Starret the story of Simon Gun-an-noot, an Indian outlaw who killed two white men in Hazelton, including Alec MacIntosh, in October 1907. He describes work at the Whitworth Ranch in the Skagit Valley in 1907, a man named Bob Hume who claimed that he was the first white man born in BC, who also worked there. He offers anecdotes about William Yates who was a worker for Hudson's Bay Company, the man for which Yates Street in Victoria is named. Starret describes cattle drives and cattle trains near Hope in the 1890s. More stories about Bristol.ĬALL NUMBER: T0399:0002 RECORDED: Hope (B.C.), & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bristol used to carry mail from Westminster to Yale in the season when the boats could not run. Starret describes the naming of Catz Landing, Bristol's Landing and a few more places. He worked in the mines in San Francisco in 1849 and came to Hope in 1858. Stories of Bill Bristol who had the contract of cutting cords of wood for the steamboat company for a dollar and a quarter per pile. Starret describes Hope, BC, and its residents in the 1890s. His father returned to Silver Creek, a couple of miles below Hope. The man accused was a Chinese miner and he was required to cut off his hair to be set free. One of the men began to miss a few things out of his bag such as salt and bacon. He describes their adventures on the trail to Skagit.
His father and a man named Flood, who was from Woodstock Ontario, and a man named Corrigan went from Hope to Skagit in Washington to mine gold.
His father also mined gold with a man named Metcalf, and Jack Kerkup who later became the Gold Commissioner at Rossland. He discusses his mother and his father, born in 1850 in Brampton Ontario, who was a surveyor. He offers a description of Hazelton and his first recollections upon landing there including specific people and events. He discusses a shipment consisting of seventy tons of alcohol for a man called Blackjack MacDonald. Smith, to Hazelton in 1909 to learn the fur trade. His grandmother's family name was Stevens. Martin Starret, born July 17, 1888, describes his family background, starting with his maternal grandfather, Captain Henry Smith.
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