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SOTNIIS ‘YOA “A'L WILVIH 2 ONIGWNTd YVOITLSYO AL ~ 33M AL rs c ARTIFACTS TELL HERITAGE STORY “Very ‘old are we mon and our dreams are told in dim Eden by Eve’s nightingales."’ — Walter de la We celebrate Heritage Week 90 from Feb. 18 to 25 and this is the fourth column in the series recognizing the unique contributions of some of our special citizens. Matt Rohn, another local pioneer, has a hobby. He collects Indian stone artifacts left along the Arrow Lakes by the Lakes Indians over @ period of several thousand years. I went to see him and his wife Rose Ann the other day to talk briefly about his life and particularly about his special interest — one which I feel has the potential for a better under- standing and appreciation of our local heritage. His collection of artifacts includes a surprising variety of arrow and spear heads, mortars and pestles, scrapers, hammers, fishing weights and whatever else has caught his sharp eye over the past w years. Matt has been many things in his 75-year lifetime. He was born in Canada and came to this area in 1925 via the U.S. at age 10 with his father, Mathias Rohn, a railroad engineer, and his mother Barbara, from Leider, Sask. The family arrived by train in Robson at about 11 o'clock one late November evening and went aboard the S.S. Minto, John Charters Reflections and recollections the lifeline for many years for families and communities living all along the Arrow Lakes. They splashed in at the Renata dock at about 2 a.m. in the dark of the next day. His parents bought a 30-acre parcel of land (mostly bush) from an earlier settler, Fred Nash, and Matt and his brother John (now living at Blueberry), got an early introduction to land clearing and orchard (cherries and pears) planting. There were other children later — Karl, Warren and Ann, the youngest, now living in Thunder Bay. All shared in the rural life of the time, including work in the large vegetable garden. Renata was a small but closé community, 140 to 150 at that time, and people were expected to make their own entertainment. “Weekly dances were popular,” said Matt, “and like other boys in such communities, I did quite a bit of hunting and trapping as well. There was also a one-room school in the centre of the village and the teacher's name, when I attended, was Miss Ida Richie. She had red hair and a temper to match.”’ Like many young people whose families weren't too well off, Matt left school after Grade 7. (If I recall correctly, we had high school entrance exams at about Grade 8 in those days and this was a leaving grade for many students.) Matt went to work at 14 for Fred Nash (‘‘a nice fellow’’) who had come from Ontario-on-the-Lake via California and Grand Forks to Renata. He bought an eight-bedroom log house and 150 acres (the whole flat) from a French-Canadian, a much-earlier settler, Sandy Burnett, planted orchards and used the house as a hotel. Matt got his first work experience in Fred’s orchards. MATT ROHN ds part of local heri It is interesting to note at this point that while most of these events took place just before the Great Depression, a mere 60 years ago, the pattern of life in the rural communities of North America for the previous 100 years bore a remarkable resemblance to the backgrounds of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. As time went on and the area developed, the settlers established first a Co-op (the Renata Cooperative Union) and then, about 1930, a packing house. Matt went to work in the Co-op and in 1935 he became manager, a job which he held for 20 years, until 195S. Of course, as with most young men, there was always some firefighting in between. He then took the necessary classes and examinations for the Forestry Service and worked for the branch for another 22 years until his retirement in 1980 as an assistant. ranger. The district included the Arrow Lake from Johnston Creek to the border, and the Santa Rosa summit to Krestova — an area of some 200,000 acres. He recalls two major fires in that period — the Fry Creek fire (7,000 acres) and the Mount Sentinel fire. Technology had so advanced since Johnny Androsoff’s back-packing days that helicopters had become a major weapons in the fight, however. ‘At about the time Matt left the Co-op, there was already talk of the construction of the Hugh Keenleyside (High Arrow) dam and of the inevitable drowning of Renata and Deer Park — the upper benches did escape. The people of this part of the lake were well aware of the earlier extensive and ages-long occupation of the area by the Indians — there were the artifacts to. be picked up on the shore and the gardens, and the numerous remains of the kukulis (pit houses). But, as Matt said, ‘‘the archeologists never seemed to figure that the Arrow Lakes were worth bothering about — they were too interested in the B.C. coast and beyond the mountains."’ Thus the extensive settlements around McComb Field, Syringa Creek, Little and Big Cayuse Creeks (‘at least 20 kukulis in Cayuse alone’’), as well as Renata and Deer Park, had tittle chance of study in the face of the demands of the dam builders. Nonetheless, there were some cursory studies by the experts, and Matt and his son Bruce became intensely interested in this aspect of a vanishing heritage. There had been a great salmon fishery on both sides of the border before the dams (without fish ladders) went in on the Columbia and the Kootenay rivers and the Indians had established a good livelihood from the fish, deer and wild birds for over, possibly, the previous 10,000 years. continued on page BS * removed from the real-estate market Savage won't resign VICTORIA (CP) = Premier~Bitt Vander Zalm will not ask for Agri- gb ent WE ARE A FULL TRAVEL AGENCY SERVICE culture Minister John Savage’s res- ignation over his involvement in a cabinet order that may have boosted the value of his family’s landhold- ings. The decision came in response to Opposition Leader Mike Harcourt’s demand that Vander Zalm aks for the resignation because of Savage's ““breach of the premier’s own guide- MARCH 10-17 MARCH 24-31 .. APRIL 21-28 MAY 5-12 All for the low cost of $289 (based on double occupancy). 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