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[Music] good evening my name is mike giggle and i am the chair of the prince george public library board i'll be your host this evening i'm pleased to welcome you to the 36th annual gene clark local history awards each year the library board hosts an awards reception to recognize and celebrate contributions in the preservation and promotion of local and regional history usually we gather in person to celebrate these awards but the covet 19 pandemic has forced many of us to find new ways to connect we're grateful to see kpg for helping us to reach you at home tonight before we go any further i want to acknowledge that we're presenting these awards tonight on the ancestral lands of the clay lake canada on behalf of clade litenae our chief and council and our membership we welcome each and every one of you to the beautiful territory of the clay deep today first nation we've been here for over 9 000 years as prolific evidence so we feel our heritage is extremely important for this area because moving forward we start losing the past when you start losing the past you start almost losing a piece of yourself and humanity so we just can't lose that whenever we have oral history and and we tell people they they usually don't believe it's like there's facts behind it and then the facts come later and they're like oh you guys are right all along and this happens time and time and time again our history as we know from the elders was at first the priest came and the priest says you're worshiping the wrong thing and uh you know i know what's right half the nation back then is like oh geez this guy you know he's making some points he has some things that we don't know there's technology so they must know what's right so half the nation started following that move forward you know another 50 60 years residential schools come into play and as the old elders talk about they said that was like the final nail of a lot of our our culture the first try didn't work you only only got about half the people the second try really did a lot of damage to first nations and we're and we're slowly getting this back but it was 100 years of that if not 200 and now people are talking about reconciliation it's only been a couple years and they're going how long is this going to take well it took about 200 years to get us to this point and it's going to take some time there was a strategic push to eliminate our culture and history and pull it away from the land what we can do to make sure that this doesn't happen again is is knowledge and information we help people survive here we've we've known this land and and the territory for generations upon generations upon generations so it should be listened to and it's teaching the young kids what this territory meant and the people that were here for so long and i think everyone will start realizing that you know this is needed first nations knowledge is needed within the territory a lot of the history is oral history but we have a lot of it written down as well and we are just piecing it back together and this helps guide us moving forward as a nation thank you to dali clayton putney for agreeing to share why the preservation and promotion of history and culture is so important to the clayton today each year we host the gene clark local history awards during bc heritage week i'm pleased to introduce board trustee arlene stevens to say a few words about heritage week good evening as a member of the library awards local history committee i'm honored to be part of the gene clark awards according to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization heritage is our legacy from the past what we live with today and what we pass on to future generations our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life our inspiration our touchstone our reference point and our identity this year's heritage week theme is where do you find heritage do you find heritage in the special buildings that make prince george unique or perhaps in the stories that your family has passed down for generations maybe you think of the generations of people who came before you or the newcomers into your community look around you and you will find heritage everywhere that said i'd like to introduce gene clark's grandchildren chris and barbara henderson who are here to tell you more about gene clark and why these awards are named in her honor grandma loved sports and the outdoors she would love to volunteer and be part of the community she worked for several different doctors as a receptionist and she volunteered and she did toastmasters and she was just so vibrant grandma grew up in this place she was born in this place and she really loved it and and honoring the the people and this place was really really important in the early 1980s the prince george library board of directors decided to strike a committee in order to house a specific section of the library dedicated solely to local history publications at that time gene clark my grandmother was the chair of the board and the one spearheading the campaign to make sure that we had an individual area set up specifically for the local history publications shortly after that decision was made she passed away and after she passed the decision was made that they were going to have an annual award in her honor for local history publications and service she had a real passion for history of the community but local northern history as well she was a firm believer that in order to make sure that we didn't make the same mistakes that we've already made that we celebrated our history and that we understood it and we collected it and promoted it promoted the storytellers that we had in the region promoted the authors that we had in the region i would like to