Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection — 2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences — is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about the province. To the general public, however, the tales in these tapes remain virtually unknown.Combining text, archival photographs and the original sound recordings from the CBC Archives onto three CDs, Voices of British Columbia draws 24 stories from this collection to immerse us in daily life in the early 20th century. You’ll meet Sarah Glassey, a spirited homesteader who carried a rifle and bagged more birds than any man in the Kispiox Valley. You’ll hear Bill LaChance, the sole survivor of the 1910 Glacier Snowslide, describe that tragic avalanche. And you’ll discover how Great Chief Kwah of Fort St. James spared the life of James Douglas, future governor of British Columbia.By turns sad, contemplative, insightful and funny, these stories reveal as much about the spirit and resilience of people as they do about the history of the province.
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Robert Budd. Voices of British Columbia
A Note About the Sound Recordings
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Original. Voices
Put Your Knife Down
Won’t Do. Anyone Any Good to Fight
To the. New Country
Not Knowing. What I Was Coming To
Those Mountains. Were Our Garden
Now You Are My Brother
To Climb The Rockies
Oh, Just Some Place To Go
The Growth of New Cities
Horse and Buggy Days
The Town. Was Changing So Fast
Working. Out West
Gold Was Lying. on Top of the Ground
I’ll Sell It To You Cheap
There’s No Sound.. There’s Nothing!
Paid by the Skin
Pioneering. Women
Cried Every Day for a Year
Monarch of All I Survey
This Country Was a Dream
A Frontier. Childhood
Youngsters. Haven’t Got Any Fear
No Children Here
Legendary Figures. and Historical Characters
More Trader Than Missionary
He Was a Robin Hood
There’s Old Cataline
The Hanging Judge
The Queen of Kitselas
BONUS TRACK
EPILOGUE
Author’s Note
Acknowledgements
A Note on Sources
About the Authors
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Robert Budd
foreword by MARK FORSYTHE
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They said, “We’re staying right here. You had no business to come to our camp and do what you did to this fellow, and upsetting the whole village,” because all the children got scared and the women were just, the children were all screaming, you know, running around there while they were searching for this man.
Well, I guess James Douglas was, he really started to tell them off. And one of the fellows grabbed him by the throat, and he said he held him like that with a knife upraised in his right hand, and he said to Kwah, “Shall I strike?”
