The dam on a Sunday (click on the above to find out what the fuss was all about). With all the machines and trucks parked neatly. That’s the future Williston Lake behind. The Safety regulations were strict. I saw a man fired because he left a board with the nails sticking up. In the ten year construction thousands of workers (mostly men) were employed.
1966 Hudson-Hope
Speaking of the beer parlour I happened to be friends with a guy (guess who) who happened to have latched onto one of the few women in camp. So, when we sat down at a table we never had to buy beer. It arrived regularly from moon struck love sick men who just enjoyed being in the same room with a female.
You’re right, Gord, I don’t remember any of these guys surviving.
The Hudson Hope rodeo was augmented for a few years by about 5000 visitors. All those guys who worked in camps and wanted something, anything to do which didn’t involve building a dam. Some of these miners, construction workers, pipefitters, welders, office employees, and surveyors were known to take the odd drink . The perfect place or I should say the only place to get a sit down beer was the Hudson Hope Hotel. On this day a couple of them stumbled out to the rodeo and attempted one of these rides (not this guy). One of them rode in his stocking feet. He lasted about nine-tenths of a second.