RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Voight recounts early settlers in Ryder Lake and the Chilliwack Valley; Bob Walters; John Ryder; activities of settlers; Parson's Hill; farming; seed growing; logging; post office; schools; stores; Elk Mountain; Ryder Lake Women's Institute; squatters; churches; community life. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charlie Bell recalls his father; George Bell, who in 1872 pre-empted land on Fairfield Island in Chilliwack; other early settlers; Sheep Macdonald; freighters Joe Deroche and Sam Macdonald; old timers; the Garner family; the family farm and farming in the area; local Indians; the Kilby Store and the Menten family; the Deroche area and Nicomen Island; local characters; Malcolm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0717:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Toop recounts the early history of the Yarrow District; Volkart Vedder and family; early settlers; the Toop family who came to Chilliwack in 1874; incidents involving the changing course; of the Vedder River; family history; Sampson Toop; homesteading; roads and trails. TRACK 2: Mr. Toop talks about his family's journey to Chilliwack; the flood of 1894; dairy products; shipping to t;he creamery, Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association; BC Electric; childhood memories; Sumas United Church; growing hops; draining of Sumas Lake.

CALL NUMBER: T0717:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Toop continues with his discussion of draining the Sumas Lake; early schemes for dyking Sumas; the Mennonite community; Yarrow; early settlers; the Vedder family; Sardis. [TRACK 2: blank;.]

SUMMARY: "Patterns of the Valley", number 7 in the series, examines the development of the Fraser Valley from pre-contact to early homesteading; the introduction of the CPR; clearing a farm out of the bush; high-water time; and growing up in the valley. Voices heard include: Nellie Patriquin, Beulah Probert, Constance Cruikshank, Joy Starr, Bert Williams, Joe Louie, Oliver Wells, Ray Wells, Alf Hawkins, Martin Starret and Albert Drinkwater.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Garnet E. Willis talks about his father and the people of the Chilliwack and the Similkameen region, 1894 to 1916. He describes how his family farmed near Sardis; what Chilliwack was like in his youth; steamboats on the Fraser; Harrison House; hard work on farms; school days; stories about Bill Miner; stories about John Ryder and his family; the Nelson brothers; how his father hauled freight; his father's background with the fur brigade; a discussion of the brigade route; details of his father's travels in Fort Garry, California and BC; his father's claims in the Cariboo; how his father logged on the present site of Vancouver; and John Beatty. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis continues with a story about an old man; the circumstances by which he came to the Similkameen area with his father in 1914; an anecdote about his father and the farm at Sumas; a comparison of Chilliwack and Similkameen areas; cattle and cattle drives over the Dewdney Trail; several stories about travels on the Hope Trail; a discussion of Herman Grell, known as "Shorty" Dunn; Jack Budd; and train robber Bill Miner.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willis continues with more on Shorty Dunn of Bill Miner's gang; a story about Pat Kennedy of Princeton; Jim Slater; a story about Charlie Rheinhardt; Price Chandler; the beginning of Keremeos; Keremeos centre; the town of Loomis, Washington; a description of Princeton in 1913; Bill Allison; Mr. Willis' own place near Princeton; several stories about August Carlson; a story about Steve Mangat; the Olalla Mine; other mines and drilling. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis offers a story about Duncan Woods of the Hedley Mascot Mine; a discussion of his wife's uncle, a packer named John Worth; Bill Bristol and his stopping house east of Hope; a discussion of "Colonel" Robert Stevenson and his tall stories; a story about tracking lost cattle; more about Stevenson; more about Jack Budd and Bill Miner; and a story about a foot race in Montana.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Brannick recounts the arrival of his father [Joseph Brannick] in 1882 in East Chilliwack; homesteading in the area; drainage; land clearing; trails; roads; wildlife; farming; dairy cattle; butter shipments; transportation; their log house; a description of East Chilliwack land conditions; flood of 1894; mills at Elk Creek and Popkum; horse trading; farm produce; Chinese labour; horses; crops; farm life. TRACK 2: Mr. Brannick talks about his schooling; dredges; BC Electric improving transportation; Chilliwack Creamery; Fraser Valley Milk Producers in 1913; Captain Sam Gardiner; the Jack Parker family; the Ford family; early settlers; young people's social life; churches.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Henderson recounts his father's [John Calvin Henderson] and grandfather's settlement at Popkum and their later move to Chilliwack. He describes Popkum's Landing; his father's store; boa;t traffic; freight; settlers; childhood memories; schooling; his father's undertaking business; playing in a band; May 24th boat excursion to Harrison Hot Springs; New Year's celebrations; arrival of ;BC Electric in 1910; Brackman and Ker Milling. TRACK 2: Mr.Harrison talks about the ferry to Minto Landing; the Agassiz ferry; Mr. MacDonald's canoes at Camp Slough; Harrison Hotel; the Ryder family; the 1894 flood; fire brigade; Bill Miner; politics.

