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CALL NUMBER: T1444:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mining and ranching RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-03-23 SUMMARY: Oral history interview with Mabel Kinvig. TRACK 1: Description of her father, James Wiggins. Arrival in Horsefly, 1906. Horsefly hydraulic mine, J. Wiggins, caretaker, buildings, Bill Thompson, miner, visitors. TRACK 2: Pioneer ranch at Miocene (B.C.). Building up the ranch. John Wawn. Government surveys. Indian crews. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Miocene, B.C., and Pioneer Ranch RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-21 SUMMARY: Early development of Miocene, B.C. People who stopped at Pioneer ranch. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-28 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.] CALL NUMBER: T1444:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Home life in the Cariboo RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Early home life in the Cariboo: food, canning, fruit, vegetables. CALL NUMBER: T1444:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The life of her father, James Wiggins RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The life of her father, James Wiggins: Vancouver, Cariboo, government packer in the North, telegraph linesman in the North. TRACK 2: The life of James Wiggins, continued: Newspaper articles about breaks in telegraph service.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamships on the Fraser, ca. 1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Jim Williams, who came to Quesnel to help build the steamship "BX". Earlier career in shipbuilding. Building the "BX". Ship's carpenter. "Bushed" passengers. The "BX" was dismantled and rebuilt elsewhere.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Jess Higdon. He talks about ranching near Quesnel, the Fraser River ferries, and the big changes in the Cariboo region.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): 100 Mile House and Williams Lake, 1919-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Phil Coxon left England in 1911. Early adventures in United States and Canada. Returned to 100 Mile House in 1918, after World War One, and homesteaded there. Cutting railroad ties. Moved to Williams Lake in 1919. Early Williams Lake and its settlers. First institutions: schools, churches, police, doctors, stores, courthouse. Wood cutting, 1940s.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: Phil Coxon left England in 1911. Early adventures in United States and Canada. He homesteaded near 100 Mile House in 1918 and moved to Williams Lake in 1919. He talks about making ties for the railway, other jobs, the Maple Leaf Hotel, Fox mountain, a soldier settlement homestead, Hargraves ranch, the Log Cabin Hotel, the local clergy, schools, stores, wood leases, and other settlers.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Glenn begins with his birth in 1902 in South Bend, Washington; his mother went down to be with relatives for the birth and returned shortly after. His parents operated a ranch and one of the two hotels in Horsefly. Glen talks of the community when the three major mines were operating; the Hydraulic Mine operated by J.B. Hobson, who was also manager of the Bullion Mine at Likely; the Orientals, who dug ditches and worked in the mines; Ward's Mine; the Miocene Mine; I.D. and E. Co. (International Dredging Co.); the effects on the community of the closure of the mines; Glen began trapping when he was very young and has trapped for over sixty years. He talks about what a trap line is, where his was in the Quesnel Lake area, how much time he spent on the trap line and what he took with him. TRACK 2: Glen continues to talk about trapping; what it was like to live on a trap line for several months, what the trapping cabins were like; a few stories of his experiences on the trapline; about traps; how he sold the fur; how trapping today compares to trapping in the 1920s and 1930s.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Trapping; supplies in trappers cabins; setting traps; stretching and tanning hides; first aid on the trap line; trapping regulations; big game hunting; guiding; began when he was about 19 years old; first time guiding hunters from California; supplies taken by hunters; hunting stones, etc. TRACK 2: Big game hunting; hunting stories; game population; decreasing and increasing numbers over the years; wolves across Quesnel Lake; changes in big game hunting; small game in the area; grouse and pheasant; dressing and preparing meat; brief description of the Williams Lake Stampede in the 1920s.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Father's ranch; the Walters's Ranch; work around the ranch; hired help; Ah Wee, the Chinese domestic and ranch hand; operations around the ranch; survey of ranches up Black Creek; mining at Eureka Creek in the early 1900s; ranches, pre-emptions along Horsefly Lake Road; ranches in Beaver Valley. TRACK 2: Ranches in Beaver Valley; cattle drives from Horsefly to Ashcroft and Williams Lake as late at the 1940s; early freighting along the Cariboo Road from Ashcroft; team and wagon; trips into Horsefly; freighting with trucks; goods brought into Horsefly; incident at home with family.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Glen talks about buying a small ranch in Horsefly from his mother and building up the ranch into a working operation; clearing land; seeding; irrigation; haying; Indian crews; trading with locals; winter campgrounds; battle on Cariboo Island and the reason there are no Indians in Horsefly. TRACK 2: 108 Road; original road into Horsefly before the road from 150 Mile; his father had the mail route over 108 Road; original road through Horsefly to Quesnel Lake and across to the gold fields around Barkerville and Keithley Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Glen remembers the wild horses in the area before they died out; role of women on the ranches; fencing in the early days; Farmer's Institute; buying seed in the early days; effects of the First World War on ranching, as well as the Depression and the Second World War. TRACK 2: Differences between ranching in the early days and ranching today; early roads around Horsefly; road-building crews; horse graders; corduroying; changeover to power graders; trucks; freighting with trucks and traffic along 150 Road in the 1920s; conditions of the roads.

