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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