Background
Pierre, Paul St. was born on October 14, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Came to Canada, 1924. Son of Napoleon and Pearl Clayton (Stanford) St. Pierre.
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Paul St. Pierre's witty, honest writing never fails to delight, and nor does his legendary character, Smith. Cowboys, ranchers, Indians, tradesmen--these are the spirited characters for which St. Pierre has become so well known, whose lives he sketches with humor and sympathy, and who people the cattle ranges of Chilcotin country, a spectacularly beautiful pocket of British Columbia.
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"Boss of the Namko Drive" is about a fifteen-year-old who is put in charge of a cattle drive that stretches along 200 miles of the remote Chilcotin plateau in British Columbia. He is responsible for 197 cows. During the drive there's a stampede, a near drowning, a run-in with a murderer on the loose, and drunken cowboys. But, the boss comes out on top.
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Pierre, Paul St. was born on October 14, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Came to Canada, 1924. Son of Napoleon and Pearl Clayton (Stanford) St. Pierre.
He was defeated in the 1972 election by New Democratic Party candidate Harry Olaussen in a tight three-way race (see results below). He was especially known for his popular fiction recounting adventures and quirks of life in the Chilcotin-Cariboo, and for a regular column that appeared for many years in the Vancouver Sun. One of his novellas set in the Chilcotin, The Breaking of Smith"s Quarter Horse, was adapted into a feature film starring Glenn Ford.
Also starring in that film was Chief Dan George, who played the character Old Antoine in the Canadian Broadcasting Company-television adaptation of his novel Cariboo Cowboy.
Saint Pierre continued to write and maintain residences in the Chilcotin, the Fraser Valley and Teacapán, Mexico. His riding spanned the Central Coast, then including the large pulp mill town of Ocean Falls and the western part of the Cariboo and the Squamish-Lillooet in a time when the largest town was Bralorne, and both were isolated as well as separated by each other by vast mountains.
Other voters were in the Chilcotin Plateau and Cariboo, over yet another set of mountains and/or huge plateaus from the other towns on the coast and in the southern part of the riding. In those days Squamish was still only accessible by ferry from downtown Vancouver, and the rail line came no farther south.
Most of the remaining major towns in the riding, Squamish, Lillooet, Powell River, Sechelt, Ocean Falls and Bella Coola, were all separated from each other and all those mentioned by either water or rail - or, in the case of Lillooet to Bella Coola, an arduously long and difficult drive via 100 Mile House and Williams Lake.
The latter was among the three or four largest towns in the riding and is today central to the Cariboo riding. Because it was easier Saint Pierre was one of the "flying MPs" whose ridings spanned whole European countries in size, and where many voters were distant from the capital and living in areas difficult to get around in, never mind to His books are classics of the cowboy genre and also constitute documents of individuals and notes on local natural history and myth, and serve as portraits of the cultures of the Chilcotin, Cariboo and Nechako districts of British Columbia.
He died at home on July 27, 2014.
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He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Coast Chilcotin from 1968-1972. In politics, he was a member of the Liberal Party. As with George Murray, Member of the Legislative Assembly in the provincial riding of Lillooet, which is in the southeastern part of the federal riding, once he became the area"s representative, he moved there and fell in love with lieutenant
Married Carol Mildred Roycroft, December 12, 1950 (divorced 1972). Children– Paul Robert, Michelle Anne, Suzanne Ellen, Yesica Tapia Padilla. Married Melanie Anne McCarthy, November 17, 1978.