Item T2750:0001 - Mr. Reid interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Reid [first name unknown] recalls people and events around Adams Lake from the 1900s to the 1950s, including: the first white inhabitant, a prospector named Andy McConnell; the story about the rescue of a trapper with scurvy, Jack Wallace of Sunset Creek; and trapper Bill Anderson, who died of a stroke. He describes the Adams River Lumber Company, a horse logging operation that once employed 400 men. He recalls a colony of Seventh Day Adventists that lasted four years on upper Adams Lake. He tells about the failed attempt to settle Doukhobors on upper Adams in early 1950s. He tell;s about a man who robbed a U.S. Army payroll and used the money to start the Cariboo Lodge on the lake, but was eventually caught. The Lodge was taken over by a German named Jacob. Reid operated the steamboat "A.R. Hellen" for the Adams River Lumber Company, and was involved in the rescue of a mentally-ill Swede and others who became sick. He describes the system of dams built by Adams Lake Lumber; Company to transport logs down to mill in Chase. The interviewee concludes with an account of how he came to Lower Adams Lake, beginning with birth in N.B., work in Saskatchewan and then Vancouver, b;efore going to Adams Lake where he married and settled. [TRACK 2: blank.]