CALL NUMBER: T3134:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Abraham Gurevich discusses background: born 1901 in Russia; came to Canada at age 24 to join other family members; skilled locksmith and gunsmith but found job only washing dishes. Daughter Rita Goldberg: attended Strathcona School, 1936; recalls Miss Schooley and one other teacher. Gurevich in cattle business in 1930, went broke, peddled junk by horse and wagon. No job, no money but family never on relief; he made enough to eat. Discussion of: Hobo jungles on False Creek; Rabbi Pastinsky; Kosher butcher shops on Georgia; Sabbath day customs; mother's non-automatic washer; home-made pickles and sauerkraut. TRACK 2: Gurevich was a good wine maker- sold it for Passover. Peddling with horse. Buying Model T truck and going into fruit and vegetable vending. Second Hand store for 28 years, bought for $46.00. Strathcona in 1924 mostly Jewish; as more immigrants came, Jews moved out, synagogue moved to 19th Street. Gurevich family did not leave until 1944, when homes were getting run down and drinking problems were more evident. Italians bootlegging but good neighbours. Weekly outings to Stanley Park, lunch in suitcases, then later by truck. Violin found while junk peddling; gave to Rita; Rita's sister took music lessons at Ukrainian Hall. Tough black kids in area. Live chickens from Chinatown. Wood and coal furnace, then sawdust. Gurevich for 42 years member of Jewish Burian Society: dresses bodies, keeps vigil; discusses Jewish burial customs. CALL NUMBER: T3134:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of the Zionist organization in neighbourhood on Hastings Street that was really a youth group. World War II does not affect family. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Agnes Jane Power RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Agnes Jean Power was born in 1890 and discusses her early life in India; age 17-22, spent in England; and her move to Canada including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Attitudes, the Depression. Comparison between India, England and Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1906-1970s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Al Izen discusses background: parents came from Poland, ca. 1906; grew up at 666 Keefer St.; father a tailor with a shop in 300 block East Hastings; Orthodox family; brief description of interior of synagogue (Schara Tzedeck); Kosher butcher; Jewish school; Rabbi Patinsky; no racial discrimination because all poor. Depression wages and cost of living: family felt the pinch but managed. Father's second-hand store, Izen Brothers on Cordova Street. Uncle's store on Main Street, also second-hand. Observation car post-WWI. First jobs: wages, prices then, and working conditions (no social security). Health care. TRACK 2: Discusses A.T.A.: Jewish organization for under-16s. Ball games on Powell Street grounds. No transients, all-Japanese pre-war. Japanese evacuation during WWII: Japanese response to it; white response; primacy of religion during his childhood; marriage and moving out of neighbourhood; Russians and Poles came in; Dr. Snider, dentist, who has old photographs; Ben Patinsky. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey discusses his life in Hungary and reasons for coming to Canada in 1928. Coming to Victoria following the Second World War. TRACK 2: Albert de Mezey gives the history of his Samuel Maclure-designed house at 931 Foul Bay Rd.. Kildonan House.;

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey gives details of his business career in eastern Canada and the United States. TRACK 2: He describes his involvement helping Hungarian refugees in 1956.;

CALL NUMBER: T4401:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1969-1972] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alicia Ammon reminisces about her childhood and early life in England; reads the words of two old songs she learned from her mother; describes a music box; recalls practical jokes; talks about exorcised spirits and ghosts. TRACK 2: Alicia Ammon reads "Little Jim"; describes emigration from England after World War I, travelling on the ship "Gross Island" with her three children; trip across Canada to Penticton, B.C.; worked as maternity nurse; after four years in Penticton, moved to Oregon; took up theatre again (as had been involved with theatre in England).

