RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jack E. Thompson was born in 1894 and came to the Grand Forks Valley in 1895. His father, Andrew Thomas, was a blacksmith. Mr. Thompson describes what the valley was like at the turn of the century, which towns were there, which towns had not yet been established, and how the CPR and the hotels brought expansion. He describes the Indians of the area and a man named Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes his relatives between Chilliwack and Rosedale. Mr. Thompson goes on to describe his earliest memories of Cascade and more about Father Pat. Mr. Thompson describes Grand Forks, the farming, the Doukhobors, and Peter Verigin.

TRACK 2: Mr. Thompson describes the Cascade power house, the trestle bridge, the "Hot Air Line" Railway, North Fork mining, and people in Cascade including: Billy Dalgleish, Jack Shaffer, Stocker and Chandler. Then Christina Lake is described, and a story about a moose is told. The interview ends with stories about the Grand Forks beer parlor and ;more about Billy Dalgleish.

CALL NUMBER: T1364:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part one) PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: This tape begins with Dr. English's early years as a student, then his early career in education as a teacher and principal. Discusses Putnam-Weir Report. Effect of Depression on education. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part two) PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Dr. English describes changes in education in the 1930s, and his experiences as a school inspector in the Peace River school district. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part three) PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1962 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Dr. English discusses his experiences as an inspector in Trail-Rossland district, and the differences between this district and the Trail school board. Talks about the problem of Doukhobors' refusal to send their children to school. Implementation of Cameron Report in the Greater Victoria area. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part four) PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of re-organization according to the Cameron Report. Discussion of changes in organization of the Department of Education, and changing responsibilities of officials. Policy decision under Social Credit government. Curriculum revision. The Chant Report. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part five) PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Career as Deputy Minister of Education: discussion of implementation of Chant Report, of contribution of Ministers of Education, of changes in organization of Department of Education. Observations on the Legislature. General comments about trends in education and the preparation of annual reports. (End of interview)

