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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Killough remembers Castlegar and Kinnard. He came to Castlegar in 1913 with his family. He offers his first impressions; school; the importance of the CPR in Castlegar history; Castlegar as it was in 1913; more about the railroad to 1917; the Edgewood Lumber Mill; more about trains; Kinnard in 1913; his father Captain Joseph Arthur Killough; a logging camp at Kinnard; marketing meat; an incident while swimming as a child; the wheat harvest and Doukhobors at Brilliant. TRACK 2: Mr. Killough continues with more on the Doukhobors as seen by an outsider; school; the population increase in 1918; mining and milling economy; the arrival of traction engine for one of the mills; other families; Peter "Lordly" Verigin; the Doukhobor ferry at Waterloo; the route from Castlega;r to Nelson by road; Jimmy Davidson and the Castlegar ferry; Waterloo as a mining community; and the name "Castlegar".