CALL NUMBER: T4401:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1969-1972] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Alicia Ammon recites "The Mistletoe Bough" and "Little Jim" and sings "Gypsy's Warning". Continues reminiscences: to Oregon from Penticton; assembling acting troupe in Oregon; performances; Irish jig episode. Story of son Jack's lost pants. Return to Canada; brother in Kootenays, worked in mine; house in Blackburn; took up nursing again. TRACK 2: Alicia Ammon talks with her son Jack about experiences working in Spencer's store; the Spencer family; Woodward's; Major McGeer; Bank of Commerce anecdote. Life in England during WWI -- husband joined Royal Engineers, Alicia worked at Queen's Hospital in London as maternity nurse. More readings.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: [No content documentation is available for this tape.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker recalls immigration, local work, and changes PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Tony Sabino (stencilman, resawyer) of Sao Jorge, Azores Islands, where he learned many trades. Terrace, B.C. 1955-1977: Weber's Sawmill, Terrace Forest Products, L.H.&K., Skeena Forest Products. John Lips' farm. C.N.R.; changes in sawmilling; his deafness caused in part by trim saw work; pole cutting. House, wages, construction skills. Terrace in 1957. Price of residential land. Ties to old country, Portuguese-Canadian Club of Terrace.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a D.P.W. workman recalls his immigration, jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Arthur (Artur) Soares (D.P.W. labourer) was born in 1930. St. Jorge, Azores, farm work. Immigration to farm in Newfoundland. C.N.R. extra gang. Learning English. C.N.R. section work, Telegraph Point. First house in Terrace. Work for Alcan, Kitimat; for Department of Public Works, Terrace. Construction: renovating small house, building large house. Description of house and garden. Easier for new immigrants now. Standard of living on Azores, emigration, getting ahead. Terrace in the late 1950s. D.P.W. work.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a logger and mill worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Camilo de Medeiros (logger, pole-mill worker) was born in 1927. Azores, farming village. Making charcoal. Learning of Canada. Cedar silviculture and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration to farm in Quebec. Railroad work. Coming to Terrace. Changes in methods of making cedar poles. Building house on Cramer Street. Terrace in 1957. Description of house on Straume Street. Easier for immigrants now. Keeping busy. Sponsoring relatives.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-12 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-01-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wong discusses background: born 1896; moving to Canada, 1911; what Vancouver was like in the early years of the twentieth century; living on Keefer Street; brother's laundry business; Chinatown; going back to China in 1919, but returning to Canada 1921. Mr. Wong and his brother built a new, bigger laundry business. Describes laundry business. Discusses what life was like for early Chinese in Vancouver. Few women in early Chinatown. Flu epidemic of 1918. TRACK 2: Discusses: medicines used by Chinese herbalists; the Depression -- hard times for many Chinese businesses; his opinion of urban renewal; Chinatown on Carrall St. in 1911; Chinese opera house. (End of interview);

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a grocery store owner talks of immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Claudino de Melo (grocery store owner) discusses auditing bakeries in Lisbon; immigration (Oromocto, Halifax); speaking Italian and English. Work at Montreal Portuguese Club. Learning of Kitimat, "trainload" to Kitimat, 1955. Employers' recruiting methods. Work in smelter. Shortage of housing. Mrs. de Melo arrives via Bella Coola. First baby. Providing room for new people. Sagimat Construction houses were moved to Terrace. TRACK 2: Alcan made it easy to purchase houses, restricted improvements, had regulatory power. Beginning a specialty store in Kitimat, reasons for relocating to Queensway, Terrace. Buying and selling Imperial Hotel. Trying business in Okanagan. Portuguese fish and other specialty products for sale at the Riverside Market. Luso-Canadian Club of Kitimat. Daughter; learns languages, business practices. "Calling" (sponsoring) relatives.

CALL NUMBER: T1872:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kalman Roller : the flight from Hungary of Sopron University, 1956 (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-04-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dean Kalman Roller of the Sopron University School of Forestry explains the changes in Hungarian society which led up to the uprising of 1956. The history of Sopron University. Changes in university education in Hungary after the communist takeover in 1945. TRACK 2: More on the forestry education in Hungary after 1945. How the Sopron students became involved in the 1956 uprising. The flight of the people of Sopron to Austria, November 4, 1956.

