This is Irene Stangoe's third collection of historical stories and great yarns about the people and events that shaped the Cariboo-Chilcotin. Read about: Farwell Canyon's pioneer families and ranches; Chief Anahim, who left the misty Bella Coola Valley for the high Chilcotin country many moons ago; the Lord of 100 Mile House, who moved from a grand mansion in England to a bug-infested stopping house in the Cariboo; the Hub of the Cariboo, tracing 140 years of Williams Lake history, from tiny settlement to modern city; the Great Bank Robbery, and a bank manager's nightmare ride with a gunman wanted for murder; Homer, the basset hound who played the part of a French poodle in a 1920s musical; and other events that could happen only in the Cariboo.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.1/7503/0922
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Includes index Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 1895811996 9781459330092
- LCCN
- F1089.C3
- LCCN Item number
- S72 2000eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (159 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00604484 (OCoLC)605728507 (CaOOCEL)419805
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Dally and the Cariboo Chiefs 8
- To Go On Is Madness 11
- The Story of Chief Anahim 16
- He Lost a Wager and Won a Ranch 19
- Barkerville Tales 25
- Beaver Lake Stopping House 29
- Making Bread in the Good Old Days 33
- The 150 Mile Hotel 38
- Shorty Dunn and the Grey Fox 42
- And One for the Road 44
- The Felker Story 47
- The Chinese in the Cariboo 54
- Death of a Pioneer 60
- Lord of 100 Mile House 65
- Travelling the Great North Road 71
- Hub of the Cariboo: 140 Years of Williams Lake History 75
- What Should We Do With the Corpse? 83
- On a Wing and a Prayer 87
- The Polar Bear Scheme 91
- Only in the Cariboo 97
- A Car and a Chilcotin Tragedy 102
- Farwell Canyon 105
- The Great Bank Robbery 110
- Birth of a Hospital 115
- Mountain Race 120
- Names—Names—Still More Place Names 123
- The Little Train That Could 126
- The PGE Station House 132
- The Day We Hanged W.A.C. Bennett 135
- Vote, Vote, Vote—Time is Flying Fast 138
- The Wineglass 142
- The Tail End 147
- The Road Runs North 151
- Index 157
- A 157
- B 157
- C 157
- D 158
- E 158
- F 158
- G 158
- H 158
- I 159
- J 159
- K 159
- L 159
- M 159
- N 159
- O 159
- P 159
- Q 159
- R 160
- S 160
- T 160
- U 160
- V 160
- W 160
- Y 160
- Z 160
