Meet Beaver -- our industrious tour guide. (If you would like to read the Okanagan Legend of Beaver, click here.) Beaver is indigenous to the Okanagan Valley and is a great resident to show us what the Living Landscapes website has to offer. We selected Beaver as our guide with the help of the staff of the En'Owkin Centre in Penticton, BC. At first he did not seem very suitable, as the legend tells us he has fuzz in his eyes and a crooked finger due to his dealings with Coyote, that notorious trickster! However, on second thought, we felt that Beaver's crooked finger would be just the thing to point the way to learning about the resources on the Living Landscapes website. So join Beaver, finger and all, and let him show you the information that is available.

Living Landscapes website resides at Living Landscapes. Let's take a tour of the site.

I. HOME PAGE:

  A. Thompson-Okanagan

            1. List the two major partners in this site.
            2. When did focus on Thompson-Okanagan Region.

  B. Human and Natural History Resources:

• Historic Photographs:
  1. How many matches are there for Native cowboys?
  2. Where would you order a "good copy" of the photograph?
  3. Find and record the catalogue number of the Gabriel family.
  4. How many subject heading matches are there for the Pierre family?

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  5. Find eno0121.
     How many people are there in the picture outside the house at Shingle Creek?
     Describe the "style" of dress of the people in the photograph, e.g. traditional, Okanagan Native, European?

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  6. Find okn0142 Native cowboys.
     What Band are they from?

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  7. Find keywords Clothing and dress: Lindley children.
     According to the description, what would the children retain?
     Suggest from what you see in the photograph why it would be difficult for the children to retain elements of their culture.

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  8. Find okn0006.
     Who appears in this picture?

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  9. Find okn0078.
     Describe the significance of this picture.

• Census Data Bases: Home Page
  General information about using census data
  1. List three uses of census information for a researcher.

  2. Give examples of errors that may have resulted with the collection of this kind of data.

  3. How might a "European" viewpoint of the world impact on such data collection?

• Census Data Bases: 1877 IRC Census
  Information about particular census data

  1. How were "dates' an important factor in the collection of census data?

  2. What kinds of 'economic information' was contained in this census?