Floodland and Forest

This work is based on 15 tape recorded interviews with people of the Chilliwack area. I recorded them almost 20 years ago in the course of collecting material for a radio series about early days in the Lower Fraser Valley. Recently, when I began to fill in the historical picture from other sources, these oral memories came into focus as containing valuable statements of fact, or telling of happenings not recorded elsewhere. Above all, I saw them as opening windows on the thoughts, feelings and a