Bill Goodacre: August 15, 1951-January 27, 2019; Smithers, B.C. Canada
In memory of Bill Goodacre.
Musc: Water is life: Conrad Bennally
Drums: Robotic Native Americian
FreeSound: CC: Creative Commons Licence
Photography:
Camus photography, Taylor Backrack, Stan Namox, Mel Bazil, Bulkley Valley Museum, Dze L K'ant Friendship Centre Staff.
Slide show Produced by Notherrn Dreams. Northerndreams90@gmail.com
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Gasoline Valley Pt 2
A DVD installation from the Gasoline Valley exhibition located at the Bulkley Valley Museum, Smithers, B.C., Canada.
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A tribe called red in Smithers bc
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Gasoline Valley Pt 1
A DVD installation from the Gasoline Valley. Bulkley Valley Museum, Smithers, B.C., Canada
Simpsons Gultch Mine Shaft, Smithers B.C.
Arnt's Story of Finding Success in Prince George, BC
Arnt Veltum moved to Prince George, BC from the Netherlands. Watch his story about building a successful career in the city as a Heavy Equipment Mechanic and why he likes living in Prince George.
Glenwood Hall revitalization
Northern B.C. singer songwriter Mark Perry performs his classic song 'We Danced Here' inside the revitalized Glenwood Community Hall. The song was written about Glenwood Hall and captures the magic and memories of community halls across Canada.
Glenwood Hall was recently revitalized with the help of Northern Development. The Trust provided $30,000 in funding to upgrade the facility so that it can continue to host local events. Mark shared his time and music with us to tell the story about what this hall means to the people of the Bulkley Valley.
BC Transit - Highway 16 Bulkley Nechako Regional Transit System Launch
BC Transit was proud to be joined by the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako, Village of Burns Lake, Burns Lake Band, and other partners to celebrate the start of transit service. The new Bulkley Nechako Regional Transit System will operate between Burns Lake and Prince George three days a week and Burns Lake and Smithers three days a week. More details are available at BCTransit.com/Bulkley-Nechako.
Bryce Holland
Interview with Bryce Holland about his time as a teacher in the Bulkley Valley.
Interview Summary:
0:20 Teaching procedures and his time becoming a teacher in Surrey, BC.
0:44 Education requirements to be a teacher.
1:25 Changing to needing University requirements for teaching.
1:40 Classroom focus while he was teaching
2:50 Differences in presence versus past teaching methods.
3:54 Extra curriculum activities.
4:30 Bryce's arrival in Smithers.
5:15 The new school in Smithers.
5:50 Bryce's retirement from teaching.
Gwen Ellis
Interview with Gwen Ellis on her experience immigrating to Canada and living in the Bulkley Valley.
Interview summary:
0:10 Gwen was born in England in 1929.
0:20 She met and married her husband Ernest Ellis in England.
0:40 Why Gwen and her husband decided to leave England and immigrate to Canada.
1:05 Economic difficulties when Gwen and Ernest left England just after WWII.
1:35 Where in England Gwen and Ernest were from.
1:45 Gwen and Ernest came to Canada under the C.N.R. Settlement Plan, how they found out about the plan, and how they were accepted into the plan.
2:20 Requirements that Gwen and Ernest had to fulfill to stay in Canada under the C.N.R. Settlement Plan.
3:00 How they came to Canada abroad a Polish spice ship to New York, then by train to Toronto, and then by train across Canada to Prince George.
4:00 When they got to Canada, they were told to go to Prince George and meet Harry Bowman who worked for the C.N.R. Settlement Plan.
4:15 George Raymond brought Gwen and Ernest to Smithers to work on his farm.
6:45 In 1949, Gwen and Ernest bought their own farm which was known as the old Pickett property.
8:10 The log cabin and the first house that they lived in on the old Pickett property.
9:15 Their home lacked conveniences like electricity, running water, and telephone
10:35 When their home finally received a telephone connection, which was on the old Telegraph Trial line.
