CALL NUMBER: T1016:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Finnish community at Sointula, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arvo Tynjala was born in 1897 and discusses the origins of Sointula. The arrival of the Tynjala family at Sointula in 1902. Early activities and settlers at Sointula. The meaning of the name.; Early buildings and living arrangements. The fire of 1903. TRACK 2: The fire of 1903 and its consequences. Plants and animals around Sointula. Fishing, lumbering. The end of the Kalevan Kansa Colonization Co. Ltd. Early settlers. Leaders of the community.

CALL NUMBER: T1016:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Finnish community at Sointula, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arvo Tynjala discusses printing "Aika". The Finnish library. Opposition to religion. Temperance. Education. Athletics. Finnish organization and co-op store. Saunas. Fishing and working in the; canneries. TRACK 2: Fishing work in canneries. Chinese people. Native people. Farming. Finnish Sointula songs. Meaning of Kalevan Kansa.

CALL NUMBER: T1151:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Roberts recalls his first impressions of Vancouver in 1906; the Depression of 1907; his attempts at employment, and adventures in British Columbia and Dawson; the "Undesirables of Dawson;"; his thoughts about Darwin and religion and his coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands (1911). TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts continues with a description of the Stave Falls work camp including: characters, living conditions and topics of discussion. He speaks about his reasons for coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands, transportation to the islands, first impressions, Miller Creek, the Lawn Hill settlement, the difficulty in acquiring land, staking land claims, Dr.Tomlinson and the Farmer's Association at Lawn Hill, social life, a story about a tree, settling at Tlell, Tom Hearn, Jimmy White, Oeanda; River, and black sand beaches.

CALL NUMBER: T1151:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Roberts continues speaking about Jimmy White and gold mining on the black sand beaches; his fishing career in 1919; fishing equipment; fishing at Hippo Island; local fishing co-operatives; the fishing season of 1931; fishing in the 1960s; conditions for spawning salmon; his salmon spawning ladder and recollections. TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts recounts a story about Victor Vigelous; a bear story; fishing stories; his philosophy of life; credit unions; roads and logging roads; local characters; "Mexican Tom"; Haida residents; local activities; impressions of the islands and the west coast.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bertha Souderholm : fruit and vegetable workers organize at Websters Corners RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Souderholm was active with Finnish community organizations in the Maple Ridge area during the war. The tape describes that community during the Depression; the cooperative movement; women's organization in the community; work and organizing at Berryland; women in the war industries; conditions in the fish canneries. Websters Corners, where she lived, had a long history of progressive organizing. Women in the Finnish community traditionally had their own organizations. Men in Websters Corners worked in industry, while women built and maintained the community. The Women's Defense League organized a defense of political prisoners during the 1930s. Later organizations gathered clothing for Finnish war relief. The unions in the 1940s established old age pensions and unemployment insurance; workmen's compensation, family allowance and medicare. The labour at Berryland was very difficult as there was little automation. Women were called in to work and received only an hour's pay if little fruit was available. TRACK 2: Women worked at Berryland on a seasonal basis, without the benefit of seniority to supplement their household income and pay taxes. Women tried to organise and several women were fired. A wildcat strike occurred later on and the union was established. This created a seniority system and year-round work.

The fonds consists of records created by the British Columbia Co-operative Union between 1924 and 1978. The records include Board of Director's minutes, executive correspondence and reports, conference proceedings, general reports and various subject files.

