Gawiuk Family Interview – Clearing the Land

Ron Gawiuk discusses the clearing of the land by BC Hydro for the Hugh Keenleyside Dam.

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 the Gawiuk family. Showing Ron Gawiuk – a white man with short black hair, wearing sunglasses and a light blue button-down shirt.

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

Transcript of Narration:

We knew th-that we were being moved, you know this was in a process of maybe you know a couple of years [looks to left over at Brian Gawiuk, hear “yeah” in background] maybe prior to, so but uh, you know you had uh maybe to actually move the house and everything basically a summer period of time.

[Pans to Brain Gawiuk – man wearing glasses and a plaid button up shirt; video cuts to panning over the Columbia River sandbars with logs lying around sporadically].

(Birds chirping in background).

They were moving up the valley from Sidmouth to Arrowhead this way, so you know they were moving out first, so as they they worked up the valley that’s how they worked so.

You could see them, you know you know, two weeks, three weeks, months, you could see them burning slash and everything so that was how they just sort of worked the way up the valley.