SEARCH FOR GOLD
INDIAN WOMAN’S QUEST
WIFE OF BEAVER’S FRIEND
VANCOUVER. October 11
Nalrareo, youthful wife iof Urey Owl. “Friend of the Beaver” and noted conservationist of wild life, has left her husband’s domestic, hearth to follow, the trail that has drawn many other women to the silent places, in search of gold “I’m lonesome in town,” she said, referring to her husband’s domicile >at Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, where he is (commissioned by the Federal Government to plant beaver colonies to replenish the thinning numbers of Canada’s unique little workers of the waterways. “I mu more at home, packing and paddling, than standing beside a kitchen range.” Well versed in bush lore. Nahareo, who is 50 years younger than her distinguished "spouse, travels alone, relying for protection on her ability to wield a tomahawk. She carries her canoe over a portage as nonchalently as the paleface housewife would stir the morning porridge.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 8
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154SEARCH FOR GOLD Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1933, Page 8
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