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Stock shots. First part shows A-26 and Firecat airtankers dropping on a fire in the area of Mica dam. The second part shows a helicopter hovering near a fire and a rapattack crew descending from it.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1906-1975 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-01-21 SUMMARY: Childhood; meeting her husband; coming to Canada; remembers trip from England; time in Manitoba and Calgary; arrival in Revelstoke; first day in Revelstoke and the first few years; move to the Big Eddy; crossing bridges; life in the Eddy; the Barretts; social life; working on the farm; medical services; experiences of first few years; cabin in the Eddy; more on husband; Farwell; choir days; reflects on life today; meets Mr. Diefenbaker; British Gaumont Film Company [shooting film in Revelstoke area - "The Great Barrier"?]; loss of son.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A fireman in Revelstoke, 1908-1977 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-03-31 SUMMARY: Samuel Needham describes early Revelstoke history and firefighting in Revelstoke from the viewpoint of a fire chief.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke and district, ca. 1925 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-04-02 SUMMARY: Personal information; immigration to Canada; arrival in Revelstoke; the Big Eddy, 1925; Big Bend, 1925; Revelstoke, 1925.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1930-1959 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), [date unknown] SUMMARY: Toby Belinski discusses business, schooling, movies and life in Revelstoke, 1930 to 1959. Discusses the 1930s film "The Great Barrier."

Travelogue. From Revelstoke to Golden over the Big Bend Highway, and south to the U.S. border and Creston, with views of Kootenay and Yoho National Parks and southeastern BC. Footage of interest includes: Revelstoke station and rail yards with locomotives; coal mines and miners at Fernie; coke ovens at Michel; farming in Creston area.

RECORDED: Three Valley (B.C.), 1982-06-12 SUMMARY: Gordon was born in Calgary and moved to Revelstoke in 1940. He tells of his courtship and marriage. He worked for builders and contractors in the Revelstoke area.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lance Porter originally came to Sandon to visit a friend's brother in 1895 and stayed to reside in the Burton area. This tape is filled with many recollections, reminiscences and anecdotes about the early community and people of the Burton area. Mr. Porter had a variety of experiences working in the mines and woods, and he relates stories about these experiences. He recalls Burton residents and settlers including MacDonald, Hudson, and Demers.

TRACK 2: The interview continues with Lance Porter's reminiscences, including mine stories that include Mineral City and New Glasgow. He worked for a time surveying timber in the Big Bend area, and Revelstoke. He speaks of his diary "The Gospel According To Moods", his relations with ministers of various congregations, religious discussions and his study for the ministry. There are many humorous recollections of people, events and wildlife included in this interview.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Violet Anderson discusses her father, R.W. Northey, who came to Revelstoke from England in the early 1890s to manage the Kootenay Herald newspaper. She describes how her mother and the; family came in 1894 via Quebec and the CPR. She offers her first impression of Revelstoke and how her father moved to Rossland in 1895; the family followed in 1897. She describes the journey from Revelstoke to Rossland and her memories of Revelstoke, such as the 'uptown' and 'downtown' sections. She mentions characters named Orange Hamilton and Billy Pool who were prospectors who struck it ri;ch. She then offers her first impressions of Rossland; mentioning Trail and the Rossland mines and the post-depression leasing system. She describes Rossland as it was in 1897; the Sourdough Alley; ;strikes and strike-breakers and fires. She describes how her father worked for the Rossland Times and then became a prospector. She discusses Father Pat; remittance men; and more about fires. TRACK; 2: Anderson compares Nelson to Rossland and discusses the Hunter brothers; hotels; law and order; and school. She describes "Oregon John Bismarck", John Altman and the Cornish miners. She offers m;ore on remittance men, prostitution, and discusses writing stories for miners. More about recreation; railroads; an anecdote about Salt Lake City; and more about Father Pat.

CALL NUMBER: T0866:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. and Mrs. Bergenham discuss farmers; railroaders and con men in the Kootenays. John's father came to Canada in 1892; worked for the CPR; living conditions in Golden at the turn of the century; Walter Moberly was the CPR surveyor; Golden's fluctuating fortunes were dependant on lumber and the CPR; complaints about the highway and how it brings about the demise of the small family farm;er; he began to work for the CPR at age seventeen; then worked on construction of Connaught Tunnel. TRACK 2 Mr. Bergenham continues with more on the construction of the tunnel; description of the Roger's Pass line; varied discussion of railroading around Golden from 1900 to 1920; several anecdotes on smelter construction by fraudulent stock companies; preachers pushing shares from the pulpit; famous outlaws at Golden such as Bill Miner; and several more anecdotes.;

