RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Kappel describes how he came from Wales with a friend, Loland Salt, after seven years in Germany, because English was the language of Canada, and because the family of the woman he; was engaged to had land out by Shuswap Lake. He describes his first impressions upon coming into the area; remittance men; the process of building a house; selling wood; settling at Notch Hill; hostility aimed at the British; the first settlers at Chase; the first sawmill in the area, and the family who started it; the development of more sawmills; his property at Celista and the first settlers there; the timber industry at that time; having to clear land in order to get a patent to farm it in Magna Bay; his time in WWI; his job as a fire warden; other jobs he has worked at; how much he loved; his outdoor work; his work decoding German messages during the war; and his impressions of Indigenous peoples. TRACK 2: Mr. Kappel continues by discussing sawmill activity in the area; how in 1926 the company; he worked with built a sawmill in Canoe, then later sold it; a man who was rumoured to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce; an anecdote about a murder; the discovery of gold at the big bend of; the Columbia at Seymour Arm [?]; details about Sicamous; Notch Hill; growing apples at Salmon Arm; families in the area; game in the Shuswap area; how his wife liked the country; various odd characters; salmon runs before the slide at Hell's Gate; stories about various old timers and characters.

Minute books, 1934-1970 (8 vols.); membership book, 1969-1970 (1 vol.); cash books, 1934-1970 (3 vols.).

Presented by Mrs. Boyd, Secretary, BCWI, 1980.

Minute books, 1927-1979 (26 vols.); membership book, 1949-1973.