A local history of this British Columbia community located on the shores of Little Shuswap Lake at the mouth of the South Thompson River. Includes the original First Nation inhabitants to the present day.
Record details
ISBN:9780919441279 (bound) :
ISBN:9780919441286 (pbk.) :
ISBN:0919441270 (bound) :
ISBN:0919441289 (pbk.) :
Physical Description:print xiii, 383 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher:Penticton, B.C. : Theytus Books, c1986.
Content descriptions
General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 374-376.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. In the beginning -- 2. The Shuswap Prairie -- 3. Whitfield Chase -- 4. Whitfield -- 5. Alexander McBryan -- 6. Other early settlers -- 7. The second generation -- 8. Whitfield Chase's will -- 9. Jerome Howard Smith: artist -- 10. George Grant Chase -- 11. The 'Big Mill' -- 12. Shuswap -- 13. The lost generation -- 14. Cowboy! -- 15. Hands up! -- 16. These were good years -- 17. Fire, 1910 -- 18. Monty -- 19. Dr. Walter Scatchard -- 20. The Flemish Connection -- 21. The Oriental persuasion -- 22. They were dirt poor -- 23. If the owl hoots high -- 24. Payroll stopped -- 25. The days of prohibition -- 26. Pat and Mike -- 27. The dirty thirties -- 28. Churches, schools and utilities -- 29. The Chase central board of trade -- 30. So we took off our pants and shoes -- 31. Trapper holding -- 32. They ordered us to move out -- 33. Henry Grube -- 34. That rare breed, the veterans -- 35. The fifties: a time of progress -- 36. Doctors, fall fairs and "Captain Wilson" -- 37. Royal Canadian Legion Branch #107 -- 38. Salute to the Sockeye -- 39. Hell out for recess -- 40. A town called Chase.
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