A special supplement to the Terrace Review and Prince Rupert This Week Riverboat Days guide 19

Kitsum Kalum

o 3° Come walk with me by the Skeena e S | Just for an hour or so —

Mm 3 i I'll tell you of Old Kalum

“3 <= And the life we used: to know.

By the Kalum River Village | Where big salmon jump and play;

’ Chief Nelson and his wife lived there. Long before we came to stay. —

re | Up the Skeena was Eby’s Landing Where riverboats brought in pioneers; A store, hotel and telegraph

Served the folks for just ten years.

Then the Grand Trunk Pacific whistled past And the sternwheelers ran no more; ooo We got our mail from the stations, And not dog teams as before.

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KITSUMKALUM, EBY'S LANDING 1910 — Ed Eby owned a store near Eby’s Landing. This was: a very important place, particularly in the spring of the year. The early settlers ran low on supplies with the end of winter. The store was stocked up again with the arrival of the first sternwheelers (riverboats) in the spring, after the ice broke up and the river was again safe for travel.

Casey Braam illustration from the Terrace Olden Days Colouring Book

Oh, the letters the bachelors wrote To the Family Herlad’s Primrose page; And the lovely widows responded Bringing in children of school age

Rev. Marsh brought us his message, His sweet wife nursed us when ill; . From T Eaton we ordered our clothing

And managed without the pill.

I still see Hell’s Gate canyon Where the devil dared to play His nasty tricks on riverboats, As they would buckle, bend and sway.

And there’s our Sleeping Beauty — She’s one who will never change; While guarding our Skeena Valley, She rests on yon mountain range.

Come and drive above our valley And admire the beauty below, —

And think again of those pioneers Who made trains through these woods and snow.

DURING THE DIRTY ‘30s, the Atrill farmhouse (on the highway between Hazelton and Smithers) was a haven for travellers. Len Atrill says, "Sometimes people would stay overnight on a sofa or in the hayloft."

special thanks to Belle D. Watt, who wrote and compiled the . Happy Times in Rhyme, from which this poem was taken, with permission. Now available in Terrace.

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