SISTERS Becky, Toody and Tink grew up on a very

isolated homestead in the Cariboo. Now Becky
makes her home in Terrace,

Trapping was
a way of life

HARD WORK keeps these
three pioneer sisters youth-
ful. Known as Becky,
Toody and Tink, the three
roughed out a life in the
Cariboo.

Becky now makes her
home in Terrace but Toody
still lives at the old
homestead at Canim Lake
near 100 Mile House.

In 1925 the sister's
parents, Everett and Opal
Greenlee, hilched up a team
of horses to a_ covered
wagon and moved to the
Cariboo from Washington.

Becky, Toody and Tink
and their sister Edna, who
died at 29, were just young
girls when the family
moved.

Tt took a month via cov-
ered wagon to make the trip.
Everett finally chose a
homesteading .spot on 160
acres on Canim Lake.

There was no school, no

‘hydro, and no road into the

‘homestead, The nearest
neighbours were miles
away.

Living in the bush was not
without hardship. Shortly
after the family arrived their
team of horses died of swap
fever.
> So for a few years the
family went without horses,
transporting items around
with pack sacks.

Since there was no road
the family travelled out of
the homestead via rowboat,
The nearest road ended at
the head of Canim Lake,
five miles down.

So once or twice a year
they would order supplies
from Woodwards in Van-
couver, A typical shopping
list would have dried
prunes, big buckets of
peanut butter, cases of yeast
cakes and other necessities.

In the late. fall Everett
would go down Canim Lake
and usually get 12-14 deer
and moose.

Mother and the girls
would can the meat for the
winter. Becky said a good
size deer would yield about
35 quarts of meat.

The girls and their father
would also fish the lake for
trout which they would add
to their winter supplies.

Everett was a carpenter by
trade, and a trapper and big
game guide during the
Depression.

Becky and Toody had
their own irapline, and they
used to trap squirrels,
weasel, mink, fox and rab-

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bits. They ’d skin their catch
and put the hides with their
dad’s fur ‘to sell to the fur
buyer.

Becky said she could skin
25 squirrels in an hour, but
she couldn’t beat her mather
who could skin a squirrel in
a minute.

As for school, Becky was
about eight by the time she
finally went to school,

They would row the boat
14 miles down the lake to
McNeil’s ranch.

Becky only went to school
for three years, then she had
to stay home to help on the
farm. Later their father

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cleared a trail over a big
mountain to the Hawkins
Lake area and the girls
could ride horseback to and
from school every day.

When Becky grew up she
became a trapper. She also
drove a logging team, skid-
ding logs, and drove a lum-
ber truck for sawmills in the
Interior.

Later she became a school
bus driver for 14 years in
the 100 Mile House area,

Toody became a trapper
and a rancher and a self-
taught violin player. She
won a trophy as the best
fady fiddler in an old time
fiddlers contest,

She also composes poetry,
sings folk music and is an
artist.

Tink became a trapper as
well. She also became a
pilot and has worked in the
sawmills.

Today Toody siili lives at
the old homestead. Her hus-
band is now gone,

Becky and her husband
Jack live in Terrace near
Becky’s son Henry Rosenau
and his wife Judi.

Both still enjoy to be in
the outdoors.

Good health and good for-
tune to these three unique
pioneer women.

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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 18, 1998 - B3

Asking for help
takes courage

HE’S CAMERA-shy and reluctant to discuss anything pez-
sonal. He won’t even divulge his age — but he looks to be
in his late 40s.

Donovan Meridith isn’t comfortable talking about how
he finally learned to read and write. But knowing that
gives you an idea of the courage he had to keep pursuing
his dream.

Meridith was born in Jamaica at a time when education
wasn’t the priority it is today. He doesn’t want to speak
badly of his birth country, but does say his later attempts to
learn the basics weren’t successful,

Mceridith tried a number of times to lear the basics in the
US., then in Toronto, but couldn’t find a situation he was
comfortable with. a

Finally Meridith moved to Terrace, because “the Lord
brought me here.”

He tried a few different options for tutoring, and has
settled into a comfortable fit with Interconnect and the
Community Readers and Writers program at the Volunteer
Bureau,

Karen Graham has been tutoring Meridith since the fall,
and he says ‘‘she’s really nice,”’

Knowing how to read is making a big difference in his
life.

“It let’s me feel more relaxed,” he says, ““knowing that
if] go anywhere I can read a sign.”

That confidence has given Meridith the courage to start
his own business — Don's Renovations.

He encourages other adult learners to ask for help,

‘<] want to tell others that it’s time for them to get out of
the darkness and come into the light. Don’t hide it no
more. Come forward.”

Now that he’s found the courage to come forward
Meridith wanted to share his own story with others — in
his own words. It’s pictured to the right.

Meridith wishes he could help someone the way his tutor
has helped him. And someday he might

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