Material Type

Recording

Date Range

1980

Physical Description

3 audio cassette tape

Physical Condition

Excellent

Scope and Content

Oral history interview with Henry Rollingson. Henry Rollingson bought 6 horses and a quater section of top of coulee and broke the land for farming. Hauled 6 tons of coal up Six Mile Coulee weekly to deliver in Lethbridge, in winter. Tape 2, Side 2 Farmers hauled their own coal in summer and brought their families for weekend in the coulees. Custom work in area 13 St to 43 St, Henderson Lake to Coutts Highway, bought a threshing machine and custom worked 1933. Horrible accident arm mangled in thresher. Brother Albert, farming original place. How the coulee was in the teens and twenties -- trapping coyotes. Tape 3, Side 1 Henry's first gun at age 9, trapping beaver, shooting lynx, Russells horses on the reserve, Indians, Stan Whitney Home, break up of ice in the spring, Henry recalls the site of Fort Whoop-Up, old Fort Road. Tape 3, Side 2 Roughlock a wagon wheel, when descending a coulee hill. Old Crowsnest railway track, gathering cast iron and buffalo bones for money, entertaining oneself on a cold winter night, story of the deserter, death of Earnest Russell, farmer on the Pot Hole, George Rollingson's mine -- a description Tape 4, Side 1 Talk of mining, the look of Six Mile Coulee Road in the 1920s and 1930s, Henry's family and his later employment in the 1940s up to present day. 1937 hauled equipment and fuel for work on the Alaskan Highway. Employed by Imperial Oil hauling Tape 4, Side 2 Laying floors for airforce camp, 1950 built home on North Parkside Drive, then later on South Parkside Drive. His own gas and oil distributing business

Access Restrictions

Public Access

Accession No.

19921008045

Collection

Archive

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