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Alaric children and Norm Barr sitting on a Workhorse

  • BARR_2011_042-01-019
  • Item
  • [1935]
  • Part of Barr Fonds

Copy of a group photograph of (from left to right) Bobby Hudson, Norm Barr, Peggy Alaric, and Jerry Hudson sitting on the back of a workhorse that belonged to the Alaric family. Albert Alaric is holding the horse's reigns.

Barr Fonds

  • BARR_2011_042
  • Fonds
  • [1927]-1938

Photographs belonging to Ross and Alison Barr documenting their life at Parkhurst sawmill on Green Lake, Whistler. One comic poem about Parkhurst.

Christmas with the Alaric family

  • BARR_2011_042-01-015
  • Item
  • [1937]
  • Part of Barr Fonds

Group photograph of members of the Barr, Hudson, and Alaric families wearing festive hats.

Inscription on the verso reads "Xmas Green Lake, Alaric family with us, 1929. Bob Hudson 215-2251 Pitt River Rd Pt [Coz]."

Although the verso reads 1929, judging by the age of the children this is more likely to be 1937.

Top row, from left to right: Ross Barr, unknown, Albert Alaric's brother, Albert Alaric, unknown.
Bottom row, from left to right: Bobby Hudson, [Gerry] Hudson, Peggy Alaric, unknown, Madeline Hudson, Ann Alaric.

Christmas with the Alarics 2

  • BARR_2011_042-01-024
  • Item
  • [1937]
  • Part of Barr Fonds

Group photograph including members of the Barr, Hudson, and Alaric families wearing festive hats.

Inscription on the verso reads "Chrismas 1937 at Parkhurst. Barrs and Alarics".

Top row (from left to right): Ross Barr, unknown, Albert Alaric's brother, Albert Alaric, Alison Barr.
Bottom Row (from left to right): Bobby Hudson, [Gerry] Hudson, Peggy Alaric, unknown, Madeline Hudson, Ann Alaric.

Jenny Bett's Writings - Memoirs

Memoirs written by Jenny Betts (nee Jardine) recounting her life, starting from her birth in 1912 and finishing with entries written in 1982 celebrating Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday. Jenny recounts her family's many moves, the death of her father, her mother's remarriage to Thomas Neiland, the logging operation and daily life in the Whistler Valley (at Mons, Alpha Lake, 34 1/2 Mile [Function Junction area], and Nita Lake), the birth of her brothers Robert and Thomas, her Uncle Jim Laidlaw's time in the valley, meeting and marrying Wallace Betts, logging work at the Alaric operation at Parkhurst, tobogganing, raising her children, flooding in the early 1940s, her brothers' service in World War II, the family's time at Port McNeill on Vancouver Island living at a work camp Wallace was working at, her appendicitis operation and hemorrhages which required a blood transfusion from Wallace, Thomas Neiland's passing and the selling of the 34 1/2 Mile property in the 1950s.

After many blank pages, there is an entry from December 19-28, 1981 recounting a large holiday get-together with the extended Jardine family in the Lower Mainland (each couple travelling from several places in BC to join). The following page is an entry written by Jenny on February 22, 1982 describing another large family get-together with the Jardine clan at a nursing home to celebrate Lizzie Neiland's 100th birthday with some champagne.