SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Agnes Jane Power RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Agnes Jean Power was born in 1890 and discusses her early life in India; age 17-22, spent in England; and her move to Canada including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Attitudes, the Depression. Comparison between India, England and Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0089:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - a maritimer in B.C. RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-11 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson was born in 1903, and lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He recalls life in Nova Scotia and the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Life in Vancouver. Discusses early jobs and early union associations. Describes life of a migratory worker in the prairies, B.C., and the U.S. Pacific northwest during the early 1920s. Mentions the One Big Union and the Industrial Workers of the World and their activities at the time. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Wobblies PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-13 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses his odd jobs on the west coast from B.C. to California. The spread of the Industrial Workers of the World among migratory workers. The tactics used to organize and the resistance put up by the employers. Factions in the movement, the Communist influence and the split in the I.W.W. Conditions and pay on the job and improvements due to Union activity. Primarily concerning 1920-1925, but some talk of the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - adjusting to disability PERIOD COVERED: 1920s-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses the changes in his life from a 1924 or 1925 shingle mill accident in which he lost an arm. Difficulty in changing, return to school and job as an executive for the Industrial Workers of the World Union. Return to mill work, the change from physical labour to sales work. Labour and socialist activities in the 1920s and 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Depression and after RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson continues recounting activities in the 1930s including the early years of the C.C.F. Activities of the Communists. C.C.F. Quebec convention regarding conscription and the polarity in the C.C.F. Communist philosophy, reasons for participating in a socialist movement.

CALL NUMBER: T0033:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's military service in India PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1918 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray came from a military family and was born in India in 1889. He came to Canada after WWI. His recollections of WWI include descriptions of horse cavalry and artillery activities, equipment used, and deprivations incurred. He was primarily in France. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's experience farming in Canada during the Depression PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1939 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray describes his immigration to Canada, his expectations of the country, his impressions on arrival, his journey on the "Colonial Train", the government plan for farmers, his career as a farmer through the Depression years: his livestock, his crops, his farming methods, the selling of produce, and collective efforts of community. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray and enlistment in the Veteran's Guards, World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray discusses the techniques of farming till 1940, when he moved to Vancouver. His brief employment on "the green chain" in King's Sawmill, before enlisting in the "Veteran's Guards" for WWII. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray through the Second World War and after PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray continues discussing war experiences as a private in the RCOC in England, doing vehicle recovery. He returns to Canada afterwards and talks about his subsequent jobs until age 70.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arni Arntzen discusses life in Sweden before 1905 when he came to New Orleans. Life in America, and coming to Canada about 1913. Worked on Grand Trunk Railway in Rockies. Taking rafts down Upper Fraser. Homestead near Prince George, and later in Saskatchewan. Prairie life in Depression. Finally came to B.C. during WWII. TRACK 2: Arni Arntzen's ideas about Canada then and now.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: Arni Arntzen's life and his political ideas.

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Birth at Peguis Reserve, Manitoba; early memories of Swampy Cree people at Peguis Reserve; memories of father, Reverend A.W. [Amos William] Mayse; father's tales of the Boer War; fraternizing with the enemy; father emigrated to Canada; worked as a carpenter, became minister; father was in WWI; war wounds; was in Boer prison camp; earlier release by Jan Smuts; YMCA rep in WWI; back to Winnipeg; refused commission in Black and Tans; rural ministry in Manitoba; took salary partly in trade and had first pick of charity clothes; Mr. Mayse hated school; his father was self-taught and had a good library; read everything, including religious material; moved to British Columbia. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Living in [Port] Hammond BC; first work experience; father's church in Nanaimo; primitive conditions in the coal mines; clothing and equipment of miners; many beer parlours in Nanaimo; father's popularity; favorite fishing spots; anecdote of hazardous fishing trip; Turner rowboats prized; commercial fishing; early commercial fishing methods and boats; memories of Sointula fishermen; Sointula pukka fighting; Nanaimo miners fished for trout, not salmon; early trout fishing equipment; social consciousness; father never was a union miner; lied to get into army; South Africa; Reverend Mayse went underground in Nanaimo mine accidents; panic in town; miners invited Reverend Mayse underground, managers didn't argue; dynamite misadventure. TRACK 2: Continuation of dynamite misadventure with Rev. Mayse; vegetable garden; powder bosses; Reverend Mayse destroyed cars; pit ponies on islands; Italian miners; soccer important in Nanaimo; library; Millstream Park; rugby versus soccer; holidays with father; Chinese persecuted in Nanaimo; Chinese accused of taking jobs; few Chinese women or children; fight between Chinese and Haida boys; Chinese cooks; idyllic but racist town; Mr. Mayse and friends made a water cannon to frighten Chinese; backfire; collecting cascara bark for money; cruel pranks; fights with air guns and crossbows made from umbrellas; good shot with slingshot; gangs racially mixed; miners lived in southern Nanaimo; some of the cottages still there [as of 1984].

