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East Kootenay Region (B.C.)
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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.]

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.

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