CALL NUMBER: T0866:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More old timers in the area; "sporting houses" in Golden and Donald at the turn of the century; the naming of Golden. Then Mrs. Bergenham speaks. Then John's mother speaks. (She is 103 [101?]; years old and speaks in Swedish, and John Bergenham translates.) She came to Canada in 1893; hard times in Canada still better than hard times in Sweden where one could not hunt or fish. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0879:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 & 07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Vaughan Kimpton tells the story of his father; Rufus Ashton Kimpton; and how he came to Donald in 1883, and opened up a liquor store. Vaughan was born in Donald and the whole family moved to Windermere when he was five or six. He describes the area; the breakup of the CPR headquarters at Donald; the supreme power exercised by Gold Commissioner E.W. Griffiths; his father setting up a trading store in Windermere; the history of Revelstoke; large hide trade with the Indians; the settling of disputes before the police arrived; lists of various early settlers; how he drove a stage from 1909 to 1911, carrying mail in winter, and a description of the Windermere/Cranbrook run in detail. TRACK 2: Mr. Kimpton relates several incidents on the stage route; mention of several old timers, such as Colin C. McKee, who tried unsuccessfully to compete with Mr. Kimpton's father; mail and newspapers being the only means of outside communication; more on a priest; Wilmer as a boom town in; the early 1900s; and the naming of various towns in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T0879:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 & 07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kimpton describes the shooting of the Banjo Kid; young easterners thought they had to behave rough in the west; police came shortly after; Colin Cameron was the first constable; many tragic occurrences as a result of winter; fish was a staple food in winter; Mr. Kimpton's parents were instrumental in establishing St. Peter's in Donald; in 1900 his father disassembled the church without permission and moved it to Windermere, but the church bell was stolen in Golden; there was a Presbyterian church in Donald before St. Peter's. TRACK 2: Kimpton continues with anecdotes about the behavior of the old timers in church; more talk about Patty Ryan and Jonas Bob; Baptiste Morigeau and his family; and English remittance men in Windermere.

CALL NUMBER: T1391:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1917-1975 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-02-17 SUMMARY: Parents background; childhood; description of Revelstoke; houses lived in; chores; play; school days; size; subjects; anecdotes; extracurricular activities; public health; facilities; anecdotes; epidemics; churches; jobs; travels in the U.S. and Canada from 1928 onward; speakeasy; travel service; bus driver, bodyguard, organised Young Liberals in 1933; truck driver; Depression in Revelstoke; more on jobs and travel; farming in Wigwam; assistant park warden; utility man for provincial government.

CALL NUMBER: T1391:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1917-1975 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-02-17 & 03-07 SUMMARY: Working on the CPR from 1945 onward; anecdotes and incidents; changing from coal to bunker fuel; change from steam to diesel; structure and method of local government; provincial and municipal law enforcement; personal involvement in civic organisations; comments on the Columbia River Treaty; how Revelstoke has developed as a city.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke Hospital (Queen Victoria Hospital) and Revelstoke ca. 1913 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-03-10 SUMMARY: Personal information; nurse's training in Alberta; description of Queen Victoria Hospital in 1913; duties as a nurse; injuries handled; hospital fees; hospital insurance plan; doctors; duties of the matron; trip on a paddleboat; incidents; hospital in Arrowhead; Workmen's Compensation; Revelstoke's nurses training school; medical equipment and techniques; post office robbery; Chase Hospital; Revelstoke in 1913; more on the hospital.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke history RECORDED: Sicamous (B.C.), 1975-04-14 SUMMARY: Personal information; C.B. Hume Store; Dickey family history; Earle Dickey biography; Mount Dickey; opening of the Big Bend Highway; hobbies; industries and business in the 1920s; some characters and anecdotes; Chamber of Commerce; photography, both Dickeys; internment camp; Billy Moore, the Bell house; more on old businesses; Golden Spike Days; more characters and anecdotes.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Revelstoke history RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-04-18 SUMMARY: Family background, family homestead in Revelstoke, employment, recreation, church, travels, husband; description of Mackenzie Avenue in 1928; business career; the Depression in Revelstoke; organisations involved in; Miss Atkinson; A.E. MIllar; social life in Revelstoke; changes in Revelstoke.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of Revelstoke churches, 1905-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1945 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-06 SUMMARY: Arvid Lundell: Memories of Revelstoke and the Methodist and United Churches there, 1905-1945. [Recorded 1975-06-12.] Muriel Campbell: Memories of Revelstoke and the Presbyterian, Methodist and United Churches there, 1910-1945. [Recorded 1975-06-17.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life at Big Eddy, 1908-1940 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-02-17 SUMMARY: Father was an early farmer at Big Eddy -- his farm was, for several years, a government sponsored experimental farm; field day; roads and bridges; neighbours; country schools; Christmas concerts; teachers; how a young couple dealt with hard times in the Depression; event when Nels Nelson became world champion ski jumper.

RECORDED: Wilmer (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Accounts of hunting grizzly. Snowbound escape from Ice River area via Wolverine Pass. Walter Nixon (father) started packing ore in Parson area, 1907. Was game warden during WWI, political appointment. Gordon Nixon took out survey parties. David started in 1932. Outfit called 2N, was family operation and was sold after WWII. Hunting on Simpson River for moose and grizzly, got three record heads. TRACK 2: Seven point elk. Upper Simpson River had "tame" elk. Built original trail in Simpson Valley. Sir George Simpson's copper tea kettle found. Nixon built a number of other trails. Bill Harrison, Roy McDonald were guides. Some dude trips for CPR resort at Windermere. Packing for Alpine Club camps. Lake of Hanging Glacier. Photo in ice cave. Survey work was good money, climbing parties less so. Packing for surveys on Big Bend Highway. Brother was among those drowned on Kinbasket Lake then. Bugaboos. Nixons helped Conrad Kain. Wintered horses on Police Meadows at Edgewater. Walter Nixon died in 1952.

