Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--East Kootenay Region

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Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--East Kootenay Region

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Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--East Kootenay Region

  • UF Indians--British Columbia--East Kootenay Region

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Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--East Kootenay Region

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Colin Sinclair interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Colin M. Sinclair recalls his family's first days in the East Kootenays; born in Tobacco Plains, Montana and moved to BC in 1900; his grandfather, James Sinclair, was shot during an India;n uprising in 1856; there was a change from open forest to thick undergrowth between trees in the Kootenays between 1900 to 1960 because of logging operations; change in the ambitions and activities o;f the Indians; relations between whites and Indians in the area were always good; the Spokane Flyer was a CPR train; Michael Phillips; Elko was a wild town at the turn of the century; first road at Fort Steele; no farming east of Grasmere. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Florence Desrosiers interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence Desrosiers describes early days near the border in the East Kootenays; she came from Medicine Hat to Roosville in 1900; she was thirteen; it was a tremendous change going to a one room school; married in 1908; some wagon drivers used to smuggle Chinese people across the US border for 300 dollars a person; during WWI, Germans being held in detention camps used to escape into neutral US; her father Fred Koo used to run a store; a stopping house and a post office at Roosville; Indians would cross the border to get liquor; Indians would trade buckskin clothing at the store; ;her husband Joseph Desrosiers came from Quebec before the railroad. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Frank Paul interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Frank Paul describes and discusses his family from the along the US-Canadian border; they ended up settling in the Windermere area in the East Kootenays; he offers family and personal stories; living in south central and eastern BC. Mr. Paul is of Kootenay-Shuswap Indian background.

From the mountains to the sea : Headwaters

SUMMARY: "Headwaters" is number 2 in the series. It tells the story of the development of the East Kootenay country from the days of the first explorers. Gold miners at Wildhorse and trouble between them and the Indians. The sad story of the British fruit farmers. Early days at Fort Steele. Voices heard include: Tracie Willams, Shelagh Dehart, Mrs. H. Williams, Madeline Turnor, Effie Turnor, Beryl Lum, Jimmy White, Vaughn Kimpton, Cliff Harrison, and Alex Ritchie.

Jimmy White interview

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James F. (Jimmy) White recalls his arrival in Golden in 1889; his first impressions; a trip to Fort Steele, including a description of the police and the lifestyle; gold mining; Wildhorse Indians; Michael Phillips; Robert Galbraith; ships; Captain Armstrong; prospecting; gold mining; hydraulic mining; and the decline of Fort Steele. TRACK 2: Mr. White continues with more on hydraulic gold mining; the CPR in Cranbrook and Fort Steele; mines -- Sullivan, North Star, Stemwinder and Moyie; Father Coccola; doctors; possible murders in Fort Steele; the cemetery; horse racing and riding; practical jokes.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White talks about interesting characters, including an incident involving the naming of Tata Creek; other incidents; the Yukon; mining; dancing girls; hunting wild mountain goats and sheep; Indians; Old Kaplo; working in the mountains; men whom Mr. White guided in the mountains; Von Hindenburg's trip. TRACK 2: More about Von Hindenburg's trip; incidents involving bears; the Rockies; and the Selkirks; ministers in Fort Steele; women; families; the red light district incident; the Lum family; English settlers; remittance men; Cranbrook; Golden; gambling; maintenance of law and order in Fort Steele.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White describes some of the pioneers in the Kootenay such as the Lum family; Tom Cochrane and Lady Adelaide. Then he continues discussing Englishmen whom he guided; settlers; a murderer; named Bulldog Kelly; a grizzly bear incident; Buffalo Bill; more anecdotes involving a runaway girl; the police; More's suicide; Old Ben Pugh attempting to get into jail. TRACK 2: More about Ben Pugh; drinking; Mr. White's arrival in BC; packing with Pugh; reasons why he came to BC; an Indian uprising in Fort Steele in 1886; Michael Phillips; the Mounties; Colonel Steele and the Boer War; William Reginald Wyndham; various anecdotes; Mr. White's English and American clients.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White tells a story about the buying and selling of hay; interesting characters such as Billy Hop; claim jumping; more interesting characters such as Jerry Sullivan; an anecdote about a priest drinking; other characters; and one last anecdote about tall stories. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Nancy Miles interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Nancy Miles offers a general outline of the history of early Cranbrook and Kimberley: buffalo hunting provided complete subsistence for Kootenay Indians; Hyde Baker was the founder of Cranbrook; surveyed the site in 1897; CPR got there in 1898; Cranbrook is located on Joseph's Prairie; custom station was Cranbrook's first building in 1865; Kimberley was always handicapped by being a company town; first settler for North Star Mine was at Marysville; one at Sullivan's Mine could not be economically processed until the invention of floatation process and construction in 1925 to 1926; the union came to Kimberly in 1937 or 1938. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Tom Gorrie interview

CALL NUMBER: T0889:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Tom Gorrie recalls coal mining hazards and the Fernie fire: came from Dumfermline in June 1902; worked in various coal mining towns around Fernie from 1903 to 1907; in 1907, bought Coal Creek Dairy; in 1909, did assessing for CPR, their cook quit; he was made the new cook and has been doing it ever since; description of different gasses and explosions in coal mines; the Chinese at Michel; the loop. TRACK 2: Mr. Gorrie describes the system by which each miner had his backhand abolished in 1905 [?]; the 1903 strike at Morrissey, and how the workers ended up going back to work for; less wages than they were making before the strike; the magistrate read the riot act at the strike; a detailed description of the 1908 fire; becoming a cook at Elk Valley; various old timers and boot;legging.;

CALL NUMBER: T0889:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gorrie continues with more on bootlegging; a twenty dollar case of whiskey could bring one hundred dollars at the border; one hundred and fifty dollars further south; an anecdote about a ;close call with a Montana Sheriff on his last whisky run; Fred Roo, who ran the store at Roosville and Elko; how Indians today are not "the same class" as Indians before; an anecdote about when he had; a bottle of whisky stolen from him in a reserve and he was fined forty dollars for carrying liquor through a reserve. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Tracie Williams interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Tracie Williams describes the old stories and beliefs of the Shuswap Indians of the East Kootenays. She begins by describing her devotion to her grandmother; how her great-grandfather brought the Shuswaps to Kinbasket Lake; the Kootenays used to be a hunter's paradise; the Kootenay Indians always wanted to fight at first; always thought they were superior; women pulled the plows before there were horses; many old Shuswaps had 'magic powers' including her grandmother; a Catholic priest was the first white person her grandmother knew. TRACK 2: Mrs. Williams continues with a story about a 106 year old woman who claimed an old man with 'the power' saved her life three times with his magic; Indians would trade their farms; they used to sell wheat to river steamers; various stories describing Indians' endurance and magical powers; a Shuswap song; English is a dead language to her; Shuswap is a picture language and hard to translate.