CALL NUMBER: T1872:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kalman Roller : the flight from Hungary of Sopron University, 1956 (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-04-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The flight of the people of Sopron to the Austrian border, November 4, 1956. Conditions for the refugees in Austria. Reassembling the Forestry school in Austria. Making contact with the Canadian government. The role of Immigration Minister Jack Pickersgill. The decision to go to British Columbia. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: businessman recalls his immigration and Kitimat PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Francisco Trigo (shoestore owner) discusses background in North Portugal; immigration, work in restaurant, gold mine. Recalls Kitimat in 1950's; locating in Terrace; climate. Discusses shoe store; wages; ethnic identity; building construction and style; Terrace in 1963; the building at 4600 Park.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Fred McNeil : the Sopron University School of Forestry in B.C., 1957-60 PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-01-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The story of the mass immigration to the Sopron University School of Forestry in Vancouver (UBC) in 1956-57. The roles of the Canadian government, UBC, and Harold Foley of the Powell River Company. Problems of establishment in Canada. Adjustment problems. The group established at a Powell River Company camp near Powell River. TRACK 2: More on adjustment problems. Establishing the Sopron University Forestry School at UBC. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3132:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Soon discusses background: born Canton 1908; immigrated 1921 on CPR boat with relatives; paid $ 500 head tax; held in Immigration Building for 3 weeks; Chinese 'a political football' prior to 1947. Early life for Fred Soon in B.C.: jobs limited to labour work in mills, on farms, in laundries, etc; sister-in-law not accepted into nurse's training in B.C. in 1950; attended Strathcona School to learn English; then Britannia; father made him take one year commercial course at John Oliver so he could run his own business; first lived in 'community house'; help clan associations offered Chinese. TRACK 2: More on Soon's life in Strathcona neighbourhood: grocery store during Depression then shipyard work at Burrard Shipyards building Liberty ships during WW II (considered a good job;); post-war grocery store then shingle mill work; active in IWA union as Chinese organizer; unions discriminatory in early days, but later changed mind.; CALL NUMBER: T3132:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1921-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses the expropriation of his house on Pender Street for urban renewal: he refused to sell to City Hall because they would not give him replacement value only market value (unfair because area had been designated for clearance so property values had dropped); refused to go to arbitration; had to move out due to stress on wife but he never completely abandoned house; house was demolished without his consent on morning in 1967; went through three lawyers, none of whom could help him. TRACK 2: More on expropriation of house: third lawyer that represented him settled for Fred Soon without telling him first; Soon refused to accept money which was kept in trust by lawyer until just before his death when Fred Soon had to take it. Soon was active in early formation of SPOTA; labels ;urban renewal 'urban destruction'; points out basic errors in City Hall's program. Describes Depression jobs and how labour contractors worked. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-14 SUMMARY: In this three-tape interview, Yip Tong Yuen discusses life as an early Chinese-Canadian in the Strathcona neighbourhood. In particular, he discusses his family's background, Strathcona neighbourhood anecdotes, and the Mount Shasta restaurant. Yip Tong Yuen's son Garson Yuen talks about growing up in Strathcona, and also translates many of his father's comments.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a smelter worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Germano Carrita, as a new immigrant from the Azores, had difficulty getting a railway job: hunger and bribery. Railroad work. Description of San Miguel, Azores. Immigration, problems of not knowing French or English. Alcan smelter: how pot room work has changed. Kitimat in 1955: a place to stay in the bunkhouse. Visiting Terrace, moving to Terrace. Description of house and garden.

