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2021 Author Event Profile - Farley Wuth

KBPV's Annual Tombstone Tour, 2021

Full Audio of the KBPV Tombstone Tour for 2021, recorded at Pincher Creek's Fairview Cemetery, the evening of August 7, 2021.  Readings are curated by Farley Wuth, and presented by staff and volunteers of Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village.

Individual episodes of each reading will appear in the fall of 2021.

Radio KBPV All Over the Map Tour 2021

Experience the history of rural life on this picturesque southwestern corner of the Canadian Prairies! Past chronicles highlight Cowley’s agricultural and commercial histories, the coal mining and school heritage of Lundbreck and how the C.P.R. labeled the settlement of Pincher City. Additional stops recall ranching and farming tales of the Earl Cook farm, William and Mary Glass farm (now Heritage Acres) and the South Fork spread of F. W. Godsal. This unique historical driving tour starts at the Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village at 1 p.m. the afternoon of Sunday, July 11th, 2021.

Tickets sell for $20 apiece and include a program booklet, audio tour, guided stops and picnic supper.

Please bring your own vehicle. Come join us for a trip down memory lane!

Stories from Our Alberta Heritage

A recreation of the "Our Alberta Heritage" 1970s radio spots commissioned by Calgary Power, celebrating Alberta history.  Now, we don't have the recordings, and we don't have Andy Russell's dulcet voice, but we do have the scripts and, the underlying music of Robert Farnon theme "Gateway to the West."  So sit back, as a history nerd recreates a few of the old Calgary Power infomercials. 

MEMORIAL HOSPITAL - Pincher Creek's First Full Service Medical Center

One of Pincher Creek’s firsts was the old Memorial Hospital, an impressive structure that housed the settlement’s original formal hospital.

Although the arrival of doctors, midwives and some medical services dated as early as the 1880s, most of these endeavours were handled out of peoples’ homes or cramped offices set up by the doctors themselves.

The Memorial Hospital, established circa 1902, answered an increasing demand for full hospital services, after nearly twenty-five years of settlement geographically far removed from any equivalent medical care.

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Honest John Herron: Policeman, Plainsman, Politician

The story of  John Herron, a North West Mounted Policeman who built  a life near Pincher Creek, and was an unsung builder in the development of south-western Alberta.

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Audio for Dramatic Presentation of "Kootenai Brown" from 1975 ACCESS-TV Film

The audio  for a Youtube presentation posted at 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbz11ojnYUI&fbclid=IwAR2yUjaRqhnosT1EUS7BvexraasHz8JfngSSRQAZW9oNbSgK-ihiE3JYckk

Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village Education Coordinator Youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_qjGMo5zOjb6GWsygTVNg

About the film:

A Sony video tape V-30H (1/2”) of this short dramatic documentary was recently found (2020) in the Archival collection of Waterton Lakes National Park’s, by Edwin Knox, Parks Canada, Cultural Resource Management for Waterton, and converted to digital.

 

Visually, the video suffers in quality due to the age of the film, but the audio is good, due to the excellent vocal and dramatic performance.

 

The plot is simple: John George “Kootenai Brown” is on horse patrol in Waterton in 1914, battling old age and reminiscing about his life: he discusses the British Army in India, Cariboo goldfields of British Columbia; Conflict with the Blackfoot at Seven Persons Creek; a Metis buffalo hunt; guiding in the Rockies; Olive's burial; the creation of Kootenay Forest Reserve; Oil City and conflict with nature; and his appointment as Forest Ranger of the designated national park.

The film was produced for the now-defunct ACCESS-TV, an educational production initiative of the Alberta government in 1975. The film/tape case was dated Jan 16, 1976. The “Pincher Creek Museum” as Kootenai Brown Pioneer Village is now known, is named in the Credit Roll as assisting with the production.

Kootenai Brown is portrayed by Peter James Haworth (1927-2014), from a script written by Ted Ferguson.

From Peter Haworth's obituary: "Peter passed away peacefully at Cedarview Lodge in North Vancouver on February 10, 2014 at the age of 86. Youngest child of the late Reginald and Florence Haworth and brother to the late Cyril Haworth. Lovingly remembered by his soul mate and dear wife Betty Muriel (nee Phillips). Although Peter began his career as an English teacher, he became an outstanding actor, writer and documentarian. As a writer for CBC radio, his writings included the adaptation of plays by writers such as Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, and Shakespeare, documentary series on notable figures such as Captain Cook, Sir Ernest Macmillan, and William Morris and portraits of the great twentieth century actors and directors.

As an actor, he performed on national radio, television and the stages of major Canadian theatres in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde and many others. His final performance as an actor was at the Vancouver Playhouse in "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde. Peter was a member of UBCP, ACTRA and was a lifetime member of the Writers' Guild. He was, also, presented with the Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award by the Union of BC Performers and is in the Walk of Fame at the Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver B.C.

Farley's Frontier Chronicles -Reflections from the Pioneer Christmas of 1915

Another of Farley's columns form Shootin' the Breeze - Dec 2 2020

Music: Christmas 1915 - Celtic Thunder

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