RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. B.F. Young describes his family background; his mother and uncle at Lumby; his father's background; how his father came to Canada; the town of Lansdowne; the Chinese people there; farming; in the area; a story about a fire in the town; people in the Armstrong area; cowboys and other characters; Captain Shorts' canal; general comments about farming and development in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charlie Shaw talks about his experiences in the Okanagan and other recollections from 1886 to 1911. Mr. Shaw outlines several experiences: his father was the first Reeve of Burnaby; Sha;w was sent east as a boy; returned to Armstrong and became a printer; worked in Penticton; knew Robert Service in Dawson City; his father's background; childhood memories of the Vancouver area; his mother's family; details of his father's business; his move to Kamloops; returning to help his uncle print a paper in Armstrong; Armstrong and the area around 1900; stories about Cornelius O'Keefe; George Anderson; S.C. Smith and his lumber business; development in the Penticton area and Penticton social life. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw continues with more on the development of Penticton including the business and settlers; starting the newspaper there; a lengthy discussion of printing and printing techniques; work on the newspaper; anti-Chinese agitation in Penticton and elsewhere; the "Komagata Maru"; incident in Vancouver in [1914]; more about Penticton and its growth to 1906; alcohol; Price Ellison; social life in the Vernon area; social behavior and manners.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw discusses the anti-Chinese feeling in Armstrong; a story of an anti-Chinese prank; the moral character of Armstrong; Lord and Lady Aberdeen in Vernon and their effect on Vernon soci;ety; Kelowna in those days; J.M. Robinson and Naramata; a description of Robinson; real estate promoters "Breezy" Lee and "Windy" Young; an anecdote about Colonel Sam Hughes inspecting militia at Vern;on; and a remittance man and his wager. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw recalls Dawson City in 1906 and 1907, including how he came to Dawson; a story about a newspaper serial; details of travel to and from Dawso;n City; gold dust as currency; the value of money; goods in Dawson City; sled dog teams; Adam Cruickshank; Smith and his gambling house; law and order; moral attitudes in Dawson; prostitutes; drinking; and Christmas.NOTE: The sound quality on this track is not up to par with the other tracks.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw continues by describing Dawson City from 1906 to 1910, including entertainment; Robert W. Service and his verse; and the people of Dawson. He discusses Grand Forks as a mining community in 1907; more on the people of Dawson; a wager on the Johnson/Burns fight in 1907; the Liberty gold mine near Grand Forks; various people in the Grand Forks area at the time; an Englishmen in the Okanagan and his wager; and remittance men. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Florence Wilson recalls her father and mother and life in Falkland and Vancouver, 1892 to 1900. She discusses her father, Falkland Warren, and his background; how her brother came to Canada; more on her father's background; memories of arriving in Armstrong with her family; a trip by wagon to Falkland where her father had bought a ranch; her mother's reaction to pioneer life; her mother and father moved to Vancouver; more on her father's military career; school days in Vancouver; the ranch at Falkland and incidents of life there. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Gladys Young, wife of Benjamin Franklin Young, discusses some of her experiences between 1900 and 1914. She begins with an anecdote about her arrival in Armstrong to teach in 1908; people in Armstrong; Greenwood in 1900; her family background and impressions of Greenwood; returning to Greenwood from school in Yale; a discussion of life at All Hallow's Girls School at Yale; more on Greenwood; schooling in Vancouver; how she came to Armstrong; impression of Lansdowne and Armstrong; the beginning of Armstrong including people and life there. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lawson Stroulger describes how he came from England in 1893 at the age of five with his father Arthur Stroulger; why they came to Canada; details on his family; their arrival in Mara and; what it was like; living there for two years, and then homesteading in Deep Creek which is eight miles away from Enderby; buying a ranch north of Enderby; how his father built roads while they lived in Mara; what he remembers about Mara at that time, including people who lived there and what the country looked like; details on the move to Deep Creek by wagon and details on their life there including the old timers there and what they did; animals that lived in the area and how as a child he would be scared walking home at night; what school was like at Deep Creek; more on what life was like; ;stories about the Black people there including Tom Patterson and his family; life near Armstrong; what Armstrong was like; moving to Enderby; and what Enderby was like. TRACK 2: Mr. Stroulger continues by discussing working on clearing land with his father and other jobs he worked at; a bad fire in 1919; more characters around Enderby; his marriage in 1912; what his early married life was like; and working in the bush.

RECORDED: Armstrong (B.C.), 1982-06-12 SUMMARY: At the time of this interview, Lily lived on a farm that had been operating since 1878, when it was settled by the Overlanders. The first school house in Armstrong was built on the property. She discusses some of the farm's history.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Maria MacDonald talks about early days in the Armstrong area, 1885 to 1900. She discusses how she was born in Granville; Quebec; why and how her father came to BC; his background; rail;road work; a trip to the Okanagan from Nicomen; first impressions of the valley; Lansdowne; Enderby; her father's work on a boat owned by R.P. Rithet; how her husband walked in from Vancouver in 1889; her husband's work; pioneer life; the railway and Armstrong; Robert Wood; her father's work on a sternwheeler; fruit farms; her house; and development in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Richard Mellish talks about growing up in the Armstrong/Grandview Flat area, 1896 to 1910. He describes how he came to Kelowna from P.E.I. with his family in 1896, when he was six, including details of his arrival and the school and farm there; he moved to Grandview Flat, and he describes the farmland there. including crops and orchards and livestock; he also discusses settlers in the area; the Seventh Day Adventists; community life; stories about Frank Eden from Barkerville; the Evans; a story about a doctor going to help his mother; riding horses at Round Lake, and a friend who; drowned there; dances; stories about his schoolteacher; the development of and comments about Armstrong, and stories about Indians. [TRACK 2: blank.]