Roads--British Columbia

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Lempriere, Arthur Reid. Royal Engineer.

Photocopy of a diary kept by Captain Lempriere during his service in British Columbia. Arthur Reid Lempriere was an officer in the third group of Royal Engineers to arrive in British Columbia. He arrived at Esquimalt Harbour on April 12, 1859, aboard the Thames City. Captain Lempriere and a small party of sappers surveyed and built the Boston Bar Trail, from Hope to Lytton by way of the Coquihalla River.

Copied from copy held by Special Collections, University of British Columbia with permission of National Army Museum (London, England)

Mary Baker interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Baker discusses her father, Henry Steffans, who was from Switzerland and had a store in Lytton, then went to farm in the Nicola Valley; Mary's visits to an aunt and uncle Charlie McGillivray on the Cariboo Road; the Lytton Hotel and store fire; anecdotes about characters around Lytton; the Lorings. TRACK 2: Mrs. Baker discusses other settlers around Lytton; life on her father's Nicola Valley ranch; Ashcroft from 1907 to 1914; her husband Fred Baker, who came to Canada from England and ran a freighting business.

Our Cariboo neighbors

Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.

Vince Gresty interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Vince Gresty describes the highways around Hope, Lytton, and Cache Creek from the 1930s to the 1950s. TRACK 2: Mr. Gresty describes Cache Creek in 1949, and recent changes; people passing through Cache Creek and early Ashcroft.