at high tide; community work -- men; cared for trails and roads; produced a lot of their own food -- animals, game, fish, food from Quatsino; weather signs; lots of berries; toys; dad brought organ back from Vancouver; dances -- visits to neighbours meant very long walks (25-30 miles); beachcombing finds -- cotton bale, crates of oranges; parents seemed to cope with difficulties; why dad came back to Nanoose Bay. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Clara Hersley RECORDED: Nanoose Bay (B.C.), 1982-02-09 SUMMARY: Clara Hersley discusses: doing lots of walking in her youth; trapping mink and raccoons around Cape Scott; gardening crops; favourite place -- watching the ways; cougars -- looking for tracks on the Sand Neck, father and brothers hunted them, cougar tracks on the way back from getting mail, meeting cougar on trail; father's character -- man of principles; father did not want to leave the Cape; DEW; line station and Air Force came; grandfather and dykes; entertainment- radio from Calgary, music; some characters here at the time; brothers lost at sea -- taking boat to Scott Islands, long search of beaches; mail service- capsized once, but everything saved; birth of sisters -- local midwives. (End of interview)

Clare Chamberlin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Clare Chamberlin describes the road leading into Gibsons Landing in 1902; coming from Bellingham to make more money cutting wood for shingle bolts; details about logging; who would buy the shingle bolts; his first impressions of Gibson's Landing; logging at Wilson Creek; a description of Roberts Creek including the people who lived there; a man named Jacob Hintsa and other characters; details about minister J.S. Woodsworth and the founding of the CCF party; a discussion about communism. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Constance Cruikshank interview

CALL NUMBER: T0436:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Cruickshank recounts the arrival of the John Maclure family at Matsqui, 1868; Maclure family stories and incidents; C.B. Sword; the dyke at Matsqui; other settlers; Maclure family telegraph work; Sam Maclure; Sarah Maclure; Clayburn Brickworks; Maclure family stories. TRACK 2: Miss Cruickshank continues with her recollections of the Maclure family and Matsqui; other settlers; Indians; the Cruickshank family; subdivision and development; geography of the area; social life; the Women's Institute; the Maple Grove Dairy Company; remittance men; transportation; railways; roads; and; Abbotsford.

CALL NUMBER: T0436:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Cruickshank discusses the naming of Abbotsford; the Purver family; doctors; lumbering at Abbotsford; the Hartnell family; lumber mills; railways; social life; BC Electric; and settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Constance Swartz interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Constance G. Swartz discusses her family background. Her mother Winifred Higgs and her aunt Maybelle Higgs came to the Gulf Islands in 1896. Her father R.G. Grey came to Samuel Island in 1887. She describes social life and customs; father's attempts at agriculture; work on the family farm; parents married in 1900; more on agriculture and settler's experiences; religion and churches; nature appreciation; relation to Earl Grey; Indians; the Payne family of Saturna Island. TRACK 2: More on the Payne family; Warburton Pike who was a well-known explorer; Jack Aitkins of Moresby Isl;and; her aunt Maybelle Higgs married Martin A. Grainger in 1908; anecdotes about Grainger; the family moved to Esquimalt in 1910; Samuel Island in many hands since the Grey family sold it; comments on uncle Arthur Spalding.

Cornelius Kelleher interview

The item is a recorded interview with Mr. Cornelius "Corny" Kelleher. Tape 1: Kelleher recalls his father, Mortimer Kelleher, Mortimer's early days in British Columbia, and his settlement in Mission City in 1868. He speaks about the mills in Mission City; the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Mission [OMI] settlement of the mission in 1862; First Nations people at the mission; construction and location of the mission buildings; the Sisters of St. Ann convent; his father's work for the mission; the Kelleher family farm; Passmore family; other settlers in the Mission area; childhood at Mission school, surveying for the CPR in 1882; clearing and construction for the CPR; first passenger trains in 1886; steamboats.

Tape 2: Mr. Kelleher discusses steamboat service; construction and maintenance of the dikes at Matsqui Prairie; Matsqui Land Company; the Maclure family; early settlers in Matsqui; the Purver family, discusses farming incidents; naming Abbotsford; CPR link to the U.S.; Huntington; Mission City; roads, railways; [period of silence on tape]; remittance men; Bellevue Hotel, Matsqui Hotel; railway bridge; shipping fish; sturgeon fishing; First Nations methods of fishing.

