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History: B.C. Police Sign Off

Reprinted from the December 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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B.C. Police Sign Off By P.W. Luce, Vancouver, B.C. ‘Khaki and Green has turned to Scarlet and Gold. A romantic era in British Columbia has ended. The Provincial Police Force has been absorbed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Of the 500 officers and men who patrolled the 360,000 square miles of the western province, […] Read more
A new and larger sales ring was used at this year’s Williams Lake sale.
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History: Williams Lake Sale

Reprinted from the November 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Williams Lake Sale By Richard Andre The old west — the real west — came to the life as hundreds of Cariboo ranchers, their cowboys, buyers and Calf Club youngsters came to Williams Lake to celebrate the 13th annual sale sponsored by the Cariboo Cattlemen’s Association during the week of October 7th to October 13th. […] Read more
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History: Trail to Sounding Lake, Pt. 2

Reprinted from the November 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Trail to Sounding Lake (concluding instalment) By Margaret V. Watt, 748 East 60th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. ‘In the days that followed, our caravan was often the only object on the landscape. After a time, however, homesteaders’ sod shacks with their roof gardens of lambs’ quarters two feet tall, began to appear and as we continued […] Read more
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History: Trail to Sounding Lake

Reprinted from the October 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Trail to Sounding Lake By Margaret V. Watt, 748 East 60th Ave., Vancouver, B.C. ‘”Where in the world is Sounding Lake?” someone was sure to ask. At first it was hard to find. Close scrutiny of the map revealed a small, bright blue splotch about two-thirds of the way up from the International Boundary, close […] Read more
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History: A Short History of Nemiscam National Park

Reprinted from the October 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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A Short History of Nemiscam National Park By E. Matthews, Nemiscam, Alta. ‘After the rangeland South of Bow Island in Alberta and for miles east and west was thrown open to homesteading, the need for some protection of the large number of antelope was apparent, and quickly became an immediate and pressing necessity if the […] Read more
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History: “Charlie” Knox – Pioneer Western Canadian Stockman

Reprinted from the October 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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“Charlie” Knox – Pioneer Western Canadian Stockman By Guy Weadick, High River, Alta. ‘Probably no other individual had more to do with the early development and creation of interest in markets for the open range Western Canadian livestock industry than did “Charlie” Knox, whose activities in that field extended from 1883, when he first hit […] Read more
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History: Bunkhouse philosophy

Reprinted from the September 1950
 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Bunkhouse philosophy (a monthly column) By W.R. Cochrane, Crowley, Alta. Things have changed quite a bit since the old days when it was the accepted custom either to drive your beef to the nearest railway point and ship them yourself to one of the central markets in this country, or if you were willing to […] Read more
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History: Buffalo Park Grazing Ass’n Community Pasture

Reprinted from the November 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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By Capt. K.S. Tory, Wainwright, Alta. In this rich ranching country of Alberta the big name ranches and ranchers, and ranches with romantic backgrounds steeped in the traditions of the Alberta cattle story, are liable to obscure the less romantic but just as vital little ranch lay-outs known as Community Pastures. Such a little lay-out, […] Read more
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History: Those Wild “Payment” Days at Old Fort Pitt

Reprinted from the October 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Those Wild “Payment” Days at Old Fort Pitt By WM. Bleasdell Cameron, Meadow Lake, Sask. ‘When Indian Agent Tom Quinn came down from his headquarters at Frog Lake to the old Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading post of Fort Pitt on the North Saskatchewan river to “pay treaty” to the members of Chief Big Bear’s turbulent […] Read more
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History: Bull Teams of the Cariboo

Reprinted from the October 1950 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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Bull Teams of the Cariboo By P. W. Luce, Vancouver, B.C. ‘Motor freighting began during the First World War. Before that the lumbering wagons had been drawn by horses and oxen, and the horses stayed on the road until the early twenties. The oxen passed out of the picture at the turn of the century. […] Read more

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