The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Vegs - Canim Lake - 1966": Views of Canim Lake. Beet field. Harvesting cabbages. Loading bins. Beet damaged by worm. Selecting and bagging beets. Making bins. Harvesting potatoes. Hay baler. Picking carrots. A dwelling with hanging skins and meat [?]. Children watching television in the house. Beet picking. Building a large root cellar [?]. Views of settlement, farm workers. Cabbage field. Farm workers.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Gardening procedures: pruning, planting. Colour views of flower garden, roses. Planting a shrub. A settlement. Young farm workers. Picking fruit. Picking beets. Harvesting potatoes. Building a root cellar [?]. Selecting beets. Children watching television. Picking fruit. Workers. Workers' camp.

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
A1. "Heffley Creek, Apr. 68" [marked on head leader]: Sign: "Haughton Ranches Ltd." Ranch views. Crass-cutter. Cattle in corral. Snow-covered land. Dispersing hay in pasture for feed.
A2. "Dairy month, June 69" [marked on leader]: Cows move from pasture to holding area to mechanized milking area. 50 cows an hour. Bulk milk truck ("Okanagan Dairy Transport Ltd.") en route to dairy plant. Milk processing. Various sized cartons. Milk storage. Shipping to retailers. Customers selecting dairy products in supermarket. (00:19:21)
B. "Vegs Nov. 69" [marked on head leader]: A vegetable farm owner [?] describes the harvesting and packing of the asparagus crop. Portuguese farm workers and young people. Growing and harvesting cabbage. Potato harvesting machine. In partial partnership with man from Oliver. Sign: "Covert Farms". Grading and packing potatoes. Home scenes. (00:08:51)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alice Person : rank and file -- women's issues in the wood industry RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1978-07-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. Person has been active in the IWA. She moved to Websters Corners from the prairies during the Depression; got a job in the wood industry during the war; and was active in organizing her plant. She became a member of the plant executive. She discusses relief; agricultural labour during the Depression; the Japanese internment; working conditions in wood; organizing the IWA and her plant; equal pay for equal work; attitudes to women workers; struggles against layoffs after the war. She and her sister were in the first group of women to be hired on at Hammond Cedar in 1942. Mrs. Person, although told by co-workers that "girls don't need as much", decided that equal pay was a woman's right, and this issue became a primary motivation for her and other women to join the union. She feels that many workers were inspired by the IWA leadership. Mrs. Person served as a steward and a warden on the executive.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster tells of his family moving from Ontario initially to Vancouver, then Agassiz in 1902, where his father took over a general store and ran it for twenty years. He describes the varied products supplied by the general store and the main competition, Inkman's store, and that the busiest time of year was during arrival of migrant labour for the hop harvest. Comments on operation ;of the BC Hop Company; Hindus and Chinese grew and processed the hops; Indians did the picking. He describes Agassiz businesses and the character of the town; Agassiz and Bella Vista Hotels; he recalls the one-room school environment and teachers, Mrs. Herd and Mrs. McQueen; as well as another, very unsuccessful teacher. He gives an account of the attempted robbery of Bank of Montreal, formerly ;Bank of British North America, which was thwarted by Webster's father. TRACK 2: Mr. Webster discusses local transportation including the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry and the trains that serviced Agassiz. ; He describes the Harrison Hot Springs Hotel talley-ho that picked up guests from the railway station. He tells of the Inkman family, their musical talents, and contribution to social life; of Mrs. Agassiz and her daughters, including their exclusiveness and farming origins. He talks about Bert Horwell, town blacksmith, and how his shop was a gathering spot, along with Webster's store, where oft;en politics was discussed. He describes the political affiliation of local people, including Reeve McRae, and of visitors Richard McBride and John Oliver. He tells of the importance of churches as social centres. He mentions Agassiz's strong baseball tradition and the good teams it produced. Mr. Webster describes the Agassiz Valley and views of surrounding mountains; including Mount Cheam. He ;gives an account of the local election process and discusses the role of the Odd Fellows Society and its hall as the center of political and social activity.

This series consists of briefs responding to the committee's enquiry into the exclusion of agricultural employees from protective labour legislation September to October 1974.

