Recording of a talk given by Charles Hayes, a Similkameen Valley resident, speaking about his move to the Okanagan in the 1970s, the explosion at the Fraser Rivers in 1858, agriculture in the 1860s, and the Hudson's Bay Company. He also discusses James Douglas, John Michael Hayes and William Cox, as well as Inspector Rodrick Finderson's arrival at the Hudson Bay's company station. Hayes also discusses the arrival of Henry Digby Shuttleworth and Francis Xavier Richter, as well as early interactions with Indigenous peoples. Also includes the death of John Hayes and the life of his widow.
