Thursday, June 28, 2012

Brother James

Brother James is calling the numbers for bingo at Rec room. Bingo was always a fun nite for us boys especially on cold winter nites. photo courtesy of Jim Callanan

George Patrick

Here is a photo of George Patrick of Stony Creek (Saikuz) in November 1962 at Lejac Indian Residential School. That was a year before my time at Lejac. photo courtesy of Jim Callanan

Saturday, June 2, 2012

On Operation Reindeer


Verne, I have been following your blog faithfully checking in every few days. Operation Reindeer never went to Lejac, they concentrated all their efforts on the school in Whitehorse, which I think was called Lower Post IRS. They used to fly from Prince George in a DC-3 to Whitehorse. I think it was a Lion's club effort. I asked one of the sale-smen who used to come to Lejac if we could get something going for Lejac and subsequently he
took it upon himself to start the Scrooge & Marley Club. There sole function was to donate their time and money to put on a Christmas Party for the boys and girls of Lejac. They also paid for sleeping bags so we could go camping. They were a very kind bunch of business people. Keep up the good work.
Peace, Jim (thank you Jim for your comments)