Mines and mineral resources--British Columbia--Kootenay Lake Region

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David Sutcliffe interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. David Sutcliffe discusses the Kootenay Lake steamers including the "Nasookin" and the "Kootenay". He describes the competition between the two companies; shipping horses on the "Nasookin"; Kootenay Landing; the tug boats; passenger service; mail delivery; freight; the "Kokanee" running aground near Riondel; social life and customs: the chivaree; the maiden voyage of the "Nasookin"; ;a boat called the "International"; the Bluebell Mine in 1910; problems with a new pump system; the shafts; use of candles and lime dust. TRACK 2: Mr. Sutcliffe continues by describing the Pilot Bay, Smelter and Galena Bay. Then he returns to discussing steamers such as the "International" and the "Alberta". He came to Riondel to work on a fruit farm in 1910. He describes the mine mill; Pilot Bay; independent miners; the beginnings of Riondel; the name 'Bluebell' was given by David Douglas in 1834; early history of the Bluebell Mine to 1905; Riondel in 1910; an anecdote about Ainsworth BC; working conditions; the Kirby Mine; more anecdotes; more about Riondel; nationalities of the miners; and more about the Kirby Mine.

From the mountains to the sea : Blue lake and red mountain

SUMMARY: "Blue Lake and Red Mountain", the third program in the series, looks at two pioneer societies in the West Kootenay -- the people who settled by the shore of Kootenay Lake on small farms, growing fruit, contrasted with the gold miners of the lively town of Rossland. The voices heard include: Lorna Lyttle, Margaret Draper, Mrs. Irvin, Agnes Mackie, Bella Cummings, Basil Aylmer, Warren Crows, Isaac and Philip Glover, Tom Eccles, Les Walker, Ken Attree and Ken Wallace.

From the mountains to the sea : Blue lake and red mountain : [production elements]

CALL NUMBER: T4222:0033 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Blue lake and red mountain : [part 1 of 2 only] SUMMARY: "From the Mountains to the Sea" was a series of 13 programs about the history and people of British Columbia's regions, based on oral history interviews recorded by Robert Orchard. The series was pro;duced in 1967 to mark Canada's centennial year, and mainly focuses on the period 1885-1914. "Blue Lake and Red Mountain", the third program in the series, looks at two pioneer societies in the West Ko;otenay -- the people who settled by the shore of Kootenay Lake on small farms, growing fruit, contrasted with the gold miners of the lively town of Rossland. The voices heard include: Lorna Lyttle, M;argaret Draper, Mrs. Irvin, Agnes Mackie, Bella Cummings, Basil Aylmer, Warren Crows, Isaac and Philip Glover, Tom Eccles, Les Walker, Ken Attree and Ken Wallace.;

CALL NUMBER: T4222:0034 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Blue lake and red mountain : [final version] SUMMARY: Spliced final version of the complete program. 1967-09-30.;

George and Basil Palmer interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Palmer came from Calgary to Kaslo in 1897 with his family. He recalls childhood memories of Kaslo, early residents including: John Kean, John Dawson, Pete Culligan, Scotty Mitchell, Spokane Harris, mining activities, schools, the red light district, and the Comique, a theatrical or variety show venue. He discusses the railroads of the area; Kaslo and Slocan and the Great Northern, the "Fire of 1910" and old timers of the area.

TRACK 2: Basil Palmer, George's brother, continues this tape. He was four years old when the family arrived in Kaslo. He discusses the town of Kaslo, transportation, May 24 celebrations, horse races, main street, the Kaslo and Slocan Railway, and Great Northern Lake Transportation. He recalls the mining boom being over by 1900 and local individuals such as Henry Giegerich, John L. Natallack, Ralph Kenyon, Sandy Robinson, the Comique, local agriculture and the CPR lake boats.

Guy Constable interview

CALL NUMBER: T0909:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Guy Constable describes how he came to Creston in 1904 to manage a mine. He discusses Creston as it was when he arrived; and how the mine affected the growth of the town. He also discusses orchards; fruit growing; settlement and development; lumbering; immigrant communities in the West Kootenays; and dyking schemes. TRACK 2: Mr. Constable continues with more on dyking schemes and; dike construction. He describes the 1938 flood and the formation of dyking districts.