CALL NUMBER: T2785:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Glen's father owned and operated the Walters Hotel which was one of two hotels during the early 1900s; the bunkhouses used by miners; the Meiss Hotel; the main hotel also called the City Hotel, had a small store; description of it, saloon, dining room, livery stables, rooms, services provided; patrons; gambling; miners; Walters Hotel also called the Horsefly Hotel; rooms; livery stables; dining room, meals; Harry Walters carried gold for Hobson and was also an early forest ranger. TRACK 2: House of ill repute in Horsefly; hotel patrons; celebrations at hotels; first phone installed in Horsefly.

CALL NUMBER: T2789:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Teaching and social life in Cariboo communities RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ruby Barrett's parents; father was a minister and came to preach in Vancouver in 1929; her father's work as a missionary up the coast; Normal School in Vancouver when Ruby was 18; her first ;teaching post at North Lytton School; her second teaching position at Alexis Creek; trip from Williams lake to Alexis Creek; her third teaching position at Horsefly in 1938; her recollections of Horsefly in 1938; her marriage to trapper Tan Barrett. TRACK 2: Ruby's marriage to Stan Barrett, continued; their first home; social life in Horsefly; Christmas concerts at the school. CALL NUMBER: T2789:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A teacher in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-21 SUMMARY: Experiences as a teacher at Alexis Creek and Horsefly, BC. CALL NUMBER: T2789:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Teaching in Horsefly, B.C., 1938-1941 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-01-05 SUMMARY: Teaching in Horsefly from 1938 to 1941; the teaching profession in general. CALL NUMBER: T2789:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A trapper's wife, 1942 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: Ruby Barrett; her life as the wife of a trapper in the Cariboo in 1942. CALL NUMBER: T2789:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A trapper's wife, 1942 & 1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: Ruby Barrett; her life as the wife of a trapper in the Cariboo region from 1942 to 1945.

CALL NUMBER: T2792:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Brown's family; Dairy farming in the Fraser Valley before the Depression; selling milk to individual buyers; organisation of Fraser Valley Milk Producers; moving to the Cariboo, Likely; and Horsefly; ranching in Beaver Valley during the 1940s; what the place was like when he bought it; getting the ranch going; haying; feeding cattle; daily chores and routine; milking cows and shipping; cream to Williams Lake and Quesnel. TRACK 2: Ranching Beaver Valley; leisure time in the winter; feeding cattle in the winter; travel by horse and cutter in winter time; condition of roads; cattle drives to Williams Lake; Williams Lake in the 1940s; operating a general store in Horsefly in the 1950s; managing a men's clothing store in Williams Lake; Horsefly in the early 1940s; the general store in Horsefly from 1950 to 1958. CALL NUMBER: T2792:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Harry talks about his years living in the Corner House, a large rambling log house in the centre of Horsefly; taking in boarders; feeding people; the General Store in Horsefly in the 1950s; bringing in beer for the local population; Niquidet's freight line from Williams Lake to Horsefly in the 1950s; customers; trappers, hunters, locals, tourists, forestry people; store goods; on the ranch in Beaver Valley; chores, fencing, irrigation; buying seed; pigs; the log home that was on the place when Harry moved in; building a barn; comparison between farming in the Fraser Valley and the Cariboo; winter on the ranch; Melba's father, Harry's father-in-law; food on the ranch.

