- T0408:0001
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- 1965-01-29
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wentworth Wood, born in Montreal, describes coming west in 1883; to Victoria until 1885; and then to Vancouver until the fall of 1887; then on to Kamloops. He describes his father, who was a sheriff; he describes boats of that time; Andrew Mara; his impressions of Kamloops when he arrived at the age of seven; what life was like; characters he remembers; anecdotes about men named Titus, Broughton, McNeil and the Reverend Stevenson; hotels in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Wood continues with a story about a hillbilly, more anecdotes about a man named Thompson and others; Bill Miner, the Haney brothers; more on the Bill Miner holdup; the McLeod brothers; copper mining in the 1890s; Dave Powers, MacIntosh.