Nancy Martin Interview – Leaving Arrowhead
Produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives. Filmed by Agathe Bernard.
Nancy Martin discusses when her family left 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 dark 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:
My family left Arrowhead in 1961.
They left because my father did know of the he knew about the High Arrow Dam was coming and Hydro was already discussing the sale of people’s homes and just what was going to happen, and I think he really believed that he would get a better deal if he sold to someone that was, there was a fellow that was working at the mill that wanted a place to live.
So we sold a few years before other people, and he did not sell to Hydro.
The number of people in Arrowhead when we left I-I am not certain about, because I you know it was, but there were still uh quite a few family people, many people left after we did.
I would say there would have been about two-hundred people living there, two to three hundred people.
The mill was still operating so there would have been families living down there that uh you know the ferries were still operating, the Lardeau.
People were probably very unhappy about having to leave Arrowhead, my parents certainly were, they loved the life there and were missed their-their close friends, and
I’m sure some of the other businesses would have noticed it, Jack Tillen had the big logging out company running at the time, but I-I’m sure there was many people very unhappy.
As myself as a child I was very nervous, I did not want to live in Revelstoke it was like a big city, and the schools were rather frightening, but we adjusted because I was only 10/11 years old, but many people I’m sure were quite unhappy about having to leave.
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