- T1254:0001
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- 1965-05-13
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Matthew J. Mackie describes how his parents, Nestor and Susan Maki, came from Lapua, Finland in 1891 or 1892, after hearing about the gold rush; the family homestead at Gleneden; how he had t;o walk five miles each way in to school at Tappen in 1901; what his parents were doing near Revelstoke when he was born in 1893; his earliest memories including the family move to Salmon Arm as his father was promoted on the railway to a foreman; what Gleneden was like; how the town got its name; his earliest memories of Salmon Arm; dairy farming; various jobs; memories of railroading; orange celebrations in Salmon Arm on July 12; Seventh Day Adventists baptizing people; Sam McGuire, an early Salmon Arm settler who had a general store; when they first saw East Indians; and other early memories; of childhood in Salmon Arm, including a few characters. [TRACK 2: blank.]