Category: Food Harvesting
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Young boy holding up a huge Spring Salmon. (Published 11 September 1963).
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Group from Cowichan taking the ferry to the US to go strawberry picking. (Published 28 June 1961).
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An older woman walking along the shore at Cowichan Bay carrying a duck. A house and fence can be seen in the background.
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Salmon fishing on a weir in Duncan. Canoes are pulled up to the weir and about a dozen men are standing on the weir with fishing spears. A couple of younger children are also present.
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Steam-operated threshing machine used to cut crops. The Modeste family would move the machine from farm to farm to cut the crops. This image possibly taken at Kingston Farm.
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Simon Charlie wearing a traditional Cowichan sweater holding a dipnet with his son Paul.
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A woman digging for clams at Cowichan Bay.
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Salmon weir on the Cowichan River with a person walking on the weir and a canoe on the shore.
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Images from traveling to the United States to pick hops. Families would travel for the whole picking season, which included a variety of berries and hops.
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