Logging--British Columbia--Lardeau Region

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Archie Greenlaw interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Archie Greenlaw : Lardeau Valley 1932-1966 PERIOD COVERED: 1932-1966 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Archie Greenlaw was Postmaster in Lardeau. Ran Motor Car 600 on CPR track from Lardeau to Gerrard. Describes operation of M600. CPR trains hauled lumber and poles. M600 schedule. Difficulties keeping line open in winter. Forestry and mining people made up the bulk of passengers. Father ran hotel in Lardeau. Bentonite brought in from Wyoming for Duncan Dam. Pole yard in Lardeau. TRACK 2: Snow slides block rail line. English sawmill at Gerrard. Duncan Lake Lumber Company. Local people along rail line. Ted Evans bulb farm. Old sawmill at Lardeau. Crank phone system in valley run by forestry. Description of railway station. Political favours affected highways foremen.

Cecil Pangburn interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cecil Pangburn : Lardeau Valley, 1928-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Cecil Pangburn came from New Brunswick in 1926. Worked in Salmo and Kaslo. Bought 900 acres in Meadow Creek. Describes neighbours. Bought John Deere bulldozer after World War Two. Describes horse logging along the Duncan River. Railroad removed in 1942 and a road was built. Moved to Kaslo and ran a transfer business before returning to Meadow Creek in 1947. Returned to Kaslo in 1951. Owned small inboard powered dory used for hauling freight on lake. Tried cattle ranching, 1947-1951. Worked for highways department in Kaslo during the Depression. In 1932 was sent up with bulldozer to carry supplies to Poplar Creek and Gerrard when heavy snow closed railway for six weeks. TRACK 2: Married in 1928. Describes logging operation. Stake mineral claim on Meadow Mountain. Trappers lived at Howser. Caught live marten to sell in Kaslo.

George Hanna interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George Hanna : Lardeau Valley, 1898-1930 PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Hanna discusses the gold rush to Poplar Creek in 1903. Worked on Great Northern Railway. Father sold property in Argenta to Henry Denoreaz. Louise Denoreaz returned to homestead regularly after father's death. Denoreaz and Beguin families came to Canada together from Switzerland. Description of Argenta in about the time of World War One. Father, Leander Hanna, ran logging camp at Argenta. Rivalry between Hanna and Abey families in Kaslo. As a child spent summers in Argenta. Describes ranch on Argenta flats. Excursion on the "Moyie". Farm on the flats. Father employed Chinese cooks in logging camp. Shooting of Henry Denoreaz. Logging. Poplar Creek gold rush. Grandparents came from Ireland. Worked for Hollinger mines.

Helen and John Stevenson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Stevenson : Lardeau Valley, 1952-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Stevenson gives reasons for leaving the United States. Pollards join friends from Tracey. Once decision made to leave, search for a place to settle narrows to the Kootenays. Other co-operative groups in California also looking toward Canada. Stayed temporarily at Walker's Landing on Kootenay Lake and located property at Argenta after examining a number of possibilities. Rented Shutty property and the hotel. 1952 is spent getting established. Describes Argenta as they found it. Remains of early Argenta. TRACK 2: Delta Co-op formed to pool resources and to aid in getting employment. Pollards tried raising chickens. First major project was construction of Argenta Elementary School. Income pooling. Logged on flats for "hardwood" poles. More people move to Argenta. Building of Duncan Dam has little effect on Argenta. Original families fail to locate together on flats property, and families begin to go their own way economically. Incidents while travelling between Tracey and Walker's Landing.

Henry Newcomen interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Henry Newcomen : Lardeau Valley, 1910-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Newcomen's father came from England. Worked in mines around Kaslo. Lived at Poplar Creek. Father cut fence posts and poles. Red McLeod. Went to work in Spokane. Worked in father's pole camp at Meadow Creek. Worked in Chicago. Ran power plants in various B.C. towns. Started electrical contracting in Kootenays. Father looked after Kootenay Cedar Company land. Poplar Creek. Worked in Kaslo. TRACK 2: Worked in Spokane. Went overseas in World War One. Logging and pole cutting in the Lardeau. Driving logs on the Duncan River. Had small sawmill at Lardeau. People in the Lardeau Valley. Healy's Landing. Trapped for a few seasons, while living at Gerrard and Meadow Creek. Took out railroad.

