RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joyce recalls his family's early settlement and farming life on Quadra Island. His father; Alfred Joyce; settled in 1888. Mr. Joyce describes local communities and interesting characters including Shoal Bay; Heriot Bay; Cortes Island; Lund; John "Daddy" Bryant; and Granite Bay. He recalls mining; logging; fishing on Quadra; conscription; schooling; and Mitlenatch Island. [TRACK 2:; blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1917; moved to the Sayward valley in 1919; blew whistles for his father in the logging camp at Sayward when he was twelve; moved to Helmcken Island around 1920;/21; in 1932 at the age of fifteen, his parents moved to Vancouver, but he went to a logging camp at Palmer Bay working for Parker and Palmer; describes Palmer's camp and the bunkhouse; laundry facilities in the early logging camps; food in the camps; wages and job conditions; entertainment; black man by the name of Mitchell, played the violin; Otto Petersen's family; Cliff Palmer's family; story about the cook winning the BC Electric sweepstake; logging equipment and methods; steam donkeys; topping trees; Gilford Island; accident while rigging a tree; topped trees on Cortes Island for Oscar Neemy; jumping spar trees; using hand fiddles; camp at Neemy's; fallers and their wages; the Depression; worked for Billy DeMills and Curly Miller at Miner's Bay on Thurlow Island; bought a fishing boat in 1936; Billygoat Hansen's daughter; boat sinking at Stuart Island wharf; John Oswald of Herriot Bay; Matt Gerard at the Stuart Bay store; Billy DeMills. TRACK 2: Beaver Cove, father and sons formed company; worked for Sidney Soderman; trapping at Bute, Southgate River; Angus Schnarr homestead at Bute; Merle Hadley; Call Inlet, own logging camp; sold to Bill Campbell; moved to Campbell River in 1958; working as a faller; gypo loggers; in 1957, 95% of the gypos disappeared; poker games and Union boats in the early '40s; Ma Scott ran a logging camp; Angus Schnarr and his daughters all did hand logging in Bute; Jack houses ashore; Jack Shabler; boring boomsticks.

CALL NUMBER: T1833:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in London, Ontario; father was working with the Grand Trunk; came to Saskatoon in 1904; travel by train; homesteading in Saskatchewan; parents came to the coast in 1913; met husband on the prairies; Americans coming to Canada; maiden name Flanigan; husband was a commercial traveler; train fares and other prices; show people and minstrels; house in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver; the Depression; sons worked at the ball park; Redonda Island; opening of Mallard's cannery at Redonda; the Olmstead family at Redonda; school; teachers; Mrs. Ballentyne, a teacher at Redonda; resort at Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island; Savary Island was a popular summer place; Pat, Robert and Dunc Robertson; Union Steamships; teacher's pay and conditions of the school at Redonda Island; the Hanson family and the Rongron family; Indians allowed in the school; Christmas concerts and other entertainment; Mr. Jerody bought the sawmill; earthquake at Redonda Island in 1946. TRACK 2: Came to Campbell River in 1918, Mr. Francis worked as a bookkeeper for the Thulin's; logging camps; the Peterson and Fitzgerald families in Campbell River; the other settlement across the river, the Perkins, MacDonalds and Vanstones; Elm School; came from the Peace River area; the Thulin's had the only store; supplies brought in by boat; Thulin's had a boat for towing and bringing supplies in, the boat was cut in half by an American yacht; means of travel, taxi service between Campbell River and Courtenay; Frank Lalond owns cars; Union boats arrived regularly; mail service; wages; entertainment; Thulin dance hall 'Lilelana'; DeBow bought the hotel and then sold it; moved from Campbell River to Vancouver for the boys' schooling; moved from Vancouver to Lake Cowichan; MacDonald-Murphy Logging Co. originated in Campbell River; Mr. Francis went there as a bookkeeper for them; hiring, wages and conditions of teachers; Campbell River and the dam and mill being built; Quadra had its own store and cannery. CALL NUMBER: T1833:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Redonda Bay sawmill owned by Olmstead and description of her home at the camp; the store at Redonda and contents; sternwheeler boat engine used for steam; water wheel to power lights; comparison of their store to modern stores; Olmstead made a trip every month to Vancouver on his sixty foot boat named the "Rowno"; never saw any wild animals in the wilderness; very little hunting or fishing done by the people in the camp; vegetable garden at Redonda and discussion of Union boats coming to Redonda; traveling on steam ships, conditions and crowding on the boats; had a window fall on her; aboard a Union boat; many fake accidents were claimed aboard the boats; comparisons of Christmas then and now; philosophy of life; entertainment now pretty much the same as before; feelings on getting older; her childhood, her mother's discipline and chores; thoughts on youth today and the youth of her day. [TRACK 2: blank?]