As a complement to her popular book Cariboo-Chilcotin: Pioneer People and Places, Irene Stangoe has crafted a second collection of stories about the BC Interior's pioneers and the trails they blazed. In 26 separate tales she introduces a mosaic of personalities and events that spans 120 years.
Stangoe fondly recalls the Indian Girls' Pipe Band, the world-famous MacKinnon sisters, the amazing ice-fishing secrets of Lac la Hache and more.
Irene Stangoe has been "looking back" at the Cariboo-Chilcotin for almost half a century. Originally drawn to the region from her Burnaby-New Westminster roots in 1950, when she and her husband, Clive, bought the Williams Lake Tribune, Irene filled in as reporter, community editor, columnist, advertising salesperson and just about anywhere else she was needed until the newspaper was sold in 1973.
In 1975, unable to fully retire, Irene established her "Looking Back" column at the Tribune and soon gained recognition as one of the most readable history writers in the weekly newspaper field. Between 1986 and 1991, she was awarded a first place and two seconds in the annual Best Historical Writing Competition.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.1/7503/0922
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-bc
- ISBN
- 9781459330382 1895811252
- LCCN
- F1089.C3
- LCCN Item number
- S73 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (157 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00604494 (OCoLC)605724765 (CaOOCEL)419823
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- DLC
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 5
- Looking Back with Irene 8
- Fort Alexandria and the Twan Farm 14
- Present of Salt Introduced Her Parents 20
- Hog Tight and Bull Stout 24
- The Ranch Would Always Go Onward 29
- The Cariboo's First Flag and First MP 37
- Pioneers of Chimney Creek Area 41
- Barkerville Tales 48
- The First Williams Lake and the Hanging Judge 54
- A New Site and a New Future 61
- Captain Watson's House of Mystery 66
- Pioneer Churchmen 70
- Everything From Cheese to Dynamite 78
- Cedar Creek and the Second Gold Rush 83
- The Longest Town in the Cariboo 89
- Remembering One Room Schools 95
- Columneetza, Meeting Place of the Princely People 103
- From Bed Springs to Billy Goats 106
- Keeping the Peace in the Good Old Days 112
- Three Longs and a Short 118
- The Stagecoach Carried a Princess 123
- Freedom Road 128
- Only in the Cariboo, You Say? 132
- Scottish-Indian Pipers from the Cariboo 137
- The Bridge that Rudy Built 142
- Three Against the Wilderness Homesite Restored 149
- More Place Names 155