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nanaimo childhood; Guy Fawkes day was celebrated as Bonfire night; Hallowe'en destructive; Nanaimo's tamale wagon; miners' children; fishing and writing at Cowichan Bay; Reverend Mayse sided with the workers; holidays at Cowichan Bay; acquiring a dugout canoe; shaman procured canoe by threats; Indian fishing methods; most gear was cedar; old style Cowichan sweaters described; Padre Cook of Cowichan; Queen Victoria medal; John Page and the medal; shaman had grape arbor and soul box; healing and hurting with soul box; rite of boys purification among Cowichans; Wolf Song was stolen from the Haida after the Battle of Sansum Narrows circa 1820 to 1840. Haida blamed for other raids; Haida slaughters and weapons used. Reverend Mayse left Mr. Mayse to his own way on holidays. TRACK 2: 38; pound salmon won prize; Bruce McKelvie; first sale of fiction; principal angry but kept on; Oyster River with Reverend Mayse; memories of old-timer James McIvor; washed ashore from sloop; McIvor ran cattle; threatened loggers; tea with McIvor; McIvor's customs; McIvor angry when offered help; McIvor's nephew visited briefly; tried to buy wife; McIvor fishing with haywire; hated cities; died in Comox in 1940's. Walter Woodiss, Oyster River old-timer, storyteller; tall tale of salmon; Woodiss's feud with a black bear and accidental killing of same; Woodiss's Inn; Percy Elsie "mayor of Oyster River"; fried chicken known as fried seagull; ghost at Comox; WWII airman at Comox rode his bicycle through "Dancing Annie".

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Indian rancherees; shaman Cultus Tommy; Chinook trade jargon terms; Padre Cook well loved; friend at Cumberland; stories of Ginger Goodwin; Cumberland memories of Ginger Goodwin and hostility to trial and government; Dominion police were hated, man hunters; no shame in evading the draft; met Cougar (Cecil) Smith; Mr. Mayse now lives in Cougar Smith's house; Cougar Smith's peculiarities; Roderick Haig-Brown, great Canadian writer; friendship with Haig-Brown; dam on the Campbell River broke his heart; last meeting with Haig-Brown; last impressions; better known outside Canada; Haig-Brown a fine and pioneering fisherman; fished steelhead. Mr. Mayse disliked high school; paid for clothing with poetry prize won at UBC three years in a row. TRACK 2: Mr. Mayse paid UBC tuition by logging in the summer under a false name; BC loggers and equipment; railroad logging; unions; woods accidents; logged Upper Vancouver Island; logging camp cooks; anecdote of 'foul feeder'; fight between logger and foul feeder; logging camp cook; flunkies, bed makers, logging camp pump tenders; eccentric and proud train men; high riggers; Harold Larson would post on a spar; woods near-misses; spark catchers jobs; bunkhouse moving accident; Paddy the straw boss; Paddy nearly caught in a blast; lemon extract mad man incident; bringing out man lost in the woods; gone mad, tried to escape his friends; wild Great Dane dogs abandoned in woods; harassed spark catchers; Mayse had to shoot one.