11:40 When their home finally received running water
12:15 The animals Gwen and Ernest raised on their farm.
12:30 They sold cream to the Telkwa Creamery and had to separate the cream from the milk.
13:55 Where the Telkwa Creamery was located.
14:20 Who owned and operated the Telkwa Creamery.
14:50 Gwen and Ernest had to change from dairy to beef cattle when the Telkwa Creamery closed.
15:15 They would butcher a couple of their beef cows to keep for themselves, and would send the others to auction in Vanderhoof.
16:25: How Gwen and Ernest entered into the seed-potato business.
17:45 The labor required to make the seed-potatoes ready for market and sales in store.
19:30 Good and bad years for seed-potato crops.
23:45 Ernest Ellis worked for the Bulkley Valley coal mine.
24:00 When the B.V. Coal Mine closed, Ernest and Lloyd Gething continued to supply coal to those who still used it.
24:50 Ernest worked as the Fire Boss for the B.V. Coal Mine.
24:55 The story how Ernest escaped a life threatening accident at the B.V. Coal Mine, which took the life of one of the Holland family members of Telkwa.
26:00 Who owned and operated the B.V. Coal Mine.
27:00 The shifts that the employees of the Coal Mine worked.
27:15 The potentially dangerous situations that occurred at the B.V. Coal Mine.
28:05 The drilling and blasting removal methods used in the B.V. Coal Mine.
28:45 The story of how an unexploded piece of dynamite made its way into Gwen's coal supply, and then into their furnace.
30:15 How the coal was brought out of the mine and how it was processed on site.
31:15 Where the coal was used both locally and non-locally.
31:55 Ernest worked for the Highways Department in the 1950s
33:00 Ernest worked as a general laborer for the Highways Department.
34:02 Who owned and operated the TF&N Mill, and its beginnings as a bush sawmill
36:00 There were three years in the 1950s when many workers were laid off from TF&N Mill and the B.V. Coal Mine. This was a result of immigrants from Germany and the Netherlands who were brought in as cheap labor.
38:00 After those three years of unemployment, Ernest found a job as a night watchman at TF&N Mills.
38:30 What years were the wave of Dutch and German Immigration.
38:40 Gwen worked as the first rural mail carrier in the Bulkley Valley.
39:20 Her mail route, where it was located, and where it went.
40:50: The Post Office in Quick and in Telkwa.
42:15 The time it took to mail letters and parcels.
42:45 Gwen and her husband had 7 children
44:10 Gwen describes the old Telkwa School.
45:00 Gwen was a member of the Quick Women's Institute, and describes what the Quick W.I. is involved in.
49:20 Gwen worked as a Sunday school teacher and was involved in leading a 4H Garden club.
50:00 Gwen and Ernest's participation in the Morice-Bulkley Heritage Museum, and co-founder Lloyd Gething.
Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers Meet - Winter Scene - CN Railway Bridge Telkwa British Columbia
Winter Scene - CN Railway Bridge Telkwa British Columbia.
Telkwa is a wonderful small village which can be found in British Columbia. If you are planning a trip through, or to visit you would follow Highway 16 west from Prince George, B.C. for approximately 350 kilometres. Telkwa and area are rich in history and you can venture through Telkwa’s Museum for a look back in time. Also Telkwa boasts about it’s Tyhee Lake Provincial Park, and they have a right too, it is beautiful.
Camping is available in the park and the campsites are secluded, this way you can lay back and take it easy and there is large parking lot for day visitors. Also on site are horseshoe pits and a volleyball net in case you want to get your competitive side on.
If you want to get onto the water, there is a boat launch, so you can go water skiing, canoeing, kayaking and paddle boarding are just some of the things people enjoy. You can go swimming, but there are no lifeguards on duty, so do swim in designated areas for safety. If you want to try your luck at catching a fish, there are stocked rainbow trout and native cutthroat trout for the catching. Folks also enjoy a bicycle ride or a hike around the area on the many trails.
