Name:

William

Smith

Born on:
Parents_w~e:

Ernest

I had one brother,
William married
children

and Elizabeth

Eddy, he died inhis late thirties.

and seperated,

then divorced

later.

Two

were born to_ them.

hen later on the years, he remarried.
have two daughters,

William

and Peggy,

Diane - grade twelve and Sandy grade

twelve.
The only things

I remember

coast, Prince Rupert,

is, my parents

Oceanside

cannery

would go to the

every summer.

My father build a sailboat

for fishing

would work in the cannery.

They would use a wagon and

horses

to Kitwanga,

then use a canoe to Prince Rupert.

Then when my parents
go trapping

come home

or hunting

in the fall, they would

for a living,

during the winter.

All we had for roads was wagon trails
Then later on, I started
my father bought

a tru~k to haul poles.

and s~ovelling

gravel

['.::r:::::~eand David Williams

we had more help improving

And

My father was the

-~-

the wagon trails ourselves.

together hauling
When Walter

in 1948.

to cut poles for a living.

first to buy a truck.
We improved

and my mother

the road.

We would work
on the soft spots.
bought

their trucks,

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I was picked

to go to war, at that time I was too young.

So they sent me home,

then later on the years,

me again in 1944 and I was sent to Vernon
they trained me for three weeks.

they called

B.C. There

Then I was sent home.

That was the year the war ended.
My mother

died, and my father remarried.

He married

Pricilla.

They had five children.

- grade twelve,

Lorraine

-?,

There's

another

My father

Velma

- grade

?, Rueben

died at early age.

daughter.

died at the age of late eighties.

I am still driving a logging
fall to Spring.
its good fishing.
now.

Vernon

truck for a living.

Then I go fishing

all summer.

From
Some years

This all about all I can remember

right