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CALL NUMBER: T0008:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Buhr RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Buhr describes his life in Kiev, Russia, before, during and after World War One and the Revolution. Officer in Tzar's Army, education, persecution of family (Mennonite) as bourgeois -- loss of farm. How he emigrated from Russia, 1925. Jobs in Manitoba: window dresser at Eaton's, Winnipeg. Retirement and move to B.C. in 1961. Interpreter at Doukhobor preliminary hearing trials, New Westminster, 1962. TRACK 2: Discussion of his work as Russian interpreter at Doukhobor trials and comments on Doukhobors in B.C. [continued on T0008:0002] CALL NUMBER: T0008:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of the Doukhobors as interpreted by John Buhr RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Buhr talks about the Doukhobors of B.C. for whom he was a translator in court during the 1960s. His book on the Doukhobors. Mennonites and Doukhobors in Russia. TRACK 2: More on the Doukhobors in Russia from his research. His unfavourable opinion of sympathetic books on the Doukhobors. CALL NUMBER: T0008:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of the Doukhobors as interpreted by John Buhr PERIOD COVERED: 1700-1970 RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of discussion of his research on Doukhobors, and the trials of "Sons of Freedom" sect members in the 1960s. TRACK 2: Teachings of the Doukhobors from Buhr's research.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John H. Jerome remembers the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, and the South Slocan region. He came to work for the company in 1916 at the age of eighteen. He describes the West Kootenay Power and Light Company from 1898; modern hydro and dam development; Mr. Jerome as an operator for forty-seven years; the past versus the present; the people of the South Slocan region; early roads and transportation; settlement around 1912; the eccentric British immigrants; the South Slocan Chalet; the Doukhobors; mines and the Nelson City Power Plant. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0007 PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1920 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Maternal grandparents' immigration to Regina from England; father involved in Riel Rebellion; anecdote about Big Bear; paternal grandparents; father's history; father had fruit farm in Saskatchewan; met Maxwell Annabelle from Moose Jaw; Annabelle knew about 800 acres available, where Kinnaird is now; the Killoughs arrived in 1913; built house; hand logged by Joe Deschamps; brother goes overseas; labour scarce; Killoughs couldn't make mortgage and lost the farm; pre-empted on upper bench in 1918; farm later subdivided for smelter workers; Killough's stump ranch; logging on upper bench; Kinnaird school opens on push of the Dumont family; Killoughs walked to the Castlegar school until 1918; logging operation about Kinnaird; poles and posts. TRACK 2: Saulstrom, Anderson, Merry logging operation; stulls and logging for Rossland Mines; farmers from Milestone, Saskatchewan buy operation; Milestone Lumber Company and Road; steam mills; Joe Deschamps; planer; Kinnaird school attendance; homemade school bus; first bus driver; anecdote about arrival in Castlegar; logs shipped by rail to Gennelle sawmill; ownership of Gennelle mill; anecdote about Gennelle sawmill; wheat grown in Gennelle; cradle scythe; Doukhobor labour; strawberry and apple planted; layout of ranch; water needed for irrigation; early Castlegar; first post office and store owned by farmer; CPR station; section houses and crews; social status of station agent; Castlegar Hotel built out of boarding houses abandoned after bridge construction. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0008 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early Castlegar buildings and residents: "Alex the Indian", Collingwood Bing; McCauleys lived by the river; Castlegar school and children; Jim Laurie, station operator; Watts in West Robson; footpath added to rail bridge over the Columbia; Waldie's sawmill; families able to attend school; Pratt family played music in Farmers' Hall; other mill and section foremen families; Alex the Indian, a trapper, stayed at Killough's; found wikiup in 1924-25; Alex died shortly after; relief camp at China Creek, 1932; roadwork allowed Castlegar to grow; road before the Depression; Castlegar Community Hall; volunteer labour; "Stunt Night" at the community hall; songs, plays, boxing, dance after; relief camp workers brought to hall. TRACK 2: In 1929, built a telephone line to the top of Old Glory; worked as an assistant forest ranger part time; Westley fire; foreman on fire; hired by West Kootenay Power and Light; "deconstruction" of 1898 20-kilovolt line; construction of 60-kilovolt line; Blueberry Creek pre-emption; logging during the winter; 1961 gallbladder operation; married school teacher in 1935; forest Service didn't hire assistant rangers back in 1932; bought truck and built the wooden school but all assistant rangers and half of rangers laid off in 1932; forest development projects (relief), 1936 to 1939; assistant rangers hired to run camps; Seymour River camp 1936; Cowichan River Camp 1937; 100-man camps; setting up camps; pay scheme for workers; assistant rangers would go back to rangering every spring; provincial parks division came out of forest development projects. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0009 PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1975 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nurseries and reforestation started by forest development projects; Depression life on homestead; salmon stocks ended with the Grand Coulee Dam; anecdote about last salmon; whites never fished salmon; Westley; Page and Hill mill in Westley; Birchbank Lumber Company; East Indians in the Kootenays; anecdote about East Indians; Chinese labour and cooks; Chinese gardens; Waterloo; mines and boom; boat crossing; first water ferry; last ferry operator; size and operation of ferry; iron bridge; travel to Nelson; Thrums Road put in; residents in Waterloo; reflections on history; Tom Bloomer; CPR engineer; Bloomer and Hurst buy Castlegar land; Bloomers move to Nelson; Fred Horko. TRACK 2: 1926 Waldie's Robson camp; United Church minister [Rev. George R.B.] Kinney at relief camp who [shot or showed] home movies at camp; Kinney first to climb Mount Robson; anecdote about the death of a organizer in the forest development project; union activists suppressed; inspector of scalers for forestry; operators hired scalers; checkability; spent last years at work developing a scaling system; piece sampling explained; weight scaling explained; government takes over scaling; history of Forest Service; Sloan Royal Commission; university research flip-flops; suppressed forest growth; selective logging.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Killough remembers Castlegar and Kinnard. He came to Castlegar in 1913 with his family. He offers his first impressions; school; the importance of the CPR in Castlegar history; Castlegar as it was in 1913; more about the railroad to 1917; the Edgewood Lumber Mill; more about trains; Kinnard in 1913; his father Captain Joseph Arthur Killough; a logging camp at Kinnard; marketing meat; an incident while swimming as a child; the wheat harvest and Doukhobors at Brilliant. TRACK 2: Mr. Killough continues with more on the Doukhobors as seen by an outsider; school; the population increase in 1918; mining and milling economy; the arrival of traction engine for one of the mills; other families; Peter "Lordly" Verigin; the Doukhobor ferry at Waterloo; the route from Castlega;r to Nelson by road; Jimmy Davidson and the Castlegar ferry; Waterloo as a mining community; and the name "Castlegar".

