Cathy English Interview – Mount Cartier Cemetery

Cathy English, curator of the Revelstoke Museum and Archives, speaks about the Mount Cartier Cemetery.

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 Cathy English. Cathy English is a white woman with short grey hair, wearing a blue zip-up sweater. She is standing on a dirt path. There is green grass, a mountain, and grey sky behind her.

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

Transcript of Narration:

The people of Mount Cartier had to leave their forebears under the ground in the-in the cemetery that was covered over with concrete. [extends right arm to side, moves hands around in talking motion]

They had to leave them down. [extends right arm to side, moves hands around in talking motion, continues throughout video]

There-there’s a single marker in the cemetery now with the names of the people who were buried in that cemetery.

But, there’s you look around at the cemetery and at a regular marker.

There’ll be a name.

There’ll be a date.

They’ll be, uh, maybe where they were from.

They’ll maybe be an inscription, a bible passage, or something that spoke about that person.

The Mount Cartier marker at the cemetery now has the names and that’s it.

So that was one of many things that was a lost-that was lost when people had to leave their community.

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