CALL NUMBER: T2800:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gloria Harris discusses background: father emigrated from Russia via Germany, mother from Budapest in 1909 &1911; met and married in Vancouver. Immigrant observations on Montreal St: Strathcona a melting pot; details of neighbours' music, religious practices, help in times of illness. Learning English. Discrimination. Depression: helping the young unemployed off the freights; father's difficulties in getting work; cases of poverty. TRACK 2: Jewish organizations helping immigrants in '20s and later. Religious life: holiday rituals, Schara Tzedeck synagogue, Friday night hom ritual. McLean Park and United Church summer programs. School incident involving anti-Semitism. Seen as 'foreign' when trying to get work. Strathcona School: teachers, school nurse, eye tests. World War II for the Chinese and Japanese. CALL NUMBER: T2800:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Describes local gangs giving local girls protection. Brothel next door in late '40s and how she got it closed. Meeting prostitutes while working in bottle shop at age 13. Other brothels on Union Street. Views on prostitution. Bootlegging: frequency of; social functions of; European custom; first visit to local bootlegger; bootlegging to finance children's' higher education. Russian loggers boarding at friend's house. Russian and Ukrainian music. Russian and Ukrainian halls. TRACK 2: Discusses: school May Day at Powell Street grounds; riot on Hastings Street; 1939 Declaration of War; radio newscasts and newspaper extras; radio programs of the '40s; Italian boys in Canadian Army; Anglicization vs. retaining heritage; stereotypes of Jews. CALL NUMBER: T2800:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gloria Harris discusses neighbourhood characters: Mrs. Cibular, Mr. Marino, retarded men, teacher Miss Sutherland. Bootlegging to finance education. Degeneration of neighbourhood ca. 1949; neighbours moving out. Immigrants of '50s. Inter-racial relations and jobs according to nationality. Importance of education. TRACK 2: Discusses: burial practices; Rabbi Pastinsky; and importance of radio in daily life. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold S. Foley : the Sopron University Forestry School in B.C., 1957-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1960-01-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harold Foley tells of the decision to aid the Sopron University School of Forestry (from Hungary) to establish itself in British Columbia, 1956-57. (End of interview);

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hedwig D.H. Bartling : discrimination vs. accepting as persons RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-12 SUMMARY: Hedwig D.H. Bartling was born in 1907 and immigrated to Canada in 1913 from Germany. She discusses discrimination during World War I. Growing up in Saskatchewan. Teaching in school for Ukrainian children. Mennonites in ungraded schools. United Church Training School and University of Toronto. Training in social work and working with non-Anglo-Saxons as a deaconess. Northern Saskatchewan boarding school for children of minority groups. Arts degree in B.C. Lethbridge and Japanese people. Victoria and Chinese people. Steveston. Theology. Being ordained as a Minister in New Westminster. Being a female minister.

CALL NUMBER: T3130:0001
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : Ukrainian-Canadians
PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1950
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rosie Bezubiak: parents immigrated 1897 from Ukraine; took up farming in Alberta; farm lost during Depression; Rosie, her husband and daughter Hannah move to Vancouver 1929. Rosie did housework for 25 cents an hour in Shaughnessy and Dunbar; her husband worked as a logger. Jobs were scarce, and there were 5 children in all. Discusses poverty, many moves, and relief. The Polowys (Ed's parents and 3 children) moved from Edmonton to Vancouver in 1930; his father began first delicatessen east of Main Street and made his own Ukrainian sausage; family lived in back of store; hard times but always enough to eat; details of store work, making sausages. Ukrainian Hall had many musical concerts. Discussion of musicians in Buzubiak family. TRACK 2: Princess St. house for Bezubiaks: room, rent, neighbours, bootlegging across street and raids. Safe neighbourhood for women. Details of local gangs, their behaviour. Describes a local fight with U.S. Marines, making revenge and visits to Kerrisdale. Life in Strathcona neighbourhood: street games; zoot-suiters; differences between Strathcona and Seymour school gangs; Ed courting Hannah; many kids around Bezubiak home; organized athletics; Pro-Rec program in schools and local halls and churches; Lorne's childhood paper route; hop-picking at Sardis.

CALL NUMBER: T3130:0002
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : Ukrainian-Canadians
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Life in Strathcona neighbourhood: more on hop-picking in summers as children; Camp Alexander at Crescent Beach; Hannah and sisters working at Carnegie Public Library; Ed's paper route along waterfront and float-house camp; swimming and fishing at foot of Heatley; Japantown -- bigger than Chinatown; Hannah's visit to Japanese Church; Japanese evacuation -- Hastings Park, selling possessions; blackouts and Air Raid Wardens (Lorne was one); ethnic slur words learned at Britannia; discrimination at Templeton and Britannia against East End kids, ethnic minorities; longshoremen's strike -- Polowy store invaded by police horse; role of Ukrainian Hall in 1938 Unemployment March and occupation of post-office; wounded cared for by Dr. Telford; Hall originally "Ukrainian Labourers and Farmers Temple", part of national organization, closed down by government in 1944 for 4 years; ties with Russians, Finns, and Yugoslavs. TRACK 2: Strathcona neighbourhood: Christmas in neighbourhood; beginning of CCF Party -- the Winches, meetings at Powell Street grounds, May Day parades; Andrew Roddan; Father Cooper of St. James; St. James work among youth, Reverend Whitehead, Mrs. Jane; Welfare Office and day care; evictions in neighbourhood and how neighbours helped; characters of the area -- Sam Barrett, junk men, ice man, Crazy Mary, a major, Frenchie, Mr. Zanata. Dr. Fox a good neighbourhood doctor; Yucho Chow the portrait maker. [End of interview]