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Great Danes hunted in Pike's Peak area; shot one; partner Paddy Gorman; Paddy attacked by a cougar while snoozing; scraps of loggers songs; never wrote them down, always regretted it; logging; company owners were remote; unions starting camps; decision logging versus writing; went to the Vancouver Province; space writing for Province; offered staff job; clannish and proud reporters; story of ascent of Mount Waddington; two expeditions at once; Mr. Mayse carried homing pigeons in a basket to file the story; rough country; beauty and tragedy of the pigeons; walking out to tidewater hungry; a ghost story at Leefall Point, Mount Waddington, where a climber had fallen to his death. TRACK 2: Worked at the Vancouver Province as Torchy Anderson's junior man; they covered a huge forest fire that threatened Campbell River and Courtenay on Vancouver Island [Sayward fire, 1938]; Torchy was Mr. Mayse's mentor and friend; longshoremen riots; Torchy was fearless; Torchy squealed when angry; his grandfather saw a Sasquatch; the Rum Tum Club and the Sonofabitch Club; creating a story on injured trapper at Mission. Mr. Mayse wrote police constable's report while drunk; cop demoted; Torchy and his wife Marion; moved to Saltspring Island; memories of Province newspaper women in 1930's Vancouver; wild party on Grouse Mountain; Christmas cheer and story of upside down reindeer; camps for single unemployed men; joining the American Newspaper Guild; had BC union card number 3; union's failure; left holding the bag; not fired but put behind the eight ball; refused marrying raise.

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Mayse quit the Vancouver Province and joined the Vancouver Sun. The Sun was tougher and wilder; front page exclusives as revenge; union succeeded later; hostility to union. Mr. Mayse drafted and discharged for TB scars; army lost files; returned to the Sun as military writer; Mr. Gallagher, an alleged spy; moved to Toronto with no job, $100, a wife and a dog. Selective service twits said there were no jobs; walked into a job at Maclean's. Toronto run of luck; sold short stories to the Saturday Evening Post; break fiction editor of Maclean's; a few good Canadian writers; editor bought fiction; Calvinist, liked gloomy tales, had to trick him; Canadian writers were "cry-babies"; Americans were pros. TRACK 2: Canadian writers resented criticism; Mayse emulated American writers; today's market poor for short stories; in the 1940s and 1950s the stories were not literary but a good product; wrote serials for Saturday Evening Post; later published as novels; approached by an agent; returned to the coast; end of fiction markets; never seen as a serious writer; writing is lonely work; Jack Scott criticized Mr. Mayse's success in the U.S.; considered a move to the U.S.; writer's; work should speak for itself; but book tours are necessary; dislikes writer's grants except for poets; many writers are poseurs; major literary figures in Canada; dislikes commercial versus literary distinction; Mr. Mayse now writes a newspaper column; wrote for "The Beachcombers"; column is a good platform; a lucky and happy man; importance of luck.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Beaudoin Proulx : French-Canadians in Maillardville, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1944 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-03-28 SUMMARY: Beaudoin Proulx came to Maillardville, B.C. in 1910. Worked as a logger. Early road building, construction, first post office. Depression years in Quebec. Farming in Laurentians. Comparison of Maillardville in 1926 and 1944.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Carl Clark RECORDED: [location unknown], 1986-02-03 SUMMARY: Carl Clark was born on February 12, 1912 in Saskatchewan. Became a mechanic for Winnipeg Aero Club in 1930. Joined Starratt Airways during Depression (1935). Went to Trans-Canada Airlines, 1938, and s;tayed with TCA and Air Canada until retirement. TRACK 1: Describes Winnipeg Aero Club in 1930. Effects of Depression. The Starratt Airways operation and early days of Trans-Canada Airlines. TRACK 2: ;Describes the transition to turbine equipment. The effect of war on airports. [Note: Mr. Clark was very ill at the time of the interview; had to use medication to maintain free breathing. Occasional u;se of puffer can be heard during interview.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charlie Pepper : economic survival and the Depression - a prairie odd-jobber's experience RECORDED: Golden (B.C.), 1972-11-05 SUMMARY: Charlie Pepper was born in 1908 and discusses his childhood on the ranch; engineering for missions; being a "Jack-of-all-trades" during the Depression; Alert Bay, British Columbia; businesses; electronics technician; and movie theatres.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hazel Toppings : overcoming a handicap PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hazel Toppings was born in Ontario in 1903. Moved west that same year and grew up on a homestead near Wadena, Saskatchewan, after 1907. Schooling and teacher training. Teaching experience. Marriage and life on a Kipling, Saskatchewan farm in the 1930s. Adoption of three children. Her life as a handicapped person. Move to B.C. TRACK 2: More comments on Kipling, Saskatchewan. Volunteer activities in the United Church and the Handicapped Club. Special facilities for the handicapped. Death of her husband in 1973. Travel. Her son, Earle Toppings, discusses his work at CJRT-FM and Ryerson Institute. Description his mother's illness and the way she dealt with life as a paraplegic.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eileen Sufrin : steel workers organize in B.C. and Ontario RECORDED: White Rock (B.C.), 1978-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Sufrin's interest in unions began with her involvement as a CCF youth activist during the Depression. She began to organize with the CCYM's trade union committee in Ontario. She was involved in the 1940-41 organizing in the banks, which reached workers as far as BC and culminated in the strike in Montreal. This strike was defeated and the drive collapsed. She continued as an organizer for the steel workers, coming to Vancouver in 1943 to train officers of the union and initiate "Steel", the union's western press. She was involved in political struggles with the LPP leadership in the unions, worked for a CCF perspective in the labour movement, and was active on the Vancouver and District Labour Council. TRACK 2: She later returned to Ontario where she led a campaign to organize Eaton's 9,600 person workforce. The drive was only defeated by 600 votes, and this because of a delay by the Labour Relations Board in certification. She returned to the USWA and worked with their office workers department. She participated in numerous campaigns, including Continental Can. Issues that were important to women in the campaigns she led included: equal pay and job classification; unionization; job ghettos; childcare and maternity leave. She always encouraged women to be active union members and officers.

