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Ben Ployart interview
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- sound recording
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1965-08-04-& 06 (Creation)
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4 audio reels (02:00:00) : 19 cm/sec, mono ; 18 cm
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CALL NUMBER: T0826:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart recounts his grandparent's settlement in the Courtenay area in the 1870s. He describes his early life; Comox; Courtenay; Cumberland; the Indian settlement; life on his family's farm. Later he became a logger and trapper. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart continues with a description of his work on a fishing boat; and in a logging camp. He describes his reunion with his father in Alberta; the purchase of farm equipment; and his trek to the family's homestead. He recalls his time as a rancher; his trip to Vancouver; his time as a steam engineer; a successful logging operation.;
CALL NUMBER: T0826:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart describes some of his logging and trapping experiences in the Courtenay area; operating a pack train for the government survey parties and CPR surveys; anecdotes of some mainland inlet settlers. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart discusses the weather and storms common to the mainland inlets; a tugboat trip to Prince Rupert; boating incidents.
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Imbert Orchard, 1974-1975
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A digital copy is available. Please contact staff for further information.
2 preservation compact discs made from original audio reels, 2002-03-25.
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Accession number(s): T0826
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Previously described as AAAB0917
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Orchard ; IC-15/1-4
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speaker: Ben Ployart, interviewer: Imbert Orchard, sound recording: Ian Stephen
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- Boats and boating--British Columbia
- Farm life--British Columbia
- Fishers--British Columbia
- Frontier and pioneer life--British Columbia
- Logging--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Pack transportation--British Columbia
- Surveying--British Columbia
- Trapping--British Columbia
- Tugboats--British Columbia
- Agricultural machinery
- Lumber camps--British Columbia
- Indigenous peoples--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
- Fisheries--British Columbia