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. and Mrs. Clark recall Gray Creek and the area from 1912 to 1920. Mr. Leonard Clark describes how he came to California and then on to BC in 1912; he purchased land at Gray Creek and worked on fruit farm development until 1914; the Gray Creek settlement as it was in 1912; returning to Gray Creek in 1919; the Smith family; Boswell; Crawford Bay; Nelson; and Doukhobors. Mrs. Katherine; Clark then discusses how Crawford Bay is also know as 'Dogpatch'; the people around Crawford Bay; Boswell; Gray Creek; Bill Fraser; Mrs. Russel; 'Ma' Fournier; Oscar Burden; the attitude of hotel owners; Crawford Bay's Commander Harrison; the population of Crawford Bay and more about 'Ma' Fournier. TRACK 2: Mrs. Clark continues with more on Oscar Burden's houseboat; her family, the Smiths, who ;arrived at Grey Creek in 1914; her first impressions; the journey; entertaining; the Gray Creek population was predominantly bachelors; Colin Hadden; Len Clark's place; a horse back riding tour with Mrs. Wakefield in 1915; R.T. Deane and the effect of the countryside.

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.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): 1950-52 sessions and 1952 election PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nimsick discusses: hospital insurance issue; break up of Coalition; role of W.A.C. Bennett, who advocates alternate (preferential) ballot, crosses floor; Workman's Compensation issues; more on W.A.C. Bennett; other issues in 1950-52 Parliament; caucus discipline and unity; Winch's role as Opposition Leader; storm caused by Nimsick's involvement in signing peace petition, 1951; 1952 election campaign; Social Credit League. TRACK 2: Nimsick discusses: 1952 election (cont'd); Cranbrook campaign, the story of the "great challenge" in Kimberley; candidates in Cranbrook constituency; local issues; outcome of election; Social Credit forms government; role of Tom Uphill; reaction of Harold Winch; Winch's attempt to form government, 1953.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): 1953 election and 1952-56 sessions PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nimsick discusses: 1952 by-elections, C.C.F. caucus, 1953, description of new members, 1953 session and Rolston Formula; comparison between Social Credit government and Coalition government; W.A.C. Bennett; hospital insurance changes under Social Credit; more on 1953 session; J. Allen Reid speech, night sittings. Impressions of: Einar Gunderson, Tilly Rolston. Discussion of events surrounding Winch's resignation as leader. TRACK 2: Nimsick discusses: more on Winch's resignation; Winch and Webster switch nominations; Webster becomes leader; 1953 election and the Rolston Formula; Nimsick speaks in Trail; Cranbrook campaign; relationship between C.C.F. and Tom Uphill; 1953-56 sessions; more on hospital insurance, liquor issue, "cow incident", Colquitz Mental Home, PGE Railway, Workman's Compensation, labour legislation, Phil Gaglardi.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The 1954-1956 sessions : Sommers, Doukhobors and Highways PERIOD COVERED: 1954-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nimsick discusses: Gaglardi (cont'd); Stewart-Cassiar Highway controversy (aside on Edgar Jamieson); general comments on the role of an MLA; more on Nimsick's relationship with Cominco; putting columns in newspaper; Sommers case; and 1955 redistribution. TRACK 2: Nimsick discusses: Walter Mulligan case; Bennett's financial policies; Social Credit highway program; some general comments about the Doukhobor issue and Sons of Freedom sect.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0011 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Provincial party politics, 1955-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1955-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nimsick discusses: the Kaiser Dam proposal; relationship between Nimsick and Bennett; internal party politics; Webster resigns as leader; leadership contest in 1956 which Nimsick runs in; caucus role in selecting leader; Strachan wins leadership; the Winnipeg Declaration; 1956 provincial election; Strachan as a leader; Wenner-Gren proposal. TRACK 2: Nimsick discusses: Wenner-Gren (cont'd;); government's entry into ferry business; labour legislation (Bill 43); civil servants' strike; homeowners grant (Strachan reverses his position under caucus pressure); 1960 election; B.C. Electric issue; Cranbrook campaign; recollections of work as an MLA (general); first impressions of Dave Barrett and other new C.C.F. MLAs.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Formation of NDP and 1966 election PERIOD COVERED: 1960-1966 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on C.C.F. MLAs elected in 1960. Formation of NDP: Nimsick opposes merger with CLC. Nimsick discusses Columbia River Treaty: overview, McNaughton scheme, Libby Dam, Peace River (two river; policy). B.C. Electric take-over. Kaiser moves into East Kootenay area to mine coal: Natal-Michel relocation plan. TRACK 2: Nimsick advocates government take-over of power companies in the Kootenays, also transmission lines. Labour legislation: Bill 42. Nimsick advocates a special pension to be given to Tom Uphill. Nimsick discusses the 1963 provincial election: Fulton's role, Strachan's image, effect of Columbia River Treaty and B.C. Electric take-over, Cranbrook campaign, Bank of B.C. Also discusses: medicare (1964), Jones case, his visit to Brannon Lake juvenile detention centre, the Angus Commission redistribution. Discusses 1966 provincial election: Kootenay campaign (problem of running in an enlarged riding), style of provincial campaign.