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/1 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Press conference by Raj Chouhan with some musical background; press conference talk by Cesar Chavez; Gary Marcuse questions Chavez and Chouhan.;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/2 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Continues with Gary Marcuse questioning Raj Chouhan.;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/3 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Begins with speeches; crowd noises in background.;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/5 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Begins with a talk by Peter Vanderzalm about his berry farm. (This is the man on whose farm a child drowned in a bucket of water.) Continues with talk by a Mr. Singh, a farm worker contractor, who is questioned by an unidentified female. Continues with talk by someone impersonating "Jack Heinrich, Minister of Labour" [ends in mid-sentence].;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/6 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Continues talk by "Jack Henrich, Minister of Labour" (impersonator); skit members introduced; three cheers to the CFU by audience; speech by Raj Chouhan.;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B/7 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Introduction of and speech by Cesar Chavez; announcement that Nishga Indians have won first round in suit against Amax Mining Co.; announcement of Vancouver Status of Women losing funding; further announcements; end of recording with tone.;

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0017B4 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-04-10 SUMMARY: Begins with introduction of folk dancers performing East Indian dances. Ends with a talk by a mother of a child who drowned in a bucket of water.;

News item. Brief interview with Canada Farm Labour Office spokesman, followed some very good footage of the Vancouver Island potato harvest and shots of ripe apples on the trees.

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Chee;rleaders in the Field" by Tom Cone, depicts the plight of berry pickers during World War I.;

CALL NUMBER: T3710:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Low : Chinese at work in British Columbia : poultry business PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1930 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Low describes background: born 1903; married in China, 1923; father's immigration to Canada. Father's work in Canada: farming, chopping wood, poultry wholesale business. Discusses: government "clamp-down" on illegal immigrants -- raids and spot checks; purchasing of documents such as birth certificates for citizenship; immigration procedures; description of trip to Canada on the Blue Funnel Line -- living and social conditions on board. Discusses early life in Canada: learning English at night school after work; first impression of Victoria; did not predict permanent residence in Canada and had planned to return to China after Sino-Japan War. Immigration process: graft by Chinese interpreters; description of Immigration Building in Victoria. Again describes living conditions aboard ship: most shipmates were young men, late teens to early twenties. TRACK 2: Discusses: poll and road tax, and the collection of it from the Chinese; refers to Lee Dye Son and Co. and other wholesale market gardeners in Victoria area; business expansion of the poultry wholesale by him and his father. He came to Canada after 1923 and made first trip back to China after four years in Canada. Work experience included: picking strawberries in Saanich (description of living on the farm during the season and the farm labour contract system); harvesting cauliflower for $1 a day. Discusses system of transporting poultry from farm to city with help by a milkman named (Joe) Casey. Describes typical work day buying chicken. He had to pay $60 for peddler's license while merchants with shops paid less. CALL NUMBER: T3710:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Low : Chinese at work in British Columbia : poultry business PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1965 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Explains the butchering of chicken by hand before mechanized assembly line process. Talks about employee/employer relations during Christmas and New Year gift giving. Japanese-Canadian poultry farmers on Salt Spring Island. Buying pigs wholesale and keeping holding pens on a farm on McKenzie and Douglas. Expansion of his poultry business, moving to a new location, the closing of the business, and retirement. Description of the restaurants in Chinatown, the Cantonese opera and the Chinese Theatre in Victoria. System of importing/buying girls from China by merchants for restaurant work. TRACK 2: Discusses various aspects of life in Victoria for a Chinese immigrant: gambling in Chinatown; socialization amongst localities (villages); dialect; kinsmen; certain localities occupy certain industries in Victoria, i.e.. Pun Yi locality in laundry business, Sun-wei locality looks after funeral arrangements and sending back of bones to China. Personal views of Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association's money management of the Association and their charge of $2 exit fee. Talks of the functions of the Lung Kong Association (family); Chinese-Christian churches in Victoria; Chinese temples in Victoria. Discusses opium dens in Victoria in the 1920s; deportation of Chinese using opium. Description of the streets in Chinatown: vegetable peddlers from the Toy San district; anti-Chinese feelings amongst the white people; sewing machine shops in Chinatown; labour contracts and labour contract office for fish canneries. Discusses families with children in Victoria. (End of interview.)

