Thanks guys and Ken, I always say that chronological age only tells how long it is since you were born. How you have weathered the years is probably more important.
And darn, you gave away my secret abut those hidden targets! Now the guys will check to see if there is powder burn on them.
And Boomer, the soon to be forgotten BC history you mention, is for the most part, already forgotten! Milt Warren, who plays such an important role in my book and who I was often in contact with as I wrote it, died before the book came out in print. Milt was like a walking encyclopaedia on the north.
As I mention in the book, for a hundred years, ending in the 1950s, the hinterlands of BC were laced with people; prospectors, trappers, freighters and traders. This all came to an end in the 1950s, but the mainline media never even so much as noticed it. In the heartland centre of very much of this activity, the area flooded when they built the Peace River dam, old Finlay Forks was the hub. All news of the north funnelled in and out of there. Little Marge was the grand daughter of the traders and spent her summer holidays there. I knew her at Finlay Forks from when she was of about age 8 to age 16. When I wrote the book she was one of the first I contacted, to confirm what I was often going by memory on. She came twice to our home during this time and was a great help, including giving me historic pictures to use in the book and confirming names and dates.
This past summer I got word that she had died.
As of now, there is not one single person that I can contact who would have personal knowledge of the time and places I wrote of. That is forgotten history in spades!
You gotta watch that old guy. He keeps several targets tucked in in the front of his shirt.