The item is a video copy of a documentary from 1979. It depict the Great Depression of the 1930s and the accompanying societal struggles are documented through archival footage and interviews with people who took part. Specific topics covered include the work relief camps, the On-to-Ottawa Trek, and the birth of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

The item is a magnetic track to a documentary. The Great Depression of the 1930s and the accompanying societal struggles are documented through archival footage and interviews with people who took part. Specific topics covered include the work relief camps, the On-to-Ottawa Trek, and the birth of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1929-[no date] RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Started work for Cominco in 1929 on company docks. Went to Trail in 1930. Laid off in 1931 with other single men. Took freight across Canada; married in North Battleford and took wife on freights to Trail. Got work in 1932 as he was married. Met underground union people. Underground union formed into cells of about five men each. Man named MacDonald paid Evans to come to Trail. About 100 people were in the underground union. Evans had a couple of meetings and people decided to form a real union. Met in co-op garage. Organised on the job. Wore CIO button to break down fear. Relations with Italian workers. Company town. Old WFM men on hill. Anecdote about WFM organizer. Anecdote about Murphy. Observer at first negotiations. Was fired in 1949 for passing out leaflets about Ginger Goodwin's death. TRACK 2: Lost arbitration over firing. Blacklisted from work in Trail. Gets job at Reese-MacDonald mine. Anecdote about men threatening to go on strike if he is fired. Church prints leaflet to discourage Italians from joining Mine/Mill. Assessment of people working for union. Was demoted for organizing. Anecdote about discussion politics with General Manager. Called to general office; from bringing union papers on job. Communists in the Union. Red baiting on the job. Communists didn't hurt organizing. Communists resign thinking to help organizing drive; doesn't work. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1983 RECORDED: Kaslo (B.C.), 1983-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Impression of Arthur Evans. Belenger talked to judge who sentence Evans. Burning of car. Belenger and Evans harassed by police. Burning Evans' car. Workmen's Committee implicated. Ladies Auxiliary organised as an appendage to the union. Impressions of Harvey Murphy. Impressions of Murphy. Organisation of Union Paper. Blaylock and Cominco; Blaylock's drive to dominate everything. Steel raid of 1950. Right wing for Steel. Mine/Mill and democracy. Mine/Mill workers elected to Workmen's Committee. Company gave pay raises to stop union organising. Downtown people talked about company benefits. Pollution in Trail. Company town and paternalism of the company. Anti-Mine/Mill people joined steel analysis of merger. TRACK 2: Steel fighting Mine/Mill/Steel arguments during raid. Strikes won by hearts and guts. Communist party and union decision. Murphy got in trouble once for making a decision without executive. Learned about unions by doing. Process of forming Local 480. Organizers knew about putting out leaflets and papers. Knew how to attack problems. Could see issues clearer than workers, i.e. health and safety. Some men had lead tests done in Spokane. Conditions on the hill. Dr. Endicott was a union sympathizer. Company doctors were not trusted. Company always looking out for shareholders. Workers never start battles (CIO) Evans car smashed. Company propaganda provoked fights. Took a long time for overcome company influence. Trail workers now give largest strike mandate in BC. Company store shuts down. Trail changed physically over time as did the workers.