CALL NUMBER: T2678:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: A discussion of Ramon's Italian background: his parents' emigration from Italy in 1920s; Alphonso Benedetti's store at Union and Princess (Benny's Market). TRACK 2: Social life in the neighbourhood: winter sports; local animals; picnics; foods; kids' games; roller skating; ethnic rivalries. CALL NUMBER: T2678:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of: McLean Park summer programs; Boccia; Strathcona School; Japanese evacuation during WW II; other ethnic groups; prostitution. TRACK 2: Discussion of: bawdy houses and prostitution; more about teachers and students at Strathcona School; music; Italian societies; Sacred Heart Church; dubious improvements of urban renewal. CALL NUMBER: T2678:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Movement of Italians out of community. New immigrants. Main Street shopping area. Geography of area. Sewer problems. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1984-02-23 SUMMARY: Born 1921. Early family genealogy -- Vancouver. Early childhood and work -- helping mother in home, and early wage labour on farms and in factory. Brief discussion of Exclusion Act. Family laundry business; explanation of work in laundry, including male/female responsibilities. General discussion of women's work in B.C., including mother's work as seamstress. Children and child bearing. Chinese women and marriage. Husband's occupation. Occupation after marriage in family business. Church activities. Childhood friends and activities. Shopping. Kitchen and utensils -- changes in technology.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace : a smelter worker recalls the Azores, immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Carreiro (smelter worker) was born in 1931. Childhood work, farms on Azores, description of village. Logging and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration in 1955, railway work. Learning of work at Alcan. (blank gap). Treatment, as a newcomer. (blank gap). Not knowing English, confusion at work. A friend who mistook "cabbage" for "cabrito", other confusion. Learning English. Food. His brother's story of immigration, work at Kitimat, return to Portugal. Work and housing at Kitimat. TRACK 2: Description of Kitimat in 1956. Work in Kitimat: Alcan and C.N.R. Moving to Terrace. Garden. Comparing present with past immigration. (blank gap). Help from people. Working with Italians, Canadians.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker compares mills, describes 1950s PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Raposo (loader operator at a sawmill) from San Miguel, Azores. Description of town, of first job. Logging and sawmilling on Azores in 1940s-50s. Immigration, "herding" of people. Life on farm. Working for C.N.R.; job description, coming to Terrace. No other Portuguese at Weber's sawmill. Greenchain work. Friend Lowe [or Louie?] TRACK 2: Living at Lip's farm, John Lips. Learning English. Pohle's sawmill; changes in sawmilling methods and machinery. Use of trimming in Azores. Calling relatives; ties with homeland fade. Terrace in 1956. Visiting Kitimat by train. Recruiting workers, friendly treatment of immigrants.

CALL NUMBER: T0550:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Homesteading on the Nimpkish River, 1903-1934 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1934 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-08-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: M. Rose Tindall describes her family background and early life on the Nimpkish River: family had moved from Ireland, ca. 1900; homestead at Nimpkish River; other families on the Nimpkish River- Hammonds, Mathers; earning a living and the annual work cycle at Nimpkish, ca.1900; cord wood for fires; acquiring and shipping food and farming supplies to Alert Bay from Vancouver, 1900-1910. TR;ACK 2: Anecdote concerning the family Dairy. Tracey and Garland Logging Company: description of camp on the Nimpkish River. Mail call along the Nimpkish River and anecdote about 'Lansdowne Beer'. Description of Englewood, 1920s. Problems with the care of livestock going to school in England, 1914-20. Anecdote about a friend of the family. Life on the farm following the death of her father. Mother's aptitude for farm life. CALL NUMBER: T0550:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Homesteading on the Nimpkish River, 1903-1934 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1934 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-08-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Stories about R. Haig-Brown. Anecdotes about cougars. Description of Nimpkish River homestead. Information on land tenure. Anecdote about meeting with relatives. Feelings of isolation following return from England, early 1920s. Building an ice house. R. Haig-Brown. An anecdote about sailing to Vancouver. TRACK 2: Summation of life experiences in the Nimpkish River homestead. Packages and mail from England. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T0208:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Maria von Fersen : the socio-political windmill and people's lives RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-15 SUMMARY: Maria von Fersen was born in 1905 and discusses her life as a child in Estonia; the mobility and the independence of Estonia; moving to Poland and WWII; and Germany and the war.;