CALL NUMBER: T0909:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Constable discusses the Creston Chamber of Commerce in 1908. He offers several anecdotes about prospectors and he describes life in the Creston area. Finally he tells anecdotes about F.G. Little, 'Mud Hen' Davis and the SS "Midge". [TRACK 2: blank.]

Harry Mawdsley interview

CALL NUMBER: T0934:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry Mawdsley talks about life in the Kootenay Lake region prior to 1900. He describes his family background and how he came to Crawford Bay in 1895. He discusses steamers; Crawford Bay in 1895; packing from Crawford Bay; trails; more about packing and adventures while packing; Silver Hill Mine; ore shipped to Nelson; Pilot Bay and Marysville smelters; lead and zinc separation; Pilot Bay and Crawford Bay settlement, and Gray Creek. TRACK 2: He continues with more on Silver Hill Mine and Rainville; parties; bringing in the first plough to Crawford Bay; his father-in-law, Alfred McClellan, at Pilot Bay; the sinking of the "Ainsworth"; races between the CPR and GN boats; Jean Montreuil; Dave Clarke; Morice; the railroad; the "Kuskanook"; more about the railroad; and grizzly hunting near Crawford Bay.

CALL NUMBER: T0934:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Mawdsley describes an incident while packing on St. Mary's trail; Charlie Sherwin; Ainsworth; practical jokes; hotels; mining; Nelson; Kaslo; Slocan; Fort Steele; St. Eugene Mission; more; about Fort Steele; CPR boats in the East Kootenays. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Howard D. Dawson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard D. Dawson : Lardeau Valley 1920-1931 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1931 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Howard D. Dawson established a surveying practice in Kaslo in 1920. Carried out surveys in the Lardeau-Duncan valleys as well as Kootenay Lake and Arrow Lakes regions. Made first surveys of Lardeau Valley for provincial government maps. Describes techniques for map-making. Worked as a mines surveyor from 1911-1920. Mining activity in Kaslo area during the 1920s. Carried out underground surveys. Describes Tom Coleman, cook and packer from Argenta. Describes general topography. Healy's Landing. Accident on way up the Duncan River. TRACK 2: Boating accident on way up the Duncan River. Burns feet. Land slides threatened mineral surveyors in alpine regions. Scaling difficult peak to make triangulation. Slocan. Worked in Sandon area.

Jack Mulholland interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jack Mulholland remembers coming west to the Kootenays in the late nineteenth century. He describes the CPR/Great Northern competition; the Silver King Mine at Nelson; the driving team; the smelter; more about coming west; rawhiding; a description of ore; the first ore from Sandon; forming the Prospectors Protective Association in Nelson; forming the Chamber of Mines; conflict; a prospector's life; bears and the Slocan-Lardeau ore belt. TRACK 2: He continues with more stories about prospecting and people in the area.

