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RECORDED: Jasper (Alta.), 1983-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: 1930 ski trip from Jasper to Banff with Joe Weiss, Doug and Verne Jeffrey, Pete Withers. GTP railroad work camp and Red Pass, 1912. Moved to Jasper in 1919. Brewster trips and operations. Moose River trip, 1927. Jack Hargreaves outfit. Otto Brothers. Description of Curly Phillips. Phil Hageson and Oliver Travers snowshoe trip to Banff, 1931. Mid-1920s work on Jasper north boundary surveys. Art Allen. Warden service 1938 to 1966. Jasper Park Lodge. Park regulations. Cutting railway ties on Whirlpool River. TRACK 2: Cutting ties, continued. Bill/Ray Mustard. Brazeau warden district work. Hunting trip miscellanea. Horses vis-à-vis Jasper Park. Felix Plante. Ed and Frank Moberly. Palisades Ranch owners. Length of hunting trips. Sixty-four years residing in Jasper.

CALL NUMBER: T4105:0013.1 RECORDED: Chase (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Burial of George Hargreaves on Sheep Creek. Description of area and trails near Sheep Pass. Used Alberta guides from Grand Cache. Eating porcupine. Guided for Jim Smith out of Snowshoe (Crescent Spur), 1926. Put in original trail up Morkill River. Trip to Jarvis Lakes via McGregor River. Fossils. Accident curtailed guiding in 1940. Jimmy Smith killed by horse in 19444. Homesteaded in 1924. Indian drying racks. TRACK 2: Caribou populations and decline. Came along Continental Divide. Grizzly stalked him. First camp and features on Morkill River and Forget-Me-Not Creek. Mustards worked out of McBride. Hookers from Dome Creek. Account of sixty-five day collecting trip for Peabody Museum, 1931. Specimens, people, taxidermist, areas, 52 horses.

CALL NUMBER: T4105:0013.2 RECORDED: Chase (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Big Shale Hill. Boundary trail. Fishing at Kakwa (Porcupine) Falls. Usually at lunch in the saddle. A grizzly prank. Duration of most trips. Almost snowbound on the Divide. Plane wreck at Kakwa Lake. A 32 year old reunion in the wilderness with Archie Clark. Camp equipment and organization described. TRACK 2: Handling the horses. Clients and costs. Working on GTP Railway in 1911. Threshing in Manitoba. Floated upper Fraser River on a scow in 1912 en route to Vancouver. Took stage from Soda Creek. Interviewer's notations.

RECORDED: Jasper (Alta.), 1983-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Came to Jasper area with work on GTP Railroad in 1915. Cooked for Jack Brewster in 1922. Trip re: first ascent of Mount Alberta, 1925. Cooked for Fred Brewster and Curly Phillips. Details of cooking on the trail. Trip with Jack Hargreaves. Adam Joachim. Bill Mustard. Indian grave on Cardinal River. Guides from Brule. Town site and CNR surveys. Bobby Jones, Jimmy Lambe. 1935 geological survey. Park warden, 1939. [TRACK 2: blank.]