SUMMARY: Interview with William Hime, Manager of Giscome Saw Mill, by John Barnes, about: natural resources, timber, lumbering, industry, saw mill processing; including sounds from saw mill and an interview with unidentified manager of hotel at Quesnel.

CALL NUMBER: T0306:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry Marriott describes his immigration from England to Canada in 1907. He describes his work on the Gang Ranch in 1912, his service in WWI, homesteading, several characters who settled in the Cariboo at the turn of the century, and in the 1960s. He discusses the growth of the OK Ranching Co. Ltd. the effects of logging;why he chose to live in Canada and working on a ranch in Washington State. TRACK 2: Marriott discusses his inability to get government jobs in the U.S.; ranching at Big Bar Lake in 1919; dry farmers; sheep farmers; the Gang Ranch and its history.

CALL NUMBER: T0306:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Marriott offers insight and anecdotes about characters and the town of Clinton.

The item consists of film footage from 1966 to 1968.

1. Press flight of Boeing 737 jet. Shots of 737 tail and exterior; "Press Flight" sign; interior of aircraft; plane taking off and in the air.
2. Re-enactment of early Boeing flight. Plane takes off from water and flies over Seattle and the Boeing plant.
3. Liquified petroleum gas to Japan. Shots of storage tanks; the cargo ship "Mundogas West"; aboard ship; ship departing.
4. New fish plant at Steveston. Shots outside and inside fish plant, including dedication ceremony with guests, 1966.
5. PWA Hercules. Shots outside and inside Hercules aircraft operated by Pacific Western Airlines. Hercules takes off.
6. Log-mining. Shots of signs for "Vigor Explorations Ltd." and "Hannador Gold Ltd."; car traverses log bridge; mining operations within a logging site, 1967.
7. Log-mining. Duplicate print.
8. Ford plowing championships. Sign: "The site of the Canadian and BC Plowing Championships April 1966." Shots of tractors plowing; spectators, judges measuring furrows.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: Phil Coxon left England in 1911. Early adventures in United States and Canada. He homesteaded near 100 Mile House in 1918 and moved to Williams Lake in 1919. He talks about making ties for the railway, other jobs, the Maple Leaf Hotel, Fox mountain, a soldier settlement homestead, Hargraves ranch, the Log Cabin Hotel, the local clergy, schools, stores, wood leases, and other settlers.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): 100 Mile House and Williams Lake, 1919-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: Phil Coxon left England in 1911. Early adventures in United States and Canada. Returned to 100 Mile House in 1918, after World War One, and homesteaded there. Cutting railroad ties. Moved to Williams Lake in 1919. Early Williams Lake and its settlers. First institutions: schools, churches, police, doctors, stores, courthouse. Wood cutting, 1940s.

Promotional film. The logging and reforestation of the Upper Bowron River watershed, near Bowron Lake Provincial Park. The watershed was heavily logged in the 1980s after areas of blown-down timber became infested with spruce beetles. Salvage logging was carried out to harvest usable timber and prevent the infestation from spreading. Shows reforestation operations, including slash burning and tree planting.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. William Alvin Johnston describes the Quesnel area before 1900. Mr. Johnston tells the story of how his father, W.A. Johnston, came to BC from Quebec in 1864. His mother, Rosalind Cadwell Crooker, came to the Nicola country in 1861. His father built a stopping house on Jackass Mountain, and later built a flour mill in 1884 and sawmills near Quesnel. He describes the Quesnel district; farms, roadhouses and the town itself. He tells the story of a murderer in 1848, the first miners; John Cameron Dunlevy and transportation; trails, steamers and mill ways.

TRACK 2: Mr. Johnston continues discussing railroads, the lumber industry and Johnston Flats. He discusses gold in the eastern Cariboo, the development of the Johnston Flats, near Quesnel; Jerome Harper, his childhood memories from the 1890s of school and the town of Quesnel. He mentions several people: James (Jim) Reed, John Cameron Dunlevy, John McLean and Bob McLeese. Finally, he describes Soda Creek.

RECORDED: Canim Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Onken came to Canada from Germany in 1926. He lived in Manitoba until 1936, when he came to the coast, settling finally in the Cariboo in 1951. He set up a one man sawmill at Canim Lake. There he felled, bucked, loaded and hauled lumber to the mill where he sawed it into lumber, planed it, and hauled it to the consumer.;