RECORDED: Brisco (B.C.), 1983-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Tegart homesteaded at Windermere in 1886. Guided hunters in early 1900s. Guiding supplemented farm income. Bob and Buster continued family outfit after 1925. Jim Tegart stated about 1929; own outfit in 1943. Used wild horses in pack string for a total of forty. Areas hunted. Built trail in Squaw, Lodgepole, Marion Creeks, White River. Indian hunting trail from Kananaskis. Game, roads, and decline. Tegart Pass and Mountain. Jim Thompson guided. Tents reverted to cabins on Albert River, Tipperary Falls, Queen Mary Creek. Frequent fly-camping. Names of old time game wardens. Albertans hunted the Palliser. TRACK 2: Austrian hunters. Woman hunter, 69 years old. Lost supplies fording a river. Doreen cooked for most parties; an all day job. Daughters have cooked, sons did guiding. Old area outfitters; Jim and Gordon McKay, Upper Kootenay, Beaverfoot, Bill Harrison, Alpine Club. Big Bend Highway work. Banff/Jasper highway packing. Rode a horse to death. Hunted in the Purcell Mountains. One-armed hunter.

CALL NUMBER: T0935:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. W.J. Fraser describes his childhood in the Revelstoke area. He discusses his father, Fred Fraser, who was born in Scotland but moved to Canada as a child. He discusses the story of his; father coming to Canada, and details about his mother and family. Mr. Fraser was the first white boy born in Revelstoke. He also discusses schools, including the teacher, A.E. Miller; Rogers Pass; ranches; steamboats; fish in Tum Tum Stream; descriptions of Revelstoke; hotels; saloons and the red light district. TRACK 2: Mr. Fraser continues with his descriptions of Revelstoke; law and order; the red light district; Catholic/Protestant relations; his father; snow slides near Rogers Pass; railroad accidents; and characters in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T0935:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fraser describes Revelstoke during the pre World War I years; religion; an eccentric range man named William Mackie; respect of elders; an Englishman named Red Fern; the Italian quarter; other nationalities; the McAlpines; discipline and children; social events around Christmas; and Jack Kirkup. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Blind Bay (B.C.), 1984-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Outfitted climbing camps for Canadian Alpine Club for over 30 years. Various other climbing parties outfitted. Some camp locations. Swiss climbing guides noted. Conrad Kain had own outfit. Other climbers. Description of topographic survey work, 1923 to 1925, under Harris and Bridgeland. Smithsonian geological expedition (Walcott) in southern Rockies. Started as wrangler, circa 1916, for Walter Nixon. CPR dude trips to Lake of the Hanging Glacier. Supplied prospectors/mines in Purcell Mountains. Guiding territory was upper Kootenay Valley. Madeleine Turner. Jim Boyce. Curly Phillips. Hired local men. Freighting work around Radium Hot Springs. Fire warden for Palliser/Ross rivers area. Packing on Big Bend Highway survey, 1928. Columbia Valley trail. High construction during the Depression. TRACK 2: Locations on west slopes of Rockies. Alpine Club camps. Some backcountry dangers. Sold horse outfit in 1978. Over sixty years of horse work in the mountains. Previous tape recording at Archives of Canadian Rockies, Banff.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. DeHart, a Shuswap Indian, tells of her great-great grandparents' migration and settling in the Columbia River Valley at Kinbasket Lake, circa 1800. She describes living conditions and encounters with the Kootenays, as well as French traders; and provides an account of the visit David Thompson, who they say was quite helpless in the wilderness. Mention of Indian agent J.S. Galbraith;. She describes a flourishing native agriculture, which has since declined. She tells the legendary "Coyote" story. TRACK 2: Mrs. DeHart continues describing and discussing aboriginal society before and after contact with whites, including: conflicts between Kootenay and prairie natives; migration of her people to Golden area; the decline of native self-sufficiency through agriculture; the detrimental effects of alcohol; some comments about aboriginal religion and customs; problems with medicine men, including the death of her great grandmother by one; good relations between Shuswap and Kootenay Indians. She describes the breakup of her family when the local priest said that men could not have two wives.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-10-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Doris Smith recalls Revelstoke in the early part of the 20th century. She describes the society and life in the lower and upper part of the community. Descriptions are provided of the Chinese New Year celebrations, the Fire Brigade socials and Revelstoke of 1910. Mrs. Smith's father came from Switzerland to settle in Revelstoke. He loved the area and enjoyed mountain climbing, with his friend R.R. Copeland. She recounts parties at the Opera House, school days, and Halloween pranks. The Chinese district and ceremonies are described.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Smith continues with a child's view of the Chinese quarter, and the red light district. She includes anecdotes about miners and packers, Christmas and New Year's celebrations, school and Sunday school concerts and impressions of the declaration of World War I. The interview concludes with recollections of the Griffiths farm.