CALL NUMBER: T0745:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Acton Kilby recalls his father; Thomas Kilby, coming from Ottawa with the first carload of settler's effects on the CPR; his father worked at various jobs in the area; the Brunette Sawmill store in Sapperton; the milk delivery business; the livery business at Barnet; operating the Harrison Mills Timber and Trading Company boarding house in 1902; owning the Kilby Store in 1904; the family; farm and family store; the Chilliwack ferry and Cheam station; and the Harrison family and Menten family. TRACK 2: Mr. Kilby continues with the history of the Chilliwack ferry service and the Albion ferry; anecdotes about rowing to Chilliwack; incidents on the family farm; the Harrison River; Captain Dick Ward; Mrs. Menten.

CALL NUMBER: T0745:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kilby talks about an incident with Joe Davidson; Morris Valley; residents of the Chehalis Reserve; logging; working in the canneries; hop picking; stocking winter supplies for the reserve; 24th of May excursions; Indians and hop picking; Port Douglas; Purcell; transportation on Harrison Lake; Harrison Hot Springs; C.F. Pretty; the Kilby Store at Harrison Mills; business practices past; and present. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Footage. 12 reels of film (varying in length from 20 to 100 feet) showing different locations. Vancouver Airport, where crowd greets a Lancastrian aircraft [133, 102A]; English Bay sailing [102A]; Whytecliff Lodge (Horseshoe Bay) seaside resort activities [108]; Alpine Inn at Christina Lake [18]; Jones Lake fishing and mountaineering [209]; Cherry Creek cattle round-up [94]; Merritt sawmills, businesses and nearby coalmine "Middlebora" [45]; Harrison Lake Sasquatch celebration [120A]; haying at The Willows farm (Fraser Valley?) [58]; Coldstream Ranch (?) dairy cattle [14C]; Okanagan Lake sternwheeler "Sicamous" at Penticton and shots of Incola Hotel (pre-1935), and Westbank-to-Kelowna car ferry [175]; Herbert Arm (?) government dock and nearby mountaineering, wild flowers, and a semi-abandoned mine [103A-B).

The item is a black and white workprint of an industrial film made between 1955 and 1958. It shows the construction of the 345,000-volt power line from Bridge River to Rosedale, which took three summers to complete.

Amateur film. "[B&W:] Victoria Harbour. Empress Hotel. View from Empress Hotel. [COLOUR:] Evening in Esquimalt. University of British Columbia. A house in Shaughnessy. Becky and Gore and her brother Bob. Vancouver skyline from Brockton Point. Scottie Wilson. North Vancouver. B&W: Osoyoos Lake, going up Anarchist Mountain. Looking [southwest] through windshield. Causeway between Osoyoos Lake and Skaha Lake. Penticton main street. Looking at Okanagan Lake from Summerland. Kelowna Regatta. Aquatic Club. Ferry from Westbank to Kelowna. Becky and Rob on ferry at Kelowna. Black Mountain in distance. Looking north on Okanagan Lake. Kelowna main street. Rutland Road, packing house. Dog on Edie Gay Ranch. T.G.S. Chambers and dog. House on Belgo. A.K. Lloyd, our next door neighbour. Apples. Pixie Wilson with horse. Kelowna looking down Okanagan Lake. Paddy and Patricia Acland. O.V. Maude Roxby & Mr. Hart. Looking over RLO Bench to Kelowna. Looking at Black Mountain from ranch. House. Orchards on Belgo Road, Kelowna. Pruning the orchard. Revelstoke - main ski jump. Nels Nielson, champion jumper. Looking down the Columbia River. North shore road at Agassiz. Harrison Lake with Mt. Douglas. Railway and road bridge across the Fraser River. Pattullo Bridge. Empress Hotel. Pier D, Vancouver, before the fire. "Princess" boat. View from Metropolitan Building. Marine Building with Stanley Park. Top of Royal Bank Building, Vancouver, with representatives of Cockfield-Brown and both Chambers. Pan over Vancouver skyline. Cambie Street Bridge. Advertising tea. Georgia Street. Old CPR Hotel. House on Balfour Street, Vancouver. Film star Lilian Chambers off to Chicago." (Colin Browne)

Amateur film footage. This reel includes the following items:

39. Building Holden, ca. 1935. Shows launching of tug "E.B. Schley" and development of mine operations at Holden, Washington.
40. Verna Phillips May Queen 1938; Emily's girls at cabin; speedboat races at Harrison, Aug-1938.
41. Grouse Mountain; snow at Britannia, 193-.
42. Bikes; snow at Britannia; tennis; Boys car; Ollie on bike.

Footage. Baby and woman in a park. Long sequence on the "General Motors Parade of Progress" (several streamlined trucks at a fairground - presumably some kind of traveling exhibition); faded shots of various people (including Oscar Burritt and Dorothy Fowler) at English Bay beach; trip to Harrison Hot Springs [ca.1938], showing people in car, scenery en route, Harrison Lake, car ferry etc.; scenes of parade marking "May Day, A Day of International Solidarity" [01-May-1938?], including marchers with flags, banners, trade union representation, etc; brief scene of oriental man lifting weights.

