Eaton Reunion, 1926
The Montreal Daily Star
August 21, 1926
In Days When Indians Were Feared
“There ovens were built of stone. Sometimes Indians would steal
the bread, also the meat out of the smoke house. It was not very wise
to offend [..?] Indian, though they would remember a kindness; they also
would not forget a rebuff. They had trouble to keep their pigs from being
eaten by bears. Once they were awakened in the night and investigating
found a bear in the pig pen with a pig partly eaten. The pen was built
strong and high with logs but bears can climb.
"In the fall to get their supply of winter fish they would go down
to the beach where there would be several other men with their nets. This
work has to be all done before the sun was up in the morning, as sometime
during the night the fish would go from the lake to the bay. The first
bunch of men would stretch their net across the creek. The second bunch
would stretch their net just below the first. sometimes there would be
even as many as a dozen nets stretched across. Just as the sun was rising
the fish would start back for the lake. Just above the first net a man
would stand, watch in hand, to call out each net’s allotted time,
being from say three to seven minutes, according to the number of nets
that were set. The fish would get back into the lake in from 30 to 40
minutes. The fish would often be so plentiful the creek would appear full
from bank to bank, not being able to see the bottom. They would try to
fill an hogshead, going several times to get the supply.
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