CALL NUMBER: T0208:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Maria von Fersen : the socio-political windmill and people's lives RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-15 SUMMARY: Maria von Fersen discusses her immigration to Canada and working as a cleaning lady; employment as a nurse's aide; to B.C. in 1954.;

CALL NUMBER: T2718:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marino Culos discusses: document on Sons of Italy formation; Angelo Calori and the Europe Hotel; the Culos family migrates to Vancouver 1907; the Italian community in Vancouver; work of Italians in construction industry; Ferrara Court; family work at the Klondike Hotel café; other prominent Italians and their professions; chores at the Klondike Hotel. TRACK 2: More description of the Klondike Hotel. Cordova St. meeting hall. Meeting father at train station. Italians in World War I. Early residences and a childhood accident. Strathcona school days. Ethnic groups and relations in the schoolyard. Language barrier. Boarders. Leisure activities among Italian immigrants. Sculptor Fabri. 1927 Marathon race. CALL NUMBER: T2718:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1904-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of the local Sons of Italy organization. Father aided by Sons of Italy after accident. His work for Carrelli and the Klondike Hotel. Other activities of the Sons of Italy. Constitution of the Sons of Italy. Description of funerals provided by Sons of Italy. Sons of Italy costumes and behaviour. TRACK 2: Dress in the '30s. Geography of the neighbourhood. Description of Union St. Shanties under the Georgia viaduct. Ravine at Hawks and Union. [Deletion.] Bootlegging. CALL NUMBER: T2718:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Deletion] First jobs: Klondike Hotel; farm and grocery jobs; bought own store; other grocery and bakery jobs. Study to become an accountant. First Honourary Life Member of the Sons of Italy.; Other Italian organizations. TRACK 2: Effects of World War II on the Italian community: persecution and internment. Role as President of the Sons of Italy during the war. Conditions of internment at Petawawa. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3170:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Chan discusses: her family background; life of her grandfather; 1907 Vancouver Chinatown riots as experienced by her mother; grandfather's desire to be part of the gold rush; life of her father, various jobs he held including wood cutter, gardener, farm work; being born on Slocan Street; memories of Chinatown in the 1920s; role of women in Chinese society. Mrs. Chan then discusses her family's return to China in 1922-23 because they were so poor: family's dissatisfaction with return to China and difficulties adjusting to it; Mrs. Chan went to a co-ed school in China, rare at the time; medical services in China were limited, but all of Mrs. Chan's siblings were straightforward deliveries. TRACK 2: More about Mrs. Chan's memories in China: burglar anecdote; becoming a teacher for a government school; marriage. In 1947, Mrs. Chan returns to Canada due to help from money sent over by her sisters. Discusses: changes in Vancouver Chinatown; arrival of her husband to Canada in 1949 (daughter Shirley is 1 year old at this point); being a Chinese teacher in New Westminster; family store; growth of Chinese community; other neighbours in Strathcona area. Mrs. Chan starts to discuss her interest in stopping the urban renewal campaign of City Hall. Shirley not involved until she was a university student. More discussion about the campaign to stop the city from demolishing Strathcona community.; CALL NUMBER: T3170:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More discussion about SPOTA and the campaign to stop urban renewal. Role of Mary's husband in SPOTA: failing health, but still chaired first meeting. Mrs. Chan is only founding member of SPOTA still on board. Mrs. Chan's plans to build Cultural Centre, another united Chinese community effort. Discusses how SPOTA achieved success. (End of interview);