CALL NUMBER: T1783:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence "Bunch" Trudeau talks about her family, the Bryants, and about growing up in the bush around Tatla Lake and Anahim Lake, 1919 to 1938; the family's arrival and early days in the Cariboo around 1919; the journey to the homestead at Tatla Lake in 1924; recollections of her childhood and upbringing; comments about her father, Cyrus Lord Bryant; miscellaneous travels and experiences in the bush. TRACK 2: Mrs. Trudeau offers an anecdote about her brother injuring his foot and the consequences; events surrounding the birth of her sister's daughter; Christmas at Tatla Lake; childhood games and incidents; and mail days at Tatla Lake.

CALL NUMBER: T1783:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Trudeau describes the school at Tatla Lake; anecdotes about teachers and her school days; a description of a journey to the homestead at Tatla Lake. She describes the people, life and incidents in the Anahim Lake area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Trudeau discusses changes and improvements in household comforts; washing, lighting, cooking and cleaning in a wilderness cabin.

CALL NUMBER: T1783:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Trudeau describes moving to the Euchiniko Lakes area with her own family in 1953; selecting a location for the ranch; experiences on the trip; starting the ranch; life there; starting a hunting lodge; and wildlife in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Trudeau tells the story of a pet moose calf during the Anahim Lake days; mice and pets; the nature of the people who lived around Anahim Lake; social gatherings; changes in the area; and people at Bella Coola.

CALL NUMBER: T1783:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Trudeau describes playing with her mother's orchestra at Williams Lake; an incident of her brother and a pistol; a family friend at Tatla Lake; riding mishaps; her grandfather and her father; general comments about members of her family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1970?] SUMMARY: Mr. Oscar J. Trudeau describes homesteading in the Chilcotin; leaving Marguerite and arriving at Baezaeko; the move to the Euchiniko Lakes country in 1956; the homestead; the guiding business; life at Euchiniko; his personal background; and more on homesteading.

SUMMARY: "Pacific Mosaic" was a CBC Vancouver radio series that looked at the way of life in various B.C. communuities. In the first episode of the series, producer Robert [later Imbert] Orchard describes a trip to the Blackwater River country of the northern Chilcotin to interview members of the pioneering Bryant family. Traveling by the PGE railway, light plane, and horseback, he visited ranches at Euchiniko Lake and Anahim Lake, and interviewed Florence "Bunch" Trudeau, her husband Oscar Trudeau, and her sister Jane Lehman. Mrs. Trudeau and Mrs. Lehman are daughters of Phyllis Bryant, who came to the Chilcotin in 1921 with her husband and growing family.