Groundbreaking filmmaker an adventurer at heart
The Interior News, July 21, 2004.
In 2004, Howard Ennis was living in the Kispiox Valley. He told me the story of how he first came to the north – to be one of the first people to film the First Nations people of British Columbia. This was published in the Interior News on July 21, 2004. It never went online, so the following story is published in full now:
WHEN Howard Ennis was a young boy in 1930s Pennsylvania, he used to read books by Canadian naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton, and dream about having similar adventures in the northern wilderness.
He was so keen he would plan small-scale, outdoor adventures and drag his older brother along.
Ennis says he was always the brains of the operation and his brother, the brawn.