PERIOD COVERED: 1899-[no date] RECORDED: Port Moody (B.C.), 1964-08-04 SUMMARY: Arthur Gennelle recalls his childhood on the Arrow Lakes, the Indian people of the region, and his experiences working on sternwheelers and tugboats on the Arrow Lakes and Columbia River, including the "Minto", the "Bonnington" and the "Kootenay".

CALL NUMBER: T0435:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Blanche Jordan-Williams came to Sicamous, B.C., from Michigan in 1891 to stay with her uncle, Soames Appleby. She married Mr. Frederick W. Jordan, a storeowner, and they moved to Nakusp in 1892. She recalls early Nakusp as a railway construction camp that was busy, rough and noisy. She mentions some townspeople: Jake Sirsun, Mr. Fauquier, Dr. Williamson and Mr. Mara, M.P., a business associate of her husband.

TRACK 2: Continues with early Nakusp, new buildings, development following the departure of the construction camp, the wharf, railway station, hotels, Frank Bourne, the women of the town; Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Madden, Mrs. Muirhead and Mrs. MacDougall. She mentions her husband's business and his knowledge of Chinook. Nakusp's shipping industry, including ship captains, shipyards, sawmills, and mining industries are discussed. She and her husband journey back to Sicamous for the birth of her first child, and the family remained in Nakusp until 1911, when Blanche took charge of the family ranch in Fire Valley near Edgewood. She mentions the Government Survey party and her brother-in-law, George Jordan's first sight of Fire Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T0435:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: This tape continues with recollections of Fire Valley (Inonoaklin Valley) and the pre-emption of 160 acres -- later 320 acres. Two Jordan brothers worked the family ranch and later they employed Dutch settlers, until Blanche took charge in 1911. She discusses Edgewood, the town site, stores, industry, the hotel she owned and operated, W.J. Banting, and Mrs. Williams.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamboating on BC interior lakes PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1963 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: Captain Walter H. Spiller recalls his service with the CPR's BC Lake and River Service on the interior lakes from 1917 to 1963. Beginning as a youthful general duty hand he rose to command paddlewheelers and tugs. These tapes provide "a comprehensive and chronological coverage of the development and decline of steamboating on the interior lakes, with details of vessels and the names of personnel involved. [NOTE: Captain Spiller's reminiscences were first prepared for a talk given to members of the Thermopylae Club of Victoria in 1979. The original talk was retaped, with further details added, later in 1979. The revised tapes and the original taped talk were loaned to the Maritime Museum of B.C. for copying.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamboating on BC interior lakes PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960s RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-08-02 SUMMARY: Edward Vipond was employed by the CPR as an assistant agent at rail centres connected with steamboats on the Kootenay, Arrow and Okanagan Lakes. This tape contains his comments on various aspects of steamboating on the interior lakes.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamboating on BC interior lakes PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1930 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-07-26 SUMMARY: John Allan (Jack) Williams discusses his experiences as a fireman and engineer on CPR steamboats, sternwheelers and tugs on the Kootenay,Arrow and Okanagan Lakes, 1918-1930. His work as a fireman and second engineer on the tug "Hosmer". Duties of the fireman and engineer. Sternwheeler engine and paddlewheel. Living conditions on the boats. Summer fruit freightage in the Okanagan. Sternwheeler crew; positions. Role of steamboats in the settlement of the major lake valleys of the BC interior. Decline of the service; layup of four ships on January 31, 1930.

Travelogue. From Osoyoos to Trail and Nelson by the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. Footage includes: Cominco smelter; the sternwheeler "Minto" on the Arrow Lakes and at Castlegar; Kootenay River power station; lumbering scenes; car ferry on Kootenay Lake; and Nelson scenes (including the Curling Bonspiel parade).

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Father wants to leave Doukhobor faith; comes to Brilliant in 1913; anecdote about immigrant train; communal life in Brilliant; privation of settlers; graft in commune; father quits commune and moves to Grand Forks; mother, ostracized because her husband left, leaves commune. Anecdote about Grand Forks brothel. Father moves to Trail; family moves to Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan; life in Blaine Lake; moves back to Trail in 1924; train and boat trip back; anecdote about boat ride; child molester; anecdote, father leaded in 1928; 1927 polio outbreak. TRACK 2: Recovery from polio; high school in Trail; father sick; Normal School in Victoria; Mr. McClarren, (principal) started first Doukhobor schools; teaching certificates; back to Trail in 1931; Doukhobor school trustee, Mr. Sheffield, offers her a job; anecdote about Sheffield coming to her house; teaches at Ootischenia school for 114 dollars a month. School in cobbler's shop; teacherage in commune; trials and tribulations of teaching; Sons of Freedom children returned from foster homes; salary cut to 90 dollars a month; moves to Glade, becomes principal; accident kills several teachers; Major Clarke takes over from Sheffield; Glade school bombed in 1936; rebuilt school burned same year it was rebuilt; was paid to call the roll at burned school to keep it open; anecdote about poor heat in school; guard at Glade School; reminiscences about recreation at Ootischenia; anecdote about Glade ferry. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0005 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdotes about Glade ferry; recreation; relief camp at Shoreacres; ferry operation; relief camp worker anecdote; transients calling for food and clothing during the Depression; anecdote about clothing; KC jam factory; Brilliant Doukhobor library; Depression life and commerce; local economy of the Kootenays; CPR and local economy; first radio in Ootischenia; Pat Romaine on local economy; dances at the Castlegar community hall; anecdote about courting; Swedish immigrants in Castlegar; immigration during the 1920s; Ukrainians in Castlegar; Eremenko's first store; Plotnikoff's store; White Russians arrive in the 1920s; Castlegar boomed with car pools; bought land in 1943. TRACK 2: Kinsman Park donated to city; Pauline meets Pat Romaine; father in hospital; courting Pat Romaine; anecdote about homemade beer in Trail; anecdote about a dance at Deer Park; moving to Castlegar in 1944; brother killed at Cominco; father leaded at Cominco; moved in with parents; lead poisoning and compensation; brother killed on hill; Pat Romaine on unionism; conditions before unions; move to Deer Park; electioneering in Deer Park; party at road opening; Robert Sommers as Social Credit candidate; Pauline hired as teacher; bad feelings against her as a teacher; rewards of working with children. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0006 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: How the children she taught turned out; discussion of modern school politics; one room school in Deer Park; difference in lifestyles; feuding between neighbours in Deer Park; fruit farm goes down hill; local packing house; [steam?] boats taken off lake in 1954; employment lost with boats; CPR buying policy; gyppo logging on lake; log picking; Renata fruit box factory; local economy dries up; Procter maraschino cherry factory; changing fruit markets; good fruit refused; pig farming; anecdote about pig farming; BC Tree Fruits; anecdote about fruit from Australia; Grand Forks war time seed farms; fruit market during the war; forestry employed people to cut fire trails and to work as fire lookouts. [TRACK 2: blank.]