There is wildlife in the area, so use caution, but keep your cameras handy as you might see a bear, moose, deer or some other types of small critters.
Now that winter is setting in, we certainly won’t be camping, but Telkwa offers travelers snowshoeing and cross-country skiing. You can also ice skate on the lakes, but always check to make sure the ice is thick enough to hold your body weight. Ice fishing is also available and can have some awesome results. Telkwa’s next door neighbour Smithers, has a great ski hill called Hudson Bay Mountain. People travel from around the world to ski in it’s powder.
So no matter the time of the year, Telkwa is everyone’s playground.
For more information about Telkwa and surrounding areas, please visit:
Telkwa’s website:
Smithers, B.C. Visitors Centre.
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CN Intermodal Train Skeena Sub
Going to the port...Coming outta the Bulkley Sub with some snow...Stopped on the Skeena Sub waiting to get into the port...An old cannery turned into a museum...
John Gyger
Interview Summary with John Gyger:
0:15 He was born in Switzerland on May 19, 1926.
0:35 He has two brothers and three sisters
1:20 His parents were Fritz and Rosa Gyger.
1:35 His father was a general laborer in Switzerland.
2:55 His father had a hobby farm in Switzerland.
4:00 What life was like in Canada, and how it differed from life in Switzerland.
4:30 When they came to Smithers, they stayed in a box car for a week.
5:00 The farm that his family had in Switzerland.
5:50 Farm land was small and scarce in Switzerland.
6:40 The population of the Bulkley Valley when they came in 1979.
7:10 The sleigh that John Gyger had brought from Switzerland.
10:05 Economic conditions in Switzerland around 1937.
11:10 His father worked as a teamster in Switzerland transporting items, but was laid off when the buses were incorpoarted.
12:10 The reason the Gyger family decided to immigrate to Canada.
13:00 The Swiss Government, the Canadian Government, and the C.N.R. helped sponsor the Swiss immigrants.
14:00 His sisters worked in Smithers for Charlie Barrett, and in the Smithers hospital
15:00 How the Swiss immigrants applied for the Swiss settlement in Canada, and the other families that applied for immigration.
16:30 The Gyger family's trip from Switzerland to the Bulkley Valley.
17:25 His memories of the trip, including buying groceries and fights over the only stove in the train.
Vera Collison
Vera Collison is on the right in the photograph attached.
Interview with Vera on her family and their time in the Bulkley Valley.
Interview Summary:
00:10 How old she was when she came to the Bulkley Valley in 1915.
00:20 When they came to the Bulkley Valley by train from Prince Rupert.
00:35 Father was from England, and her mother was from Ireland.
00:50 When they immigrated to Canada
1:00 When her parents came to Vancouver and where they got married.
1:05 Her father worked for George Frazel and Mr. Frazel sent him up to Smithers to open a butcher shop.
1:30 Her father came from a family that were butchers in England.
2:00 The store that they lived in when they moved to Smithers to open a butcher shop.
2:15 The location of some of the first buildings.
3:45 her brother Charles (Charlie) was born in Hazelton.
4:30 Dr. Wrench delivered her brother in Hazelton.
5:15 Trips to Hazelton in the family car
6:20 Mason Adams drugstore
6:50 the Interior News and the Warner family.
8:15 In 1918 they moved into the store across from the Hethrington and Hooper store.
8:45 Her father became a partner with Jack Sealy who had a ranch in Driftwood.
9:45 The expansion of the store
10:00 Electrical power in Smithers
10:45 Living next door to the Kennedy family
11:15 Her father played in Gray's Orchestra
11:45 Gray's orchestra and other musical bands
15:20 The Town Hall and the events held there
18:00 The opening of the ski hill, and the events to do with the ski jump.
19:15 decoration of the Town Hall
20:15 when Vera became a teacher and went to school for two years at U.B.C.
