Innholdsfortegnelse for 50.4 | Winter 2017 i British Columbia History

I remember the afternoon that Rick Hansen rolled through Chilliwack in 1987. I was working at Chuck & Ev’s Hobbies in downtown Chilliwack. Owners Chuck and Ev closed the store and we walked up Mill Street to join the crowds on Wellington Avenue. We cheered him on as his group traveled to events at the Coliseum and then we returned to work. Hansen’s journey was only the beginning of his work in raising funds and awareness for spinal cord research and changing attitudes towards people with disabilities. However, some days it still feels that we have a long way to go. I know that when my daughter was small and we were navigating the world with the stroller I often thought how frustrating it must be for people in wheelchairs.…

For avid military historians looking for a detailed account of Dieppe. ■ Zuehlke, Mark. Tragedy at Dieppe: Operation Jubilee, August 19, 1942. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. ■ Leasor, James. Green Beach. London, Heinemann, 1971. (Jack Niessenthall’s secret mission at Pourville) ■ Whitaker, Denis and Shelagh, Dieppe: Tragedy to Triumph. London: Leo Cooper, 1992. ■ Villa, Brian Loring. Unauthorized action: Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.…

Fall Issue Hi Andrea and Jane, A note to say how much I enjoyed the new issue of British Columbia History. The locals are very proud of the Donato article and the one on stops of interest/garbage gobblers was very interesting – I’ve been collecting bits of information about them and photos for years on my Vanishing BC webpages. Michael Kluckner Congratulations on a well-written article Donato, I was impressed by your thoroughly-researched and poetically-written article about your parents’ homes, that was published in this fall’s issue of the British Columbia History magazine. This article is quite an achievement and it will give your restored property a secure place in Vancouver’s architectural heritage. Peter Moogk We love to hear from you Email us at bcheditor@bchistory.ca  or write to:…

1. Sheila M.F. Johnston, Buckskin and Broadcloth: A Celebration of E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake 1861-1913 (Toronto: National Heritage, 1997), 224. 2. John Mackie, “Metro Vancouver man a living legend in chocolate,” Vancouver Sun, December 22, 2015, http://www.vancouversun.com/life/metro+vancouver+living+legend+chocolate/11597159/story.html. 3. Dictionary of Canadian Biography—Emily Pauline Johnson. Retrieved from http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/johnson_emily_pauline_14E.html 4. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pauline-johnson/ 5. A number of thoroughly researched biographies are available with in-depth details of Johnson’s life. See Pauline Johnson: First Aboriginal voice of Canada by B. Keller (1999), National Library of Canada; Flint and Feather: The life and times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake by C. Gray (2002), Toronto: HarperCollins Canada; Paddling her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) by V. Strong-Boat Boag and C. Gerson (2000). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 6. https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-lost-lagoon/ 7. Canada’s Poetess Laid…

■ Private Paul Delorme spent three years as a prisoner of war. He went back with the Occupation forces in 1945. He settled in Chilliwack in 1980. He returned to Dieppe in 2017 with an official government delegation.36 ■ Company-Sergeant-Major Ed Dunkerley lived in Abbotsford after the war and was the longest serving member of the South Saskatchewan Regiment from 1926 to his death at age 101 in 2005. ■ Lieutenant John Seed Edmondson later commanded the SSR in Normandy. He served in the peacetime army with the Black Watch Regiment in Nova Scotia. He served with the British Army on the Rhine (NATO) as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for the 4th Division and later as a UN peacekeeper in Kashmir. He concluded his career in Vancouver supervising militia training…

In 1907, the US Department of Agriculture revealed that dairy cows frequently carried tuberculosis and that unsanitary conditions on farms meant other illnesses were carried in the milk supply, but consumers were slow to be convinced. Elsie the Cow was a mascot created in 1936 by the American Borden Dairy Company to promote the idea that pasteurized milk was safer than milk from the family farm. In 2000, Elsie was named one of the top ten advertising icons of the 20th century and is still used today by Eagle Brand and the Dairy Farmers of America.4…

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was founded in 1912 by the Bolsheviks (a faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party). Led by Vladimir Lenin, they seized power in the aftermath of the October Revolution of 1917. Party leader Joseph Stalin governed the Soviet Union from 1924 to his death in 1953. One of the events that caused strong anti-Communist sentiment in Canada was the discovery in September, 1945 that a cipher clerk at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Igor Gouzenko, had stolen documents showing Soviet spies had infiltrated American, British and Canadian governments.9…

