Nancy Martin Interview – Arrowhead

Nancy Martin, former Arrowhead resident, discusses life and services in Arrowhead.

Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning into wheat on the left end. The title “Stories Beneath the Surface” is circled around the image in capital letters.

Interview with Nancy Martin – a white women with short grey hair, wearing a navy blue zip-up sweater. She is sitting in the kitchen area of the exhibit with artifacts and wallpaper behind her.

Revelstoke Museum and Archives logo in the bottom right hand corner.

Transcript of Narration:

[Side angle of Nancy Martin speaking; cuts to photograph of a street in Arrowhead with a few cars, buildings on the left, and boat on the water on the right; cuts back to Nancy speaking].

In the community when I was growing up the services we had would have been the-the general store owned by the Temricks by the time I remember it well, and right attached to the store was the little restaurant that was owned by Margaret MacDonald and she had a little she did rent rooms out as well above the restaurant, and then attached to that was a little post office.

[Photograph of Arrowhead School; cuts back to Nancy speaking].

Of course there was the school, which was the two-room school, and the forest service; there was a quite a large forestry service.

[Photograph of the church; cuts back to Nancy speaking]

There was also a church, it was the United Church at that time. It was a small, fairly small church, with a small small area at the back where they held Sunday school classes, and a small apartment underneath the church where the minister would live with his family.

[Photograph of the church]

My parents were married in that church and I was baptized in that church.

[Side angle of Nancy speaking]

Now the services that we didn’t have in Arrowhead was of course doctors, there was never any doctor’s office there, no dentist office, no not even a nursing station particularly.

[Photograph of the Arrowhead School; cuts back to Nancy speaking; cuts to photograph of the Revelstoke school bus]

In the Arrowhead school there were two classrooms, one was from grade one to grade four, and one from five to nine, and if you were still living there when you reached grade 10 you had to take the bus to Revelstoke.

[Nancy speaking; cuts to photograph of a car driving towards a mountain on the dirt road with trees on either side]

Or many of the young people used to board in Revelstoke, even if when the bus wasn’t, because many very often the bus couldn’t run because there was 30 miles of dirt road and two ferries to cross.

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