CALL NUMBER: T0613:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Albert Veranous Franklin remembers life at Tatla Lake before 1900. Mr. Franklin recalls his family background, his father, Benny Franklin, the move to Tatla Lake, the reasons, the journey, the purchase of the homestead and establishing a store, getting supplies from Ashcroft, trading with the Indians, the smallpox epidemic among the Indians, excursions to Bute Inlet, the Waddington Massacre, Chilcotin Indians and more, and the massacre and the aftermath.

TRACK 2: Franklin continues with more on the Waddington massacre, the story of the introduction of smallpox among the Indians as told to Franklin by John Hickory McLean, who was a member of the Waddington party, the effects of smallpox, names of early settlers, stories of life at Tatla, an anecdote about seeing the ghost of a dead Indian woman, the new road from Alexis Creek to the Nazko Valley, an account of the Indian game of Lahal, and moving to Nazko from Tatla.

CALL NUMBER: T0613:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Franklin discusses the move to below Anahim Rancherie, Norman Lee, partnerships in the Chilcotin, Indian-White intermarriage, the Franklin homestead, an account of his father's death and burial, his father as Justice of the Peace, his mother, Marie Forest, the move into the Chilcotin in 1889, early days at Tatla Lake, the reasons for moving to the lake from Nazko, and Indian agitation.

TRACK 2: Franklin tells the story behind Indian agitation, a trip to Skeena River, early days at Bute Inlet, his father's excursions between Bute Inlet and Tatla Lake, life after leaving the Chilcotin in 1903, the trip from Tatla Lake to Bute Inlet and back, 1892 or 1893, and place names.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bruce Watt RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1982-07-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bruce Watt tells tale about deep mud. Convoy of trucks in the mud. How he made faster time on horseback than could the trucks in the mud. Recalls speed sign on impassable road. When stories were told. Story of grizzly-hunting. Tale of bad dust storm and high wind. Tale tellers: Lester Dorsey and his horse-trading stories. Tells a Dorsey story. Tells another horse-trading tale. When he last told the deep mud tale: two men told him of a remarkable slave stud, and he told them the mud tale in reply. The mud. Story of motorist on mud trail. Story of notoriously slow talkers. Story about inexperienced American hunters. Stories of American hunters. Tells about American killing grizzly. Life history: born in 1926 and came to area in 1948. Was in Big Creek for 25 years, ranching and raising a family. Born in Chilliwack. Does guiding. Guiding story: trying to get a bear out of a tree. Cattle driving in the 1940s and 1950s. Trucks took over later.;

RECORDED: Hagensborg (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: At the time of this interview, Christine was living in the house in which she was born and had also raised her own family. She worked at the store her father built in Hagensborg, near Bella Coola. Bella Coola was very isolated, only served by boat, until the settlers built a road to Anahim Lake, and thence to Williams Lake.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chilcotin ranching in the 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Dude Lavington. He talks about starting a cattle ranch 60 miles west of Quesnel in 1931; cutting roads; hunting; and the origin of his name "Dude".

CALL NUMBER: T0635:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hannah Clarissa (Mickey) Dorsey talks about life in the Anahim Lake area of the Chilcotin, 1932 to 1965. Mrs. Dorsey describes her family background; Bella Coola; Indians in the Port Simpson area around 1928; the Anahim Lake area; her husband and ranches they have owned; cabins; supplies; trucks coming in from the east; the story of how they came to Anahim Lake in 1932; people in the area then; the Stuie Stampede; the Bryant family and Jane Bryant Lehman as a nurse in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Dorsey discusses life on an isolated ranch; the countryside; sounds; wolves; evenings; Paul St. Pierre and his books on the Chilcotin; Lord Tweedsmuir's visit; bears; general comments on ranch life; how her husband came to the Chilcotin; settlers in the area; Paul Christanoff, a fur trader; and a story about a man with pneumonia.

CALL NUMBER: T0635:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorsey tells a story of a trip with Rich Hobson through the Chilcotin and Central Interior. Then she discusses Hobson, Pan Phillips and the Home Ranch; Kluskus village; lakes and rivers around Ulkatcho; Alexander MacKenzie's route; reasons for lack of development in the area; hay meadows; and a trip on horseback from Anahim Lake to Vanderhoof. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Netzell tells of his father and mother coming to Bella Coola in 1915. Oscar went to school in Hagensborg, and also did road work and cannery work as a boy. He became a road foreman, as well as working in the logging industry, heavy machinery and fishing.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Roy Haines describes stagecoach driving in the Chilcotin before 1930; the road between Meldrum Creek and Alexis Creek; the Becher place; more on the Chilcotin Road; the people; what Alexis Creek was like between 1912 and 1930; anecdotes; Bull Canyon; anecdotes regarding experiences as a stage driver; the region in the past as compared to the present. Mrs. Phyllis Bryant Kellis is present during this interview and adds some comments. TRACK 2: Mr. Haines continues by discussing the Bryant family; repairing the telephone line; the stage line; deaths; Phyllis Bryant; a physical description of the Chilcotin Road; the past in comparison to the present; the development of the Chilcotin stage lines; Tommy Hodson; and the road from Meldrum Creek.

CALL NUMBER: T0423:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thomas "Tom" Carolan discusses various aspects of settlement and life in the Cariboo, 1850 to 1930. The interview begins with the story of William Pinchbeck, Cariboo pioneer. Stories follow about Amadie Isnardy; Mexican packers and the pack trains; Antonio Boitano; the Chilco Ranch area; the local history of the Cariboo; his perceptions of Native people; and the television series "Cariboo Country". Carolan discusses his own background in Alberta and hunting wild horses in the Cariboo, circa 1927. He tells stories about the famous packer Jean Caux ("Cataline"), the Tressiera family, and Rosetti.

TRACK 2: Carolan continues his stories about packers and Cataline. He describes fiddlers in the Cariboo; Johnny MacLean and the MacLean brothers; hangings in Williams Lake; Judge Begbie's justice; Charlie Skinner; the James railway survey circa 1870; more on William Pinchbeck; and the Cache Creek boarding school. Mr. Carolan discusses settlers entering the Chilcotin and the China Flats; and Chinese miners. He mentions Becher's place at Riske Creek; the Bryant family; and the hurdy-gurdy girls.

CALL NUMBER: T0423:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Carolan describes dances at the big ranches and changes in the Cariboo after WWI. Then he describes cattle in the Cariboo; Amedee Isnardy of Chimney Creek Ranch; the importance of Barkerville; and law and order. Mr. Carolan describes ranchers and ranches of the Chilcotin; the Harper family; Alkali Lake Ranch; Canoe Creek Ranch; Henry Koster; and Upper Dog Creek Ranch. Then he discusses the Big Bar area; raising pigs; and ranches on Chilcotin River.

TRACK 2: The final installment begins with a description of roads in the Chilcotin; Benny Franklin; the ways of the pioneers; Mr. Carolan's family background; and a discussion of Hudson's Bay company activities in the early 1800s. Fur trade routes are mentioned as well as Hudson's Bay Company posts at Anahim Lake. Finally, Pat McClinchy, an old timer of the western Chilotin; the Lee family; John Cook, a Gulf Island pioneer; and children of white/Indian parentage are discussed.