10:15 talks : Canon Alan Greene : [talk no. 6]
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Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
SUMMARY: One of nine original tapes from a series of talks for the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks". The programs, also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", feature Canon Alan Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson in the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s. TRACK 2: Original tape #6. This sixth talk consists of: (1) a story called "A Gentleman Adventurer", about an Italian man's mail-order-type marriage on Cortes Island; (2) a story about a misunderstanding in a ship to shore conversation; and (3) "A Treasury of Synonyms and Antonyms" which is a collection of amusing puns.