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Dan Webster interview

RECORDED: Vaseux Lake (B.C.), 1982-05-30 SUMMARY: Mr. Webster was born in Montana and schooled in the States. He worked at a ranch at the age of nine and began collecting Indian artefacts. He farmed in Montana as well as working in the timber industry. He later moved to Quesnel and became a cattleman.

Donald Van Buskirk interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-12-16 SUMMARY: Donald Van Buskirk recalls Dr. Lloyd Champlain and the Cariboo region community of Cinema, B.C., where Champlain ran the store and post office in the 1920s (and 1930s?). Mr. Van Buskirk worked for Champlain and lived on his property.

James Fields interview

RECORDED: Takla Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Field was born in Scotland in 1902, and came to Canada in 1920. He spent two years on the prairies and then came to BC. After a few months working along the Fraser River, he came to the Cariboo on a freight train. He worked as a gandy dancer on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway before becoming a trapper in the Chilcotin.

Dorothy Blair interview

RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1981-09-30 SUMMARY: Dorothy Blair was born in Victoria in 1919, and attended Macalister one room school, 1925-31. She received her teacher training at Victoria Normal school, 1938-39. She taught at: Macalister, 1939-40; Alexandria, 1940-41; Wells (six room), 1941-42; Quesnel (elementary), 1942-46; Alexandria (two room), 1954-56; Red Bluff (three room), 1956-59; Helen Dixon, Quesnel, 1959-80. The old Alexandria school was still standing at the time of this interview (1981). Dorothy Blair's family came to area as pioneers in 1867. She recalls one-room schools and very primitive school equipment. Pranks played by students; terrible teacher and good teacher; school track meets. After receiving her teacher's certificate she returned to teach in the same school she attended, Macalister. Talks of teaching at Alexandria and Wells, etc.

Charles Zschiedrich interview

RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1981-10-01 SUMMARY: Charles Zschiedrich was born in Quesnel on February 12, 1912, and attended Dragon Lake one room school from 1917-23. Pioneer rancher in Quesnel district; relates early days at school at Dragon Lake. He names many teachers and describes some misfit male teachers. Feels women in those days took teaching more seriously. Describes working conditions in early 1930s; reasons why so few went on to higher education.

Frederick Tregillus correspondence

Fred Tregillus (F.J.T.) came to Canada in 1882, working on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1886 he began prospecting and mining in the Barkerville area. He was active in public affairs, serving on the local School Board, the local Board of Trade, and the Local Exemption Tribunal. He was also Secretary of the Barkerville Branch of the Provincial Mining Association of B.C. He died in 1962 at the age of 99.

The records include: letters inward, 1909-1931, including letters from Cariboo Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA's), friends, and mining acquaintances and letters received as Secretary of the Barkerville School Board from teachers applying for positions.

Operational records

  • GR-1191
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  • 1917-1981

This series contains the operational records of the Kamloops Forest District relating to range and timber management. The records include correspondence files pertaining to improvements, pest control, public sustained-yield units, timber berths, tree farm licences, farm woodlots and timber marks. Some records were inherited from Cariboo, Vernon and Southern Interior Forest Districts, and from the Canadian Forestry Service during its administration by the Railway Belt.

British Columbia. Kamloops Forest District (1913-1978)

Earl Baity interview : [Adams & Thomas, 1981]

RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1981-10-01 SUMMARY: Earl Baity was born in Idaho on November 26, 1907. He spent a short time attending Mud River school and Bouchie Lake school, as well as helped with building them. The author of "I Remember Chilako", as well as two other books, and the author of a column in the "Quesnel Observer". Tells of 1917 move to Mud River from Alberta in a box car with his parents and horses, etc. Tells of his life trapping and wood cutting. Tells of helping to build the Mud River school, and getting out of attending it! Reads one of his columns about Inez Ratcliffe, who went to school by dog sled team; she taught at Bouchie Lake school, across river from Quesnel. Stories of Christmas concerts and dances. Plays old time tune on violin, "Home Waltz", at end.

Russell Scott interview

RECORDED: Clearbrook (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: George Russell Scott is interviewed by his brother, Emery. Russell and Dale, the second eldest of the Scott brothers, worked from a very young age to help support their mother, father, and siblings. They sold newspapers and picked berries as youngsters; then, when they were 15 or 16, they were big enough young men to work as whistle punks and flunkies. As adults, they moved to the Cariboo, where they preempted and cleared land for farming near Mahood Lake.

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