The Way We Were
In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.
February 24, 1916: The first of the season’s operators
to go up the river is A. Godfrey of Vancouver, who is
working three claims at the headwaters of McDames Creek in the Cassiar. Mr. Godfrey last year purchased the
Rossela hydraulic plant and his winter men are moving it to his claims. Four men are going in with Mr. Godfrey
and will work for him this season who with the men there now will make a crew of nine men. The men have a long trip ahead of them which means some three hundred
miles of mushing. They have five dogs and two sleds for...
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