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John Bouzek
Horse Snowshoe
I grew up in Stewart BC and arrived there
at the age of 3 in 1928. Pack horses were used to supply the
various small mining sites with supplies. In the
winter the horses wore snow shoes. Of course snow shoes had been
used in Europe previously but we have a picture of my wife's stepfather
with two horses on snow shoes. There were
two types of horse snowshoes used in the Stewart area a wooden and a
metal snowshoe.
The man is Bill Stewart and the background is the head of the Portland
Canal at Stewart BC. The picture was taken about 1930 from the area of
the Silverado Slide to the east of Stewart and the background shows the
old railway trestle that went to the water edge, the second line is the
old wooden road to the dock and the present roadway to the dock and
Alaska follows the lower portion of the mountain.
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