Voices from the Skeena by Robert Budd

Author:Robert Budd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Skeena River, British Columbia, History, Anecdotes, Pictorial, Local History, Oral History, Illustrated
ISBN: 9781550178845
Publisher: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
Published: 2019-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Hazelton Government Office The government agent, who was a Mr. Allison—he was a brother-in-law of [BC Premier] Sir Richard McBride’s, and the clerks in the office couldn’t believe their ears that a woman was staking a pre-emption. And Mr. Allison told me that I was the first woman in British Columbia, after women got their rights, to do such a thing.

And they thought, Well, we’ll never see her again, you know—that attitude. But they thought they’d carry on and register me just the same but they certainly never expected to see me again.

That winter I think I was buying every magazine that had any little houses in. So I became quite an architect too, drawing up what I wanted for a house on my place, you know, making measurements and everything.

Much to everyone’s surprise, when the first boat arrived in Hazelton I was on board it. And with chickens and all my furniture and household belongings and everything. I had come to be one of them. And they just couldn’t believe their eyes. And anyhow, I did. I went up there, and it took over a year before I was able to get a cabin built on my place but I think I’m getting a little ahead of the story.

I have to tell you of our trip up that river that particular time. We came up on the Inlander, I think it was, and Captain Bonser, who was notorious, especially for his language, was the captain of that boat. And, when we got to Kitselas Canyon, he ordered all passengers off and especially the women. He didn’t want, as he said, a damn woman left on that boat. He said women were bad luck to not only a boat, they were bad luck anyhow. And so we all got off and I think it was two miles, or something like that, from one side of the canyon to the other. So we all hurried up to get around it and watched the boat going through the canyon.

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