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A Year at Huble Homestead: 1915
Location: Huble Homestead/Giscome Portage on the Fraser River, North of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

 
The squared log interior walls and the open ceiling beams are characteristic of the times
37 of 88 		Al Huble wrote his diary at this desk, now an artifact in the restored home
38 of 88 		When the desk was found in the the 1980s, Al's 1911 diary and business cards were in the drawer
39 of 88 		This picture is taken in the parlor/dining room of the family home.
40 of 88 		Relative Cherry Corless recreates a scene of Annie Huble knitting, a favourite pastime of hers
41 of 88 		The Huble family had a heavy Mclaren's wood cook stove, similar to the one pictured here
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Annie Huble often ironed with a heavy metal iron, heated on the kitchen's wood cook stove
43 of 88 		In the Master bedroom of the Huble home.
44 of 88 		One of the girl's bedrooms in the Huble House built 1912.
45 of 88 		Huble ordered metal bed frames and built at least one wood bed frame used in the house
46 of 88 		This bedroom was one of four used for travelers who were passing through the Giscome Portage.
47 of 88 		Trelle Morrow's drawing of the first floor plan of the Giscome Portage Huble family home
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Morrow's floor plan of the upstairs. No one knows how the furniture was arranged
49 of 88 		An original artifact, Annie Huble's glove box, now sits in the main floor bedroom
50 of 88 		The Hubles' Morris chair, similar to this one, was ordered from the 1910 Hudson's Bay catalogue
51 of 88 		Plows such as this one worked the farm and everyone pitched in to grow and harvest the crops
52 of 88 		On August 7th, 1910 the S.S. Chilco came up the Fraser River from Fort George
53 of 88 		This seed catalogue from 1902 is the kind from which Annie would have ordered her supply
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