1. Irena was one of over 100,000 ‘Displaced Persons’ to be relocated in Canada under the supervision of the International Refugee Organization: Reg Whitaker, Canadian Immigration Policy since Confederation (Ottawa: Canadian Historical Association, 1991), 14. 2. The Ottawa YMCA’s mimeographed papers survive from 1948-49: we are grateful to Peter Glasgow, Irena’s son, for showing them to us, and to Jennifer Zibin, Irena’s daughter, for helpful advice on this essay. 3. Laurie Meijer Drees, Healing Histories: Stories from Canada’s Indian Hospitals (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2013), 13-14. 4. $40 CDN in 1948 converts to approximately $454 CDN in 2017 money. $280 ≈ $3,175. “Inflation Calculator,” Bank of Canada, accessed June 15, 2017, http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/. 5. “The Arrival of Displaced Persons in Canada, 1945-1951,” Government of Canada, accessed September 7, 2017, https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2016/02/…

With all the hoopla this year over Canada 150, and amid the energies and dollars directed at celebrating our national story, I have been thinking about local history and why it matters. Our readers are deeply engaged in research about their families. You are community experts, knowledgeable about the diverse histories of whole fields of human endeavour. You love listening to old stories, are happy digging in real or virtual archives, and relish the process of organizing and interpreting your findings. But you balk at sharing your findings because of the sense that they are perhaps too private to matter beyond the family, too local to matter to anyone “out there.” But the nearby history you craft and steward and build on bit by bit over the years is important…

One of my favourite stories as a child was that of The Goose Girl, by the Brothers Grimm. I could relate to the girl who told her woes to a part of a horse, even though the rest of the horse was missing. At the top of the staircase and around the corner in my family home I would sit on the floor stroking the mounted tail of a horse. The coarse dry hair brought me comfort, and although I was told it was a tail of significance, once belonging to the horse of a man who told many a tale of significance, this meant little to me. So, to whom did this tail once belong? The story begins in the countryside on the outskirts of London in the mid…

1. Lieutenant-Colonel C I Cecil Merritt, VC, in interviews with author, Langley, BC, July 20, 1994, and Vancouver, BC, 1994. 2. Merritt, 1994. 3. Merritt, 1994. 4. Ken Reynolds, Pro Valore: Canada’s Victoria Cross, (The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, Ottawa) 13, 14-15. 5. Captain (retired) Murray Osten, in interview with author, Chilliwack, BC, 1994. 6. Corporal Herman Keys, in interviews with author, Langley and Abbotsford, BC, 1994. 7. Tracer ammunition are bullets or other projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base They make the projectile trajectory visible to the naked eye. 8. Private Fred James, in interviews with author, Langley, BC, November, 1993 and Chilliwack, BC, 1994. 9. Major Elmer “Lefty” White, in interview with author, Langley, BC, July 20,…

1. Jean Elizabeth McIntosh, Mark Mosher’s reconstruction of the development of the woodworkers’ union in the Alberni Valley 1935-1950: a participant’s history (Master of Arts thesis, University of British Columbia, 1979), 52. 2. McIntosh, 52. 3. McIntosh, 53. 4. McIntosh, 67. 5. Jan Peterson, Twin Cities Alberni – Port Alberni (Lantzville, BC: Oolichan Books, 1994), 226. 6. George McKnight, Sawlogs on Steel Rails (Port Alberni: Forest Industry Seniors’ History Committee/Friesen Printers, 1995), 57. 7. Peterson, Ibid., 227. 8. McIntosh, 57. 9. “Communism and the Cold War,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, February 6, 2006. 10. McIntosh, Ibid., 23. 11. Interview, Jan. 28, 2017. 12. “Roots run deep and so do friendships,” Alberni Valley Times, Dec. 29, 1976. 13. Ibid. 14. Peterson, Ibid., 227. 15. Irving Abella, Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour: The…

Contribute the photograph to British Columbia History magazine’s back page feature. Taking inspiration from Dear Photograph and HistoryPin, we would like to encourage you help bring a photograph of the past to the present. Anyone can contribute a photograph! Please send your photograph of the past in the present to: bcheditor@bchistory.ca and include information on who or what is in the photograph and why it is important to you or your community. It could appear here on the back page.…