Records of the British Columbia Co-operative Union include Board of Directors' minutes (1944-1972), executive correspondence and reports (1947-1972), conference proceedings and annual reports (1944-1971), and general correspondence (1945-1972). The collection includes files pertaining to the Co-operative Wholesale Society, the Co-operative Union of Canada, and such topics as post-war rehabilitation, co-operative housing, taxation, and education. Also included are the records of the Vancouver and District Co- operative Council and its Successor, the Greater Vancouver Cooperative Association, and files on over two hundred British Columbia cooperatives, many of which were affiliated with the British Columbia Co-operative Union. Published material have been transferred to the BC Archives Library and to the University of Victoria Library; photographs have been transferred to Visual Records; and a 16 mm educational film (Tools of Plenty) has been transferred to SMID accession, F 1987:30). The British Columbia Co-operative Union was formed at a conference held at the Belmont Hotel in Vancouver on 7-8 March 1944. The conference was chaired by Dr. Gordon Shrum of the University of British Columbia and was attended by representatives of thirty co-operative societies. Their aim in forming the Union was to oppose federal taxation proposals and, generally, to facilitate the development of the co-operative movement in British Columbia. The new Union was also intended to link member societies with co-operatives in other provinces and with the national umbrella organization, the Co-operative Union of Canada. The Union represented the interests of a variety of co-operative organizations, including service co-operatives (such as the Rossland Co-operative Transportation Society), producer and marketing associations (e.g. Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association), consumer associations (e.g. Revelstoke Co-operative Society) and credit unions. Federations of co-operatives, such as the Vancouver and District Co-operative Council, were represented too. Ultimately, however, member co-operatives were not able to support the organization financially and in 1972 the Co-operative Union was dissolved. Many of the services which it had provided were subsequently taken over by the B.C. Central Credit Union. Photographs were transferred to Visual Records, accession 198712-7; a 16 mm educational film ("Tools of Plenty") was transferred to the Sound and Moving Image Division, accession F1987:34. Printed material transferred from MS and GR accession 87-82 (BC Central Credit Union) to Library, serial Top Dog, Feb 1959, call number NW 384.54 C111.

The series consists of files created by the British Columbia Co-operative Union between 1926 and 1978. The files include minutes, bulletins, correspondence and reports.

The series consists of registry files created by the Corporate Registry, documenting the registration, corporate history and dissolution of all companies, societies and co-operatives that operated in British Columbia, and were dissolved between 1860 and 1993. In accordance with the Company Act, companies, societies and co-operatives that carry on business in British Columbia must register with the Corporate Registry and must regularly submit reports and other records to the registry office. For example, companies must file an annual report each year along with forms recording any changes to the head office and/or records office locations, and changes to the company directors. The file that the Corporate Registry creates may contain an assortment of documents.

These documents include articles of incorporation, certificates of incorporation, articles of association, annual reports, director's resolutions, notices of directors, notices of office, changes of office, encumbrance and mortgage documents, ledger cards, ordinary and special resolutions, constitutions and by-laws, memoranda, correspondence with the Corporate Registry, and dissolution documents. The pre-1970 files may also contain return of allotment information.

The series is arranged into twenty sub-series that reflect the type of company and the company act that was in force at the time that the company was registered. Each sub-series has its own numbering system, preceded by a set of initials that designates the sub-series. Each company file is numbered sequentially within these sub-series. For companies with head offices in British Columbia, there are six sub-series. For companies with head offices in British Columbia, and registered between 1860 and 1910, there are five different sub-series that correspond to the five different company acts that were in force in this period. These sub-series are identifiable by the following initials: QA 1860 Company Act QB 1862 Company Act QC 1878 Company Act QD 1890 Company Act QE 1897 Company Act. Since the 1910 Companies Act, the Companies Office has maintained one sub-series, and numbering system, for all companies with head offices in British Columbia. This sub-series is identifiable by the initials "BC."

There are also sub-series documenting societies, co-operatives and extra provincial companies that carried out business in BC. Societies and co-operatives are identifiable by the following initials: S society CP co-operatives Extra provincial companies have several designations reflecting the date that they were registered. Since the 1920's, all extra-provincial companies have been given an "A" designation but prior to that date a number of different registrations were used. These registrations include: A extra provincial company B extra provincial company registration EPR extra provincial company registration LIC extra-provincial company licenced REG extra provincial registration FOR foreign registration.