Tape 3: Mr. Kelleher continues with his recollections of fishing on the Fraser River; salmon fishing; Indigenous place names; other place names; Joe DeRoche; childhood adventures; First Nations stories about ;Hatzic Island; First Nations hunting methods and doctors; Sam McDonald and Frank Wade, Maclure, "Supple Jack" from the Matsqui reserve; Mount Baker; Jim Trethewey and family; ;saw and grist mills; description of the O.M.I. Mission; early settlers; subdivision of lots in Mission City; Riverside; C.B. Sword.;

Tape 4: Mr. Kelleher talks about Mr. Barnes, Mr. Sword, the Matsqui dike and other incidents.

Dan Cummings interview

CALL NUMBER: T0749:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Cummings talks about his father [Rod Cummings] coming west from P.E.I. in 1879 to Vancouver; his father and uncle homesteading in Langley in 1888; logging bees; clearing land; burning out trees; statute labour; logging; Royal City Mills; logging mills and camps; Hamry's bus line; roads; New Westminster market; farming in the area; local incidents; more information about the New Westminster market. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings continues with recollections about the New Westminster market; the land boom; river transportation; peddlers; Prefontaine; Langley Prairie, Innis' Corner; early ;crops; anecdotes about pioneer life; food; winter weather; sleigh bells; mosquitoes; peddlers; recollections about the development of Langley Prairie.; CALL NUMBER: T0749:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cummings talks about the new Trans-Canada Highway; Murrayville; early stores in Langley; the Hughie Davidson and John Riddle store; the customs officer at Shortridge's Corner; Coulter an;d Berry store; growth of Murrayville; milk production; recreation and dances; teachers; schools; Otter School; Lochiel School; childhood memories and chores; churches and church life; Milner; the Hudson's Bay Company farm land; subdivision and land boom; Fruitvale; land development. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings discusses the railway routes; the Great Northern Railway; BC Electric; construction of the railways; politics; road names; naming of Murrayville; the high school.

Dan Lee interview : [Orchard, 196-]

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.

Daniel Milo interview

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Danny Milo recounts the story of his family and his birth; his family lived near Sardis; the legend of the flood; the Chilliwack tribe; the legend of Cultus Lake; stories of the Chilliwack River; the Vedder River; origin and meaning of place names; Indian dialects; legend of the Fraser River; the continuation of the legend of the flood; the story of the creation of man and woman; Indian religious beliefs. TRACK 2: Danny Milo continues with Indian legends; the legend of the bear children and the man who got a wife made out of alder; the conclusion of the legend of the flood; his father's bad luck; the legend of Cheam, Popkum and Tamiki Mountains.

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Milo speaks about Indians and the first white man; killings in the canyon; a childhood visit to Yale; the meaning of "Siwash"; Indian lands; the first pioneers; the Whatcom Trail; school days at Coqualeetza Home School; Captain John; the Indian preacher. [TRACK 2: blank.]

David Sutcliffe interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. David Sutcliffe discusses the Kootenay Lake steamers including the "Nasookin" and the "Kootenay". He describes the competition between the two companies; shipping horses on the "Nasookin"; Kootenay Landing; the tug boats; passenger service; mail delivery; freight; the "Kokanee" running aground near Riondel; social life and customs: the chivaree; the maiden voyage of the "Nasookin"; ;a boat called the "International"; the Bluebell Mine in 1910; problems with a new pump system; the shafts; use of candles and lime dust. TRACK 2: Mr. Sutcliffe continues by describing the Pilot Bay, Smelter and Galena Bay. Then he returns to discussing steamers such as the "International" and the "Alberta". He came to Riondel to work on a fruit farm in 1910. He describes the mine mill; Pilot Bay; independent miners; the beginnings of Riondel; the name 'Bluebell' was given by David Douglas in 1834; early history of the Bluebell Mine to 1905; Riondel in 1910; an anecdote about Ainsworth BC; working conditions; the Kirby Mine; more anecdotes; more about Riondel; nationalities of the miners; and more about the Kirby Mine.

Dennis Walker interview

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

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.

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