CALL NUMBER: T1853:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dewey Anderson : B.C. coast logger (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born, 1895 in Bellingham, Washington. To Yukon in 1898. Father's work. Returned in 1902 or 1903. Father to B.C. in 1908. Dewey began logging in B.C. in 1909. Logging techniques, 1910. Early camps described. Meals. Wages. Costs. Timber logged by the Andersons. Anderson in American Army, 1917-19. TRACK 2: More on Anderson's army experiences. Split with his father in 1921. Grassy Bay Lumber Co. at Loughborough Inlet. Discussion of logging methods especially logging railroads. Dewey and Clay Anderson formed Green Point Logging Co., 1926. More on logging methods. Relocated to Harrison Lake, 1930. Depression conditions while logging at Harrison Lake. Problems selling in the depressed log market of the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T1853:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dewey Anderson : B.C. coast logger (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Selling logs on a depressed market, 1930s. Tensions between loggers and mill operators. Brother Clay started Granite Bay Timber Co. Family financial dealings. Financial strains in the Depression. Fond memories of camp at Harrison Lake. Always supported by his wife. Regrets not buying more timber on Harrison Lake. Finished logging at Harrison Lake, 1936. Anderson decides to move to Salmon River with new partner, Jim Robson. (End of interview)

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Sweatman talks about his arrival in Hammersley Prairie in 1903; he describes the area; the history of the area; Captain Agassiz and his wife, circa 1870; the Agassiz family; growing hops; vegetation in the valley; the village of Douglas; the trail to the Cariboo; Harrison Hot Springs; transportation from Vancouver; the Harrison River; Harrison Lake; the Harrison Hotel; logging on Harrison Lake and the Pemberton area. TRACK 2: Mr. Sweatman continues with a discussion about Captain Agassiz; a history of the Agassiz area; flooding in the area; recollections about his work in Mesopotamia from 1921 to 1925; his personal history in the surveying profession; the Fraser River flooding and drainage; community life; interesting characters and families; Madame Melba; humorous anecdote;s of the area.;

Footage. Mainly shows commercial and tourist activities in the middle and upper Fraser Valley. Shots include: a small freighter on the Fraser River; Brackman-Ker Milling Company (New Westminster); aerial view of an urban area; Johnston Bros. & Byrnell Freight Lines (Chilliwack); "Valley Celery" packing plant; Harrison Lake tourists and resorts; lake barges; a residential street; dairy cattle; berry picking and packing (Hatzic, B.C.); a railway platform; and the Bungalow Garage and Cafe in Matsqui.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the Harrison Mills, Kent and Agassiz area of the Fraser Valley, including Chehalis, Harrison Lake, Lake Errock and Seabird Island. The time period covered is ca. 1866 to ca. 1914.

Unedited footage. Views of Harrison Lake and hotel (exterior and interior). John Fryer addressing leadership training group.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Green talks about plans for a public park and possible tourist attractions in the Harrison River area. He comments on the Chehalis reserve; native people and their historic use of the Harrison River. Included is a discussion about the Sasquatch and its origin; public response to the Harrison Lake Council Publicity Project. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0746:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. L.F. Pretty talks about the career of his father [Charles Pretty] from 1888 to 1925 in New Westminster; his father's cannery businesses along the Fraser; his retirement to Harrison Mills; his timber businesses; pulp and paper business; the Vancouver harbour scheme; the Pretty family; L.F. Pretty's dairy farm; a story about a Vancouver glue factory. TRACK 2: Mrs. Pretty talks about ;the reasons Charles Pretty came to Harrison Mills and a description of the family home. Mr. Pretty continues with a discussion of the Harrison/Lillooet trail to the Cariboo; anecdotes about hiking the trail; the Skookumchuck Reserve; methods of Indian fishing; Morris Valley settlement; old families; roads in the area and to Hope; other stories.

CALL NUMBER: T0746:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pretty continues with anecdotes about people in the Harrison area and the Morris Valley; Mr. Pennier and Mr. Weaver; stories of the Sasquatch; the Indian reserve; Big Joe, an Indian who took scalps; anecdotes about Moses Brown; comments on Indian/white relations. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Travelogue. The Fraser Valley from White Rock to Hope, via Vancouver and the Trans-Canada Highway. Includes footage of: King George VI Highway; White Rock; Peace Arch Park; Canada customs inspection; dairy, poultry and vegetable farming; brickmaking; Stave falls power plant; the Fraser Valley Union Library; Chilliwack Cherry Carnival Parade; Chilliwack Air Show; fishing on Vedder River; Harrison Lake resort; etc. Also shows use of an Avro Anson (registration CF-EKM) to transport live baby chicks by air, and use of a Republic Seabee seaplane to fly in to Chilliwack Lake for an afternoon's fishing.

The item is a composite print of a recreational film from ca. 1971. Illustrates how the Fish and Wildlife Branch operates hatcheries throughout the province to stock lakes with young fish. The film shows egg collecting, hatchery operation and stocking procedures. The Kootenay Trout Hatchery is shown.