The item is a video copy of a documentary film from 1924. It is a record of the celebrations of July 1-3, 1924, marking the 50th anniversary of the town of Macleod and the founding of Fort Macleod, the first North West Mounted Police Post in western Canada. Rodeo champion Jack Boyd of 70 Mile House, BC, appears in some scenes. The final sequence was filmed in September 1924.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James F. (Jimmy) White recalls his arrival in Golden in 1889; his first impressions; a trip to Fort Steele, including a description of the police and the lifestyle; gold mining; Wildhorse Indians; Michael Phillips; Robert Galbraith; ships; Captain Armstrong; prospecting; gold mining; hydraulic mining; and the decline of Fort Steele. TRACK 2: Mr. White continues with more on hydraulic gold mining; the CPR in Cranbrook and Fort Steele; mines -- Sullivan, North Star, Stemwinder and Moyie; Father Coccola; doctors; possible murders in Fort Steele; the cemetery; horse racing and riding; practical jokes.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White talks about interesting characters, including an incident involving the naming of Tata Creek; other incidents; the Yukon; mining; dancing girls; hunting wild mountain goats and sheep; Indians; Old Kaplo; working in the mountains; men whom Mr. White guided in the mountains; Von Hindenburg's trip. TRACK 2: More about Von Hindenburg's trip; incidents involving bears; the Rockies; and the Selkirks; ministers in Fort Steele; women; families; the red light district incident; the Lum family; English settlers; remittance men; Cranbrook; Golden; gambling; maintenance of law and order in Fort Steele.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White describes some of the pioneers in the Kootenay such as the Lum family; Tom Cochrane and Lady Adelaide. Then he continues discussing Englishmen whom he guided; settlers; a murderer; named Bulldog Kelly; a grizzly bear incident; Buffalo Bill; more anecdotes involving a runaway girl; the police; More's suicide; Old Ben Pugh attempting to get into jail. TRACK 2: More about Ben Pugh; drinking; Mr. White's arrival in BC; packing with Pugh; reasons why he came to BC; an Indian uprising in Fort Steele in 1886; Michael Phillips; the Mounties; Colonel Steele and the Boer War; William Reginald Wyndham; various anecdotes; Mr. White's English and American clients.

CALL NUMBER: T0302:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. White tells a story about the buying and selling of hay; interesting characters such as Billy Hop; claim jumping; more interesting characters such as Jerry Sullivan; an anecdote about a priest drinking; other characters; and one last anecdote about tall stories. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0203 SUMMARY: The Hornby Collection is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for sound radio written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "Letters to Canada", by Regina Puckett. A dramatic feature based on the correspondence of a 19th century NWMP surgeon in western Canada to his fiancée in Upper Canada and parents in Savannah. The surgeon Richard Barrington Nevitt joined Colonel Macleod on the 1874 trek to an area later to be know as Fort Macleod.;

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0249 SUMMARY: Duplicate, as above.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by John Nelson Jennings titled "The North West Mounted Police and Indian policy, 1874-1896". 1979. ii, 358 leaves: appendix. Thesis (Ph.D.), Trent University, 1979. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 368-381. Canadian theses on microfiche, 42233.