RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Archie Georgeson recalls his grandfather, Henry Georgeson, who was the light keeper at Georgina Point, Mayne Island. His great uncle was light keeper at East Point light, Saturna Island;. He recalls the history of the Georgeson family in British Columbia; the Shaw family; the maritime background of the family; the family farm near Montague Harbour; the Gray family; fruit growing; schools; the family's move to join uncle at Active Pass light in 1909; a detailed description of the operation of that lighthouse. TRACK 2: Mr. Georgeson continues with his recollections including the grounding of the SS "Princess Adelaide" at Georgina Point in 1918; the grounding of the "Kenkon Maru" on Mayne Island, and the "Sea Lion". He discusses his grandfather and grandmother; more details; about the living accommodation at the lighthouse; farming on Mayne Island; the Robinson and Bennett families; descriptions of Galiano, North and South Pender Islands; "English" society; recollections; about the types of people and living conditions on the islands.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art Ralph discusses his father, George Ralph, who was a British naval captain. Art Ralph came to Canada in 1901. He describes his travels west; service in World War One; his return to B.C. and the Gulf Islands after the war; settling on Saturna Island and marring Joan Georgeson, daughter of the light keeper at East Point Light; description of rum running and smuggling, and Mr. Ralph's marginal role in these activities. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beatrice "Bea" Freeman discusses her father Arthur Reed Spalding; her father purchased property from John Tod; her mother [McKay] was from Saturna Island; her home life; visiting by row;boat; childhood activities; visitors; her father was well-educated and cultured; her mother was a very competent person; met many young wealthy Englishmen; story of Lord Loughborough; more on Pender Island settlers and landowners. TRACK 2: Mrs. Freeman discusses sheep rustling; "Old Burke" the smuggler; interaction with the American islands; visitors and strangers; more social contact with Saturna Islanders than those on North Pender; life too easy for young men; rum-running; building of the Pender Island canal in 1903; mail delivery; boat travel; comments about Sidney, BC.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Constance G. Swartz discusses her family background. Her mother Winifred Higgs and her aunt Maybelle Higgs came to the Gulf Islands in 1896. Her father R.G. Grey came to Samuel Island in 1887. She describes social life and customs; father's attempts at agriculture; work on the family farm; parents married in 1900; more on agriculture and settler's experiences; religion and churches; nature appreciation; relation to Earl Grey; Indians; the Payne family of Saturna Island. TRACK 2: More on the Payne family; Warburton Pike who was a well-known explorer; Jack Aitkins of Moresby Isl;and; her aunt Maybelle Higgs married Martin A. Grainger in 1908; anecdotes about Grainger; the family moved to Esquimalt in 1910; Samuel Island in many hands since the Grey family sold it; comments on uncle Arthur Spalding.

This series consists of a Cowichan Land District land register, Sections I- 21 (including Saturna Island) on Vancouver Island. The earliest entries date from 1872 and the register was superseded in 1929 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1929). The register lists the sections in numerical order and record the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issue (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Payne discusses her father, Harold Payne, and how he came to BC in 1893; moved to Saturna Island near his brother Gerald Payne and his friend Warburton Pike; had a store and post office; took trips north with Warburton Pike in the 1890s; pre-empted land at Winter Cove on Saturna Island; the Boer War; had a house built on Saturna in two weeks by a Victoria contractor; details on gentleman farming on Saturna; a carefree life; her mother's family and how they moved to Cowichan Valley via Oregon; her maternal grandfather, Captain Eustace Maude, moved to Mayne Island; bought the Point; Comfort Hotel that was used as a family residence; life with the Maude family at Point Comfort; more on agriculture; Indians; details of a free and isolated childhood. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a video Interview on two cassettes. Dorothy E. Richardson talks about her childhood memories of Saturna Island, BC, in an interview with Gael Ackroyd.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Richardson describes how her father, Gerald Payne, came to BC in 1885 to Saturna Island; Saturna Island characters Warburton Pike and Billy Trueworthy; Gerald Payne's exploratory expeditions with Pike to northern BC and the Yukon in the 1890s; Gerald Payne's marriage in San Francisco in 1898; the story of his romance; Dorothy's birth in 1902; Gerald Payne pre-emption of land; on Saturna Island; farming operations are described; details about sheep farming; story of Billy Trueworthy who was a shepherd and bootlegger. TRACK 2: Richardson continues with more on Trueworthy; the Payne's hired hand John "Old Jack" Blanton; rum running in the Gulf Islands; education and schooling; going to private school, especially Crofton House; problems of adjusting to city life; a description of Miss D.W. Trickey, who was a private tutor to the Payne family.

RECORDED: Sidney (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in England. Prospective husband in B.C. drank too much, so turned him down; instead, married William George Taylor, whose family had a stone quarry on Saturna Island. Sidney a shopping and supply centre for Gulf Islanders. Some Beacon Street businesses. Boat travel. Farming on Saturna. TRACK 2: Exchanged meat with neighbours. Went to dances on Mayne Island or Galiano Island, until community hall built on Saturna in 1935. Horse and wagon travel. Ran for school board. Had the only bathtub on the island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The interview begins with Mrs. Georgeson; she was born in East Sooke, and her father was John Aitken, who farmed on Galiano Island and later ran a store at Miners Bay, Mayne Island. Mrs. Georgeson recalls some early neighbours on Mayne Island; the Maude family; Canon Paddon; social life; life at the East Point lighthouse, Saturna Island; fires; bootleggers and drug smuggling; events at t;he lighthouse; a cougar story. Mr. Georgeson continues the interview: his father, James Georgeson, came out from the Shetland Islands in 1889, to the East Point lighthouse. He recalls early years on the island; growing up and schooling on Mayne Island; bootleggers; building small boats; his life spent at Saturna and Albert Head lighthouses; recollections about Tumbo Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. George;son discusses her children and the lighthouse life; schooling; their childhood activities; the war years. Mr. Georgeson discusses his early life, fishing and being a boat poler on the Fraser River; a; cougar story; a "sea serpent" story; sea life; whales; the East Point light and their neighbours; the Ross brothers, who worked a stone quarry on Saturna Island.

The item is an hour-long sound program produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract, about pioneer days on the Gulf Islands. It includes the impressions and stories of early residents of Galiano, Saturna, North and Sound Pender, and Mayne Islands, emphasizing the arrival of new settlers, lighthouse life, and the joys and tribulations of island life.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-09-30 SUMMARY: Miss Ida New compares the types of settlers on North and South Pender Island; Saturna Island and Galiano Island; the Payne family of Saturna Island; social life and customs; Scoones family of Galiano Island; the arrival of Miss New and her brother Donald on Galiano Island in 1913; education on the islands. At the end of T0781:0002 track 1, Freda New discusses Mayne Island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Geraldine Hulbert of Saturna Island describes parties at Harold Payne's house; an English nurse; her teacher Dorothy W. Trickey; the Payne family, from which she comes; a story of her aunt Isabel Payne; Mayne Island celebrations on the 24th of May; how she dislikes visitors; her father Harold Payne was incompetent with engines; fishing at East Point; visiting East Point light; pets; summer boat trips; details about Billy Trueworthy; the Taylor family; rum running; a story of Murder Point; Mr. Gabriel of Tumbo Island; the winter of 1916; choosing a location for the Saturna Island ;school. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Joan Ralph discusses her father, James Georgeson, who came from the Shetland Islands to Saturna Island in 1879. Her father was a light keeper at East Point Light, Saturna Island. She describes life at East Point Light; a surprise party; living conditions of the Indians; more about living at East Point Light. [TRACK 2: blank.]