R. Did you ever have a situation where — you got dams all along the Bonnechere, there — did a dam ever break?
H. Yeah, a dam broke one time and my dad was lookin’ after it too. My dad looked after dams on that river. And this dam broke… [then] Milldam broke. When Milldam broke… it was three miles to Bridgedam… when the flood got down there, that dam was full and it took that dam too. And them logs come down there, went through the bush, there, you’d just see trees with them logs piled up on the trees in the bush, there. And down the Basin Depot, there, there were logs in that big building there, Basin Depot. Went in the door, and out the other door, through the windows, and there was two feet they tell me,… I didn’t go down there and work in there… but there was two, three feet of sand all through that building. The water gone through it: just through them windows and doors right there, the logs went right through there. That was an awful flood, the worst flood that was ever on the Bonnechere River.
R. Do you know what year that would be?
H. That would be now… the time of that big flood, there… Oh, by God, boy that was around 1900. That drive went through… busting the dam… That was around 1900.
