Nostalgic Hunting Pictures

H4831 said:
And Noel, mine don't go back like your great pictures, but I am either in, or took, these "more recent" ones.
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Hi Bruce!

Those are great shots, thanks for sharing them. I wish I had been born a century ago so I could have taken part in some of these adventures and pictures shared. I suppose being there was just like any other day, they never thought of some kid staring at them wondering what it would have been like.

That pic of you with the goat..... that is a very steep drainage, speaking from a only a little experince of sheep hunting. I will hazard a guess your friend sat down above you to take the picture so he didn't fall down and land on you!

Thanks for sharing guys, keep em coming!:cool:
 
Johnn Peterson said:
I've mentioned it before but in '55 when we moved from Edmonton to B.C., we lived in Barkerville for the first five months and later moved to Wells. In Barkerville we lived about 100 yds from their home.

Here's one of my Dad while Deer hunting in Alberta, during the late '30's I believe.

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Johnn, I was first at Barkerville about 1949, give or take a year or so. There were very few people living there, but I remember one quite elderly, jolly couple. They were living in a cabin that I remember as being east of the street that has the church on the end.
I was wondering if they had spent their life there, but didn't get around to asking them.
Does that ring a bell, at all?
 
H4831 said:
Johnn, I was first at Barkerville about 1949, give or take a year or so. There were very few people living there, but I remember one quite elderly, jolly couple. They were living in a cabin that I remember as being east of the street that has the church on the end.
I was wondering if they had spent their life there, but didn't get around to asking them.
Does that ring a bell, at all?
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I'm not sure Bruce as it's ;)been a while. On the main road close to the Church and on the east side, the Kelly family lived there and they had the only store in town. May have been Mr. & Mrs. Bill Kelly Sr. They also had the freight truck operation bringing freight in from Quesnel supplying the Wells and Barkerville area. The Wendels lived across the street, a couple of houses down from the Church and by the old one room school. Oh, by the way david doyle, in some of my books on the area I found a picture, apparently from Joe Wendles last hunting trip.

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Where we lived for that first five months was on the east side of the street up by the Chinese Masonic Lodge. About 50 yds from Billy Barkers shaft site. We were renting my Aunts house, now known as the Halverson House. I believe it's a small museum of sorts now.

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When we lived there, it was like moving from a concrete jungle and into a gravel pit. After two or three days though, you couldn't have pulled with wild horses. A great place to live for a kid.
And, last but not least, although not a hunting picture:redface:, here's one of a well known area character that lived across the street from us, "The Lucky Swede".

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Some great shots for sure- there definately is a 'look' to the old time hunting pics!
I have one thats much newer (early 70's) of my father skinning a wolf on the fishhouse table that I should scan in. It might be his sense of fashion ;), but you could easily mistake it for the 50's!

H4831- that chute is steep, I hope you didn't drop anything. :D
 
Fantastic pictures! I really enjoy the nostalgia and looking back to simpler times. Keep them coming guys.
 
I once hunted caribou for a week, all by myself in the Atlin area of northern BC, not far from the Yukon border. I wanted a large head. Lost track of how many caribou I saw, but it would be at least sixty or seventy. Not one trophy head!
Also, saw a lot of those huge northern bull moose. The buck brush in that country is about chest high and the big moose loom above it, visible for a mile or more. One morning I saw four of those huge bulls from the same vantage position, all visible at the same time!
Last day of hunting I shot a small bull caribou. I do not have a picture of it in the field, but the antlers are on my wall. If anyone wants to see a small mountain caribou skull and antlers,they can say so.
I stayed for two or three days in this old cabin. I set the camera up outside, set the timer, grabbed my coffee and got in the picture. This was late 1960s, so you can see I did have a different hat and jacket.
Edited to say I had a Honda 90 trail bike for getting around.
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Did you know that cabin was there before you started the hunt? Lets see the pic of your caribou. It may not be a trophy to someone else. But to you it will always remind you of the awesome time that you had there. Those Honda 90 and 55 trail bikes were the greatist for getting around.
 
Yes, I knew the cabin was there. I had a friend in Atlin who had lived there all his life, born in nearby Discovery, in the gold rush days. He told me where caribou country was and directed me to this cabin, plus one more abandoned cabin.
To give you an idea of how things were with oldtimers from the bush in bygone days, here is what he suggested, when I couldn't find a trophy. He considered me a capable bushman, through my association with his son. He said he knew of a place where for sure there would be big bulls. And his exact words were, "Just take your porridge, coffee, pail, and your axe and you could walk to those hills in two days!"
I thanked him, but said I had to start for home.
Here is the one I shot, on my wall.
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Been a while trying to find this thread again. Great thread by the way. Here are a few from Ontario hunt camps from around the early fifties. My brother and many of my uncles and grandfather. If anyone recognizes any of them, speak up please.

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