Lorna Lytle interview

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lorna Lytle discusses how her father; Thomas Lytle, came to Crawford Bay from Saskatchewan in 1912 to become a fruit farmer. She offers reasons why he came and discusses the Kootenay l;and boom in 1912; how early fruit farming was not profitable; the journey from Saskatchewan; steamboats on Kootenay Lake; early transportation; stone boat trails; optimism of the region; the mining boom from 1898 to 1906; farming by 1912; George Zimmer; Ted Wakefield; an anecdote about a cougar; Prospector Bill's "bear story"; knives and more on the bear story. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle continues with; more on Prospector Bill's story in which two miners encounter a grizzly bear and a trapper gets killed. She discusses grizzly and black bears; hunting for food; caribou; an anecdote about a deer hun;t; more of her father Thomas Lytle and his birth in Ontario on 1873; his family moving to Norquay, Manitoba in 1879; pioneering at Norquay; moving to Winnipeg in 1898; homesteading in Quill Lake Saskatchewan from 1906 to 1911 and buying land at Crawford Bay in 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle explains how her father; Thomas Lytle, acquired land at Crawford Bay in 1912. She discusses the fire of 1883; reforestation; building up the land; small fruit farming in 1912; agriculture including dairy and poultry and fruit in the Kootenay Lake region; the Bluebell Mine; first pre-emptions in 1894; the growth of Crawford Bay from 1898 to 1918; an anecdote about "greenhorn Englishmen"; raw hiding ore is explained; the Pilot Bay smelter; floatation process for separating zinc and lead; a story of Mike Johnson, who was a prospector; and the stores of Crawford Bay. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle offers memories of childhood sounds; childhood memories of the mountains; a discussion of smelter life; how food was plentiful; mountain surroundings versus the open prairies; trees; bir;ds; wildflowers; Professor Murray; effects of the mountains; nationalities of the settlers; British immigrants; present population of Crawford Bay as fluctuating; steamboats including the "Kokanee" whistle; a boiler blow up on the "Kokanee"; "Nasookin"; "Moyie", the work horse of the lake; schedules; impressions of Kootenay Lake; social life and recreation.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle continues with more on Crawford Bay; British immigrants; Kootenay Indians; place names; education; Crawford Bay life; and the Women's Institute. [TRACK 2: blank.]

[Miscellaneous footage : streets, dams, railway, etc.]

Stock shots. Street scenes in Prince George, Victoria, and Kamloops; forest cover map at the P.N.E.; Indians in traditional dress at Banff; Upper Bonnington, Grand Coulee and Waneta dams; mine site near Salmo; Prince George Airport; buildings under construction in Prince George; trains and railroad cars in the Prince George freight yards.

Nels Bystrom interview

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0010 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1929 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information; father's first trip to Canada; father returns to Sweden during First World War; borrowed money to return to Canada in 1925; logging in Nelson; mother and brothers come to Canada; four days on immigrant train; father borrows money from the CPR to bring him over; route to Canada; immigrant trains; anecdote about trip; life in Sweden; logging in Sweden; anecdote about work; pay in Sweden; unions; workers; paper; union raiding; working for father on Silver King Mountain; driving horses; cut cedar poles and white pine for Mathes; prices and wages in 1928; anecdote; about supplying mine; anecdote about operation of mine; anecdote about supplying mine; anecdote about Eagan's eyeglasses; crew at mine; location and name; camp at Cahill Lake; anecdote about working log deck; anecdote about brutal foreman; camp conditions; wages and costs; flume to Slocan Lake; flume construction; ice chute for log; anecdote about brother's logging accident and hospitalization; compensation; brother loses leg; brother's life after accident; brother's life and family; father and Bystrom, piling lumber at Six Mile Lake, quit over pay dispute; Cotton Logging Company job above Boswell; tools for fallers; piecework cutting cedar poles; peeling poles; camp at Boswell, hot water, sinks. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Camp at Boswell; hot water tanks; camp quality; anecdote about cork boots; work hours; anecdote about hard worker; recreation in camps; stock crash of 1929; logging camps close; anecdote about trying for job outside of Castlegar; room and board; logging in Princeton; riding freight train to Vancouver; unemployment in Vancouver; hobos on train; freight train to Castlegar; CPR police; walking from Castlegar to Nelson; working in mine; packing equipment in; miners' candlestick; anecdote about packing steel out; father on relief; mother cutting wood; farm produce; homemade pipe boring machine; making pipes. TRACK 2: Wrapping pipe with wire; economics of pipe sales; homemade sawmill; Kootenay Landing; Proctor railroad; anecdote about poor wages; hand drilling for blasting; anecdote about diarrhea in camp; anecdote about driving to Hidden Creek; lived in trapper's cabin; anecdote about boss tricking them into working; work at China creek relief camp; work conditions at camp; anecdote about man being kicked out of camp and him leaving; people in camp; Willow Point relief work; prospectors classes and grubsteak relief program; groceries for a month; three weeks prospecting in Slocan area; came back for groceries; CMS called him to go to work --started June 27, 1934 in lead refinery; work hours; lead explosion; conditions in refinery; open transfer (fired) from refinery; labour gang; anecdote about Joe Fillapelli. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1972 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about Joe Fillapelli; "barring down" the lead furnaces; anecdote about "safety first man"; construction with molten slag; lead contract; leaded work conditions; scrap yard; cutting shears; operation; meets wife; sick and crippled people in scrap yard; anecdote about quitting scrap yard; worked storage plant in Warfield until his retirement in 1972; 1942 work on Brilliant dam; work conditions on dam; anecdote about unloading cement; bicycling to work; contract system in storage plant; became shop steward; Castlegar board member; union split; reasons for not joining steel; Al King president; elected to convention in Olympia, Washington, barred from crossing into the U.S.; steelworkers and barring. TRACK 2: Stopped at border; Bert Herridge; anecdote about Herridge getting his border crossing privileges back; member of CCF; quit CCF because it was the political arm of the United Steelworkers Union; Murphy in Communist Party; met lots of Communist Party members; good men; approached to join the CP by Art Erins and Garfield Belenger; reminiscences about Belenger; anecdote about Harvey Murphy; benevolent society and six weeks of Murphy tries for better sick pay; vesting rights to pensions; 1940, moves to Castlegar; fresh air; terms and prices for lots; credit for lumber; built 14 x 20 shack; West owned water system; old lumber for new house; anecdote about pouring foundation; constructs an apartment building; layout of apartment building; sold apartments after he retired; present house bought as a kit from Vancouver; construction of house; contents of kit; agent helped assemble house; framed by nightfall; cost of kit. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0013 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Food co-op; Sam Muirhead's idea; war rationed items were kept for storekeeper's friends; sold shares at 50 dollars each; bought three lots in Castlegar; lots cleared and building put up on volunteer basis; Cominco employees had two transportation societies; had garage by theatre; food co-op hired Walter Markin as first manager; later co-op in Vancouver recommended Jack Kirby for Manager; Kirby anti-union; first president was Muirhead; second was Bystrom; last president was Dalziel; co-op folded, Kirby fired, co-op liquidated; co-op expansion plans rejected; first co-op operated from his back porch; operations from porch; Transportation Society builds new building; operation of Transportation Society; NDP membership; anecdote about rejoining CCF-NDP; rejoined after merger with Steel; Columbo Lodge Hall meeting of Mine/Mill members where Murphy explained merger.

