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Jack MacDougall and Willard Freer Cut A Deer Roast1934-35
Hudson's Hope, BC
Credits:Bob White
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Arriving in Hudson's Hope on Oct18, Bedaux put on a big celebration and banquet. There were toasts all around, and on behalf of the cowboys Bob Beattie proposed, "Mr Bedaux, when you need us again we are willing to go", to which Bob White added, "Yes sir, to the end of the earth". But let's give Bedaux the final word, in a response quoted in the Edmonton Journal, "Let me say one word for the spirit of our party. I could never have believed that men would do so much, would risk their very lives, time and time again for the wage of 4 dollars a day. A spirit grew amongst the party and each would try to outdo the other for the good of the whole" But perhaps we should give wrangler Willard Freer the last words from his diary entry of Oct 20, 1934 "Our last pay day…too bad. Bedaux and all the men left for their different homes…Jack MacDougall and I went to the L.C.(ranch) on Lynx Ck. The weather snowy. Well this is the end of the Bedaux Sub-Arctic expedition into the mountains.
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