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- Title: hay ’ul’ yuw’en’ tthu shqa’elu ni’ ’utl’ lhumlhumuluts’ | First Water System at Clemclem
- Description: New water system installed in ClemClem. A pumphouse on the Koksilah River pumps water from a deep well to pressure tanks. From there the water is piped to homes.
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Date of recording: 16 Apr, 2026
- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
hay ’ul’ yuw’en’ tthu shqa’elu ni’ ’utl’ lhumlhumuluts’ | The first water system at Clemclem
- ni’ thuyuw’t-hwum ’u tthu xut’ustum’ pumphouse ni’ ’utl’ lhumlhumuluts’.
A pumphouse was built at Clemclem. - hwkw’atum tthu qa’ tun’ni’ ’u tthu xwulqw’selu sta’luw’ susuw’ tus ’u tthu hulelum’s tthu mustimuhw.
It pulled the water from the Koksilah river to service the houses.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1959
- Theme(s): Villages, Government (BC Canada),
- Location: ClemClem
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
- Individuals identified: C. Jutras
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 26 March 1959.
C. Jutras, assistant to J. V. Boys, Cowichan Indian Agent, points to the head of a new water system recently installed by the Indian Affairs Department to service Cowichan Reserve Indians in the Clem-Clem-Eluts area. The pump-house on the far side of the Koksilah River is the location of a deep well. The water is pumped into a pressure tank, then piped near to individual Indian homes. The Indians have to connect to the stand-pipes in their yards to bring the water into their homes.
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