think that as we move forward and we know better and we are doing better um that we are remembering to tell all of the stories especially in 2021 as we move through truth and reconciliation and all of these pieces i am really proud that the library is working so hard to do better to include all of the stories that we didn't do such a good job of telling um and that we didn't tell at all that nobody spoke of and that now those stories are being told and those stories are being shared and those stories are being honored and celebrated here as a descendant of gene clark i'm really proud that that's what they are doing in her name it's important to understand all of our history because not all of it is as glamorous as we would like to think and understanding the disputes that we had in the past understanding the despair the victories the losses the challenges the mindset around how decisions were made around building in certain areas around development in certain areas around who that affected how it affected them and does it still affect them now all of those stories are important all of the decisions are important because not only do they help us understand what was going on at that time but it helps us understand what's going on right now i can't think of a better way to honor her memory and the work that she wanted done and the outcome that she wanted than with the work that the pg public library board has done by having this annual celebration and recognition of the incredible work that is being done thanks to chris and barbara for joining us to speak about their grandmother we will continue to honor gene clark's legacy and to ensure that we acknowledge promote and celebrate the thousands of years of history and enduring culture in this area the winner of our first award today has been working hard to do just that the first award tonight celebrates outstanding service in the field of local history this award is granted to an individual or organization for significant contributions for the preservation and promotion of local history the winner of the service award is the prince george native friendship center for their work at scabio child care center the center is a leading innovator both within our province and nationwide the center is among the first to incorporate indigenous teaching practices into early childhood education this work represents a meaningful contribution to preserving and promoting local history and living culture recognizing the importance of consultation the prince george native friendship center collaborated with the clayton a to ensure that scabio's cultural teachings reflected those of clay layton elders edie frederick and her mother josephine taught staff some of their traditions and about the role of children and caregivers in carrier culture today scabayo is a lively place that weaves together aboriginal head start philosophy and early childhood education best practices with critical aspects of carrier culture children learn about the cali today by gaining exposure to indigenous language social gatherings traditions and the wisdom of elders scabio also partners with outside organizations to expand awareness of platelet history and culture which continues to thrive even after centuries of colonization please join me in recognizing the 2021 gene clark service award winner the prince george native friendship center hi i'm kim rudd director of early childhood services for the prince george native friendship center and on behalf of the staff and management of the friendship center we are honored to accept the gene clark award for history in prince george so one of the goals of the program is to ensure that the language is heard and spoken and sung and part of the every day of the program they're creating history by keeping the carrier language alive and the children hear those words speak those words sing those words and it's a family wellness program we want to create pride and a love of the territory we live in and we want those children to grow up with that pride the local history committee is made up of library board members and volunteer readers who spend countless hours reading the nominated publications on behalf of my fellow local history committee members i would like to introduce the nominees for the gene clark award for publication this award recognizes excellence in publication for the promotion and preservation of local and regional history now let's hear from the authors themselves people often ask how we ended up with a book on catalan well the usual way i was reading a bunch of local history books and the name catalan kept coming up so i thought i'd find a book on him but there was none available at that time this was before trial morrow's book was published i did some searching and found irene had been working on her family's history so we gathered more and more different material and before i knew it had a pile of paper a meter high in the basis of a book that we completed last year from page 55. why john cole was given a nickname and why he became known by this particular one are unanswered questions there were however a number of intriguing theories put forward by those who actually knew him judge henry castello said that since places of origin were often confused in those days it was possible that he caught his nickname because people thought he came from catalonia in spain i'm pleased to tell you about my new book crossing the divide discovering a wilderness ethic in canada's northern so this is published by creekstone press and it's a memoir it's a story of my life essentially a good part of it it picks a number of stories that are illuminating i think in some way and it tells about my role in protecting the muskokachika itself which is one of the largest protected areas in north america and certainly