- T0448:0001
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- 1965-08-04 [date recorded]
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McMillan talks about his family's history; grandfather James Elliot Faulkner came to Canada around 1880; his father Donald McMillan and mother lived on Iona Island from 1885 to 1905; father's work for the J.H. Todd cannery; early delta settlers; the Henry Mole family; Fitzgerald and Sam Mcleary; Hugh McGee; Garabee; Hugh MacDonald; other residents of Sea Island; farming on Sea Island; transportation to New Westminster; recollections about the Hastings Mill Store. TRACK 2: Mr. McMillan talks about boat and freight transportation on the Fraser River; stores in the area; Harry Eburne; Churchill and McKay; Musqueam Indians; Indian ceremonies at the long-houses; childhood memories; school days and teachers; H.V. Barton; entertainment; Steves' Stage and Billy Mallis's stage; bridges on Sea Island and Lulu Island; area industries; canneries; lumber mills; settlement; gold scare; naming of Lulu Island; his father's background.