Jim Brandon interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim Brandon : Lardeau Valley 1912-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jim Brandon's father was a CPR station agent at Lardeau. Lumber mill at Gerrard 1908-1920. Describes Lardeau after the turn of the century. Operation of Kootenay and Arrowhead Railway. Had pet bear. Father raised Airedale dogs. Hand-hewing railway ties in Gold Hill. CPR rail service cut back in the 1920s. Moved to Gerrard. Red McLeod. Maitland Harrison. TRACK 2: Emma Rear ran Miners Hotel at Gold Hill. Pole cutting in the Lardeau. Packing to the Teddy Glacier Mine. Mining old mine tailings in the 1930s. Moved to the coast and entered construction business. Description of Lardeau railway station. Marble quarry at Marblehead. Found old trestles and railway grade in the middle of the valley near Marblehead. Childhood in Gerrard. A.G. Johnson ran general store in Poplar Creek.

Jim MacNicol interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jim MacNicol RECORDED: Johnsons Landing (B.C.), 1979-02-06 SUMMARY: Jim MacNicol was born in 1911 and discusses moving to Johnsons Landing from the prairies. Sternwheelers. Growing fruit. Working in the United States breaking horses. Attended school until grade six. Logging up the Duncan River Valley. Description of early landholders and settlers in Johnsons Landing. Story about two trappers and their encounter with a grizzly bear. Piano tuner who traveled up and down the lake in a canoe. Shipped cream to Nelson. Sold fruit, vegetables, and meat. Johnsons Landing shipped two box car loads of fancy MacIntosh apples all the way to New York City one year. An account of West Kootenay fruit and cattle ranching during the inter-war years. Includes anecdotal material on the inhabitants of the community of Johnsons Landing, logging, fruit growing, and dairying.

Maitland Harrison interview : [Chapman, 1979]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Maitland Harrison RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1979-01 SUMMARY: Maitland Harrison was born in India in 1890, and returned to England as a child when his parents died. Arranged to come to West Kootenay in 1908 and had a guardian appointed. Worked at a dairy for two years at Pilot Bay. Bought land at Shutty Bench, north of Kaslo, in 1909. Cleared property for orchard, but left for the First World War before the trees were planted. Served in France and India, returning to Shutty Bench in 1922. Things changed dramatically, so he headed for the Lardeau and joined T.J. Ainsworth in a logging venture. Detailed explanation of logging for cedar poles and pine and spruce for the mill in Nelson. Trapping up Glacier Creek. Hunting on the Upper Duncan. Haley's Landing. Prospecting on the Upper Duncan. Life in the lower Lardeau Valley-Lardeau-Argenta area. Lived at Howser.

Peggy Bildstein interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Margaret (Peggy) Bildstein : Lardeau Valley, 1946-1952 PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1980] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Margaret (Peggy) Bildstein was born in England. Taught in Retallack 1940-41. Married on the coast in 1943 at Youbou. Moved to Howser in 1946. Husband worked for Duncan Lake Lumber Company. Opened one-room school in Howser. Building school building. Received big help from Kaslo School board. Mill burns down. People leave Howser and school closes. School re-opens. Earl Stevens, trapper. Joe Gallo, mining promoter. Billy Clark. Social life in Howser. Tim Ainsworth, English immigrant. TRACK 2: Tim Ainsworth was road foreman. Death of Tim Ainsworth. Describes operation of Duncan Lake Lumber Company and people who worked there. Tug runs aground on Duncan Lake. Mill was powered by two steam tractors from the prairies. Description of present-day (1980) Howser. Store in Poplar Creek run by Alec Robb. Climbing up to Lavina fire lookout. Layout of townsite.

Robert Tarr interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Tarr : Lardeau Valley, 1936-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert Tarr was born in Missouri. Worked in Nelson for Williams Transfer. Moved to Argenta in 1936. Ran sawmill near Argenta wharf. Cut railway ties. Worked on roads for taxes. Father ranched in Missouri. Then moved to Alberta. Worked in mill at Howser. Steamer used to connect Creston and Nelson. Logged with a pair of horses. TRACK 2: Wild game was always available on the flats. Had quarter section in Alberta before he came to Nelson. Politicians visited Argenta. Did two days road work with his horses each year. Butchering cattle with Steve Sawczuk.