a lifeboat of biodiversity into the future we look out here in the cisca today and this is a park because of those processes that produce the muskoka chica if you're interested in wilderness conservation ethic of respect and living on the land in a way that makes sense for all of us then you might enjoy this book uh with a little bit of adventure thrown in and maybe a large dose of adventure in some cases thank you the reason i wrote highballer is mostly i think because i wanted to detail some of my experiences in the very early innings as a bc tree planter i started when i was a kid basically is in my teens late teens and that's where the book begins and uh i wanted to shed some light on on the industry and the subculture behind it uh it was a wild west of a sector back then and uh you know for a young impressionable boy it was pretty mind-blowing and in hindsight even more so that's pretty much it debbie's anxiety over the number of bears sightings reported in and around camp suddenly began to weigh heavily on my mind as i pressed on limping attempting to stave off a third muscle cramp i continued to sense movement on the road behind me it was difficult to separate the sound of my own footsteps heavy and irregular from the other vibrations around me heightening my anxiety the moonlit landscape i had been trekking through all evening appeared to end abruptly farther up the road at a solid black wall it was inevitable it was approaching a dense stand of timber the canopy of which would block out the moonlight i was relying upon to navigate hello my name is jeff meinet i wrote service on the schema horace rich frontier physician about the pioneer doctor in hazelton i wrote this book because i felt that dr richard's life is such a rich story of service to the north that it just had to be told his life story is largely alone it was time to recognize his contribution i hope people reading this book will enjoy your story and come away with a deeper understanding of the rich history of hazelton i've chosen to read the last paragraph of my his book journey had ended during his lifetime horus had traveled from the peaceful pastures of essex to the wilds of northern british plum on his journey he'd been a farmer a medical missionary a doctor and surgeon hospital builder progressive politician and early standard bearer for state health insurance his belief in god gave him his inspiration his practicality born from his farming gave him his tools his motivation was worthy his execution efficient and his results benefit his contribution to the welfare of the equals the skinny river and the province of british columbia in jazz [Music] i am juarez my people's name from the kit loop later on when christianity came they changed my name of my father grandfather people know me as cecil paul but i still prefer to be called the name of my birthplace in the kitchen walking a good river sometimes walk aid is not too good sometimes the river in my life is rough not good all the time but course sitting quietness and get your spiritual thing back back into the river and reverse my car that's a different little thing about the story of walking 87 years ago born in the banks of the kitchen and through when they lay back in quietness and all around my room i tried to watch the journey of walking this way the ugliness of it and the beauty of opening the door i'll go through a doorway of creation gives me the vision of how beautiful his world is i drowned it wasted my years for 40 years i was an alcoholic chronic i found the door i opened it was a beautiful thing [Music] changed the way of life to see kendall over there granny talk to me wash your eyes you know to your mother the earth the river put it in the put another water in your ear so you could hear two important things in the human body your eye and hear the abuse of his creation and to hear what's inside the creation you follow human being animals in the forest you will hear after you cleanse the sense of hearing in the archery of mother the earth and when they're threatened to destroy i was saying to my sister and a beautiful friend named geraldine began to fight to save little and what a beautiful journey hello i'm leslie howard author of the brideship wife i have chosen this particular reading as it illustrates a recurring theme in my novel that the issues that people grappled with in 1863 are relevant and similar to issues we deal with today my character charlotte has had her eyes open to the inequities of lazy fare capitalism and the difficulties around rampant colonialism so much so that when she arrives in barkerville she doesn't view the land and the gold rush through t e traditional colonial gaze outside the coach the landscape began to change as evidence of prospecting was everywhere i couldn't help but think it resembled a battlefield wooden flumes giant water wheels and sluice gates crisscrossed bleak hillsides denuded of trees and the smell of fresh-cut logs hung thick in the air the fine particulates of sawdust tickling my throat heavy rains had caused washouts at various places as rainwater rampaged down sides unchecked carrying away with it precious topsoil caught up in a feverish quest for gold these prospectors didn't seem to care how they left the land i remember john telling me how the gold miners used chemicals like mercury that destroyed salmon spawning grounds depriving the natives of food the decimation had taken just six short [Music] months i have spent a lot of time in a state of healing and retrieval to be able to write these words and give them to the world i've also spent a lot of time in a state of reflection examining my own intentions behind giving these words to the world and there are moments when i realized that one day this book will be in someone's hands this book and i