Narrows Supper Club

Dine and Dance to “‘Barney Potts” and
His Conversational Music

PHONE NORTH 685 FOR RESERVATIONS
Just North of the Second Narrows Bridge

IT’S DIFFERENT AT THE “NARROWS”
North Vancouver, B. C.

is to head for a dry surface, then every
bit of water is carefully dried from our
paws.

Our last job that winter was to “raw-
hide” a out of the bush for a
prospector. The kill was deep in the
silent spruce forests, about a mile away
from the river, the artery of all travel.
To prepare the “rawhide” the animal was
butchered, the hide wrapped around the
meat (some 800 to 1000 Ibs. of it) the
skin was then laced up and a tie made to
the neck of the hide and to which we
were hooked. The load is very flexible, it
slithers over all the little bumps and
valleys. As the hair is turned the proper
way, it slides very easily, in fact in heavy
bush country it is the only way to take out
such a big animal as a moose.

moose

After that we sat back and enjoyed a
well-earned rest; every few days we were
turned loose for a bit of a run. Now us
young chaps were particularly fond of
Nipper who wasa very wise old dog. One
day Rum and Nipper had an argument,
and in a flash the big bully Rum took after
poor little Nippy. But the old dog always
had a trick up his paws, so he immediately
jumped into the Dease River—he was a
marvellous swimmer—and swam to the
opposite bank while Rum and Rye (who
had joined his brother for the kill) looked
angrily at him from our shore. They
didn’t bark because dogs of the Far North
don’t bark, so they just howled and yelped.
Funny how none of us huskies liked

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water. Nipper was away for two days
and was pretty scared of Rum ever after.

I had a real break just at the beginning
of summer; instead of being tied up at
the detachment most of the time like the
others, I went out into the hills with a
splendid Norwegian chap named Johann
Vollaug. We roamed the hills and pros-
pect holes all summer while [ carried his
pack. The vigorous moving life was just
to my liking and I learned many of the
tricks of packing.

Coming back to the detachment in
October | found the active summer had

A shy good morning greeting.

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given me a decided advantage over
3rownie and Tony. So it was not surpris-
ing to find when we went on a short trip
to replenish one of the grub caches along
the river, I could outpack either of them.
In fact Rum, the biggest of us all (he
weighed 120 lbs.) played right out on our
return journey.

We started back on the old grind of
hauling wood in November. ‘Tiring, but
better than hanging around in a kennel
all day—besides, they fed us more when
we worked. Occasionally we took a run
out to one of the nearby lakes, hauling
back fish which the men caught with nets
through the ice. Beal Carlick, the Tahltan
Indian interpreter employed by the Police
was a good fisherman and netted round-
fish, trout, pike, whitefish and grayling.
One day we caught 30 fish but usually it
was half that number.

The master was preparing to leave the
detachment soon, so many people came in
from all the country round to say good-bye
during the Christmas season of 1938.
Christmas Day dawned at 45 degrees
below zero, but seven white men and over
25 Indians and dozens of dogs gathered
together at the Post to celebrate. It was
the most exciting time we'd ever ex-
perienced at McDames Creek. On Janu-
ary 22nd, 1939, a big aeroplane took out
the master. As the plane circled above
us we said “Klahowya Tyee’’—good-bye
Chief—and turned to begin a new life
under his successor, Jerry Davis.

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