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[DeWolf collection : family footage]

Amateur film. Miscellaneous family footage. Mountain scenery around Premier Lake. Gladys and Jack on horseback. Gladys in cowboy outfit at Lake. Girls at summer camp, swimming and diving. Girls at Hot Springs. Gladys turning cartwheels. Jack camping in backyard. Gladys and Jack playing in snow with Jim. Edgar and Jack playing ship. An elephant (apparently known as "Cranbrook Ed") is led down a Cranbrook street and onto a freight car.

[DeWolf collection] : [miscellaneous footage, ca. 1925-1931]

Amateur film. Includes fish being landed at an unknown location; trip to California in 1931 (including a parade there); footage of a sawmill at an unknown location; children in costume parade and at play; dragline loading dirt onto truck; logging truck hauling logs to a railway siding and being unloaded, and the scaling of the logs.

[DeWolf collection : logging flume footage]

Amateur film. Shows the operation and construction of B.C. Spruce Mills' 14-mile-long Moyie River flume. The construction scenes were probably shot during the building of a branch flume in 1926, as the Nigger Creek Crossing (which is the most impressive single engineering feature on the system) is seen completed.

Pete Lum interview

RECORDED: Premier Lake (B.C.), 1984-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: His beginnings: Kettle Valley to Fort Steele. Art Nicol's outfitting operation. One of the first in the Kootenays. Pete started wrangling. Originally used teepees. Winter and summer work. Collecting mountain goat for New York zoo. Other region guides; Jimmy White, Charley Stevens, A.B. Fenwick. Brother, George, helped guide. Trapping and other work. Summer dude rides at Lake Louise, 1929 to 1939; trailed horses in from Fort Steele. Various trails/routes used at Lake Louise. Hunters and guides fees. Designated hunting territories, circa 1948. Doyle Reay. Operated outfit out of Premier Lake after WW II until retirement at age 80. Gold mining at Wild Horse Creek in 1925. Father had general store at Fort Steele. TRACK 2: Other work done. Packed for mining exploration in Lardeau area circa 1937. Names of other Kootenay guides.

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