Rube McCandlish interview

CALL NUMBER: T0930:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Reuben "Rube" McCandlish recalls the West Kootenays before WWI. He came with his parents from Alberta to Nelson in 1898. He describes the Silver King Mine and smelters in the area. He describes an incident on May 24, 1907, with Charles "Charlie" Sherwin; the steamer races on Kootenay Lake between the CPR's "Kokanee" and Great Northern's "Kaslo". He compares Kaslo, Rossland and Nelson, and discusses liquor licenses. More about Charlie Sherwin. He offers his impressions of Nelson in 1898; transportation to the mines; more about Nelson, such as late store openings and the red light district; district celebrations; July 1 preparations and celebrations at Nelson; law and order; Rossland's Jack Kirkup; more about liquor licensing; saloon and grand openings; and newspaper editor Colonel R.T. Lowery. TRACK 2: He continues with more on Colonel Lowery; Nelson newspapers Tribune and Daily Miner; a description of Nelson streets in 1898; newspaper editor John Houston; Patty Miles of the Miles Ferry at Bonnington; more about John Houston and Nelson City Light; more about Patty Miles; more on John Houston; civic politics; and more about John Houston.

CALL NUMBER: T0930:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McCandlish continues with more on John Houston; Colonel Lowery; the struggle against big business; working conditions in the mines; the red light district; Halloween tricksters; store locations past and present; Salmo in 1918; Salmo and the riot act. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The Bluebell incident

The item is an audio recording. It is an historical drama enacted by residents of the Kootenays. The story is narrated by the character of William Baillie-Groman, a freelance engineer, who relates the background to the Bluebell incident that occurred in the Kootenay District in the 1880s. Four miners, including Robert Sproule, staked claims to mines but abandoned them, and claim stakers from the Ainsworth Company took over. The dispute resulted in two court cases and a favourable decision for Sproule, but complications continued, including a murder and another court case.