Russell Fletcher interview

CALL NUMBER: T3696:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Russell Fletcher : Lardeau Valley, 1919-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Russell Fletcher discusses pole cutting in the Lardeau Valley. Driving logs on the Duncan River. Spawning fish at Gerrard and Meadow Creek. Settlement at Gerrard. Boats on Trout Lake. Worked on timber surveys in 1919. Placer mining on the Lardeau River. Poplar Creek. Trappers of the Duncan River Valley. The Omo or Gallop's mule. Healy's Landing and Maude Healy. TRACK 2: Trapping up the Duncan. Logging and log salvage with the Anamoose. Ulvins keep hotel in Gold Hill. Red McLeod and the birthday chickens. Gene Montreuil ran tug on Kootenay Lake. Marble from Marblehead went into buildings in Nelson. Worked to Horton in Nelson on their log booms. Timber surveying. Prospecting near Gerrard. CALL NUMBER: T3696:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Russell Fletcher : Lardeau Valley, 1919-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Russell Fletcher's step-father came into the Kootenays in about 1890. Worked on the Dominion Express in 1916. Went overseas in World War One. CPR steamers on the lake. Father bought sternwheeler "Creston". Went timber surveying in the Lardeau in 1919. Worked for H. Green. Declining fish stocks. General description of Lardeau -- Duncan. Pole cutting. White pine sent to Nelson match block factory. History of sawmills in Nelson. TRACK 2: Lardeau Valley in 1919. Locally produced wine sold during prohibition. Log driving. Red McLeod at the turn of the century. McLeod and MacDonald sell Lavina claim for $14,000.00. Red McLeod retires to Argenta.

Ruth Boyd interview

RECORDED: Argenta (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Peter Chapman, Ruth Boyd discusses her family came to British Columbia in with some other Quaker families to look for a place to settle. They were concerned about militarism in the United States. The Boyds had famed in Tracey, California, in the 1930s and 1940s. They arrived in the Lardeau Valley in August 1952. Details of travelling with their household goods in trailers. Roads and bridges in the area. Other families that settled there, including Congregationalists and Unitarians. TRACK 2: Building a house. The Delta Co-Op: farming and logging. Hardships: cramped living quarters and dirt. Isolation. Schooling. The fire that destroyed the Pollard home.

Steve Sawczuk interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steve Sawczuk RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-01 SUMMARY: Steve Sawczuk was born in Argenta in 1917. He is the son of Ukrainian immigrants. He has remained in the area all of his life, trapping, logging and working at a wide variety of jobs in order to make a living. He discusses early Argenta, the first school and teacher, and homesteading. He describes growing up, making a living, local community history, and particular characters in the community. Anecdotes about early Lardeau Valley people.

Winnie Carson and Helen Peachey interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Winnie Carson and Helen Peachey : Lardeau Valley, 1898-1952 PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Winnie Carson reads a letter recounting the turn of the century in Argenta. Winnie and Helen Peachey discuss the Lardeau region in detail. Mr. Coleman worked on survey crews with H.D. Dawson. Early Argenta settlers. Describes Coleman homestead. Steamboats. Recounts Coleman family's immigration to Argenta. Opening of school in 1919. Road work performed for taxes. Jack Folkard was first school teacher. Teacher always boarded with the Colemans. Dances held regularly amongst valley communities. Bought provisions once of twice a year. Carsons moved to Meadow Creek in the 1920s. Hannas helped Winnie through school in Nelson. TRACK 2: Children in Argenta spoke several languages. First car in Argenta. Carsons ran the sawmill in Meadow Creek. Removal of railway improved transportation. Mrs. Coleman was Postmistress. Community would meet steamer once a week at the wharf. Cut off thumb in accident and had difficulty getting to the doctor. Ralph and Archie Greenlaw pulled a sleigh with a bulldozer to Gerrard to transport a sick man. Coleman children would visit Beguins. Ore rawhided out of Argenta mine. Logging in Argenta.