CALL NUMBER: T3593:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gladys Hilland : IWA officer, Local 1-217 - World War II RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1979-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hilland grew up in Saskatchewan where she participated with her brother in the Farmers Unity League, an organisation of farmers allied with the Workers Unity League, which fought farm foreclosures. She married and moved to BC with her husband to look for work, becoming a waitress and a domestic. She took a job with a BC Forest Products sawmill as soon as women were hired, and worked at Sitka, piling lumber and as a sawyer. She was active in unionising the plant, arguing for the workers to leave the company union and join the IWA. She was elected secretary-treasurer of Local 1-217 of the IWA and served in that capacity until the split in 1948. She was one of the most prominent women in the labour movement in that position. As secretary-treasurer, she continued to organize for the union, speaking to IWA workers and helping them organize in their plants. TRACK 2: She was involved in the 1946 march to Victoria during the strike, and participated in numerous labour lobbies to Victoria. The post-war period and the Cold War led to hostility to the LPP leadership of the IWA. The leadership, dissatisfied with the drain of dues into the International, led a breakaway, forming the WIUC. Mrs. Hilland went with the WIUC. CALL NUMBER: T3593:0001 [cont'd] RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1979-07-17 SUMMARY: During her term as an IWA officer, she fought for the payment of workers according to the job performed, not according to race or sex. Her own experience confirmed a belief that women were competent at all physical and intellectual tasks.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): J. Nordin : retired Saskatchewan homesteader RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-04-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: J. Nordin was born in 1894 in Sweden and immigrated to Canada at the age of 14 with his father. Homesteaded in Saskatchewan outside Prince Albert for 30 years. Mr. Nordin discusses his life as a small time Saskatchewan homesteader. Some information about the Depression. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Saddler from Saskatchewan : the full life of John George PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John George was born on January 29, 1878 and discusses his childhood in Lincolnshire and farm jobs. Learning saddle and harness business. Why he decided to leave England and come to Canada in; 1904. First jobs as saddler and farm worker. Marriage in 1907: first bridal couple in Viscount. Children and homesteading. The Great Depression and issuing relief. Moved to Saskatoon in 1938 to work ;as a saddler for cartage firms. Choir activities. TRACK 2: More on choir activities in Saskatoon. How her came to return to university to study geology at the age of 94.;

RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Canton was born and schooled in Ontario. During the Depression, he rode the rails, and then got a job in the forest industry. He arrived in Vancouver in 1938 and worked for a short time, but returned to Ontario and worked in mining until the war, when he spent four years in the service. After the war, he gained employment with the BC Forest Service.

SUMMARY: "CBC Monday Evening" was a multi-part series that included documentaries and interviews on the arts, along with drama and serious music. This item, "Letters To R.B.Bennett", features two series of let;ters sent to Prime Minister R.B. Bennett in the years 1930-1935, stating conditions of unemployment, hunger, foreclosure and despair, and the subsequent replies from R.B.Bennett's office. One correspo;ndent, a man, seeks employment; the other, a woman, seeks assistance and states her family problems. The actors include Neil Dainard, Peter Haworth, Daphne Goldrick, and Robert Clothier.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Lucy Moon RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Lucy Moon was born ca.1880 and lived in London, England before coming to Canada in 1919. She discusses life in Canada, impressions, detail on jobs (store clerk), the Depression, Vancouver in the 1930s, and Saskatoon. Duties of a store clerk in a fabric shop.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Lizee RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-18 SUMMARY: Marie Lizee was born in Maine, U.S.A. in 1906 and she worked on farms in Montana and Saskatchewan. She raised seven children. Discusses Depression conditions (relief, part-time work) and a cannery in Coquitlam.

