Interview with Annie Bruce
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- Date Range
- October 22 2002
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Annie Bruce (nee Murray), recorded on October 22 2002 by Jane Young (?). Includes raw and edited .WAV files and an MP3 access file.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- [Jane Young]
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.26
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 991 MB of digital records
- Date Range
- October 22 2002
- History / Biographical
- Annie Murray Bruce (1911-2008) was born in Prince Rupert to Alexander and Helen (Nell) Murray. In 1919 the family moved to the Bulkley Valley and established a ranch at Doughty. Annie married Alexander Bruce in 1935 and had two children, Betty and Sandy. She and her husband ran a farm in Driftwood for nearly 50 years.
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Annie Bruce (nee Murray), recorded on October 22 2002 by Jane Young (?). Includes raw and edited .WAV files and an MP3 access file.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Annie Bruce - October 22, 2002
What Smithers used to look like and how Bruce used to get around.
1910s; cancer; Chinese cafe; dance hall; farm; Hetherington and Hooper; road foreman; school; sleigh; Smithers; stable; World War I
childhood; family; Smithers
The story of how Bruce and family would go out once a year for food and store it for the rest of the year. Mode of transportation was a wagon.
Flints; flour; Hazelton; horses; Hoskins; Murray; Scottish; sleigh; twins; wagon
family; provisions; Smithers; transportation
Life in Smithers and how it was run and how close the community was.
Bulkley Hotel; Bulkley Valley Stories; dairy; Hetherington; Hilltop; Jimmy Buckman; mayor; mother; ranch; Rubber Boots for Dancing; station; train
Smithers
The story of Jack Hetherington who went missing.
house; missing; Union Shop
Jack Hetherington; missing persons; story
Life on the farm, with Bruce's family. Bruce recalls dancing, horse riding, sewing dresses out of flour sacks.
bed and breakfast; dance; flour; Murray girls; Prince Rupert; red hair; Shoe House; Smithers; sugar sack; ties; Twin Falls
family; hobbies; memories
Annie's life in Prince Rupert during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
bodies; Catholic Church; doctor; liquor; prohibition; smuggler; soup; Spanish Flu; train; war
death; flu
The story of how Annie Bruce's mother moved to Smithers.
Canada; Helen Murray; Nan Bourgon; Prince Rupert; railroad; Scotland; shotgun; snow; Telkwa; trunk
boat; mothers; Smithers
Stories of the Telkwa Bridge and of flying to visit relatives.
barber; Bulkley River; Drug Store; Eddie Walton; gun; Hilltop; houses; Jack McNeil; Mr. Flint; shacks; suicide; tough
Telkwa
Dancing in the early days of Smithers and building community.
Alan Fletcher; Christmas concert; Della Herman; hall; Highland Schottische; June; kilt; shack; square dancing; teachers
dancing; Della Herman
Annie Bruce speaks about the family that has passed and is still alive in Smithers.
bush; children; dancer; family; Huxtables; polio; siblings
family; friends