As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

Watchmen

Translation: watchmen. The position of watchman originated in the 1860s with the Roman Catholic Durieu system. According to Kennedy and Bouchard, Elsie Paul’s great-uncle mɑksɛmɑ (Sandy Timothy) was one of the last watchmen in the community, and her great-grandfather Captain Timothy was the last church captain. Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard, Sliammon Life, Sliammon Lands (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1983), 122. See also "Additional Readings."
 

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