CALL NUMBER: T0106:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a study of experience in a rich and full life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-10-27 SUMMARY: This interview was made using a "free expression" technique departing from the standard question and answer format. Marie Townsend was born in 1903 and speaks of her early life homesteading on the Saskatchewan prairie and covers that period of her life from her earliest memories up to the flu pandemic of 1918. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a study of experience in a rich and full life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-02 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend discusses her family life in detail including: homes, pioneer necessities, social activities, meal preparation, neighbours, festivals, religion in family. Many anecdotes are included. The "pioneer equality" of men and women is to be noted. Parental attitudes towards education are also mentioned. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : attitudes and personal character formation in early life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-06 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend speaks of the influences in her early life from grandparents, parents, and community. Childbirth, marriage, and funeral customs are all discussed. Social attitudes in the community circa 1910 are mentioned. Marie Townsend establishes a good feeling for her home life and the lifestyle of the times. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : a convent schooling and nursing training RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend talks of her high school education and the routine of convent life. She attended the Ursuline Academy in Regina from the age of 13 to the age of 16. She then took training at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Regina and graduated as a nurse at the age of 19. This was followed by a post graduate course at Pense, Saskatchewan. She tells of her training as a nurse (1919-1921). CALL NUMBER: T0106:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend : combining career and children in the 1920s and early 1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-10 SUMMARY: Marie Townsend compares attitudes between her generation and her mother's generation concerning childbirth and home making. Differences in social attitudes and child raising are also discussed. Marie worked as a dressmaker and a hairdresser in Pense, Saskatchewan, and earned her living as a dressmaker in Regina. She talks of the hair, cosmetic, and dress styles of the period. CALL NUMBER: T0106:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marie Magdalene Townsend RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-01-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marie Townsend discusses the Depression of the 1930s and her move to Regina where she was a dressmaker. She recalls the On-to-Ottawa Trek, the Regina Riot, and refusing to go on relief. She had two children. The move to B.C. in 1940 at her doctor's suggestion and living in a Japanese house in Surrey during the internment. She discusses how everything was sold that had belonged to the Japanese, and how the people were carted away like cattle in trucks. Marie also boarded teachers during the 1940s, prior to her move to Essondale in 1945. As a nurse she worked extensively with mental patients, and discusses methods of treatment including lobotomies. TRACK 2: Marie Townsend discusses mental illness, nervous breakdowns, strait jackets, medication, isolation, shock treatment, hairdressing mental patients, and public opinions. After having two strokes and recovering in bed for seventeen months Marie returned to nursing, as a private nurse for mostly cancer patients, until 1970. She compares the times of old with those of 1973, evaluating living conditions and values.

CALL NUMBER: T3693:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1979 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979 [summer] SUMMARY: Her birthplace; recalls her education; cruel teacher; living in Vancouver with her mother; Orma's working, embroidery, babysitting, cleaning fish; moving out to Commercial Drive; married at the age of 20 talks of her daughter; impression of life in the East End; experiences and impressions of hoodlums and muggings; description of her apartment; impression of the area on First Church; drunkards; drinking; more on her daughter; Orma's friends.

CALL NUMBER: T3693:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1979 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979 [summer] SUMMARY: Born in 1890 in Ontario; moved to Winnipeg at the age of 8; her mother; living with aunt; living on farm; got hurt at school; teacher threw her down the stairs; from ages of eight to twelve spent in hospital; sewing experience; Vancouver with mother; effects of the Depression of the family; babysitting; left home at age 18; her daughter and marriage; miscellaneous concerning her health and doctors; comments on her life in general her activities.