CALL NUMBER: T0308:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kipp recounts that his father, Henry Kipp, settled in Chilliwack in 1862; he talks about the land and streams of the area; the Indians and the naming of Centreville by Henry Kipp and Jon;athan Reece; the first settlers. He recounts his father's journey to BC from Ontario via Panama; settlement in the Chilliwack area; early homesteaders. TRACK 2: Mr. Kipp continues by describing ear;ly settlement and formation of a land company; the Kipp family; an incident with the Indians; Indian labourers; schooling; churches; winters; changes in the geography.

CALL NUMBER: T0308:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kipp continues by discussing the steamboat landing in Chilliwack; Ashwell's store; Five Corners; hotels; Bummers Roost; the route to Cariboo; Women's Christian Temperance Union; the Commercial Hotel; barn raising/quilting bees; social life; Cultus Lake; "Sheepy MacDonald"; mail carriers; entertainment; the Harrison Hotel; churches. TRACK 2: Mr. Kipp continues with his discussion a;bout churches in the community; the first white burial; the cemetery; Chinatown; Sunday observance; childhood adventures and experiences; doctors; dentists; fires; subdivision; drainage.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kate Mellard recalls coming to Chilliwack with her family in 1887; family members in the area; transportation; George Ashwell; the Old Yale Road; Centreville; her husband's work in the post office; hotels; the telegraph trail; anecdotes of life in Chilliwack. TRACK 2: She continues with her recollections about the community of Chilliwack; stores; childhood pranks; entertainment; interesting characters; her husband's work as justice of the peace; schooling; 24 May 1897; Five Corners; hotels; early residents.

SUMMARY: "Chilliwack", the twelfth episode, features the first settlers in the area. This program discusses the impressions of pioneer life in the Chilliwack area as recalled by Nellie Patriquin, Jim Kipp, and Fred Zink.

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SUMMARY: "The Way In", the first episode in the series, describes the trails, roads and rivers used by the first settlers. The voices heard are: Jim Kipp, Leon Ladner, Constance Cruickshank, and Bert Williams.

CALL NUMBER: T0732:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Albert Cooper talks about her early life and schooling at Coqualeetza in the 1890s; describes conditions at the school; Mr. and Mrs. Tate; school experiences; the flood of 1894; life an;d religion at the school. She discusses legends and native people around Chilliwack Lake. TRACK 2: Mrs. Albert Cooper talks about native people and the first settlers; churches; Captain John; India;n houses; the Coqualeetza School; the incident about the Reverend Tate and the hidden masks; Methodist revival meetings; teachings and fear of hell-fire; changes in native people and loss of their language.;

CALL NUMBER: T0732:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Albert Cooper recalls Chief Captain John, a preacher; Billy Supass, a translator for the minister; visitors to Coqualeetza; Chilliwack roads and canals; Vedder River; her grandmother, a Sto:lo Indian; place names. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0438:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nell Patriquin recounts her father coming to Chilliwack to join his brother, John Ryder. She describes her aunt, Mrs. Harrison, who owned the Harrison House Hotel; the hotel accommodation; notable guests; grounds; meals. She talks about local settlers in the area, "Sheep MacDonald" and Bob Menton; Minto; Mrs. Harrison's relations with the Indians; Volkert Vedder; Adam Vedder; Five Corners; Henderson's Store; bartering; Centreville; and St. Thomas Anglican Church. TRACK 2: Mrs. Patriquin recounts the story of her uncle, John Ryder, coming to the area with the Hudson's Bay Company and his initial settlement in Cheam, ca. 1862; the Ryder Lake District. She describes her uncle John Ryder; her father, Corry Spencer Ryder, settlng in the Cheam District in 1873; the family log cabin; cougars; the 1894 flood; childhood memories; schooling; Mrs. Jean Templar.

