During his legal career, Henry was the Senior Judge of the County Court of the Cariboo and Local Judge of the Supreme Court for the County of Cariboo from 1950-1961.Īlong with being a lawyer, Henry was also a horse show judge, rodeo announcer, and a rodeo contest judge. He used his many media contacts to further acknowledge Indigenous roles and contributions to events and rodeos across B.C. legal and political Indigenous rights advisor. Over the decades, many of Henry’s court cases and legal activism activities often involved ranchers, ranch hands, cowboys, and rodeo organizations. His client’s cases ranged from murder and criminal cases to family estates. He became a defense lawyer and routinely defended the underdogs and marginalized people. Henry took up law as his profession after serving in the First World War as captain for the Royal Flying Corps. He knew the important role Indigenous people played on B.C. languages and dialects, including being fluent in Chinook Wawa. Henry grew up beside the Coldwater Indigenous Reserve 1 where he worked and lived with Nlakapamux peoples on his family ranch. Henry often said he got more of a thrill rounding up cattle or wild horses in the Nicola Valley hills than in any court contest. Henry held onto his father’s horse and cattle brand, the “inverted L over 4, left hip” and had it registered under his name until two years before his own death. By the age of four he was riding horses, and by the time he was a teenager he was competing in daring horse races at the Merritt’s Dominion Day celebrations and was running his own pack train. Ranching was a life-long integral part of Henry’s identity. Henry was born May 25, 1896, on his family’s Coldwater Ranch just south of Merritt, B.C. Henry Castillou was born and raised on a working ranch in British Columbia.
The inductees for 2020 were Frank Armes, in the category of ranching pioneer, Allison Everett, in the category of builder of western culture, Paul “Buck” Mammel in the category of working cowboy and ranching pioneer, and Chilancoh Ranch and Bayliff family, in the category of century ranch and ranching pioneer. Inductees for 2021 were Marlene Wilson in the category of working cowboy, Steve Roberts in the category of working cowboy, Duane Witte in the category of horseman, and Durrell family, in the category of family. Kelly Walls, Museum of Cariboo Chilcotin director and Williams Lake Indoor Rodeo president, presented plaques for each inductee.įor 2022, the BC Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees were the late Henry Castillou, in the builder of western culture category, the late Norman Lindley in the category of horseman, and the late Charles “Chunky” Woodward in the builder of western culture category. The wagon entered the grounds doing a drive-by past the grandstands before circling around to stop for the induction.Īnnouncer Russell Allison congratulated the inductees describing them as “legends, each and every one of them.” The inductions had not occurred in 20 due to the rodeo being cancelled because of the pandemic.įrom the Let R’ Buck area, the inductees, or family members representing them, were transported by a horse-drawn wagon driven by Chilcotin ranchers Roy and Gwen Mulvahill just prior to the rodeo. Three year’s worth of BC Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees were officially inducted during the Williams Lake Outdoor Rodeo on Sunday, Aug. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of the Cariboo Chilcotin) This is a good family oriented episode for Wagon Train that still holds up well after 50 years.Charles “Chunky” Woodward. They're exacerbated by the fact that his cadet sergeant Ray Stricklyn is paying attention to Coy's daughter Roberta Shore. Sloane has some problems with Walter Coy who lost a son under Sloane's command in the Civil War and in a battle where Sloane got the Congressional Medal Of Honor. The episode heavily suggests what Robert Baden-Powell did with the establishment of the Boy Scouts after the Boer War. The kids are run with strict military discipline.
His intention is to establish a military school on a land grant he now has in California and he's got the makings of his first class. He's traveling with a bunch of boys all of them orphaned in the late war. The title role of the Sam Elder Story is played by Everett Sloane who was a medal of honor winner in the Civil War.
THE CAPTAIN SAM STORY WAGON TRAIN SERIES
Wilson pinch hit admirably and Frank McGrath as always provided the comic relief which he would do more and more of as the series progressed. But McIntire hadn't made his debut yet and the script had Terry Wilson taking a part that was clearly originally meant to be for Ward Bond.
As you will note by the lead credits John McIntire had already been hired to replace Ward Bond who died suddenly in early November of 1960.
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