CALL NUMBER: T3603:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): May Martin : industrial organization in the hotel and restaurant industry, 1940s RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-23 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: May Martin (nee Ansell) came from Capetown. She left school at the end of grade 9 and worked as a grocery clerk, hotel worker, and waitress. She moved from Canada to the U.S.; then to Montreal, Halifax, Toronto, and Windsor, where she stayed until 1941. She then drove west with her husband, searching for work. Her first interest in the HREU came as a result of working in a restaurant where the women union organisers were being harassed by the boss. She went down and joined the HREU and worked in the union houses. She moved to the Yukon in 1942 and organised for the HREU in Whitehorse. In 1944 she was elected business agent upon her return to Vancouver. Mrs. Martin was a strong proponent of industrial organisation, although the HREU was a member of the craft-oriented TLC. From 1945 to 1946, the HREU signed a master agreement with the majority of restaurant employers and began to organise the hotels. The union helped to establish a new and better minimum wage law for women, as well as restrictions on women working late hours, which forced the employer to furnish better shifts. TRACK 2: Mrs. Martin attended the 1946 convention of the union at which the syndicates threatened the internal opposition and retained control of the International. Mrs. Martin and other Canadian delegates were physically threatened, and the opposition leader was shot. Soon after this, the International organised to remove her and Emily Watts, despite membership protests. CALL NUMBER: T3603:0001 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-07-23 & 25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In 1946, before she was removed, Mrs. Martin spoke on the radio defending a woman's right to a job and a union, as a union member and official. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0096:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1925 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Christian Madsen was born in 1899 and discusses growing up in Denmark. Schooling and farm work. TRACK 2: World War I. Army training, Additional schooling. Emigration from Denmark. Farmer's helper in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. Logging and other jobs. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class ; a Danish farmboy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-11 SUMMARY: Niels Madsen discusses working on the farm, going out on his own, pulp camps and cardwood cutting, painting grain elevators, Winnipeg to Edmonton with horse teams, experiences with con men in boomtown, 1928. Trip to B.C. and work in the woods and mines. Summary of jobs to 1937 when he left for the Spanish Civil War. Description of departure from Canada and trip through France. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : a soldier of the working class ; memories of the Spanish Civil War RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-14 SUMMARY: Niels Madsen discusses crossing the Pyrenees to Spain. Setting up camp. Volunteering for immediate action and encounter. International machine gun battalion. Goes on to describe various actions and encounters -- anecdote commentary. Hopelessly lost situation. Story of capture. Beating in P.O.W. camp. Useless war. Release to Canada. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : the on-to-Ottawa trek PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1935 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Madsen discusses joining the labour movement and the Communist Party; conditions at Britannia Mines; Bill Bennett; organizing the relief camp workers' union; protest riot in Vancouver, the On-to-Ottawa Trek. TRACK 2: The On-to-Ottawa Trek continued; the Regina riot; Arthur Evans and other leaders; results of the trek. CALL NUMBER: T0096:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Niels Madsen : union organizer PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Niels Madsen discusses joining the Communist Party, 1930. Prospecting for gold on the Fraser River. TRACK 2: Work in logging camps. Organizing for the I.W.A. End of affiliation with the I.W.A. and the organization of a Canadian union. Strikes on the Queen Charlotte Islands.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Norma McIntyre : growing up in Saskatchewan in the Great Depression PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Norma McIntyre discusses the Depression in Saskatchewan. Farm life and organizations. Home life. Transportation. Catalogues. Clothing. Effects of the Depression. C.C.F. strength in the province. Churches. Social life. Doctors. Relief response to the Depression.

RECORDED: Abbotsford (B.C.), 1981-07 SUMMARY: The trials and tribulations of a pioneer school teacher. Pearl was one of sixteen children. Her father immigrated to Canada and took up a homestead in Saskatchewan, where Pearl was raised. She recalls school and home life and the Depression. She taught school in Saskatchewan and later in Port McNeill BC, and retired in 1975.

