CALL NUMBER: T0033:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's military service in India PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1918 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray came from a military family and was born in India in 1889. He came to Canada after WWI. His recollections of WWI include descriptions of horse cavalry and artillery activities, equipment used, and deprivations incurred. He was primarily in France. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's experience farming in Canada during the Depression PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1939 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray describes his immigration to Canada, his expectations of the country, his impressions on arrival, his journey on the "Colonial Train", the government plan for farmers, his career as a farmer through the Depression years: his livestock, his crops, his farming methods, the selling of produce, and collective efforts of community. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray and enlistment in the Veteran's Guards, World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray discusses the techniques of farming till 1940, when he moved to Vancouver. His brief employment on "the green chain" in King's Sawmill, before enlisting in the "Veteran's Guards" for WWII. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray through the Second World War and after PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray continues discussing war experiences as a private in the RCOC in England, doing vehicle recovery. He returns to Canada afterwards and talks about his subsequent jobs until age 70.

RECORDED: Mayne Island (B.C.), 1983-08-30 & 1983-09-03 SUMMARY: Bill and Marguerite Morson explain how they met in Belgium after World War I; married 1920. Life in Vancouver -- adjusting, family (five children) before [age?] 23. Marguerite's life in Huy, Belgium, under German occupation: 4.5 years. Lillian Wardle interview includes remembrances about the London blitz, immigration to Ontario 1946, war bride experience.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memoirs of a pioneer son : the Crofton family of Saltspring Island RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Desmond Crofton was born in 1905 in Ganges. His father had come to Saltspring Island in 1898. Family background. The history of the blacks of Saltspring from 1859. Indian massacre of 1863. Story of Crofton's grandfather, Reverend Edward Wilson. Henry Wright Bullock. His parents were married in 1902. Family opens Harbour House in Ganges. Life in Ganges on Saltspring Island. TRACK 2: Fall fairs. Ferries. Crofton's experiences in the Canadian-Scottish Regiment during WWII. Became commander of the Canadian-Scottish Regiment. Changes on Saltspring Island. The Mouat and Ruckle families. More details about the early days on Saltspring.

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-13 SUMMARY: Jane Downie (nee Letson) was born in 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland. She was raised, schooled and worked as a sales clerk there until 1913. She received training as a Deaconess in Methodist Church. She worked during WWI in London and in Paisley. She married a Canadian war veteran and came to Abbotsford in 1919. Description of home, United Church, detail on "set-up". Attitudes towards "moral conditions"; etc.

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-14 SUMMARY: Jane Downie's recollections of a lifetime devoted to public service. Social work and air raids in London, England (1915-1918).

CALL NUMBER: T0083:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jane Downie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-14 SUMMARY: Jane Downie makes comparisons between the World Wars. Volunteer work with St. John's during WWII. Flood of 1948. Background. St. John's Assistant Matron at Burnaby home (United Church home for unwed mothers). Changing attitudes in society. Her opinions on child raising, etc. Woman's role in society and changes.

Interview with Mr. Haegert on May 15, 1998, by Neil Robinson, Verteran's Affairs, Canada. Mr. Haegert was born in 1902, He discusses his boyhood in Victoria, training as a wireless telegrapher, work for the Consolidated Whaling Co., 1918-20, and experiences as a ship's wireless telegrapher between the wars and during World War 11.

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0060 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Melvin Dewey Lee RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-29 SUMMARY: Melvin Dewey Lee was born in Le Grande, Oregon on December 8, 1914. Learnt to fly in Seattle in 1930s. Came to Vancouver and joined Aero Club of B.C. Moved to Britain and flew for Imperial Airways. Re;turned to Canada to join RCAF and worked for Canadian Airways. Flew Sunderlands on antisubmarine patrol for RCAF. Flew for CP Air post war and joined RCAF auxiliary. TRACK 1: Describes early interest ;in aviation. Discusses early training and the Aero Club of B.C. Other aviation activity in Vancouver -- Foggin and Gilbert. TRACK 2: Flying for Imperial Airways prior to and at start of war. Returnin;g to Canada, Canadian Airways operations, and the RCAF.;

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0061 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Melvin Dewey Lee RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Antisubmarine patrols over the Atlantic. TRACK 2: Flying for CP Air post war and RCAF auxiliary.;

