TRANSCRIPT

It was the late 1890's when my Father started to work at the Silver King Mine. My Mother and we three little girls lived in Nelson, B.C. and as working hours were long and seven days a week, we didn't see Dad very often. Finally several houses were built and a number of families moved to the mine. It was a nine-mile drive by road, usually behind a four-horse team. There was also a steep footpath, much shorter, along the tramline which carried the ore to the Hall Mines Smelter in Nelson.

read by Aja Lamb-Hartley