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- Title: yu hwuy’qwul’ulhaalh tthu ts’lhhwulmuhw | Family taking the Ferry
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Group from Cowichan taking the ferry to the US to go strawberry picking.
(Published 28 June 1961).
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- Time period or Date: 1961
- Theme(s): Transportation, Employment, Food Harvesting
- Location: Sydney-Anacortes Ferry
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Alfred Flett
- Individuals identified: In this group from Cowichan are, left to right: Susan Joseph holding baby Benny Elliott; Joyce Elliott, Dorothy Wilson with her mother, Mrs. Bernadine Wilson
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 28 June 1961.
Aboard the Sydney-Anacortes ferry, bound for the strawberry fields of western Washington, is this group from the Cowichan Reserve at Duncan. They are just a few of the scores of Cowichan Indians who cross over to the U.S. for the two-month berry-picking season.
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