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1920 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson was born in 1899 and he discusses his family background in Norfolk, England and service in World War I. TRACK 2: World War I continued. Arrival in Canada after the war. Ranch life near Drummer, Saskatchewan.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1945 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson discusses the trip to the Okanagan from the prairies, ca.1920. Ranch work near Kelowna. Kelowna in the early 1920s. Countess Bubna. The wool business. Marriage in 1928. Trip to Quesnel by wagon, 1929. TRACK 2: The ranch near Rutland. Wool business: processing the wool, spinning wheels. The Depression years in the Okanagan. Indian carvings. Service in World War II.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1950 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson discusses World War II. Work on the telephone line to Bella Coola. Salish and Kwakiutl Indians. Army work on trains from Kamloops to Vancouver, and on island telephone lines. Indian wool sweaters. How he got into the wool sweater business in the Depression. TRACK 2: The wool sweater business continued. Other crafts: weaving, carving, Indian regalia, beadwork. Making buckskin.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1970 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: Oliver Jackson discusses making Indian headdresses. Living in a tipi in the 1920s. Social life in the Okanagan in the 1920s. Countess Bubna. Comparison of farming in England and B.C. Ogopogo.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Princess Peggy Abkhazi : her life story RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-04-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Peggy Abkhazi discusses 1902-1950, gives biographical information, and discusses China, Europe, England, and Victoria, B.C. since 1946. She discusses the Abkhazi's garden at Fairfield and Foul Bay Rd. She also recounts the life of her husband, Nicholas Abkhazi. TRACK 2: Peggy discusses the period of 1950 to 1987 including Victoria, and the Abkhazi Garden.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Peter Corley-Smith

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Peter Yamauchi RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: Peter Yamauchi was born in 1917 in Opal, Alberta, the eldest son of a farmer. He has four brothers and two sisters. His father was a strict traditional Japanese man. Peter spoke Japanese at home but did not learn reading or writing. After having some training as a heavy-duty mechanic, he went into the Canadian Army and was sent to England. During the war he was a Japanese instructor for the English officers in London University.

Reminiscences of Haegert's boyhood in Victoria, ca. 1910-1916, and of his experiences aboard whaling supply ships. Also contemporary accounts of his travels around the world as a wireless operator aboard freighters and trans-oceanic passenger ships, and accounts of his wartime experience aboard supply ships and troopships. Mr. Haegert's oral reminiscences on audio cassette tapes and a transcript of the tapes, made ca. 1985, transferred to SMID, as was a 1998 videotaped interview with Mr. Haegert recorded for Veteran's Affairs Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0213:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Senta Erasmus RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-?] SUMMARY: Senta Erasmus was born in 1910 and discusses early life in Russia, the Russian revolution, moving to Latvia. Working as a pharmacist; marriage; the youth movement; return to land. Farming. World War II and move to Poland. Moving west to Germany as the Russians approached Poland.

CALL NUMBER: T0213:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Senta Erasmus RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-?] SUMMARY: Senta Erasmus discusses the attitude during WWII. Germany after the war. Immigration to Canada. Working in the Kootenays in cannery and packing. Job in Catholic hospital. UBC and teachers aide.

CALL NUMBER: T0212:0001 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-25 SUMMARY: Valerie MacDermot was born Valerie Gardiner in 1919 and discusses her early memories of Vancouver. Her mother -- domineering, good mind, etc. Father's background and personality. Brother and sister. Athletics. Summer camp -- a great relief to get away. Mother's overwhelming influence. Expectations to go to UBC. Influences sister to be a doctor. Their doctor a woman. Social life at UBC. The Depression. Economics. Business course. Jobs. To Seattle to get away from a bad situation. Work at Boeing in Vancouver during WWII. CALL NUMBER: T0212:0002 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-25 SUMMARY: Valerie MacDermot discusses her work at Boeing; joining the U.S. Marines women's corps; bootcamp; training etc.; meteorology job; conditioned to obey; married; pregnant and discharged; husband overseas after a few months; reunion and pregnant; overseas again; desperation; divorce; discrimination against working woman with children; working in Vancouver; insurance work; to Normal School with divorce settlement; meets second husband; mother makes marriage difficult; teaching in Nanaimo and Metchosin; two more children; Recreation Commission, Metchosin; N.D.P. involvement. CALL NUMBER: T0212:0003 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-25 SUMMARY: Valerie MacDermot discusses the Voice of Women: against nuclear weapons, first started in 1960, history and politics of the group, and involvement in anti-Vietnam. Move from Victoria to Vancouver cuts down involvement; back injury leads to less physical involvement and taking courses. Involvement in women's movement: brief to Status of Women Commission by Voice of Women; joins radical women's group at University of Wisconsin; involved in Status of Women Council; Women's Place; some questions about Women's Liberation.

CALL NUMBER: T0047:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Dee RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: William Dee was born in 1897, and is a veteran of WWI and WWII. He gives a biography covering 1897-1918. Description of Victoria and Vancouver Island prior to WWI. A discussion of his father's work as telegraph agent -- the live stations on the network. Describes his enlistment and his training in the 88th Battalion and experience in WWI.

CALL NUMBER: T0047:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Dee RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-08 SUMMARY: William Dee gives an account of his life after WWI as a farmer under the Soldier's Settlement Board arrangement. A discussion of the radio and broadcast content in the 1920s (he learned to service radios). His experiences in the 1930s. His position as a field officer in the AFC (a program quite unique in Canada which operated between 1943 and 1944).

CALL NUMBER: T0047:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Dee RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-08 SUMMARY: William Dee gives an account of incidents which occurred while he was with the Airforce Detection Corps. A description of this work with the RCAF as a personal counsellor who made known the various programs the government instituted for the benefit of veterans. A discussion of his retirement and legion activities.