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- Title: Apprenticeship kwus yu thuyuw’t-hwum Carpentry | Carpentry Apprenticeship for Home-building
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Men from Cowichan receive certificates for completing apprenticeship in carpentry.
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
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- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
Apprenticeship kwus yu thuyuw’t-hwum Carpentry | Carpentry Apprenticeship for Home-building
- tthu ni’ swi’wul’stum’ ni’ yuhw tthu swaaw’lus ’i’ kwoonstum kwus yu thuyuw’t-hwum ’u kwthu hulelum’
The picture is showing the young men committed to home-building. - tthu swaaw’lus ni’ tslhaqwnamut ’u tthu hun’utum’ Apprenticeship kwus yu thuew’t-hwum ’u kwthu hulelum’ Carpentry.
These young men completed the Carpentry Apprenticeship for home-building.
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- Time period or Date: 1968
- Theme(s): Education, Employment, Awards/Special Distinction
- Location: Boys Road in North Cowichan
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
- Individuals identified: Left to right: Willie George, Bernie Joe, Ken George, Jerry Jack, Joe Charlie, Floyd Tommy, Danny Seymour, Del Johnnie
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 19 June 1968.
These eight members of the Cowichan Indian Band recently completed an apprentice course in carpentry and received certificates June 10 to that effect. Left to right: Willie George, Bernie Joe, Ken George, Jerry Jack, Joe Charlie, Floyd Tommy, Danny Seymour, Del Johnnie. The pre-apprenticeship carpentry program was approved and supervised by the B.C. Department of Labor, apprentice and industrial training branch. Don Proudlove of Victoria was the instructor and the men worked on the houses built on the reserve, off Boys Road. The Indian Affairs Branch and the Canada Manpower Commission co-operated with the training.
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