The series also contains several other types of company files, each with their own designation. These are as follows: NON non registered companies PA private acts RLY railways S+L savings and loans T trusts TMY tramways. This series includes records created under earlier names of the Corporate Registry including the Companies Branch and Registrar of Companies. The series also includes company files originally created and maintained by the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): George and Mary Pollard RECORDED: Argenta (B.C.), 1979-01-24 SUMMARY: George and Mary Pollard were members of a group of Quakers who moved to the West Kootenay settlement of Argenta from California in about 1952. They describe their experiences relocating, their reasons for moving, and their new life in Argenta. Homesteading. Delta Farmers Co-operative. Sternwheelers. Local economy.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Helen and John Stevenson : Lardeau Valley, 1952-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1964 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Helen and John Stevenson discuss moving to Argenta from California in 1952. Reasons why they moved. Helen was a teacher and they set up the school at Argenta. Discusses others that moved to the area at the same time. Community members. The Delta Farmers Co-op. Living in California. Number of families grew in the mid-1950s. Organization of Delta Co-op. Contracted to build rural centre. Planned to centre settlement on the flats. Bridge built across the Duncan River at Cooper Creek. Before bridge was built, people would signal for a ride from Lardeau using headlights or a fire. Boarding school develops out of visiting young people.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Stevenson : Lardeau Valley, 1952-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Stevenson gives reasons for leaving the United States. Pollards join friends from Tracey. Once decision made to leave, search for a place to settle narrows to the Kootenays. Other co-operative groups in California also looking toward Canada. Stayed temporarily at Walker's Landing on Kootenay Lake and located property at Argenta after examining a number of possibilities. Rented Shutty property and the hotel. 1952 is spent getting established. Describes Argenta as they found it. Remains of early Argenta. TRACK 2: Delta Co-op formed to pool resources and to aid in getting employment. Pollards tried raising chickens. First major project was construction of Argenta Elementary School. Income pooling. Logged on flats for "hardwood" poles. More people move to Argenta. Building of Duncan Dam has little effect on Argenta. Original families fail to locate together on flats property, and families begin to go their own way economically. Incidents while travelling between Tracey and Walker's Landing.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early commercial fishing in British Columbia, 1921-1945 : part 1 & 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-29 SUMMARY: James Templeton discusses aspects of commercial fishing in British Columbia, 1921 to 1945.;

This series consists of records created by the Land Settlement Board between 1914 and 1967. The records contain correspondence, subject and loan files, 1926-1960 regarding land settlement, agricultural credit, soldier settlement, dyking and drainage, and livestock; minutes of meetings, 1930-1946, 1958-1967; reports, 1917-1926; orders-in-council, 1916-1947; land statistics, appraisals and valuations, 1918-1957; applications and loan registers 1916-1958; purchase, payroll, accounts and property registers, 1919-1962; and Doukhobor land account books, 1942-1945. It includes correspondence with early agricultural cooperatives and records of predecessor agency, BC Agricultural Credit Commission. The series also consists of 53 maps.

SUMMARY: Radio program presenting a talk by Malcolm McCallum (?), of the Fishermen's Cooperative Federation, about fishing cooperatives in Masset, British Columbia.;

