An eight-horse freight team on the Cariboo Road.
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- 2 Jul 1910
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
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An eight-horse freight team on the Cariboo Road.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Breaking camp at "Lost Meadow" on the V.W.N. and Yukon Railway survey.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Provincial Archives of British Columbia audio interviews, 1974-1992
The item is an audio recording of an interview with Gilbert Forbes in 1976.
T0330:0001 track 1: Mr. Forbes discusses his background: born in 1889 at 100 Mile House; father was a rancher; moved to 122 Mile (Lac La Hache) in 1893; family ran the 122 Mile House as a ranch and a stopping house on the Cariboo road. The operation of a stopping house. School. Worked for Bank of British North America in Ashcroft, ca. 1906-08. Worked with Frank Swannell survey party, 1908. Experiences while working with Swannell in Nechako region. T0330:0001 track 2: More about surveying with Swannell. Worked on mining construction, 1909-10. Mining camp conditions. Trip to South America, 1912-13. Anecdotes about Forbes' trip in Argentina, Bermuda and the United States and his return to Lac La Hache, 1913. Anecdote about the death of "Bugs" at Lac La Hache, 1906.
T0330:0002 track 1: Worked on his father's ranch at 122 Mile House, 1913-22. Freight hauling on the Cariboo Road declines after 1919. Worked at Cedar Creek gold mine, 1922-23. Gold mining in the Cariboo region. Ranched and had a trap line during the Depression. Building with logs. Ranched during the 1940s.
T0330:0002 track 2: Brief account of activities in 1950s. Early freighters on the Cariboo Road described. Anecdotes about the teamsters on the Cariboo Road. Anecdotes about gambling. Preachers. (End of interview)
Freight wagon on the Cariboo Road.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Freight team on the Cariboo Road.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Freight team passing 150 Mile House.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Going out - survey pack train near Poplar Lake.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
CALL NUMBER: T1038:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lawrence Dickinson recalls his journey from Wisconsin and arrival at Francois Lake in 1910, when he was about 15 years old. He describes his journey along the Cariboo Road; stopping in Quesnel Forks to help mine for the winter; the route he had to take to Francois Lake; filing preemptions upon arriving in Francois Lake; joining a survey crew for Swannell company; life as a surveyor ;in the Fort Fraser, Prince George and general Upper Nechako area in 1910. He describes Fort St. James and the HBC post located there in the summer of 1911; the old trails in the area, leisure activities at Fort St. James, and how much everyone enjoyed the area; A.G. Hamilton's trading post in Fort St. James; work he did over the next several winters; how the war disrupted life; his father's trading post at Fort Fraser in 1915; how he and his brother bought out the trading post and went into business for themselves; the kind of people in Fort St. James before the war, including railroad construction men and other old timers; Mr. Murray who was a factor for the HBC and other characters; what makes the area so attractive; the difficulty nowadays at making a living as a trapper; shifts in mining techniques, changes in the Necoslie Valley after WWI; and how Fort St. James continues to be a jumping off point for miners and people of various vocations. TRACK 2: Mr. Dickinson continues how t;he HBC got supplies to their forts; how the war affected business in the area and how the mercury mine boosted the economy; how preemptors could not get good land because companies took all the prime ;real estate.;
CALL NUMBER: T1038:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dickinson comments on the attitudes of people and various characters in Vanderhoof from his past; anecdotes about gold miners and how the landscape has changed; buildings at Fort St. Jam;es that are no longer standing; how the younger generation is not as reliable as the older generations; the fur trade around Fort St. James and how the local buyers had the monopoly; and a few old timers. TRACK 2: Mr. Dickinson describes traffic going through Fort St. James; changes in the area resulting in growing industry and construction; the rivalry among stores between the HBC and Dickinson and others; placer mining areas; freight service into the Nechako Valley by the HBC, Dickenson's surveying career from 1910 to 1913, including descriptions of places he surveyed; and miscellaneous comments about today's pioneers and industries.;
Loading a pack horse at Quesnel for a survey packtrain.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Pack train crossing Deserters River during the exploratory survey for the V.W.N . & Yukon Railway.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Survey outfit and packtrain at Dip Creek.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Survey pack train on the Poplar Lake trail en route to Houston.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Survey pack train on the Poplar Lake trail en route to Houston.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds
Survey party freight wagon in the shallows of a lake near 111 Mile House.
Part of Frank Cyril Swannell fonds