il sparks northern vintage years THIS time of year, coming into the fall, is very provocative for me of memories of the north country. Especially in the Peace River area, in the early Twenties, where our living conditions were really basic and the ‘approach of winter, -which could suddenly break into a gallop, ‘required most serious : preparation. Mother seemed to be ina sweat every afternoon when -we came home from school, “it being close to dusk after ‘our four-mile trek, picking “up the milk on the way from ‘the school house. She'd have spent a great part of the day canning food to get us through: the snow- AYLORMOTIV SEAVICE LTO, bound months ahead. Small fruits chat we'd picked, blueberries mostly and Saskatoons; little carrots and peas and green beans from the garden, what a lot of shelling and blanching. Grouse, just the breasts, the legs were pathetic, burt there were thousands of them rising up from the wheat fields, Men in those days in that place all carried guns for the sake of the larder. And now, with dark cold days coming, wood had to be chopped and iled by the itchen door. Coyotes were as thick as the grouse in those days, and as they were now getting into their winter coats there would be at least one carcass hanging outside the back door, draining for the skinning. BRAKE SPECIALISTS B.C.A.A. = A.R.A. - APPROVED | BRAKES - LIFETIME WARRANTY | (on shoes or pads) * CONSULTATION 985-7455 (746.15 OUR 28TH YEAR 176 PEMBERTON AVE. N.VAN. TALKING YELLOW PAGES 299-9000 : 2Wel re Closed for Thanksgiving: ‘Y Monday October 14/96 Have a Safe Holiday Weekend ‘| Worth Vancouver City Library 121 West 14th St., North Van. 990-0561 ~ Your name here ~ “ Coyotes were as thick as the grouse in those days .. their skins, after a good deal of work made very attractive scatter rugs. ” No, we didn’t eat them, the smell is off- putting, but their skins, after a good deal of work, made very attrac- tive scatter rugs. One was chosen espe- cially to be turned into a fine baby bassinet cover for the new addition to the family. The man in charge of this household, our stepfather, 13s an Englishnian who had come some 15, 26 years carlier to Canada, and who, until he made his way to British Columbia, had never seen a coyote let alone known how to skin one. But he learned of the exhaus- tive informa- tion to be had free from Ottawa on behalf of immigrants and he must surely have been one of their most assiduous correspon- dents. 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