Table of Contents
- Part 1: First Nations of the Peace River Region
- Part 2: The Fur Trade Era
- Part 3: Transportation and Communication
- Part 4: Old Timers and the Price of Land
- Part 5: Dawson Creek: The Story of the Community
- Part 6: Mysteries, Adventures and Indian Legends
- Part 7: Arts, Crafts and Recreation
- Part 8: Agriculture
- Part 9: Church Histories
- Part 10: Schools
- Part 11: Health Care
- Part 12: Industries and Enterprises
- Part 13: Policing the Peace
- Part 14: Pouce Coupe, Rolla, and Other South Peace Communities
- Part 15: Chetwynd and the Fort St. John Area
- Part 16: The Alberta Peace
- Part 17: Natural History of the Peace River Region
- Part 18: Interviews with Old Timers
- Part 19: Remembering Our Veterans
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18-051: Alex McKellar
Interviewed by Mr. E. Hendricks [Note: Mr. McKellar’s father owned the place where New Dawson Creek was situated after the move from “Old Dawson”] ALEX McKELLAR: We came to the Peace River country in the fall of 1919. My father had just sold out in Saskatchewan. We moved here with my dad and mother and… Read More
18-052: Mrs. Alex McKellar (nee Cuthbert)
From interview for E. Hendricks’ Old Timers Program, CJDC. I came to the Peace River Country with father and mother, five brothers and one sister in 1929 from a small town in southwestern Saskatchewan. What a change in scenery it was, from a flat, treeless prairie to see miles and miles of trees in beautiful… Read More
18-055: Interview with Mr. Lionel Marion
Interviewed by E. Hendricks, 1974 [Mr. Marion was the first student from this area to qualify as a teacher]Hello folks, this is J. L. Marion speaking to you of our early experiences in the Peace River Block. I shall title my story, “Days of Long Ago”. It all began in 1914. My father and uncle… Read More
18-056: Mr. & Mrs. George Martin
We are interviewing Mr. & Mrs. George Martin, who are old timers in the Beaverlodge district. Typed, February 1975 Mr. George Martin I look back upon these days as if they were a thousand years back, well as you see, they are only sixty years, this year, I came up to this country. Reminds me… Read More
18-058: Jimmy Matthews and Joe Barringham, Old Timer Pals
From taped interview with Mr. E. Hendricks [On this tape two old friends and oldtimers of the Peace River country have a kind of “reminiscence party”. The occasion is Mr. Matthew’s ninety-third birthday. His friend, Joe Barringham is eighty-seven. The time, late September, 1977.] E.H.-First, Mr. Matthews is going to talk . I was discharged… Read More
18-060: Fred Mercredi Tells of His Teenage Years
From an interview with Erdman Hendricks Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: FRED MERCREDI: We start by saying that this is in 1923, September 2, when I went to work for George Ireland, who was a rancher, putting up hay up in Stony Lake, Alberta. We had a big snowstorm about the 17th of September…. Read More
18-061: Mr. Lea Miller, Founder of Rolla
Interview by Mr. Lou Roskin, 1954 Interviewer: “Mr. Miller, there are many things, of course, about the history of the Peace River Country, that most people are anxious to know, and which have not been publicized. I might ask first of all, where you came from before you came up here to the Peace River… Read More
18-062: Everett Miller
We lived in Rolla, Missouri, and when I was a kid, my dad was quite a mover. So, we came up to South Dakota and had a homestead there. After staying there for eight years, he got tired of that. Well, at that time there was lots of literature from Canada trying to get settlers… Read More
18-063: The Marshall Miller Family
By Edna Miller Proctor, 1977 INTRODUCTION: In an era when most people were looking for work, Marshall Miller was continually looking for workers. His ambition and ability fitted neatly into the Peace River economy in the early days when so many things needed to be done. When many were inhibited from undertaking a new enterprise… Read More
18-064: Bert Moffatt, Typical Homesteader of the 1920’s
Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: Introduction by Dorthea Calverley Bert Moffatt’s story is included not because it tells of exceptional incidents but because it is typical of the experiences of many pioneers who found opportunity for a full life in the Peace River Country. Bert Moffatt tells his own story clearly, humorously, and factually…. Read More