PETER HOUSE: Well, we come from Athabasca and when we moved to Manning they used to call it Battle River and my Dad took up the land there, a homestead, and it was a school section. They wouldn’t let him have it but then when he died a letter came in that he got the… Read More

Taped by the South Peace Historical Society at the Dawson Creek Fall Fair, 1958 MRS. CHARLIE MIXER: PIONEER NURSE Interviewer: “Will you tell us a few of your experiences, Mrs. Mixer.” “I came to the country in 1916, I got acquainted with people here and there. I found there was no one in our end… Read More

Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: Interviewed by Dorthea Calverley Introduction: Mr. George Hunter came back to the Peace River country after years of absence from his old trapping experiences in very early Fort Nelson days. The Alaska Highway had opened up homestead country to the north. George was particularly interested in the Halfway River… Read More

By Dorthea CalverleyAudio Part 1 Audio Part 2 Cross-posted: 08-075: Ivor Johnson’s Story of Ranching on the Pine River in the 1920’s and 1930’s The three Johnson brothers, Ivor, George, and Albin came to the Pine River area with their parents in 1922 with the idea of ranching and doing some trapping. Ivor was about… Read More

This is the transcript of a tape-recorded chat with Mr. James Keener, known, of course as “Jim” in the spring of 1973. Jim was ninety years old, and visiting friends in Dawson Creek while disposing of some of the proceeds of his trapline in the mountains near Mt. LeMoray Lodge on the John Hart Highway…. Read More

From an interview with Rick Belcourt GABRIEL LAPRETE : My name is Gabriel Laprete. I was born in Peace River, in 1907, on the eighth of October. I know that my granddad came from down East someplace — I don’t know where. He never told me anything. I came about thirteen and a half miles… Read More

May 1977 In 1925 we had discussed moving to the Peace River county, which was then called the Peace River Block. We decided to move from Vancouver in 1925. We then changed our minds and decided to move in 1926, this we figured would be better for us. We were young at that time and… Read More

I’ll tell you the story of how we came to Dawson Creek on October 1st of 1930. In June, my husband Don came from Willmer, Saskatchewan to Grande Prairie looking for a homestead, and having heard about the wonderful Peace River county he came up to have a look. Although he didn’t find a homestead,… Read More

Interviewed by Lee Phillips on March 21,1973Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: Audio Part 3: Cross-posted: 04-024: Eric Logan and Stories of the Early Days After spending several hours with Eric Logan at his home on the north shore of Moberly Lake, I’ll endeavor to put in writing some of the history of peoples in… Read More

  Interview, March 25th, 1973. Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: This is with an old-timer from the Peace Country who is going to relate the experiences he had during the time that he has been up here from 1914 until now. MR. LOGE: Well, in order to get this in kind of a comprehensive… Read More