CALL NUMBER: T3224:0013 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The 1966 to 1969 provincial elections PERIOD COVERED: 1966-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on style of provincial campaign (1966). Nimsick named caucus whip. He describes his role as whip. Impressions of new NDP caucus members. Controversy surrounding Gaglardi. Comments on Bonner's departure. Mediation Commission Act (Bill 33). Commonwealth Trust case. Robert's Bank superport. Cowichan Copper Company. Kootenay and Elk Railway. Incident between Nimsick and Waldo Skillings. Constituency issues. Nimsick's efforts to get a royal commission to examine the mining industry. Berger leadership challenge, 1967. TRACK 2: More on the Berger leadership challenge. Strachan resigns: 1969 leadership convention (Berger vs. Barrett vs. Williams). Nimsick attends showing of "The Good Life" with W.A.C. Bennett. 1969 provincial election: Nimsick wins on the recount. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3330:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Background, education and military service of Les Peterson PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-09-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses his personal and family background: growing up in rural Alberta; religious influences and early political interests. Recollections of political figures prominent in Alberta in the 1930s. Peterson's education: Alice Hill School, Viking, Alberta -- the proverbial single-room schoolhouse; high school in Viking; Camrose Lutheran College, Camrose Alberta. Extracurricular activities and first working experience. TRACK 2: Leslie Peterson recounts his experience working for the CN Express in Edmonton as a young man. Working for the railroad in Terrace, B.C., and enlisting in the army at Prince Rupert. Recollections of service in the army: training and service in the Coast Artillery at Prince Rupert; attendance at McGill University in the Army Service course and memories of Montreal and friendships made there; service overseas in England and travels on the continent. Peterson was in Europe on Armistice Day. Before returning to Canada in 1946 he attended the University of London for a year. Return to Canada, discharge from army and decision to enroll in law school at the University of British Columbia. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Legal and political training PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-09-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses his first impressions of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia. Comments on the experience of a war veteran attending university after World War Two. Recollections of three years at U.B.C. law school. Peterson was called to the bar in 1949 and begun his own practice in Vancouver. Discussion of the nature of his law practice. Marriage to Agnes Rose Hine in 1950 and comments on Peterson's family. Comments on politics in B.C. during the Coalition era. TRACK 2: Peterson explains how he became interested in and involved with the Social Credit movement. Reaction to the 1952 provincial election. During the 1953 provincial election, Peterson served as campaign manager for North Vancouver Socred candidate George Tomlinson. Peterson was the unsuccessful; Social Credit candidate in the 1953 federal election in the Vancouver-Centre constituency. Impressions and recollections of W.A.C. Bennett. Peterson became involved in politics more by accident than by design. Discussion of how he came to be elected in the 1956 by-election in Vancouver-Centre. First impressions as a Social Credit MLA. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): From MLA to Minister of Education PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses his first impressions as an MLA and his recollections of the Social Credit caucus. Comments on the leadership style of W.A.C. Bennett. The problems of representing an urban constituency in B.C. and Peterson's theory of democratic representation. Comments on the 1956 provincial election campaign. The problems of co-ordinating an election campaign in a dual-member constituency. The efficacy of the Socred campaign slogan: "Progress not Politics". Free enterprise versus socialism as a recurring fundamental issue in B.C. elections. TRACK 2: Leslie Peterson remarks upon the possibility of supporting the Conservatives or Liberals as free enterprise alternatives. The polarization of politics in B.C. The results of the 1956 provincial election and Peterson's success in Vancouver-Centre. Reaction to appointment as Minister of Education, 1956. Description of duties and functions of Minister of Education. Peterson served as Minister of Education during a period of great growth. Comments on the administration of the Education portfolio, 1956-68. The Department of Education was administered by a small group of able men in a very personal style. The problem of delegation of authority. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aspects of the administration of the Department of Education, 1956-68 PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses further aspects of the administration of the Education portfolio. The relationship between the formulation and execution of government policy in the Department of Education. The problem of teacher shortages in British Columbia in the '50s and '60s. Relations with the B.C. Teachers Federation. Discussion of the increasing cost of education in British Columbia, 195;6-68. The financial policies of the Social Credit government and the goal of debt reduction. Financing of school construction under the Social Credit government. Comments on the issues of centralization and decentralization of British Columbia's educational system. TRACK 2: Further comments on the policy of debt-reduction. Recollections of coming before the Treasury Board as Minister of Education. The process of producing a departmental budget. Peterson describes the experience of coming before Treasury Board as a fairly informal affair. Discussion of the operation of cabinet under the leadership of W.A.C. Bennett. The Premier was intolerant on questions of morality, otherwise he was quite flexible on matters of policy. Attitude toward cabinet committees. Important consultation on policy matters often took place outside of cabinet. The Social Credit government was operated by a relatively small group of elected and non-elected officials. Changing impressions of W.A.C. Bennett. