Item AAAB4363 - Robert Joseph Guay interview

CALL NUMBER: T3864:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Office manager, Fish and Wildlife Branch PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1979 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-07-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Staff of Game Department Division D, 1930s-40s. Discusses: "special patrols"; "bush wire"; Indian-white trapline feuds; effects of Alaska Hwy on northern B.C.; development of trapline administration 1920s-1970s; trapline boundary disputes; Indian protests and role of D.I.A. in settling disputes. TRACK 2: Mr. Guay discusses: Alcan and the Nechako Bird Sanctuary, 1951; wildlife biologists in the north 1950s; predator control programs, 1940s-50s, including use of poisons; effects of settlement, B.C. Rail, and logging on trapping; post-war programs for veterans, 1945. CALL NUMBER: T3864:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Office manager, Fish and Wildlife Branch PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1979 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-07-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Guay discusses: poison distribution program, 1943; guide regulation policies, 1945; Indian guides and regulations; relations between Game Department and Federal Fisheries, Federal Migratory Bird Act, B.C. Provincial Police and the Joint Patrols; travel up Crooked River to Finlay-Parsnip before Hart Highway, 1940s; transportation for out of the north; relations with RCMP; Rod and Gun Club hatchery programs; Game Commissioner visits to Prince George, 1940s-50s for Divisional meetings and meetings with trappers. Discusses B.C. Trappers Ass'n: early formation, development of fur prices 1946, beaver seals, beaver quotas and beaver trapping generally. TRACK 2: Discusses: beaver tags and beaver poaching, 1930s-50s; Indian trappers; relations with D.I.A.; relations with band councils since 1975; Indian fur harvesting and trapping attitudes; company, communal, and individual traplines; effect of fur price decline on Indians; special permits to whites to trap Indian traplines; inheritance of Indian lines; white attitudes to Indians; conservation groups, 1940s-70s; effects of 1956 creation of Department of Recreation and Conservation, which the Game Department was put into. (End of interview)