Cross-posted: 09-011: Reminiscences of Reverend H. Russell Ross – Early United Church Minister in Dawson Creek and his Wife, Jean (Teeple) Ross, Early Teacher You ask for some of our impressions of the British Columbia Peace River area as we remember them from the early thirties. It is not easy to compress so many experiences… Read More

[missing text]….60 degrees below, snapping the new wire in many places. This intense cold was followed by strong winds which overturned great numbers of trees, so that line-men had a difficult task to make the necessary repairs. From all points of the north the government telegraph service was continually in receipt of letters expressing the… Read More

Interviewer Dorthea Calverley Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: INTERVIEWER: Mr. Schoen, I do not know the background of our Sudeten settlers at Tupper and since I need an account to put with an article concerning their success with the livestock industry, I would like you to tell me about it, and how it happened… Read More

Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: Interviewer: Now, Mrs. Scobie when did you come into the Peace country? Mrs. Scobie: When did I come in? Well I landed and came right to Edmonton. I stayed in the Prairies for two weeks and then I came from there to Edmonton, the last day of June. That… Read More

From a tape made in 1957, re-taped in 1977 MR. MERVIN SIMMONS: In those days the Peace River Country could be likened to a sea of horrors, with islands of prairie and crabgrass scattered here and there. Prairie fires in the spring and fall kept the forest from encroaching. Some of these islands have French… Read More

Interviewed by Dorthea Calverley INTERVIEWER: I wouldn’t have known that you were a marine operator if I hadn’t watched tugs and barges being built in your back yard right across from my front window. And you know it seems very romantic to me that after what is a short portage of about a hundred miles… Read More

WOODS STREEPER: I’m sixty-nine as of today. Well, I’m not sixty-nine today, but I am sixty-nine now and I will be seventy years old in November, the twentieth of November. When I arrived in Canada, I was fifteen years old. INTERVIEWER: From where — did you come directly to the Peace River Country when you… Read More

By Woods Streeper My father and older brother had come the year before, but my mother, myself and younger brother come in the spring of 1919. We shipped to Spirit River, landed in Spirit River, then hauled our stuff to Dunvegan. My mother, young brother, and myself came up on the “Pine Pass” boat to… Read More

INTERVIEWER: Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Sutherland were old-timers in the Dawson Creek district. Mr. Sutherland passed away not too long ago. The Sutherlands are most remembered for their work with the Moberly Lake Indians. Mr. Sutherland was a schoolteacher and Mrs. Sutherland was his assistant. Their son is and outstanding doctor, a product of our… Read More

We came by taxi, Patterson’s taxi brought us, the whole load of us. There was a lady and her daughter who stopped at Hay Lake. I remember them particularly because her daughter was the same age as I was. We both wrote our Grade eight examinations in Pouce Coupe the next year. My mother, my… Read More