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Further aspects of education in British Columbia PERIOD COVERED: 1958-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses the Chant Report of 1958 which called for less frills in education. The Doukhobor problem in British Columbia and the Department of Education. Discussion of trip to Europe in 1959 to examine various European school systems. Medical problems during Peterson's career. Assumption of the responsibilities for the education of the mentally retarded in British Columbia, 1960. The issue of federal assistance for education in British Columbia. Education and federal-provincial relations. Problems serving in a dual cabinet portfolio, Education and Labour. TRACK 2: Coordination of Labour and Education departments. Political oratory and attitudes towards parliamentary institutions. Relations with the University of British Columbia and explanation of the system of grants to universities. Comments on charges of anti-intellectualism which were levelled against the Social Credit government. The Macdonald plan for the growth of higher education in B.C. and the subsequent development of universities and regional colleges in the province. The building of Simon Fraser University. The role of W.A.C. Bennett in the expansion of educational opportunities in B.C. All-night sittings and the issue of "legislation by exhaustion". CALL NUMBER: T3330:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aspects of government in B.C. and appointment as Minister of Labour, 1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1960-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses the issue of all-night sittings in the B.C. legislature. The absence of question period and Hansard in the House during the years of the first Social Credit government. Recollections of the Sommers affair and its effect on the government. The timing of the 1960 provincial election. Recollections of the 1960 election campaign. The take-over of B.C. Electric Co. and reaction in government circles. TRACK 2: The background to Peterson's appointment as Minister of Labour, 1960. Reasons for serving in a dual portfolio. Administration of the Department of Labour. Duties and functions of the Minister of Labour. Comments on the distinctiveness of the labour movement in B.C. Views on labour-management relations. The effect of being branded an "anti-labour government". The relationship between organized labour and the NDP in B.C. and its effects on Peterson as Minister of Labour. The role and function of labour unions. Speculation as to why British Columbians have been reluctant to admit voting for Social Credit. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Labour law disputes and labour relations in B.C., 1960-1971 PERIOD COVERED: 1960-1971 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses the effects of labour legislation which he passed through the B.C. Legislature as Minister of Labour. Bill 42, 1961, and the relationship between organized labour and the NDP. The issue of union payroll deductions being used for political purposes. The Mediation Commission Act, 1968 (Bill 33) and the issue of compulsory arbitration. Use of the power of binding arbitration. Relationship with leaders of organized labour in British Columbia. Comments on the growth and development of the labour movement in B.C. during the years Peterson served as Minister of Labour. Premier W.A.C. Bennett's role in labour matters. TRACK 2: The Premier's attitude towards labour-management relations may have been harsher and more direct than Peterson's. The importance of timing in government interventions in labour-management relations. The occasion when Peterson and Bennett visited the home of J.V. Clyne in an effort to assist in the settling of a labour dispute which was crippling the coast forest industry. The 1971 BCFL-sponsored demonstration at the opening of the legislative session. The amount of labour legislation increased significantly in B.C. during Peterson's tenure as Minister of Labour. Peterson's legacy to labour-management relations in B.C. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Conventions, elections and Social Credit policies PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1972 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses his role and involvement within the Social Credit party. The relationship between the party executive and the government. Comments on the differences between using the phrases "movement", "league" or "party" in describing Social Credit in B.C. The roles of the Women's Auxiliary and the Young Socreds. The relationship between the B.C. and Alberta Social Credit parties. The relationship between the B.C. Social Credit Party and the national party. The 1962 national Social Credit leadership convention at which Robert Thompson was made leader. Reasons for supporting Real Caouette over Robert Thompson. TRACK 2: W.A.C. Bennett and national Social Credit politics. The question of possible irregularities at the 1962 national Socred convention. Reasons for the lack of success of the national Social Credit Party in Canada. Recollections of the 1963 election campaign. Evaluation of the challenge by the Conservatives under the leadership of Davie Fulton. Reasons for the failure of third party challenges in British Columbia. The 1966 provincial election and Peterson's switch to the riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain. Comments on dual-member riding. Election funding and the B.C. Free Enterprise Educational Fund. Peterson's interest and involvement in promoting the Bank of British Columbia. Relations with Vancouver municipal politicians. CALL NUMBER: T3330:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life as Attorney-General and the defeat of the Socreds, 1972 PERIOD COVERED: 1968-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leslie Peterson discusses the effect of the resignation of Robert Bonner in 1968. The following cabinet shuffle and Peterson's assumption of the portfolio of Attorney-General. The duties and functions of the Attorney-General. Administration of the department of the Attorney-General. Relationship with Deputy Attorney-General. Federal-provincial relations, the process of constitutional review and the failure of the Victoria Charter, 1971. The development and advocacy of the five-regions idea. The 1969 constitutional conference in Ottawa. The 1969 provincial election. Evaluation of the leadership of the NDP under Strachan and Berger. The liquor ad ban, 1971, and its effect on the demise of the government. Moral issues in politics. TRACK 2: Peterson's defence of W.A.C. Bennett after he was referred to as a bigot by Prime Minister Trudeau. Contributing factors to the defeat of the Social Credit government in 1972. Anecdote about meeting the Premier at the PNE during the election campaign and warning him that things were not going well. The effect of losing in his own riding, Vancouver-Little Mountain. Comments on the question of succeeding W.A.C. Bennett as leader of the Soci;al Credit Party. Comments on Bill Bennett and his entry into B.C. politics. The threat of the Majority Movement to the revival of the Social Credit Party in B.C.. (End of interview)

