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Series consists of minute books, 1939-1982. The unit also includes a minute book of the Watch Lake with Lone Butte Women's Auxiliary, 1937-1941.

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.

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.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Desroaches spent most of his life as a cowboy in the Chilcotin; he arrived in the Cariboo in 1929.;

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

RECORDED: Canim Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: These sisters tell the story of coming to Canim Lake from Washington State by covered wagon. They had a homestead, but had to live in a houseboat for the winter. Their parents ran a trap line, and had to leave their four girls for a week at a time.

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mrs. Goffin tells stories of her life; her role in World War II, years pioneering in the Cariboo, and nursing in the Forest Grove area for many years.;