RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Weatherell recalls early years on Saltspring Island. She discusses her family background; her father, Frank Scott, came with his brothers and settled in the Ganges area. She discusses Reverend Francis Wilson, her grandfather; fruit farming; economic life; Dr. Gerald Baker; the private school in Ganges that she attended as a student and where she was later appointed as a teacher; early residents; the Mowat family; the Woods family; farms; Saltspring Island Creamery; Black residents; and the British atmosphere. She also describes her early visits to Victoria, where as a child she watched the horses being harnessed for the fire department; a trip to the San Juan Islands, and a visit to Vancouver during World War One. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Saltspring Island pioneers PERIOD COVERED: 1850-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Desmond Crofton discusses his family history. His grandfather, a preacher, came to Saltspring Island ca.1884. Other Saltspring settlers, especially Henry W. Bullock, "the Squire of Saltspring". The Mouats of Ganges. Transportation to and from the island. First settlement about 1858-1859. Black settlers on the island. Origin of Harbour House Guest House at Ganges. "Moonshining" on Saltspring Island. Political rivalries. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lyndell A. "Len" Bittancourt recounts his family's history on Saltspring Island. His grandfather came to Saltspring Island in the 1860s, and his father was born there ca. 1869. Mr. Bittancourt has lived on Saltspring since 1895; his father was a carpenter and storekeeper. He discusses early Saltspring pioneers, the black settlers, "a happily integrated community", the Stark family, "English" Society, early settlers, Mr. Bullock, the Abbott family, and other recollections of a pleasant life on the island. He continues with recollections of his career as a seaman and customs officer, incidents relating to rum-running and smuggling, and his days as a fisherman, 1929-1945. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0799:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Margaret Cunningham and Mr. Willy Palmer recall incidents from their early years on Salt Spring Island. Mrs. Cunningham discusses her family background; her father, Raffles Purdy; his sister and brother-in-law, Samuel and Emily Beddis, who came to Salt Spring Island in 1884. Raffles Purdy taught school for twelve years in the central community; the Beddis family settled in the Beddis Road area. Margaret Cunningham discusses early settlers including Black families; Akerman family; Bittancourt family; settlements at Vesuvius; Fernwood and Central; St Mark's Church; the Mouat family; Collins family; Norton family; Stevens family; lack of medical services; history of Mrs. Cunningham's house, formerly the Stevens boarding house; fruit farming on the island; mixed farming; transportation of produce to the market; and Mr. Henry Wright Bullock. TRACK 2: Mr. Willy Palmer continues this tape with his family history. He and his mother came to Victoria in 1904 and to Salt Spring in 1906. His mother was the housekeeper for Mr. Bullock from 1906 to 1918; Mr. Palmer later took charge of Mr. Bullock's farm, eventually renting a portion of the Bullock property. He shipped fruit produce until 1946 when it became unprofitable to continue fruit farming. Mr. Palmer discusses the Salt Spring Island Creamery. He describes the Bullock house and property; the employees who were ;former residents of the Protestant orphans home in Victoria; the eccentricities of Mr. Bullock; his gifts; lavish dinner parties; treatment of his employees; old-fashioned attitudes; clothing he provided; picnics; his generosity. Mr. Palmer recalls the Mouat family and the start of the business; transportation into Ganges; the coastal boats; Reverend Wilson; the Central settlement; Starks family; Black settlers; Mr. Jones, an early school teacher; Mr. Bittancourt.

CALL NUMBER: T0799:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cunningham recounts some anecdotes about Mr. Bullock; some early businesses on Salt Spring; the Mouats; Seymour's jam factory; the tie-mills; agricultural shows; Mann Hall; Stevens boarding house; Beddis family; the early "English" society; the stone quarry at Vesuvius; Black settlers; Indians; and Reverend Wilson's paintings and diaries. Mr. Palmer concludes the interview with reminiscences about life on Salt Spring. [TRACK 2: blank.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Clinton Wood, nee Mouat, recalls her family's life on Saltspring Island; the post office; island residents; island churches; Black residents; social life; remittance men. She describes Courtenay; family life; her impressions of Forbidden Plateau; building the lodge; mountaineering; building roads; her son Stuart Wood started guiding to Forbidden Plateau in 1930; family life at the l;odge; visitors. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating from different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. "Saltspring: Island in the Gulf" relates the history the island, including stories of the Indians, the early settlers, the Blacks and ;the Kanakas. Recollections of island life are heard from Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond Crofton, Len Bittancourt, Margaret Cunningham, Willy Palmer and Bea Hamilton. The written material was gathered and ;prepared by Jan Williams and read by Walter Marsh, Christopher Newton and Peter Haworth. The interviews were conducted by Imbert Orchard. This tape is from a rebroadcast of the program on the series " The Bush and the Salon", August 10, 1975.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Willy Palmer came to Saltspring Island in 1906; description of Henry W. Bullock and the Bullock estate on Saltspring Island; operation of Bullock's farm described; anecdotes about Bullock's peculiarities; the Mouat family; the operation of steamships in the Gulf Islands; Reverend Francis Wilson described; settlement of Blacks on Saltspring Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]