The Basin Record Newsletter Vol.2 Issue 3

A reader of The Basin Record responded to the article on the Fernie Swastikas in the last issue. He sent a photo showing the team mascot, a sock doll with a team sweater on. He wanted to know more about the doll and the team sweaters. Can anyone help? Do you know anything about the origins of the doll, or about any of the individual players? Contact us at the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. Name: ______________________________________ Mailing Address: ______________________________ ____________________________________________ Phone Number: _______________________________ Email Address:________________________________ Become a member of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History Individual: $25.00 Family: $40.00 Institutional: $50.00 Corporate: $200.00 Annual Membership Fee: Please drop-off or mail this form - with payment in cash, cheque or money order to: Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History, 21-A 10th Ave S, Cranbrook BC, V1C 2M9 Phone: 489-9150 City of Cranbrook The Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History is pleased to publish this title by Alta and Fee Hellmen. When I Was Small is a very personal look at how one East Kootenay family survived the Great Depression. Ranging from Roosville, through Ta Ta Creek to Invermere, Alta Goodwin’s story documents the struggle of her family. It is not a brand new idea – most of us know some of the trials and tribulations caused by the Depression. What is new, however, is that this is a woman’s voice, a woman’s view. Alta talks about the pressures on the family, the constant wear and tear on her mother as child followed child, six in ten years. What is also new is the very local base of the story – our region, part of the Columbia Basin. When I Was Small is just the kind of manuscript the Columbia Basin Institute wants to make public. It is compact, compelling and written with feeling and dignity by a master storyteller, Fee Hellmen. This book is available at select Basin book stores or directly from the Columbia Basin Institute. Try it – you will be drawn into a vanished view of what our region was seventy-five years ago. “When I Was Small...” Alas, we at the Columbia Basin Institute are only human. On the front page of the last issue the name of the Windermere District Historical Society was inadvertently misspelled. We offer our sincerest apologies to the Windermere District Historical Society and hope that the error does not deter any other societies or corporations from becoming members of the Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History. We promise to spell your names correctly! MORE ON THE FERNIE SWASTIKAS Growing up in East Kootenay (1920 - 1935) When I Was Small... . . .byAltaHellmen,as told toFeeHellmen OOPS!