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CALL NUMBER: T2798:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Boyhood of a young trapper ; trapping around Hobson Lake and Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arrival of the DeWees family on foot from Washington when Dick was 10; the family camped for a while, then settled in an old cabin at Antoine Lake, northwest of Horsefly, where they lived for two years in the 1920s; life when Dick was a young boy; story of fishing on Horsefly Lake; trapping at Antoine Lake; schooling at Horsefly at the first and second schools there; how he earned $60.00 a month as a janitor while going to school; school at Black Creek. TRACK 2: Trapping as a young boy at Hobson Lake; his family winters on Quesnel Lake at Killdog Creek; story of trapper Bill Miner and trapping with Lloyd Walters. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stories of old-timers and of the local dances, Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick DeWees talks about the old Miocene Mine in 1918; mining at Jawbone Pool; mining near Joe Williams' house, east of the river, in 1923. Dick tells the story of cooking for a suppression crew when he was 13; trapping with Fred and B. Hooker and Lloyd Walters; stories about Tom Hooker and the Hooker family; blacksmith; sawmill; hunting lodge. TRACK 2: Stories of old timers in Horsefly; Spencer Hope Patenaude and the telegraph office; John Wawn, a central figure in the community; Justice of the Peace; school trustee; his shoe repair shop; Alec and Matilda Meiss of the Meiss Hotel; the Bull Moose Club as bachelor's headquarters; dances at the community hall. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Transportation and hunting in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The trip from the United States to Horsefly in 1918; early roads; Horsefly in 1918. TRACK 2: Trapping around Horsefly Lake and Quesnel Lake. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Big game hunting in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: Big game hunting around Horsefly, B.C. CALL NUMBER: T2798:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.] CALL NUMBER: T2798:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Prospecting and mining in the Horsefly area; both placer and hard-rock. TRACK 2: Mining around Horsefly; dances in the community hall.

CALL NUMBER: T2797:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An immigrant's life in the Depression : homesteading at Horsefly Lake RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Erik Viksten's family in Sweden; their dairy farm; immigration to Canada in 1928; special difficulties of life during the Depression for an immigrant; various jobs on the prairies and BC in carpentry, mining and ranching. TRACK 2: Arrival in Horsefly; first visit to [his] brothers' in Horsefly in 1937; fishing on Horsefly Lake; lodge on Horsefly Lake; the south shore of Horsefly Lake, 1948; first resident on the south shore of Horsefly Lake; salmon hatcheries at Horsefly; those who worked there; the operation; winter on the lake; travel.

CALL NUMBER: T2797:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life at Horsefly Lake in the 1950s and 1960s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Boat building on Horsefly Lake; how Erik became involved in boat building; technicalities of boat building with the facilities Erik had on the lake. Life on Horsefly Lake during the 1950s; trappers in the winter time; Erik trapped one winter. TRACK 2: People living one the lake cutting ice in winter to preserve food. Travel in the winter. Erik made skis on which he travelled into Horsefly. What Erik remembers of Horsefly in 1948: the general store; the old-timers who gathered at the store to tell stories. Erik tells a trapping story that involved John Larson, Jack Grahame, and himself.