CALL NUMBER: T0438:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Patriquin talks about the move of St. Thomas Anglican Church from Port Douglas to the Chilliwack location in the 1870s; Dr. J.C. Henderson, his life and practice; the Indians' performance of passion plays; the seven stations of the Cross; the community of Popkum; fire in the family home; politics. TRACK 2: On this short tape (ca. 3 min), Mrs. Patriquin relates a childhood experience riding to school on "Old Nellie".

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Norah (Mrs. Alec) Mercer, nee Reece, recounts her father's arrival in Chilliwack in 1858; his settlement; the Corners; Harrison House Hotel; Bummers Roost; old characters; Jeff Harrison; "Sheep" MacDonald; Minto; the changeable Fraser River; the community of Chilliwack; Centreville; telegraph office; schooling. TRACK 2: Mrs. Mercer recalls memories of the flood of 1894; BC Electric trains; remittance men; Indians; community members; changes in the landscape; pioneer life.

CALL NUMBER: T0733:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Wells discusses Indian oral testimony and legends; Dan Milo; Bob Joe; Chilliwack Indian origins and history; missionaries; reserves; changes in native life; church schools; Indian traditions; place names including Chilliwack and Cheam; Atchelatz River and Mount Baker. TRACK 2: Mr. Wells talks about the first white settlers in the Chilliwack area; the arrival of his grandfather,; A.C. Wells, in 1867; the family farm; A.C. Wells; Edenbank Creamery; transporting farm produce; Chief Supass; Cultus Lake Harry; Liumchen Park; Cultus Lake Park; the Reverend Crosby; the course of the Chilliwack and Vedder River.;

CALL NUMBER: T0733:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wells continues by discussing flooding and drainage problems of the Sardis and Sumas areas. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0734:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 & 05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ray Wells recounts the arrival of his grandfather, Isaac Kipp, and other family members in the Sardis area; early settlers; his grandfather, Allen Casey Wells; early mills; the Belrose family; the Wells farm; weather changes; changes in crop production; Chief Billy Supass; missionaries; the Reverend Thomas Crosby. TRACK 2: Mr. Wells continues with his recollections of the Reverend Thomas Crosby; camp meetings; church and social events; Indian relations with settlers; Indian warfare; Chief Supass; the Chilliwack River; prospectors at Chilliwack Lake; Red Mountain; Charlie Lindeman and Jack Post.

CALL NUMBER: T0734:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 & 05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wells recalls incidents and outings at Ryder and Cultus Lakes; the Vedder River course; packer Ed Allison. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Victor MacDonald discusses traveling across Canada to Chilliwack in 1897; various jobs he held; incidents and memories of Chilliwack and Five Corners; recollections; living in the Okanagan in 1903; other employment; Morris Valley; stories about Dick Ward. TRACK 2: Mr. MacDonald continues with stories about Dick Ward; Sasquatch stories; Morris Valley life; farming; families; Morris Creek school; preachers and churches; Fraser River boats; the fire in New Westminster.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: "Bridge" Bailey recalls early mines and miners in the Chilliwack area. Red Mountain from 1912 to 1932; Silver Chief Mine; prospectors; Brock Reid; Tommy Leigh; Charlie Lindeman; Red Mountain; workings; stories about Charlie Lindeman; Jack Post; Frank Hailey; prospecting stories; Anderson. TRACK 2: Mr. Bailey continues with stories about prospecting; Anderson; Billy Sepass in 1900; packing station; pack trails; Indian stories; Indian camp at Elk Creek; berry picking and hunting; stories about Old Man John Ryder; settlers in the area; squatters; Indians; Pierce Mountain; Jim McGuire; Old Man Hipco.