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family arrived in B.C. in the 1890s. Her father, Ling Lam, arrived and worked first in Victoria then settled in Steveston. Hong Wo Store started in Steveston, 1895. Ling Lam died 1939. By 1939 he owned a mixed farm, general store and operated a fish contracting business to hire labour for the canneries. Jessie and her brother John bought-out other family members in the business after 1939. The company had contracts with vegetable/fruit canneries such as Empress Factories, Grower's Canneries (Royal City Brand), and to some wholesalers in Vancouver Chinatown. The farm hired full-time Chinese workers who lived on the farm and Japanese women and their families as day labourers. Description of Chinese farm workers' living and working conditions on the farm. Details of father and mother's family background prior to immigration to Canada. Description of second store after the first store burnt in 1904. Store built on stilts over water, and warehouse on wharf over deep waters for boats/fishermen to shop and pick-up supplies. Location of farm. Description of father as a "gentleman farmer" wearing three-piece serge blue suit. TRACK 2: Discusses veg/cannery contract with Empress Factories. Description of their farm's Chinese foreman and his sons who worked on the farm all their lives. Ling Lam did not permit swearing or gambling on the farm, or by any family members. Details of Ling Lam's children's education. Description of farm workers' meals. Ling Lam's invention of cucumber grader and his introduction of the Utah green celery to the area. Ling Lam was head of the Chinese Growers' Association, the group against B.C. Coast Marketing Board. Making boxes for farm produce.

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1900s-1960s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Farm produce on consignment to wholesalers up until the 1960s. Ling Lam supplied all Occidental and Oriental labourers to the Phoenix Cannery (ABC) until the 1930s; then just Oriental labourers. Ling Lam was active with the clan organization the Lum Association. Jessie Lam comments on the difficulties of her contemporaries in finding professional jobs after receiving post-secondary education. Describes some neighbouring farms. The credit/accounting system with farm workers on wages. Jessie Lam's summer vacation work experience on the farm. Shipping/transportation of pickles by railway to Eastern Canada. Chinese women day labourers working on the farm in the 1950s. The end of the fish contracts with B.C. Packers (Phoenix) in 1968. Sugar rationing during WW II. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mother had Caucasian cleaning ladies to help with the household. Jessie Lam went to chaperoned parties/social functions during her teens. Talks of the soup kitchens in Vancouver Chinatown during the 1930s Depression. Marriage of brother John and sister Mary. Talks of the family motorcar holiday trip to Oregon in 1928. Recalls mother's prized baking, and father's vegetable competition at the PNE. An anecdote of father's temperament. Refers to the community of Eburne on Sea Island. Attending church on Sundays at the Methodist Chinese Church in Vancouver Chinatown. Describes her typical Sunday activities with her family. Going to Chinese language school after regular school day. Jessie Ross was "Miss China" during WW II as part of the Allied countries effort to raise money for the troops. Helped sell government bonds during the war. Involved with the Chinese community's effort to raise funds for the "Rice Bowl" campaign. Chinese professionals in B.C. could only attract Chinese clientele in the 1920s-50s. TRACK 2: Chinese vegetable and fish peddlers in Jessie Lam's neighbourhood (as a child) and Jewish junkmen. Milk delivered by horse and carriage until WW II. Speaks of various prominent Chinese families in Vancouver during her youth. Refers to Chung Chuck, Delta farmer who fought with her father against the B.C. Coast Marketing Board (to the Privy Council). Problems farmers, especially the Chinese, had with the Board. The closure of the farm and store in 1971 and liquidation of the property and business in 1973. Lists of goods sold at the store. Anecdote of Jessie Ross and brother John rowing out to Steveston Island.

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [No content summary available for this tape.] TRACK 2: blank.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Ross RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-03-28 SUMMARY: Jessie Ross discusses the store: credit, location, customers, etc. Gardens; community life; discrimination; pickling for Nalley's. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

