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Eagle's Nest News: newspaper produced by the students of Riske Creek School, Riske Creek, BC. Some issues include a "Riske Creek History Album" containing copies of photographs and extracts from printed books relating to the Riske Creek area.

The item is a photocopy of a typescript titled "A brief history of H. Durrell (Dec. 3, 1870 - Sept. 20, 1950)". It is a biography of Riske Creek Chilcotin rancher H. Durrell, by his son Jack Durrell (1919-1986), who succeeded his father as owner of the family's Wineglass Ranch.

The file contains "Adventures of a farm girl in Canada in 1925", by Joan Simpson, with a forward by her god-daughter, June Knowles. It consists of four reminiscences about life on a cattle ranch and in a fruit growing area of British Columbia by a young English woman who spent a year or two in British Columbia in the early 1930s. Although both personal and geographical names have been changed, the ranch on which Miss Simpson worked was undoubtedly the Church Ranch at Big Creek in the Chilcotin district.

The item is a photocopy of "Beef for Klondyke", Mr. Sheringham's account of the journey which he accompanied Norman Lee on his attempt to drive cattle from the Chilcotin to the Klondike in 1898.

Letter from Theodore Davie, May 24, 1894, replying to a letter from Prentice stating that Davie had threatened to withhold money set aside in the estimates to reimburse the Western Canadian Ranching Company for road building if Prentice ran as an opposition candidate. Davie denies the accusation but expresses surprise that Prentice should ally himself with a group tending towards "Socialism and communism", and points out that the money had been granted because the government thought of Prentice as a deserving friend.

Presented by Alison Prentice, Toronto, per the editors, BC Historical News, 1980.

The item is a photocopy of the reminiscences of Helen Frewen Sheringham, discussing her life with her husband, Edward Sheringham, on their ranch at Chezacut, 1905 - ca. 1912.

Biography of George David Owen Lloyd by his daughter, Sophy Wittaker. Captain Lloyd was born in England in 1895, served in the British Army, and after resigning from the army in 1924 and living in the Far East, emigrated to Canada in 1929. He lived in the Chilcotin district, first at Tatlayoko Lake, where he guided, and then at Kleena Kleene. He died in 1970.

Presented by Mrs. E. Whittaker, Cowichan Bay, 1987.

The item is a copy of "The Bayliff story" by Douglas Harker, a history of the Chilancoh ranch in the Chilcotin district near Alexis Creek, B.C. and the family who have owned it since 1886.

The file consists of a photocopy of the reminiscences of Hannah Dorsey. Mrs. Dorsey was born in North Sidney, N.S., grew up in North Vancouver and Bella Coola, attended Normal School, and taught at Port Simpson, B.C., before accepting a private teaching post in the Chilcotin. She married Lester Dorsey, a Chilcotin rancher and guide in 1934. The reminiscences mainly describe ranch life and work and various pack trips.

Eagle's Nest News: newspaper produced by the students of Riske Creek School, Riske Creek, BC. For earlier issues see MS-2170.

The series consists of photocopies of letters written from British Columbia to Hugh Booth Lee of Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, 1913-1914. Most of the letters were written by Hugh's mother, Mrs. Agnes Nash, during a visit she made to her children, Nessie (Mrs. Norman Lee), of Hanceville, Tom, of Alexis Creek, and Alfred, of Nicola and Alberni. The collection also contains letters from Tom and Nessie Hugh. Mrs. Nash was in the Chilcotin from March to May 1913, at Nicola from July to September, and in Victoria, where she lived with Nessie and Norman Lee, from October 1913 to June 1914. Mrs. Nash was very sociable and the letters are full of news of people met in B.C. and of the family in England.