CALL NUMBER: T3106:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : effects of World War II, exploitation of resources PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Joseph Kofoed (bridge builder, construction foreman, faller) was born on April 4, 1933 in Terrace, B.C. Background about parents who were married October 31, 1929 in Terrace. Settled at base of Kalum Hill. Description of home. Food storage. Sewage facilities. Effects of the Depression. People from childhood. School life from 1939. Games. Moved to Thornhill in 1941. Description of house. Chores. Social activities. TRACK 2: Location and description of stores before the war. Businessmen in Terrace. Worked at Co-op in 1951. Earlier jobs. Types of jobs at Co-op. Joined the Air Force in 1952 and returned to Terrace in 1955. Various jobs for Canadian Cellulose. Changes in the forest industry. Addition of safety equipment. Roads near Terrace before and after the war. Motor vehicles before the war. Vehicle licenses before the war. Transportation before the war. Beginnings of the war. Impact of the military on Terrace. Effect of the military on everyday life. Food rationing during the war. Catholic church constructed by the army. Effects of the war on school life. Social activities. Feelings toward Japanese Invasion. Skeena Mutiny. Feelings amongst the military. CALL NUMBER: T3106:0002 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : effects of World War II ; exploitation of resources PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1:TRACK 2: Changes that should occur. Exploitation of the land and lumber. Personal feelings regarding management of resources and municipal development. Social impact of the logging industry; control over large companies to avoid environmental damage. Community preservation.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life and work in the lumber industry in Terrace, B.C., 1940-1977 PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Greg M. Sieben (lumber industry production superintendent) was born in 1921. Saskatchewan background. Arrived in Terrace in 1943 with Army. Pohle Lumber. Major MacMillan. Salvus in 1948. Transportation. Honesty in the 1950s. Logging: falling with hand tools, late 1940s. Hand bucking. Early power saws. Handling large trees. Sawmilling, steam power. Mrs. Pohle's part in sawmill operation. Diesel machinery. TRACK 2: Second Pohle mill, 1950s: foundation, arrangement of steam-driven mill. Improvising parts. Steam engineers, atmosphere of old mill. Modern operators' booths. Electricity. Automation. Hiring practices in the 1950s. Employment of immigrants: language problems, Dutch immigrants, Portuguese immigrants, post-war and present work attitudes. Changes in life-values in past 20 years.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : military occupation, changes in sawmilling PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peter Wilfred Benoit was born on March 18, 1927 in Terrace B.C. Background about parents until their settlement in Terrace in 1920. Description of early life on Queensway. Food storage. Life during the depression. School life from 1934. Games. Jobs during the war as water boy in the construction of military camps and workman in the electrical installation at the airport in 1943. Changes in Terrace in the war years. Postwar growth in the sawmill industry. Other changes caused by the military. People's feelings towards Japanese Invasion and precautions taken against it. Skeena Mutiny. Mining of the Skeena Bridge. Departure of the Army. Feelings toward the departure of the military. Effects of the military on social life in (town) Terrace. Description of the business community in Terrace during military occupation. Postwar sawmill development approximately 1947, 1948. Forest Management and Tree Farm License. Location of sawmills. Work at Copper River Mill owned by Cooper and Haggen. Sawmill machinery. TRACK 2: Changes in the forest industry. Processes of making boards. Automation of industry. Changes in loading. Changes in Terrace. Teenage lifestyle in the early 1940s as compared with today. Farming. Food storage. Fertilizers and insecticides before the war. Strawberry growing in the late 1920s. Communication before and after the war. Power facilities in the 1940s. Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Road development to Kitimat. Use and development of hot springs.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A French settler in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1951-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-05 SUMMARY: Pierre Victor Jouy (farmer, logger, mechanic) was born in France in 1929. Backgrounds about parents. Arrived in Canada in 1951. Met by immigration officials in Montreal. Lodging and eating in Montreal. Job at vegetable farm outside Montreal. Construction work in Montreal. Farm work in St. Claude, Manitoba. Logging in Ontario. Arrival in B.C. in 1952. Logging at Campbell River. Work at sawmill in Prince George. Description of Terrace on arrival. I.W.A. strike. Job for Dudley Little at Little, Haugland and Kerr Mill. Other jobs. Returned to France in the winter of 1952. Returned to Canada in 1953 and returned to Terrace after working in Ontario. Effects of Kitimat on Terrace. Evidence of military occupation. Power and telephone facilities. Farming around Terrace. Social activities. Changes in Terrace. Moved to Dutch Valley in 1959.