CALL NUMBER: T2796:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Gruhs family of Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gruhs family history. Homesteading. Stores and successive owners. Food. Social activities: community hall; gopher dance. Severe winters. Stove. TRACK 2: Religion. School teaching. Engagement; and marriage to Ben Gruhs. Esther's early childhood in New Westminster. Education. Preserving. Bridge in Horsefly. Road building. Fire in 1934 that almost destroyed home. Cars.;

CALL NUMBER: T2796:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for this tape.];

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.

SUMMARY: Interviews with Fred Tregillus, Mary Tregillus (nee House), John Houser, Mrs. Roddick, and Mr. Bryant, by Louis LeBourdais (Member of Legislative Assembly for Cariboo), and John Barnes, about: British; Columbia, Cariboo region, pioneer life; industry, mining, gold, Barkerville, including playing of church organ at Barkerville Anglican Church.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-?] SUMMARY: An autobiography of Donald McAllister. He and his family arrived in the Cariboo in 1911. He talks about their journey from Ashcroft to their homestea with the household effects and livestock; other settlers; living conditions; freight wagons; the BX stage; and being the postmaster for the McAllister (?) district.

RECORDED: Horsefly (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Walters grew up on his father's ranch near Horsefly. When he turned 18, he started his own ranch. He also tells stories about hunting trips, farming, ranching, trapping and being a big game guide.

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.;

RECORDED: Clinton (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Prydatok came to Canada from Austria at the age of 16. He first worked in the coal mines near Nanaimo, before moving to the Cariboo, where he homesteaded near Green Lake.;

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mrs. Richards was born in the United States, but married a Canadian, and came to the Cariboo in 1901. Mr. Richards died and left Bessie with three children to raise. She had her own homestead, worked as a cook, and was a midwife, nurse and undertaker to those in Forest Grove for many years.

RECORDED: Windermere (B.C.), 1982-06-10 SUMMARY: Dixon Anderson grew up living with his grandparents in Canim Lake. He tells stories about life on the homestead, and tells many tall tales. He worked in a sawmill, cut Christmas trees, hunted, and worked as a fishing guide;

CALL NUMBER: T4185:0001 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: James Moriss, from Gradna (Grodno?) in Russia, born 1895. His father, a railroad builder, had work in Canada for three years, 1907. Jim, the only son, aged 15, wanted to come to Canada. Left Russia in 1911 with an uncle and several other young men. They were smuggled out of Russia and traveled by boat from Germany to Halifax; then by railway to Cochrane, Ontario, where a Jewish friend of his father's was to look after him. Jim worked on the railroad, and eventually got out to Prince Rupert. Worked on the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific, then on building the Pacific Great Eastern from Prince George south. The war in 1914 stopped all work. Jim and several others walked south past Quesnel, looking for work. Finally, at Australian, were hired by local rancher, Windt, to harvest potato crop. TRACK 2: Next year, 1917, Jim worked for R. Middleton; then for Robert Yorston for 4.5 years. Jim took up a pre-emption, built cabin and later a big house. Married Helen Zschiedrich, 1924. Raised four girls. Worked on building of the PGE after World War I. After World War II, considered returning to Russia, but changed his mind when he realized he couldn't live under Communist rule. CALL NUMBER: T4185:0002 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jim Moriss speaks of many Quesnel area residents, including: Paul Krestinuk (a Russian); Robert Middleton and his wife; George Pickard; Sam Bohanon; Collins; Billy Lyne, John Lyne, Dave Lyne, and the Lyne Roadhouse; Clarence Fuller; Webster; Choates Zscheidrich; Charlie Ross. [TRACK 2: blank?]