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0010 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1929 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information; father's first trip to Canada; father returns to Sweden during First World War; borrowed money to return to Canada in 1925; logging in Nelson; mother and brothers come to Canada; four days on immigrant train; father borrows money from the CPR to bring him over; route to Canada; immigrant trains; anecdote about trip; life in Sweden; logging in Sweden; anecdote about work; pay in Sweden; unions; workers; paper; union raiding; working for father on Silver King Mountain; driving horses; cut cedar poles and white pine for Mathes; prices and wages in 1928; anecdote; about supplying mine; anecdote about operation of mine; anecdote about supplying mine; anecdote about Eagan's eyeglasses; crew at mine; location and name; camp at Cahill Lake; anecdote about working log deck; anecdote about brutal foreman; camp conditions; wages and costs; flume to Slocan Lake; flume construction; ice chute for log; anecdote about brother's logging accident and hospitalization; compensation; brother loses leg; brother's life after accident; brother's life and family; father and Bystrom, piling lumber at Six Mile Lake, quit over pay dispute; Cotton Logging Company job above Boswell; tools for fallers; piecework cutting cedar poles; peeling poles; camp at Boswell, hot water, sinks. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Camp at Boswell; hot water tanks; camp quality; anecdote about cork boots; work hours; anecdote about hard worker; recreation in camps; stock crash of 1929; logging camps close; anecdote about trying for job outside of Castlegar; room and board; logging in Princeton; riding freight train to Vancouver; unemployment in Vancouver; hobos on train; freight train to Castlegar; CPR police; walking from Castlegar to Nelson; working in mine; packing equipment in; miners' candlestick; anecdote about packing steel out; father on relief; mother cutting wood; farm produce; homemade pipe boring machine; making pipes. TRACK 2: Wrapping pipe with wire; economics of pipe sales; homemade sawmill; Kootenay Landing; Proctor railroad; anecdote about poor wages; hand drilling for blasting; anecdote about diarrhea in camp; anecdote about driving to Hidden Creek; lived in trapper's cabin; anecdote about boss tricking them into working; work at China creek relief camp; work conditions at camp; anecdote about man being kicked out of camp and him leaving; people in camp; Willow Point relief work; prospectors classes and grubsteak relief program; groceries for a month; three weeks prospecting in Slocan area; came back for groceries; CMS called him to go to work --started June 27, 1934 in lead refinery; work hours; lead explosion; conditions in refinery; open transfer (fired) from refinery; labour gang; anecdote about Joe Fillapelli. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1972 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about Joe Fillapelli; "barring down" the lead furnaces; anecdote about "safety first man"; construction with molten slag; lead contract; leaded work conditions; scrap yard; cutting shears; operation; meets wife; sick and crippled people in scrap yard; anecdote about quitting scrap yard; worked storage plant in Warfield until his retirement in 1972; 1942 work on Brilliant dam; work conditions on dam; anecdote about unloading cement; bicycling to work; contract system in storage plant; became shop steward; Castlegar board member; union split; reasons for not joining steel; Al King president; elected to convention in Olympia, Washington, barred from crossing into the U.S.; steelworkers and barring. TRACK 2: Stopped at border; Bert Herridge; anecdote about Herridge getting his border crossing privileges back; member of CCF; quit CCF because it was the political arm of the United Steelworkers Union; Murphy in Communist Party; met lots of Communist Party members; good men; approached to join the CP by Art Erins and Garfield Belenger; reminiscences about Belenger; anecdote about Harvey Murphy; benevolent society and six weeks of Murphy tries for better sick pay; vesting rights to pensions; 1940, moves to Castlegar; fresh air; terms and prices for lots; credit for lumber; built 14 x 20 shack; West owned water system; old lumber for new house; anecdote about pouring foundation; constructs an apartment building; layout of apartment building; sold apartments after he retired; present house bought as a kit from Vancouver; construction of house; contents of kit; agent helped assemble house; framed by nightfall; cost of kit. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0013 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Food co-op; Sam Muirhead's idea; war rationed items were kept for storekeeper's friends; sold shares at 50 dollars each; bought three lots in Castlegar; lots cleared and building put up on volunteer basis; Cominco employees had two transportation societies; had garage by theatre; food co-op hired Walter Markin as first manager; later co-op in Vancouver recommended Jack Kirby for Manager; Kirby anti-union; first president was Muirhead; second was Bystrom; last president was Dalziel; co-op folded, Kirby fired, co-op liquidated; co-op expansion plans rejected; first co-op operated from his back porch; operations from porch; Transportation Society builds new building; operation of Transportation Society; NDP membership; anecdote about rejoining CCF-NDP; rejoined after merger with Steel; Columbo Lodge Hall meeting of Mine/Mill members where Murphy explained merger.

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RECORDED: Argenta (B.C.), 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Peter Chapman, Ruth Boyd discusses her family came to British Columbia in with some other Quaker families to look for a place to settle. They were concerned about militarism in the United States. The Boyds had famed in Tracey, California, in the 1930s and 1940s. They arrived in the Lardeau Valley in August 1952. Details of travelling with their household goods in trailers. Roads and bridges in the area. Other families that settled there, including Congregationalists and Unitarians. TRACK 2: Building a house. The Delta Co-Op: farming and logging. Hardships: cramped living quarters and dirt. Isolation. Schooling. The fire that destroyed the Pollard home.

The item consists of an animated educational film about the benefits of co-operatives.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Urho Tynjala RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1972-05-04 SUMMARY: Urho Tynjala was born in 1899 and came with his family to the Finnish colony at Sointula in 1901. Discusses conditions in logging camps during WWI. Describes the organization and operation of co-operative stores in which he worked in both Sointula and Ontario for most of his life. Good and bad points of co-operative stores and their usefulness to minority groups.