1929 came and we were financially finished. I had been farming in North Dakota but there had been droughts and poor crops. Now when the financial collapse took place we had a herd of purebred Holsteins. Forty milkers and young stock took a lot of feed. We couldn’t afford help so with one man, his… Read More

Interviewed by Marjorie Coutts, 1957 BOB TREMBLAY: Dad started from Kamloops, coming up the Cariboo Trail with a pack train, headed for the Yukon. The first year they got as far as Little Prairie (now Chetwynd). They stayed there over the winter. After that he trapped and traded with the Indians for two or three… Read More

Interviewed by Marjorie Coutts, 1957 MRS. COUTTS: Mrs. Tremblay, you have lived here a long time. When did you come? MRS. TREMBLAY: It was in the fall of 1917. MRS. COUTTS: What was it like for you to do housework away back then? MRS. TREMBLAY: When we first came in, it was only a dirt… Read More

From a taped interview [minimal editing done to transcript] My Father was born in Quebec on Lac St. Jean and he came out west with the C.P.R. and he stopped and stayed on at Moose Jaw for a year and he took the Moose Jaw flats for a homestead. Then, the gophers in July pushed… Read More

In 1916 the British War Office sent out a call for volunteers to join the Uniformed Women’s Legion. The reason for this was to release the men driving armoured vehicles. I joined up and as I knew how to drive I was posted to the Number One Company in London and put into one of… Read More

Interviewer: “Now ladies and gentlemen we have with us Mrs. Wetherill, who is the daughter of a gentlemen, who homesteaded, right here, at the Dawson Creek townsite, in 1916 – Mr. Wartenbe. Now Mrs. Wetherill settled further west, at a place called Lone Prairie. Would you tell us Mrs. Wetherill why you chose to go… Read More

Well, we came here to Lakeview in 1932 and we stayed there and worked for a bachelor for about two years, and then we got a homestead at Sunrise Valley. We moved out there with old tools and a hay rack and we lived in a house with no floor in it, just on dirt… Read More

Interviewer: “Now ladies and gentlemen, we have another very interesting visitor, Mrs. Wes Yaeger who is a daughter of Herbie Taylor. Now I remember Herbie Taylor as the person who piloted us as we crossed the Peace River on the ice, in the spring or in the fall when it was forming. And the person… Read More

Abridged from taped interview with Rick Belcourt, 1973 Audio Part 1: Audio Part 2: RICK BELCOURT: Can I have your full name? CHIEF SAM YOUNG: Yes, Chief Sam Young, of Wabiskaw Bigstone Band. RICK BELCOURT: How long has this reserve been in existence? CHIEF SAM YOUNG: Since the treaty, about 1899 [Treaty 8]. Chief Joseph… Read More

When in 1934 we announced to some of our friends in a little Saskatchewan city that we were moving to the Peace River country, their first reaction was shock, then concern. Goodness knows Saskatchewan, deep in depression days, was bad enough! But the Peace River Country! When they began to ask how much I wanted… Read More