21:00 She went to University in 1929, and attended Vancouver Normal School.
21:30 She taught for her first year at Quick School.
22:00 Living with Mrs. Oderkirk in Quick.
23:25 Expansion of the butcher shop to include a grocery store
24:00 Partnership with Jack Sealy.
24:25 Bill Curtain
24:55 Location of Sealy ranch.
26:00 Her mother was in the Hospital Auxiliary, the Anglican Church, and the W.A.
26:50 Charlie Reed and the opening of the golf course.
28:25 Teaching in Smithers.
29:45 Vera taught at the Smithers Public School from 1933-1941.
30:50 The town decoration for the coronation of King George VI.
32:15 Teaching at what is now called Muheim school.
32:45 Marriage to husband Tom Collison in 1941.
33:00 the history of her husband and his family.
34:35 The activities the family participated in at the Anglican church.
35:50 Her husband was in the air force and the army
36:15 Reg Collison and family difficulties.
37:40 Vera moved to Ontario to be with her husband who was stationed there.
37:55 The family moved to Port Alberni where her husband worked at the McMillan Bloedel Mill.
38:10 Tom started working at the post office.
38:25 The family moved back to Smithers where Tom worked for his brother Reg who had a mill
38:35 Tom worked at Hoskins Garage in the parts department.
39:20 Tom worked for the B.A. oil firm running the bulk plant.
40:15 The family lived in a house on Alfred Street.
41:00 They bought land under the Veterans Land Act, and built a home.
44:05 In 1964 the family moved to Kitimat.
46:45 Her son Alan was working for the Telegraph Office in Smithers.
49:45 Vera got a job working for Nechako school.
50:15 Vera's son Reg Collison
51:40 Tom was transferred to Kamloops.
52:38 Her husband's health problems.
54:10 Her son's health problems
57:45The growth and changes in Smithers and area.
Fishtrap Creek - Urban Trails
Urban Trails of Abbotsford - Fishtrap Creek Trail by Susy Watson
The natural British Columbian beauty of Fishtrap Creek is evident in the tall towering trees, serene waters and playful wildlife. Upon entering the trail you are gracefully greeted with various tall trees hovering protectively over the trail, standing tall with branches reaching majestically towards the sky. Their shadows partly shading the walking path, but not completely hiding it from the sun, allowing the visitor to walk both in the shade and in the warmth of the sun. A sense of peace floods my being as I gaze far down the path, admiring all the beauty of nature; looking all around I come across a clearing in the bush where I can see the creek. Skirted with an abundance of plant life and the surface covered in billowing lily pads, the serene waters extend far into the distance. With many creek side benches and lookouts, one could sit and enjoy the quiet for hours upon hours. The serenity of the water is not interrupted, but is augmented by the lively and playful wildlife. Watching the ducklings play in the water, amidst their older counterparts chilling on logs, is an event to make even the most grumpy smile. So close to the city, yet with the sounds so far removed; the noise of cars replaced with the melodic chirping of birds and bustling of crowds replaced with the rustling of mysterious animals in the bushes; presumably rabbits. Careful where you place your feet and tread gently, in this great place to admire the beauty of planet earth; at any moment a creature, be it rabbit or squirrel, may scurry out in front of you. The beauty of Fishtrap Creek is not unlike the rest of British Columbia, in its trees that surround and engulf the park and the waters that so peacefully beckon the wildlife to play.
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Moricetown Canyon
This video was taken on June 8th around noon at the Moricetown canyon. The Bulkley River is way higher than normal (over a hundred yards across) and funnels into the canyon, perhaps ten yards wide! Normally the river isn't nearly this close to the bridge.
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Simon Sees A Norther Mountain Adventure
ice skating on road in Telkwa BC boxing day 2011
Haley, Grace, Carly, and Rick skating on Tower Road, in Telkwa. Canada!!! Boxing day. Tomorrow we are building an Igloo! ;)