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Category: Cultivated Rural

Bruce Tillen Interview – Clearing the Land

Bruce Tillen Interview – Clearing the Land

Bruce Tillen, former Arrowhead resident, discusses the process of BC Hydro clearing the land for the Hugh Keenleyside Dam. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo […]
Beaton Homes, 1966

Beaton Homes, 1966

Houses at Beaton, B.C., summer of 1966.
Earl Moffat and Jack Grusen, 1966

Earl Moffat and Jack Grusen, 1966

BC Hydro reservoir land manager Earl Moffat (left) kneeling next to Jack Grusen, a long-time farmer in the Big Eddy district of Revelstoke, during preparations for land purchases […]
Winter on the Gawiuk farm, Mount Cartier, circa 1955

Winter on the Gawiuk farm, Mount Cartier, circa 1955

Winter on the Gawiuk farm, Mount Cartier, circa 1955. The barn in the photograph was burned down to clear the land for the Arrow Lakes reservoir.
Dennis (Danny) Gawiuk on the Family Farm, 1932

Dennis (Danny) Gawiuk on the Family Farm, 1932

Dennis Paul (Danny) Gawiuk was born at Mount Cartier on November 1, 1930.  He grew up on the farm and farmed the land himself until it was purchased […]
Wallace and Bob Hall at Hall’s Landing, circa 1925

Wallace and Bob Hall at Hall’s Landing, circa 1925

Wallace and Bob Hall grew up on the family farm at Hall’s Landing and were raising their families there, too, until they were forced to leave with the […]
Farness Farm, Sidmouth, circa 1950

Farness Farm, Sidmouth, circa 1950

Margaret Farness and her three small children came to Sidmouth in November 1946. Margaret met and married her husband, a Canadian soldier, in England and was nervous about […]
Harold Catherwood Interview – Burning Buildings

Harold Catherwood Interview – Burning Buildings

Harold Catherwood, former resident of Sidmouth, discusses his family burning their buildings. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning […]
Harold Catherwood Interview – Negotiations

Harold Catherwood Interview – Negotiations

Harold Catherwood, former Sidmouth resident, discusses the negotiation process with BC Hydro. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning […]
Walter Bobicki Interview – Negotiations

Walter Bobicki Interview – Negotiations

Walter Bobicki, whose family was displaced from their land four miles south of Revelstoke, discusses the negotiation process with BC Hydro. Title Screen: Circular logo on a black […]
Aerial View of McKinnon’s Standard Dairy Farm, circa 1950

Aerial View of McKinnon’s Standard Dairy Farm, circa 1950

Hector and Delia McKinnon began operating Standard Dairy farm in Revelstoke in 1916. Hector McKinnon died in a fire on an adjoining farm in 1929, and his wife […]
Moving the McKinnon Log House, 1967

Moving the McKinnon Log House, 1967

Delia McKinnon made one thing clear – she was not about to lose her home that she had lived in since 1916. When the family was forced to […]
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