CALL NUMBER: T4135:0007 PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1920 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Maternal grandparents' immigration to Regina from England; father involved in Riel Rebellion; anecdote about Big Bear; paternal grandparents; father's history; father had fruit farm in Saskatchewan; met Maxwell Annabelle from Moose Jaw; Annabelle knew about 800 acres available, where Kinnaird is now; the Killoughs arrived in 1913; built house; hand logged by Joe Deschamps; brother goes overseas; labour scarce; Killoughs couldn't make mortgage and lost the farm; pre-empted on upper bench in 1918; farm later subdivided for smelter workers; Killough's stump ranch; logging on upper bench; Kinnaird school opens on push of the Dumont family; Killoughs walked to the Castlegar school until 1918; logging operation about Kinnaird; poles and posts. TRACK 2: Saulstrom, Anderson, Merry logging operation; stulls and logging for Rossland Mines; farmers from Milestone, Saskatchewan buy operation; Milestone Lumber Company and Road; steam mills; Joe Deschamps; planer; Kinnaird school attendance; homemade school bus; first bus driver; anecdote about arrival in Castlegar; logs shipped by rail to Gennelle sawmill; ownership of Gennelle mill; anecdote about Gennelle sawmill; wheat grown in Gennelle; cradle scythe; Doukhobor labour; strawberry and apple planted; layout of ranch; water needed for irrigation; early Castlegar; first post office and store owned by farmer; CPR station; section houses and crews; social status of station agent; Castlegar Hotel built out of boarding houses abandoned after bridge construction. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0008 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early Castlegar buildings and residents: "Alex the Indian", Collingwood Bing; McCauleys lived by the river; Castlegar school and children; Jim Laurie, station operator; Watts in West Robson; footpath added to rail bridge over the Columbia; Waldie's sawmill; families able to attend school; Pratt family played music in Farmers' Hall; other mill and section foremen families; Alex the Indian, a trapper, stayed at Killough's; found wikiup in 1924-25; Alex died shortly after; relief camp at China Creek, 1932; roadwork allowed Castlegar to grow; road before the Depression; Castlegar Community Hall; volunteer labour; "Stunt Night" at the community hall; songs, plays, boxing, dance after; relief camp workers brought to hall. TRACK 2: In 1929, built a telephone line to the top of Old Glory; worked as an assistant forest ranger part time; Westley fire; foreman on fire; hired by West Kootenay Power and Light; "deconstruction" of 1898 20-kilovolt line; construction of 60-kilovolt line; Blueberry Creek pre-emption; logging during the winter; 1961 gallbladder operation; married school teacher in 1935; forest Service didn't hire assistant rangers back in 1932; bought truck and built the wooden school but all assistant rangers and half of rangers laid off in 1932; forest development projects (relief), 1936 to 1939; assistant rangers hired to run camps; Seymour River camp 1936; Cowichan River Camp 1937; 100-man camps; setting up camps; pay scheme for workers; assistant rangers would go back to rangering every spring; provincial parks division came out of forest development projects. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0009 PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1975 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nurseries and reforestation started by forest development projects; Depression life on homestead; salmon stocks ended with the Grand Coulee Dam; anecdote about last salmon; whites never fished salmon; Westley; Page and Hill mill in Westley; Birchbank Lumber Company; East Indians in the Kootenays; anecdote about East Indians; Chinese labour and cooks; Chinese gardens; Waterloo; mines and boom; boat crossing; first water ferry; last ferry operator; size and operation of ferry; iron bridge; travel to Nelson; Thrums Road put in; residents in Waterloo; reflections on history; Tom Bloomer; CPR engineer; Bloomer and Hurst buy Castlegar land; Bloomers move to Nelson; Fred Horko. TRACK 2: 1926 Waldie's Robson camp; United Church minister [Rev. George R.B.] Kinney at relief camp who [shot or showed] home movies at camp; Kinney first to climb Mount Robson; anecdote about the death of a organizer in the forest development project; union activists suppressed; inspector of scalers for forestry; operators hired scalers; checkability; spent last years at work developing a scaling system; piece sampling explained; weight scaling explained; government takes over scaling; history of Forest Service; Sloan Royal Commission; university research flip-flops; suppressed forest growth; selective logging.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1902-;-;[no date] RECORDED: Robson (B.C.), 1966-12 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. James R. Martin recall early days and people in Castlegar, Robson, Westley and other places on the Arrow Lakes.;