CALL NUMBER: T1657:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver recounts his parents' arrival in Vancouver from Cheshire; England in 1887; his grandfather [Woodward] was already living in BC; his family later moved to Delta in 1894. He discuss;es early life on the family farm; schooling; game; draining and preparation of the land; mud shoes for the horses; ploughing; soil conditions; drinking water; crops; Brackman and Ker; transportation; ;roads; schooling; other settlers; the McKee family; farm produce; West Delta settlement; flooding and dyking. TRACK 2 Mr. Weaver continues his discussion about the dredging operation; the Oliver Slough; the Great Northern Railway; Old Man Morgan; recollections of John Oliver; fish trapping; picnics at Blackie's Spit; Frank Burns; early settlers; Old Man Morgan; John Woodward; logging in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver talks about the roads in the area; weather conditions; mosquitoes; Butler's Corner; Tom Ladner's property; threshing work; [pause]; local incidents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the arrival of his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in Vancouver from Ontario in 1877; the family farm at Delta; Morgan's farm; dyking the family property; his father's political career as an M.L.A. and Premier. Mr. Oliver discusses his own schooling and farming. TRACK 2: Mr. Oliver continues with his discussion about farming methods in Delta; "tooley shoes" for; horses; haying; fresh water supply; early draining methods; other incidents.;

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner discusses the Nugent Report on Sir James Douglas to American President Buchanan in 1858; his personal; political and educational philosophy; history of the Ladner family in Cornwall; Leon Ladner's political career, circa 1926; history of the Ladner family settlement in Ladner and the family's canneries. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner continues with his discussion about the family's cannery business; anecdotes about his uncle William Ladner; All Saints Church in 1881; his mother, and his education.;

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner begins with readings from William Ladner's diary. He talks about his father's adventures after leaving Cornwall; his father and uncle arrived in Victoria and Delta in 1858; their; business ventures in the Cariboo and New Westminster; the family land purchase in 1868 in the Delta area; drainage problems in Delta; his father's cannery business; the naming of Ladner; the Victoria; Cannery Company; the mosquito problem; anecdotes about Sir James Douglas, John Oliver, Sir Richard McBride, the Guichon family, William McBride, and the first school in 1882. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner talks about his father's adventures in California; his uncle William Ladner's appointments; early Ladner; wooden horse shoes; drinking water; roads; floods; the family farm; beekeeping; Delta Manor; sub;division of his father's farm; anecdote about Lord Byng's visit; old Ladner homes and his father's experiences.