Word: kootenays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the narrow back roads of western British Columbia's Kootenay country marched sullen bands. Sometimes they halted, clustered together, chanted Russian hymns. They were Doukhobors of the Sons of Freedom sect. Wherever they went, residents braced themselves for trouble. The Sons of Freedom were on a house-burning rampage...
...more than 30 buildings had been destroyed, orthodox Doukhobors began to wonder about the wisdom of continued submission. Said Peter Postnikoff: "I refuse to hit any man. But maybe I'll forget my teachings." Last week, orthodox Doukhobors finally asked for action. Extra constables hustled to the fertile Kootenay Valley. The bag by week's end: 14 Sons of Freedom arrested, seven sent to jail for terms ranging from six months to a year...
...Pend Oreille, as at many of the most-fished U.S. lakes and streams, man has improved upon nature. Some years ago, local sportsmen bought 100,000 fish eggs from Kootenay Lake in British Columbia to plant in the lake. The first batch died and the townspeople of Sandpoint, Idaho were skeptical. But in 1941 the sportsmen tried another 100,000; these hatched successfully, were planted in the lake as fingerlings. Pend Oreille's deep water and an abundance of blueback salmon to feed on seemed to be just what the Kamloops (local name for the over-sized rainbow trout...
...gremlins" in this week's issue. They must be distant cousins of the "saskwatchs" who come up from the Penticton beam every night and ride along over the Cascade mountain range on our Trip 4. They jump off over Cranbrook and do an instrument letdown into the Kootenay valley to visit friends there, returning several hours later on Trip...
...Party's membership in the Legislature whittled to 21 seats. The Conservatives took twelve, while the C.C.F., doubling its strength, came up with 14. The remaining seat was held by the Province's one perennial Labor member, Tom Uphill from the coal mines of East Kootenay...