@prefix ns0: . @prefix edm: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix dc: . @prefix skos: . @prefix geo: . ns0:identifierAIP "7f4c9a69-10ec-4d53-9ad9-a5f746aacde3"@en ; edm:dataProvider "CONTENTdm"@en ; dcterms:isPartOf "B.C. Historical Newspapers Collection"@en ; dcterms:issued "2015-11-26"@en, "1880-12-18"@en ; edm:aggregatedCHO "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/hqueek/items/1.0081946/source.json"@en ; dc:format "application/pdf"@en ; skos:note """ THE HAZELTON QUEEK Caledonia Vol 1. No.1. Saturday December 18th, 1880. Gratis. (Transcriber’s Note: this is the most degraded of the original copies of the Queek. Much of the below is both partial and speculative.) Truth first is our priority. Such is the order of our foremost wish. We shall not be wanting in boldness. The public good is our honest aim. Plain truth we mean to be the toast of the Province. The power we wield defies assault. We hold and we use it for the country, having no interests of our own to serve. All conflict of others will be seared by our thunder. Attention there shall (illegible) wish of a strong opinion so as to omit (illegible) with (illegible) will our interest (illegible) extend the same right to others. (illegible) In principles of (illegible) then are here (illegible) we love much (illegible) will not brook the opposition, nor (illegible) or (illegible) paid to an order.] * [Illegible] [Illegible] is too short for the most active miners to explore the ever-growing circle of knowledge. Take the many branches of science as so many made from the pregnant centre to the vast circumference and one will keep most men at a brisk pace to traverse the great intervening of distance. Whoever makes this intellectual journey, may then attempt some adjacent radius (illegible) and being a given such mastery trip will be easy at last. Eventually he will learn more the circle and how little of it he is familiar with. He will however chafe less with the acquired [knowledge?] than he would with the (illegible) and the (illegible) Since then (illegible) This will be [illegible] (illegible) with the spirit of the age (illegible) its reach the impulse is no farthest rush, but the sustained action of high business mind in a race for knowledge. * We are on the fringe of civilization and share it forces? They [realize? rationalize?] all thoughts as effectively as if we lived in the great centres of Progress. Mind challenges distance and (illegible) everything sea and land under (illegible) all minds in the general advance of the age. In some respects we are able to be envied by those subject to every passing eddy of opinion for it is only the main current that reaches us to any affect. The summer puts a strain on our cousin’s fire but the long winter affords us valuable opportunity of (illegible) . The ordered brains of public opinion would welcome our longer [ season?] as prescribed boon. Our contact will be most useful (illegible). We are effectively (illegible) it makes as (illegible) of the vital force of civilized life that circulate at the moment they reach us, To be unconscious of this is a symptom of mental paralysis for which we prescribe no better time tonic than the study of the Hazelton Queek. * Has the reader ever stood on the top of some high bald mountain quite alone. It must be in summer time when all nature seems hushed. Suddenly a shrill whistle is heard which will startle any one who now hears it for the first time. What is that mysterious sound? It is the Rock Whistle Marmot or little queek. There he sits some fifty yards off looking and running as independent as can be but shout and like a flash he is off to his hole. He is seldom seen but works hard during the short season he has on his mountain home, which really commences before June and is ended by September. Vegetation is very rapid and hence for the little time that it is so as he has indeed to make his hay while the sun shines. He is a first-rate hay-maker. Picking the grasses and afterwards packing it to his home for winter use. He rapidly gains flesh after his [term] of eight months past (for he does not [use] hay for food only for blankets) and by September is in fine condition. He has plenty of enemies. Nothing a grizzly bear likes better than a nice fat queek and one can see immense holes dug up by him in order to obtain the dainty morsel. The eagle and the wolf also do not miss a chance of being on hand when our little haymaker is busy in his hay field, but his worst enemy of all is the Indian for Mr. Lo dearly loves him and every fall hunts with gun, trap and snare, for the queek is both food and clothing for the red man. Kisgegas is the principal village for queek and thousands are caught every year. It is quite common for one hunter to catch one hundred or even more. Indians travel to this village from all parts for the purchase of both the flesh and skins, ten skins being worth one dollar, twenty-five] being for (illegible) They eat them all dried. No Indian feast is complete without its pick of queek skins and no transaction (illegible) said (illegible) can be its aid (illegible) by September country there (illegible) live immense [numbers] of them among Indians. It affords excellent sport for them and trip during the month of August to the mountains opposite the village would to a fair shot afford both profit and pleasure. Hazelnut. * Local Items: A skate factory has been started in this town We have seen some of their work and I can highly recommend it. A visit to the sleigh factory on Front Street will amply repay an admirer of neat and steady work. Wanted, a Christmas tree. Apply to the Bishop. Our foreign correspondence will be given in full in our next issue. Want of space compels us to postpone publishing a majority of valuable information and correspondence until next week. For notices, correspondence see statement. """@en, "Transcript provided by Geoff Mynett in 2022. To download the transcription, click the \"Download Metadata\" button and select \"full-text.\""@en ; edm:hasType "Newspapers"@en ; dcterms:spatial "Hazelton (B.C.)"@en, "Hazelton"@en ; dcterms:identifier "Hazelton_Queek_1880-12-18"@en ; edm:isShownAt "10.14288/1.0081946"@en ; dcterms:language "English"@en ; geo:lat "55.2558330"@en ; geo:long "-127.6755560"@en ; edm:provider "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en ; dcterms:publisher "Hazelton B.C. : Hazelton Queek Office"@en ; dcterms:rights "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/"@en ; dcterms:source "Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives."@en ; dcterms:title "The Hazelton Queek"@en ; dcterms:type "Text"@en ; dcterms:description ""@en .