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Object Name |
Boots |
Object Number |
2010.009.001 |
Description |
Mukluks Brown leather mukluks with red, white and black cloth; blue and purple pom-poms; laces at ankle and top. |
Provenance |
Embroidered pair of First Nations mukluks presented to Ginger Coote. The boots were presented during a ceremony commemorating the start of an airline from Ashcroft - Williams Lake to Fort St. John in 1938. Russell Leslie Ginger Coote was born on June 21, 1898, and joined the Westminster Regiment as a bugler at the age of 12. Three years later he transferred to the 47th Battalion, CEF, and went to France as a sniper and a scout. At the age of 17 he won his commission and was wounded twice at Vimy Ridge. Nicknamed Ginger because of his red hair, he learned to fly as a member of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I. After the war he operated Ginger Coote Airways, which flew passengers and freight into remote mining communities. Coote died January 10, 1970 at Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, and was survived by his wife Molly, and one daughter Jocelyn Parsons. Ginger Coote is a member of the British Columbia Aviation Hall of Fame. |
Date |
1938 |