RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-02-10 SUMMARY: Robert Hartt of Stories Beach (just south of Campbell River) recalls coming to Campbell River in 1927 and his experiences in the area, including logging, prospecting, cougar hunting, logging camp life, and the Depression. Locales discussed include Oyster Bay, Comox, and Rock Bay.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03 SUMMARY: Mel Parker has been logging for a number of years, and is the son of Dewey Parker. (See T1922:0001.) TRACK 1: Recollection of early life and schooling in logging camps. The Depression. Started working in the woods at age 12. Bunkhouse life; camp conditions and food. Camp characters. Safety equipment. Comparison of logging equipment then and now. More camp characters. Places worked: Bloedel's Camp; 5, Victoria Lumber Company, Kingcome. Unions. Entertainment in the camps. Union Steamships. Communications. Increasing use of airplanes for coastal travel after the war. Benefits offered to loggers working in more isolated camps. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1928:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: Ole and Marguerite Skogan were early settlers of the Sayward Valley. She was the daughter of pioneers; he logged there ca. 1908 and returned to pre-empt land in 1914. TRACK 1: Sayward -- Hastings logging camp, 1908. Glen Duncan. Camp at White River. Transportation. Otto Sacht's store. Supplies brought in by Union Steamships. No roads. Logging company moved away from Sayward, 1912; most families left. Land was opened for homesteading in 1914; 40-acre lots. Duncan family, farm. Sacht's store, 1923. Port Kusam had original post office, liquor store. [Port Kusam was renamed "Hkusam" in 1952.] Sayward School. Entertainment. Neighbours. Hunting and trapping, White River. Mr. Skogan returned to Sayward 1914; logged for gyppos and self. Logged with oxen, then horses. Worked on steam donkey in USA. Had worked in Yukon on sternwheeler and in mine, 1906-1908. Travel on Union Steamships. Logging camps at Rock Bay, Granite Bay, and Thurlow. TRACK 2: Also worked at Kingcome and Blind Channel. Cannery at Green Point Rapids. Conditions at logging camps named above. Medical care. Columbia Coast Mission. Story about dance at Rock Bay. Anecdotes about logging camp characters, shootings. Ed Stowe, his timber and cattle. Home remedies. District nurse. Hotel in Sayward. CALL NUMBER: T1928:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Son still living at Sayward. Difference in logging then and now. The Depression. Land at Sayward. Politics in Sayward very important in early days. Voting at Port Kusam. Politicians all promised a road to Sayward. Got road in 1946; 19 bridges between Sayward and Campbell River. Trip to Cumberland. First trip on new road. Trips on terrible roads. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0834:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Haig-Brown discusses transportation on the coast; the problems of a magistrate in Campbell River; problems of white/Native relations; and an assessment of the current position of the Indians of BC. He describes Chief Billy Assu of the Cape Mudge band of Kwakiutl Indians; potlatches and other Indian rituals. TRACK 2: Mr. Haig-Brown continues speaking about coastal Indians; and his experiences as a magistrate in a large jurisdiction. He recounts his early experiences in Campbell River, arriving in 1932; the economic conditions of the area through the depression; sport fishing in the Campbell River area.

CALL NUMBER: T0834:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Haig-Brown describes skin diving in the Campbell River. He discusses commercial and sports fishing in the Gulf of Georgia; economic development of the Gulf of Georgia; pollution problem;s, including coastal pulp mills. TRACK 2: Mr. Haig-Brown continues with his discussion of pulp mill pollution; land tenure system for the forest industry.