Series consists of correspondence inward, reminiscences, diary of a trip through the Cariboo to Stuart Lake (1913); research notes and drafts of Howay and Scholefield's History of British Columbia.

The item is a photocopy of the reminiscences of Ernest Hubert Allcock. Allcock emigrated from England to Alberta in 1909 and worked on farms and on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. In 1914 he homesteaded near White's Landing, north of Quesnel. He was highway foreman in Quesnel, and from 1941 to 1952 in Lillooet.

The collection mainly consists of oral history interviews with Cariboo district residents, mainly recorded by Dr. John Roberts and Reg Beck. It also includes some radio coverage of special events in the area. Some of this material was recorded for (or broadcast by) CKCQ Quesnel or its sister station, CKWL Williams Lake.

CALL NUMBER: T0306:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry Marriott describes his immigration from England to Canada in 1907. He describes his work on the Gang Ranch in 1912, his service in WWI, homesteading, several characters who settled in the Cariboo at the turn of the century, and in the 1960s. He discusses the growth of the OK Ranching Co. Ltd. the effects of logging;why he chose to live in Canada and working on a ranch in Washington State. TRACK 2: Marriott discusses his inability to get government jobs in the U.S.; ranching at Big Bar Lake in 1919; dry farmers; sheep farmers; the Gang Ranch and its history.

CALL NUMBER: T0306:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Marriott offers insight and anecdotes about characters and the town of Clinton.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James "Jim" W. Keefe talks about his experiences in the Soda Creek area of the Cariboo, 1912 to 1930. Mr. Keefe discusses how he arrived from Colorado in 1912 along the Cariboo Road. He describes transporting a bull on a riverboat and the ferry at Soda Creek. He bought Buckskin Ranch after WWI. He describes hunting deer, more on the Soda Creek ferries and riverboats, his partnership on Buckskin Ranch with Joe Demarre, a description of Soda Creek, placer mining, a prospector named Talbot, the Bryant family at Soda Creek, his family background, the American Midwest, Buffalo Bill Cody and Indians.

TRACK 2: Mr. Keefe describes his childhood in the U.S., stories about hunting wild horses, Christmas, an old prospector, bootlegging in Soda Creek, more on the Soda Creek ferry, and finally the story of a bull and a wild boar on the ferry.

CALL NUMBER: T0415:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Irwin McDonald describes his father, Archie Roy McDonald, who came from the Isle of Skye in Scotland, and moved in turn to Colorado, Montana, Mexico and BC, chasing mining drives; some anecdotes about his father's trip to BC; Colville; silver mines; his father and mother; his mother's death when he was three; school in Spokane; the Kootenays, and who discovered several sites there; buying land in Strom, Alberta; several characters and anecdotes; his siblings; Nelson; a boat trip to Kootenay Landing and train ride to Cranbrook; distant relatives from Ontario named Stuart; McCullough and his purchase of land in BC. TRACK 2: Mr. McDonald continues by describing the winter of 1907 in Alberta and the subsequent sale of the ranch in Alberta; they moved to Edmonton and then to BC with a few pack horses, leaving Edmonton on May 15. He describes the trip in great detail.

