SUMMARY: In "Homesteading at Ootsa Lake", #21 in the series, Arthur Shelford recalls his experiences homesteading and trapping in the Ootsa Lake country with his brother Jack.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-09-26 SUMMARY: Lulu Beaver was born at Ootsa Lake on February 7, 1911, and attended both Wistaria and Ootsa Lake one-room schools. (Neither of the schools remain standing; the Ootsa Lake school was dynamited and burned by a former school child, and Wistaria was flooded out by Alcan.) She received her teacher training at Victoria Normal School. She taught at: Wistaria, 1933-35; Ootsa Lake, 1942-49; Perot School, ;1949-50 (Jehovah's Witness school); Francois Lake, 1950-51. Lulu tells of her family's arrival at Ootsa Lake in 1905, travelling up the Indian trail from Bella Coola. She recalls homesteading, school stories, teaching at Wistaria and Ootsa, the flooding of Ootsa Lake by Alcan. The Beavers have an interesting museum at Southbank, Francois Lake, with many old artifacts.