CALL NUMBER: T0099:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - king and country RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses his early childhood in England; educational opportunities; family life; influence of father; loss of religion; stupidity of WWI; bakery apprenticeship; farm work; preparing for emigration; reasons for choosing Canada; first impressions; farm work in Saskatchewan. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the real Canadians RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-25 and 28 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses farming in Saskatchewan; Prince Albert; travelling across the prairies working for different farmers; harvesting; tending horses; homesteading with brothers; north to Edmonton; to Vancouver in the spring of 1924; lumber camps; fall of 1924; back to the prairies; first of two bakeries; trips to England; comparison of Prince Albert and Cutknife, Saskatchewan; people and conditions. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - co-operation and confrontation RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-28 and 29 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses bakery operation in Cutknife, Saskatchewan to 1928; idea for a co-op; trips to England; move to Australia; strikes in Australia; differences between Australian and other workers; successes in organizations; tactics in Australia; 1928-1930; getting "leaded" and leaving Australia. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - paternalism rebuked RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-08-31 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the Depression in Canada's west; the effects of the Depression on the people of the prairies; the beginnings of camp organization (unemployed camps) in B.C.; leaders; conditions; tactics; incidents; responses; camp to camp around B.C.; 1930-1935; blacklist from camps; work attempts; riding the rails; unemployed strikes for better conditions; confrontation in Vancouver; McGeer vs. unemployed; police against the unemployed; the continuing organization; etc. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - unemployed on the loose RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-01 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses organizing B.C. camps; changing names for camps; incidents; conditions; action co-ordination between camp organizers; the role of the Communist party and the C.C.F.; preparing for the On-to-Ottawa Trek; organization and plans; move to Vancouver; the story of the Vancouver strikes, incidents, leaders, attitudes of police, unemployed and citizens. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - On-To-Ottawa RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-07 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the On-to-Ottawa Trek from Vancouver to Regina; organization; events; activities of the food detail; problems; successes; Regina riot; attitude of the people and the police day by day; Regina; events of the riot; government response; return to B.C. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - Prince Rupert organization RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-08 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the return from the Ottawa Trek; organizing tasks assigned by the Communist Party; the interior, Prince George to Prince Rupert; organizing methods, problems, results; setting up a framework for self-perpetuating leadership; anecdotes; resistance; success; departure from Prince Rupert against orders; return to Vancouver. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - feeding the internationals RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-11 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses life in Vancouver; forced holiday; out to camp at Tree Valley; conditions, etc; blacklist relief; disastrous farm work attempts; organizing Fraser Mills; the call for Spanish War; volunteers off to Spain; trip and arrival; story of the war in Spain. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - the war years in Spain RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-13 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton continues his description of the Spanish Civil War; financing training; morale; role of the Communist Party; capture by the Fascists; conditions in prison camps; activities etc; release and repatriation; specific battles; personalities; horrors of capture and imprisonment. CALL NUMBER: T0099:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Humanity vs. authority : the life of Perry Hilton - old struggles, new patterns RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-09-15 SUMMARY: Perry Hilton discusses the period from the end of the Spanish Civil War to his retirement in the 1960s. Feelings after Spain; the coming of the Second World War; logging in the interval; joining up; difficulties due to the Spanish War background; service in England; struggle for housing on return to Vancouver in 1945; hand logging from the mid-1940s to retirement -- methods, places, problems, etc.

SUMMARY: "CBC Monday Evening" was a multi-part series that included documentaries and interviews on the arts, along with drama and serious music. The first part of this episode, "Recital", features two musical; selections that were written in Canada in the first half of the century and performed at the 1974 CBC Music Festival. The musical pieces include two trios, both composed in 1907 -- one by Alexis Cont;ant, and a piano trio composed by Healey Willan. Musicians include Linda Lea Thomas on piano, Gerald Jarvis on violin, and Ian Hampton on cello. The second part of the episode, "Letters To R.B.Bennett;", features two series of letters sent to Prime Minister R.B. Bennett in the years 1930-1935, stating conditions of unemployment, hunger, foreclosure and despair, and the subsequent replies from R.B.Bennett's office. One correspondent, a man, seeks employment; the other, a woman, seeks assistance and states her family problems. The actors include Neil Dainard, Peter Haworth, Daphne Goldrick, and R;obert Clothier. The third part of the episode, "Six Bergerettes", features six bergerettes from Lower Canada, originally collected by Marius Barbeau, and arranged for the 1928 Folk Festival by Sir Ernest Macmillian. This type of music included laments and folk songs. The vocalists are: Phyllis Mailing, Steven Hendrickson and Donald Brown, with Simon Strutfield conducting.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First woman ordained in the United Church of Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Lydia E. Cruchy discusses childhood in France and England. Teaching in Saskatchewan. Ordination, 1936 (first woman). Executive Secretary of Committee on the Deaconess Order and Women Workers.; Other Saskatchewan pastorates, 1943-1962. D.D., 1953. The Church in Saskatchewan during the Depression. Work with New Canadians. Activities in retirement.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An active life in the United Church in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Reverend R.W. Hardy was born in 1890 and spent his childhood in Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and served in World War I. Edinburgh University. Ordained and married in Whitby, 1921. Pastorates in Saskatchewan and B.C., including Cranbrook and Kitsilano. Secretary of Conference. St. George's, South Fraser. Changes in Christian Education. Changes in the Church. Church's role in the Depression. Retirement activities since 1955. The Church in the future.