CALL NUMBER: T0415:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McDonald continues discussing a man named Swift and more anecdotes about their journey; Jasper House, Tete Jaune Cache; Canoe River; more on the journey. He explains that they were trying to go to the Cariboo down the Thompson River, not really knowing what to expect or where they were exactly going to land, and not hitting the Cariboo Road until 70 Mile House. They got to Clinton soon after. TRACK 2: Mr. McDonald talks about 70 Mile House; building a house and barn; supplies; ranching. He describes Ashcroft.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ed Aiken was born in Clinton and moved in 1921 to the Quesnel area with his father to farm. His father was the former chief of police for the Cariboo at Clinton. Mr. Aiken comments that the area was not busy then and describes what the town consisted of. He mentions the owner of a stopping house, W.J. Anders. Mr. Aiken discusses what farming was like and potato farming. Aiken tells a story about his father and One-Armed Phillips. He describes what Quesnel was like in the 1920s; a cattle shipping point; farming; and a little lumbering. Then he describes Williams Lake and cougar hunting. The interview ends with Mr. Aiken discussing Fort Alexandria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Earl Shaw Baity recounts his coming to BC in 1920 to move to Prince George with his father, Nick Baity. He describes Prince George in the 1920s, and Quesnel as he moved there in 1922. There is a detailed description of the road to Quesnel and the ferry. After he arrived in Quesnel, he took up a homestead. He discusses the growth of Quesnel between 1922 and 1947. He describes Wells and Barkerville as well, and tells stories of Dr. Gerald Ramsey and Paddy Baker. Mr. Baity outlines the differences in the populations of Quesnel and Barkerville. TRACK 2: Mr. Baity talks about several pioneers including John A. Fraser and the growth of Quesnel since World War II. The interview concludes with a discussion about life during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970 SUMMARY: Mr. Edward and Mrs. Sandy Wright discuss life near 150 Mile House; coming to the country in 1969; the people in the Cariboo; life in the backwoods; education; family and life on the homestead; personal comments on BC and Confederation.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alex Morrison describes how he came to BC in 1927 to tend sheep at Blackpines, North Thompson; and then to the 100 Mile House area in 1929. He describes sheep ranching; the Highland Ranch; the growth of 100 Mile House; and industries. Mrs. Harriet Morrison continues with the discussion of the growth of the town of 100 Mile House. She describes how she came to Lone Butte in 1924; the development of the Lone Butte area; and the 100 Mile Lodge, circa 1935. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Thomas Windt in 1976.
T0454:0001 track 1: Mr. Windt discusses family background: father came to B.C. from Ontario in 1898; brought family to Pavilion in 1902; family background; settling the family ranch after 1902. Windt's early schooling. Food and supplies. Economic conditions of the family farm. Anecdotes about the Cariboo Road. Brother began freighting on the Cariboo Road in 1907. Description of freighting on the Cariboo Road between Ashcroft and Quesnel.
T0454:0001 track 2: Windt visited the grave of Cataline (Jean Caux) at Old Hazelton. Cataline described. Experiences freighting on the Cariboo Road with wagons and sleighs. Details about wagons, sleighs and horses.

T0454:0002 track 1: Description of freighting on the Cariboo Road. Horse medicine. Steamers on the Fraser River between Soda Creek and Quesnel. Anecdotes about local policeman, Dave Anderson. Canoe travel on the Fraser River. More about freighting on the Cariboo Road. Anecdotes about Charlie Ross of Soda Creek. Other anecdotes about local characters.
T0454:0002 track 2: Windt worked at Antler Creek (near Barkerville), 1924-28. Techniques of working with a dredge described. During the Depression, Windt mined gold on the Fraser River. Chinese along the Fraser described. Comments about the changes in the Indigenous population.

T0454:0003 track 1: Freighters on the Cariboo Road described. In response to a list of former freight drivers on the Cariboo Road, Mr. Windt describes them and relates anecdotes and stories about freighting, freighters A - G.
T0454:0003 track 2: freighters G - Z.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dora Gorman talks about Clinton and the area, 1912 to 1920. Mrs. Gorman tells the story of how she came to the Cariboo in 1912 and worked as a hostess at the Clinton Hotel. She discusses a local murder case and a visit to the Mound Ranch. Then she goes into more detail about the Clinton Hotel and Clinton in 1912 including the cold winters, people passing through the area, and comments on early settlers. TRACK 2: Mrs. Gorman comments on English settlers in the area and offers her first impressions of Clinton, the Indians of the area, her social life, annual balls in Clinton, the famous packer Jean Caux, known as Cataline, and several anecdotes on ranch life.