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- SAHLSTROM
SON RECALLS '
EARLY YEARS

EDITOR'S NOTE: following is the third in a series on
Gwen ‘Granny’ Sahistrom, one of 's early
settlers.

‘The next salute to Grannie Sahistom's memory is
included in excerpts from a long letter from brother Carl
of North Vancouver.

In the course of his recollections, he includes names

“Dear Bob:

“As I try to recollect some of the happenings of my
early years I will endeavor to be as accurate as T can; but
as to the exact times and names, I cannot be certain.

“Possibly, the first thing I can remember clearly was
the Wesley fire of 1925 which occurred when I was
around three or four and Olaf about 2‘: years younger.

remember feverishly looking for our socks. It must wed
been shortly after that, that we moved from the house
that then stood in the field later known as the “

field” after Kelly Lotze who set up a planer mill there. It
is better known now as the trailer court.

We moved to a one-room square log house which is
still standing slightly above and northwest of where the
Greg Sahistrom family has their house. I believe it was a
bit later that the kitchen was added. It was built of
lumber.

Home was about two miles from the store and post
office at Blueberry Creek which was run by the
Beresfords.

‘possibly, the first thing | can
remember clearly was the
Wesley fire of 1925'

We did most of our shopping there except for the odd
trip that Dad made to Trail, and for the grain for animals
which we got from Castlegar.

The mail only came in about two or three times a
week. I can remember being at the store, waiting for the
train and seeing quite a few people from the village at
Champion Creek coming to shop and get their mail.

Ellen Beresford was the postmistress and her
husband Ike the big strong man of the store. Dad had
special respect for his strength when he worked with him
on the railroad across from Schofield Creek. They used to
have to push the loaded rail carts by hand and it took a
specially heavy push by Ike to get them started.

Ike died one hot summer day and was buried in the
Robson cemetery where Dad helped to dig the grave. The
rocks they encountered while digging were quite a
contributing factor to Dad’s deciding to bury brother
Olaf, (who passed away at the age of 13, August 19, 1937),
on the farm thus starting a private cemetery.

Reuben Kirk came later and helped Ellen at the
store for quite a few years before she passed away in the
late 40s.

Of the oldtimers, Brooks (a brother of the fames
artist Alan Brooks) lived at the top of the riverbank of the
point beyond Miles Reeds. Ashworth lived in the hollow
formed bythe old CPR fill across Blueberry Creek where
the Blueberry school, was situated. “He was very English
and quite a good cook — he cooked for the 1924 survey
camp,” Joe recalls.

I started school in the fall of 28. Others going to

John Charters . . .
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llections

Seas

COUGAR SEASON .

school included one or two Postnikoffs, I think a Jevatkoff
boy, possibly some Semenoffs and a Harrison girl. But
that effort was short-lived since the school closed in
October due to too few pupils. It didn't open again until
about the fall of 33 after Olaf and I had taken three years
of correspondence school with Mother as our teacher. I
had gone to Kinnaird and then to Castlegar schools (after
the two schools merged) where I took my fifth grade.

Florence May Dinney came to Blueberry Creek from
the Argenta area as our teacher, together with her two
brothers, Ron and Claude. She brought them with her to
increase the number of students in the school.”

Henry Gopp and his family, together with the
Brooks, the Ashworths, the Beusfords, Harrisons and the
Smenoffs were in the area before the Killoughs; who in
turn were followed by the Stuarts, the Collinsons and the
Ellis's.

Frank and Betty Humphries, also early residents,
lived in the house later occupied by Pete and Nelly
LaLonde. It was destroyed in the 1938 fire.

Nils, Annie and Ole Carlson built a home close to
where Trowlex is now situated. They bored wooden pipe
and put in close to a mile of waterline to bring water to
the house from Blueberry Creek.

Before they. built their house, I don’t. remember a
single house along the highway between Blueberry-and
the old white Killough house almost across the highway
from where the Sandman Inn now stands.

Carlsons built a small sawmill and cut lumber for
their house, and for the house. Chris Anderson built later
and which was the start of our house.

The one-room frame Blueberry school was built in
1915, in the hollow north of the railroad track fill near the
Ashworth place on Beresford's ‘land. It served the
Blueberry farmers, loggers and men working building the
railroad and car road to Trail

The school opened in November with teacher

The school opened in November 1916 by the railroad
tracks in Castlegar with teacher Christine Marshall,
Gwen and little Harry Killough.”

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*

. . Charlie Sahistrom and brother Walter with cougars,

There were nine children enrolled: Gopps, Harrisons
and Semenoffs. The little school was closed at the end of
Oct. 1927 because they could not enrol the minimum of
eight students, so Carl only had two months in Grade 1.

Mother taught them by B.C. correspondence until
1983 when she became desperate to have a better
education for her boys and organized the Blueberry
people to action, They advertised for a teacher with
children, and with the help of Inspector P.H. Shoffield of
Nelson, hired May Dinney

Mother pushed for the school so they made her
secretary-treasurer for that year, but due to the difficulty
of walking those two miles in winter to hold school board
meetings, she gave up the job in 1935.

Her desire to have her sons taught in school is
proven by the fact that Carl maintained perfect
‘attendance and younger brother Olaf only missed one day

all their time at Blueberry in spite of the four-mile walk
each day, together with winter.snows, bears and cougars.
Carl spent two years at Blueberry and Olaf three years
until he died of leukemia August, 1937.

When I was going to the Castlegar school I took a
day or so off to go trapping with dad to the old “half-way”
(halfway to Naney Greene Lake) and then on to the Sheep
Lake cabin where he stored his traps for the spring.

We travelled on snowshoes and it was quite a trip.
There was not much of a trail and I can remember
especially the last part of the trip seeming pretty long
and exhausting even after we could see the upper side of
Mount Foreb above our home.

One year when we went to school walking across the
flat Dad and his brother, Walter, trapped and shot nine

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cougars on the hills above our house. All those cougars in
the area, yet mall boys, we never saw any!

We had our first car, a Chevy, by then and an old
picture shows several cougars draped over it.

‘The $40 bounty for each cat was a blessing in those
hard times.

NEXT WEEK: More of Carl's recollections.

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Muriel Wilson was elected
president of the Castlegar
Hospital Auxiliary. Other
members elected to the exe
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included: Margaret Davidson
first vice-president; Ann
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The new slate will be in-
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May 5 by hospital board
member Tina Leitch.

A vote of thanks was given

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Ackney for a job well done.
Ruth Townsend of the
Bursary Committee read a
letter from Stanley Humph.
ries secondary school prin.
cipal Don King regarding
scholarships and bursaries
It was decided to maintain

“How to be an Effective Vol
unteer.”

The area conference is de-
signated for Sept. 18 in
Nelson. A short report from
the hospital society was sub-
mitted by Patsy Popoff, who
also headed the nominating

the $200 amount in the form
of a bursary, which is pre
sented annually to a deser-
ving graduate who plans to
enter a medically related
field.

A similar bursary will be
granted to a Selkirk College
student at the third level.

Delegates Muriel Wilson
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committee.

Committee convenors
were asked to submit their
year-end written reports to
the president by May 5, to be
presented at the meeting on
that date.

The rummage sale was re
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and president Tony Ackney
thanked everyone who work.
ed so hard. She said com
munity support was over
whelming.

Because of the change of
date for the installation din.
ner from May 12 to May 5,
the raffle draw for the afghan
will take place on May 5. Tic
kets are still available from
auxiliary members.

We are changing our looks
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For now . . . business will be as usual,

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