Interview with Jack Wertz
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions11956
- Date Range
- March 29 2021
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with wilderness guide Jack Wertz, recorded March 8 2021 at the Old Church in Smithers by Paulie Threlkeld. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, photo from day of interview, and .csv file of subject indexing.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Paulie Haines
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.18
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 2.20 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- March 29 2021
- Scope and Content
- Interview with wilderness guide Jack Wertz, recorded March 8 2021 at the Old Church in Smithers by Paulie Threlkeld. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, photo from day of interview, and .csv file of subject indexing.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Jack Wertz - March 29, 2021
Interview with Jack Wertz - March 29, 2021
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.18_Wertz,%20Jack/Wertz,%20Jack%202021_03_29.ACCESS.mp3
How Wertz's life was like living in a state orphanage with his sister in Tuscon, Arizona.
1934; family; hugs; Mastoid infection; Mexican; nurses; orphanage; penicillin; Tuscon, Arizona
childhood; family; orphanage
Moved with his father and new step mother to a ranch house after the father had been stationed at an Italian war camp.
animals; army base; date; flag staff; Italian prisoner of war camp; ranch house; safety engineer; street kids
animals; marriage; military
Leaving home because his step-grandmother was cruel to him. Going to college with one of the first women allowed to go there.
dirty jokes; Dr. Tuller; Eagle Rock; girls; grandmother; Jewish; racism; runaway; uncle; white; zoology
family; leaving home
What life was like during the Korean War and how some of the Americans were brought up.
conscription; draft; filler troops; Kentucky; Korean War; murders; tank department
America; war
Wertz meeting his old friend and co-worker in the army and him becoming Wertz's commander.
commander; company; Edward Fender; friend; saddle; tank training
commander; friendship; war
The career paths that Wertz took in his youth to support his family and get through school once the war was over.
boxing; children; cook; golfing; grades; waitress
career; children; family; marriage; school
When Jack moved to Los Angeles he found a love of surfing and centered his life around it for around two years.
appraisals; assessment; Los Angeles Times; surfing; taxes
appraisals; family; recreation; sports; surfing
Trying to learn manners to impress that girl of his dreams and marry her.
dance; dinner; education; listener; love; manners; marriage; professor; relationships; women
love; manners; marriage
Going on vacation to Smithers and realizing that he wanted to move to Smithers and start a home.
alfalfa; board walk; cousin; fishing; post office; ranch; rent; Smithers; snow; vacation; veterans
fishing; moving; Smithers
Wertz was approached by another gentlemen about appraising land in Kitimat and that was the first step on building his North Country business in Smithers.
honesty; Kitimat; North Country; real estate; Remex; salesmen
business; real Estate
The time Wertz met Marge Calhoun, the women's surfing champion.
1950s; California; Dale Velzy; lessons; Marge Calhoun; sporting goods; surfboard; surfing; teaching
surfing
What life was like in Canada with an new life and wife, guiding, fishing, ranching.
bears; bookkeeper; camp; cattle ranch; divorce; First Nations; fishing guide; grizzly; guide; Hilltop; hunting; Lefty Gardiner; lightning blot; lodge; moose; O'Neill; rancher; remarriage
divorce; guiding tours; marriage
This part is about how Wertz bid on property in court and won the bit. Later Wertz goes on about how he ran the lodge. Rafting Business is also brought up as a brief hobby/job.
bankruptcy; Bear Scat; Bear Scat Water Adventures; doctor; Don Golder; fishing; fishing rights; health; law; music festival; raft; rafting company; ranch; Smithers; steelhead fishing; training film; worker
law; lodge; rafting; Sportsman Lodge