CALL NUMBER: T0612:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Fruit farming in the Penticton area, 1906-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1950 RECORDED: Penticton (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harris describes his background: born Oak River, Manitoba, 1910; family to Penticton, BC, 1917. Mr. Harris discusses: the Ellis Ranch; Southern Okanagan Land Company; irrigation of the Penticton area. Details about the construction of early irrigation works, circa 1906 to 1910. Details about irrigation. Thomas Ellis and the Ellis Ranch. Orchard and irrigation work. Varieties of fruit. TRACK 2: More on varieties of fruit. Attitudes and ideas of early orchardists. Learning the fruit business. Insects and pest control. Spraying techniques. Poison problems with insecticides. Changes in the fruit industry. Harris' early memories of fruit farming. Sizes of orchards. Changes in fruit marketing. CALL NUMBER: T0612:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Okanagan fruit industry, 1920-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1960 RECORDED: Penticton (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harris discusses: the formation of fruit marketing co-operatives after 1920; problems of fruit marketing, 1930s; B.C. Fruit Growers Association; conflicts between growers and shippers; problems of the fruit economy; the seasonal round of work in the fruit industry in the 1920s. TRACK 2: The seasonal round of work (cont'd). Holidays and celebrations. August heat. Mosquitoes. Orchard workers. (End of interview)

The item consists of an audio interview with Mary Butler recorded in Victoria, B.C. on June 22, 1983

Tape summary:
Track 1: Mary Butler describes kitchen in great detail, daily diet, special foods, i.e. custards. Astonishment at seeing first electric iron. Describes family chores, her chores as a child. Newspapers and periodicals they received. Took home economics in grades 5, 6, and 7. Made a sewing outfit, did hem stitching and buttonholes. Worked in pairs and made white sauce, hot biscuits, cream of tomato soup, canned peaches (still uses the recipe). Teacher was Miss McKinnon and she was very strict.

Track 2: Mother approved of home economics, she taught mom about white sauce and spatulas. She enjoyed home economics, both the sewing and the cooking. Classes stressed sanitation. She worked picking fruit in Saanich and Kelowna. They made $0.40 a crate for strawberries and 1 cent a pound for jam berries. It was all young girls between the ages of 15 and 20. They lived together in bunkhouses and cooking their own meals in a cookhouse. She was paid $1.00 a day to pick flowers. Went to Kelowna by train (it had a special pickers' rate), there were a lot more men there than in Saanich. She got 3 cents a box (40 pounds).

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ranching in the Chilcotin - Chinese role RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Ranching near Alexandria. Chinese involved in mining in region. Chinese as workers on ranches. Their character. Chinese medicine. Pigs to Barkerville.

RECORDED: Aldergrove (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: Mr. Wilson was the son of a high ranking naval officer. At the age of 13, he failed the exam to qualify for officer training, so was sent to the Vancouver Salvation Army to prepare for employment as farm help. Rudy went to work at a farm in Dewdney, where he worked from dawn to dusk, seven days a week. He spent his life farming for himself and others in the Fraser Valley.

Group of women pickers in front of tents.

The item is a reel of documentary film from ca. 1929. "Hop growing near Sumas in the Fraser Valley, sixty miles east of Vancouver. White and Indian workers. The film shows hop cultivation from early shoots until the hops, picked and threshed in a warehouse, are sacked and loaded onto a truck. Each step is thoroughly explained and depicted. A good film." (Colin Browne)

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A documentary by J.J. McColl set in the southern Okanagan.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack interviews Svend Robinson, M.P. Burnaby, about Chilean refugee Galindo Madrid in a response to Doug Collins’s views and articles. Other topics include the legitimacy of refugee claim; arrest and torture in Chile; Immigration Appeal Board; the Chilean Government; Vietnamese ‘boat people’; sanctuary; deportation; articles in the Toronto Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Sun. Clips from Doug Collins about the Madrid case from September 11, 1979. Galindo Madrid answers questions through an interpreter and phone lines are opened. Webster speaks with Jack Munro, IWA President, topics include resolution on picket lines; PPWC picketing when not on strike; Canadian Council of Unions; natural resources. Associate Producer Linda Dutka talks about the next day's guests.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Segment 9 cut short, Closing segment missing. Jack starts with Senator Ray Perrault on the Constitutional talks and the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Next is a recorded interview with Andrew Schuck and the 5 million dollar legal fee he received for negotiating an out of court settlement for the Fort Nelson Indian Band. Steve Wyatt reports on conditions faced by migrant workers in the Lower Fraser Valley. Reporter Anton Koschany calls Jack to announce that the Progressive Conservative Party in BC will be looking for a new leader.