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Claude Thicke interview : [Chapman, 1976]
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1976-07 [date recorded] (Creation)
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Mainly interviews recorded as research for Sound Heritage vol. 6 no. 2, "Navigating the Coast."
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CALL NUMBER: T2198:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Towboating on the B.C. coast PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-09 SUMMARY: Born in Ottawa in 1883. Moved as a child to Vancouver. Delivery boy for Clark and Stewart. British Canadian Lumber Company. Searching for a log boom on the Fraser River. Sternwheelers on the Fraser River. S.S. "Beaver". Mail boy for CPR. Playing around the old CPR wharf. Hudson Bay Company warehouse. Takes over B.C. Lumber tug boat fleet. Gets Master's ticket. Hog fuel. Blue Band Navigation. Hayes Manufacturing Company. Pacific Truck and Trailer. Building sailing ship. Davis Rafts, Bert Davis.
CALL NUMBER: T2198:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Towboating on the B.C. coast PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-22 SUMMARY: Claude Thicke describes the building of his tow boat fleet, Blue Band Navigation, talks of buying and troubleshooting tugs no one else wanted. Describes tree nailing. Worked for Hind Bros. -- managers of privately owned tug boats. Steam conversion to diesel. "Commodore", "Lorne", worked at Terra Nova cannery when he was a boy. Tin cans, Chinese workmen, built sailing boat. C. Gardner Johnson.
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Peter Chapman, 1976
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- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-132.
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Accession number(s): T2198
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speaker: Claude Sydney Thicke, interviewer: Peter Chapman
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- Canneries--British Columbia
- Merchant seamen--British Columbia--Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
- Salmon canning industry--British Columbia
- Towboats--British Columbia
- Tugboats--British Columbia
- Waterfronts--British Columbia--Vancouver
- Chinese--British Columbia
- Log transportation--British Columbia
- Paddle steamers--British Columbia
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- Beaver (Ship) (Subject)