can feel the butterflies rise from my belly up to my throat i am a girl again on an old wooden roller coaster awaiting the first plummet towards the ground and my heartbeat quickens and i wonder if i should have gotten on the ride my palms sweat i questioned if i was meant to write the book and then i remember yet chicanes g i remember things from long ago i'll be reading from my latest book stagecoach north a history of barnard's express francis jones barnard arrived in the colony of british columbia with a scarcity of ready cash and a wealth of hope within a few years his fierce determination would see him build an express and stagecoach business to rival the best in the world bernard's accomplishment was made all the more significant by the challenges of fierce winters and great distances that were part of being the furthest north stagecoach line in north america barnard's express and its successor the bc express would play a key role in the opening up and development of british columbia as a colony and later as a province in the new country of canada so when i wrote this book uh i started out by realizing that first of all the story of uh francis jones barnard has actually become a bit of a myth in the history of british columbia and a lot of inaccuracies and outright mistakes have been made in telling the story so i thought here's an opportunity for me to talk about someone who was really not as well known in terms of determining uh the the course of the colony of british columbia as he traveled through the entire mainland of the colony of british columbia he went from prince george to the okanagan to the fraser canyon telling people that they should be thinking about british columbia joining canada he can truly be considered one of the fathers of confederation congratulations once more to all of our nominees it was an honor to read your work our community is richer because of your contributions tonight we have two award winners of the gene clark award for publication for outstanding contribution to regional history the first award goes to service on the scheena horus wrench frontier physician by jeff meinet service on the scena is the previously untold biography of a remarkable all-in-one medical doctor administrator missionary friend farmer and progressive politician having drawn extensively on research from archives newspapers family documents and photographs jeff meinet has exposed the life of horus wrench capturing the reader's admiration and interest from cover to cover wow this is very very exciting i i'm thrilled thank you so very much i'm deeply grateful for this award and i want to thank everyone at prince charles library who made it possible i was honored to be nominated and with such strong competition from the other nominees i feel doubly honored to win although writing is a solitary occupation i am grateful to those who helped me on my journey first among these is my wife alice and my family but i also want to thank ron hatch and his team and rossdale press for their support and encouragement i also want to thank rowena ray my editor and morgan height from smithers my map maker i'm very lucky to have had all their assistance as my wife and friends will attest i am passionate about history and its importance in understanding our world in particular i have a great fascination and interest in history of hazelton surely it is one of the most historic places in our province i first went there in the early 1980s and had been fascinated by it ever since i've loved going back into all the original papers in preparing the story i hope i have done the story justice thank you again very much i'm thrilled the second award goes to stories from the magic canoe of wajad by cecil paul as told to bryony penn with a voice strong in the sense of oral storytelling wahey shares his histories experiences and challenges growing up in the junctures between his anexila lifestyle residential schools and the constant threat to the environment on which his people rely stories from the magic canoe of wahed pilots us through a complex humanity navigating colonialism reconciliation multiple perspectives and motivations frailty courage and power wahey passed away in december shortly after his 90th birthday we are indebted to him for sharing his story with us hi my name is bryony pan and i want to thank prince george library for this amazing opportunity the magic canoe and following the good river were a collaboration with naxila elder sisa paul or walked and it was his calling many of us into his magic canoe to help the community protect their territory the kittlow cecil died in december after about with pneumonia but thankfully before that he was able to see both books in print and see the inspiration and comfort that it gave many northerners who found a lot of comfort in his stories and saw themselves in his stories i want to thank the prince george library for your courage to pick these books and and the celebration of the importance of indigenous teaching and collaboration with western authors in resolving these intertwined problems of pandemics climate change loss of nature loss of culture and our loss of connection to the natural world experienced all of these especially in the last century and it's these themes of which his story delve into with compassion i know in accepting this prize that cecil would say not bad for a guy that was never taught to read or write i know he would also welcome you to share his stories and to visit his territory just as long as you leave it in better shape than you found it congratulations once again to all of tonight's nominees and winners thank you for your important work that concludes this year's gene clark local history awards on ckpg thanks for joining us [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you