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RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1973-12-18 SUMMARY: Arrival in area. Gardening attempts. Wild berries galore. Sheep. Brush fence. Hunting. Women's Institute started in October 1933 -- Christmas program, hospital. School started in 1934. Box-social auctions. No roads at all. Log houses -- two bedrooms and big room. Candy making. Rug hooking. Health nurses visited. Nutrition. Cheese making. Oven canning -- berries, meat (moose, chicken, deer; rabbits were diseased). People brought cows in with them. Froze dairy products in winter and buried them in summer. Huge quantities of garden produce. Homesteads -- lots were claimed, then abandoned for jobs in the city. Mostly people from Saskatchewan. Magazines. Library started. Effects of isolation.