Instructional film. What to look for when buying fish; how much to buy; recipes for stuffed baked salmon and stuffed halibut steaks.

In 1983 and 1984, the History Division of the National Museum of Man sponsored "Behind the Kitchen Door", an oral history project documenting the day-to-day experiences of British Columbia women in their households during the years 1900-1930. The project was administered through the Modern History Division of the British Columbia Provincial Museum.

The collection consists of 64 Interviews on 71 audio reels with Victoria and Vancouver area women. The focus is the otherwise undocumented day-to-day activities of maintaining and running a home in B.C. The interviews were conducted by Kathryn Thomson, Lynn Bueckert, Kathy Chopik and Catherine Hagen.

CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charles Renaud (cook, saw filer, musician, well-witcher, whistle-punk) was born on November 24, 1902 in Montreal. An orphan, he spent much of his youth as a farm labourer. Description of trip out west. Meets French people in New Westminster (1927). Came to Terrace by rail, was a flunky on the rails. Goat hunting. Married in 1938. Talks about his job as a cook on the train. Cooking for Little, Haugland and Kerr. Gold Liesser Mine and pack train. Learning the trade of saw filing in New Brunswick. Types of equipment used for filing. Employee of Skeenaview Hospital. Well-witching with a willow stick. Contracted T.B. Learns how to knit. Hazelton, squirrels bothering pudding. Kitwanga, speeder, flood of 1936. Doreen, twisted rails caused by flood. (blank gap). Description of experiences; as a whistle punk. Mishap. Talks about illness, retirement and wages. TRACK 2: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages. CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages.

Cook book: written on front page "Koch Buck fur Nicoline Holdmann (nu Becker) Holsteinsches Haus" and in another hand "Brought from Germany 1869". Contains mainly recipes in German all in one hand but has some recipes in English written in two different hands or clipped from newspapers.

Diaries of Mrs. Julia Bullock-Webster, kept during a two year visit with her sons, Edward Walter and William Howard Bullock-Webster, on their ranch near Keremeos, B.C. The author (an elderly English gentlewoman) was accompanied by her two daughters, Evelyn Eliza and Helen Georgina Bullock-Webster, and a young English "farm pupil," William Dalziel Walker. The diaries contain lively descriptions of pioneer life in the Similkameen district; they also include cookery recipes and ink sketches of the Bullock-Webster ranch.

Public access. The news with Regine Berube: Arts and Crafts; "La Francofete" at Maillardville, June 24-26; La Federation Jeunesse Colombienne; and new executive at l'Alliance Francaise. Nicole Cadorette interviews Ghislaine Boisclair about the Library at the Club Canadien francais -- the types of books and magazines available to the public. In a second Interview, Henri Bernier, chef at the University of Victoria Faculty Club, discusses plans for the publication of a cookbook in both French and English.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Marion Groger and Marjorie Neudorf, sisters who moved from Alberta to Cecil Lake, ca. 1930. They talk about growing up in the Peace River country during the 1930s. School, food, homestead, and the hardships and pleasures of homesteading are the subjects of the interview.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Logging camp cook PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1967 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1974-05-01 SUMMARY: Born in Sweden, 1902. Came to Canada, 1920. Worked as a dishwasher and finally cook at various camps on Vancouver Island. Joined BC Forest Products, 1946. Travelling cook: Pitt Lake, Renfrew, Caycuse, Britain River and Crofton. Type of food prepared. Camp life. Problems such as forest fires and floods. Retired 1967.

SUMMARY: Information on canning salmon and chicken, and recipes for coconut squares and bread and cottage cheese puffs.;

SUMMARY: Recipes: Dutch roast, coconut cookies, chocolate cake.;

SUMMARY: Host Margaret Henderson discusses Christmas recipes.;

SUMMARY: Host Margaret Henderson. Provided by the Home service department of the Daily Province.;