RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Ann Rottacker describes her father, Alexander Campbell Murray, who was the Hudson's Bay factor at Fort St. James. She describes various offices he held, and the story of him joining the; HBC and crossing the country from Winnipeg. She describes Fort St. James and events of her childhood at the post; the school; Indians; the church; Father A.G. Morice; and the naming of Honeymoon Island and Mount Pope. [TRACK 2: blank.]
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Fort St. James, 1862-1914 PERIOD COVERED: 1862-1914 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1976-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Ann A. Rottacker discusses her background: born 1896 in Fort St. James; father, Alexander C. Murray, was the Hudson's Bay Factor; details about father. Fort St. James described: domestic; details; fur trade; relations between Indians and A.C. Murray. Elementary school in Fort St. James. Mrs. Rottacker at school in Victoria for four years. Mrs. Rottacker spoke Carrier as a child. Father A.G. Morice described. Cataline (Jean Caux) described. Travel. Father was at Fort St. James from 1862 to 1914. TRACK 2: Father travelled by snowshoe from Lower Fort Garry to Fort St. James in 1862.; Mrs. Rottacker sings briefly in Carrier. Kitchen garden at Fort St. James described. More on childhood. Route travelled between Fort St. James and Victoria in about 1905. Details of diet. HBC "open house" for Indians described. Clothing described.
File contains correspondence and memos addressed to A.C. Murray at Fort St. James and/or Stuarts Lake. The correspondence is written by J. MacDonald at Babine Portage (1894-1895), C.H. French from Babine Lake (1894-1895), D. Todd from Babine Portage (1895). There is one memo from Jenny McDonald (wife of J. McDonald) to Jim Bouche.
File contains correspondence written by William Fox at Bear's Lake outpost to A.C. Murray at Fort St. James/Stuarts Lake. There are six records dated between July 26 1895 to September 17 1895. The final letter is written from McLeod's Lake.
File contains correspondence written from McLeod's Lake to Fort St. James. There are 7 letters written by R. Grassham and and 11 letters written by William Ware. There is also 1 inventory of goods entitled "Recapitulation - goods from out on credit by R. Grassham."
File contains copies of two letters written by A.C. Murray dated February 15, 1895, and written from Stuarts Lake. One letter is addressed to J.H. Lyon at Hazelton and the other letter is addressed to McDonald. In 1895, Murray was in charge of Fort St. James.
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.