The series contains Grand Forks Magistrate's case material relating to truancy of Doukhobour children. Under the Community Regulation Act (1914), parents were responsible for the school attendance of their children between the ages of 7 and 14.

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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-17 SUMMARY: Mrs. Marjorie Reynolds came from Grimsby, Ontario to Grand Forks in 1900 with her father, who used to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She discusses orchards and nurseries and the day she arrived in great detail. Other things she discusses are: the community, fires, brickyard Doukhobors, some gentlemen, black maids, Chinese servants, and the closing of the smelter. Then Mr. E.S. Reynolds describes how he came to Vernon in 1913 and had to go east to join the army. He was one of two men from the area who survived the war. He worked on farms and describes the frost of 1925 which froze his orchard. Mr. Reynolds discusses irrigation, mining, smelting and Volcanic Brown's prospecting trips.

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Series consists of typed minutes recording the thirteenth British Columbia Conference of the United Church of Canada held in 1954, through to the thirty-fourth conference held in 1958. As well as the regular minutes of conferences, this series includes appendices which contain special reports to Conference of secular and ecclesiastical items of contemporary interest.

This accession consists of the typewritten minutes and appendices for the British Columbia Conferences of the United Church of Canada from the Thirtieth Conference in 1954 to the Thirty-Fourth Conference in 1958. The Thirtieth Conference minutes also can be found in MS-2693. The appendices contain the complete reports submitted to Conference, often reflecting the Church's concern with secular societal problems such as unemployment, alcoholism and liquor abuse and nuclear energy. The minutes of the Thirty-Fourth Conference in 1958 have no appendix but the Report of the Executive acts in its stead.

Obituaries of clergy are found in the appendices by year.

PERIOD COVERED: ;1902-;-;[no date] RECORDED: Robson (B.C.), 1966-12 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. James R. Martin recall early days and people in Castlegar, Robson, Westley and other places on the Arrow Lakes.;

CALL NUMBER: T4102:0001 item 02 PERIOD COVERED: 1902-[no date] RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1964-08-10 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. Jock Foggo talk about the early days in Castlegar, Kinnaird, Robson and vicinity. Beginning of interview.

CALL NUMBER: T4102:0001 track 2 & 3 RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1964-08-10 SUMMARY: Continuation of interview with Mr. and Mrs. Jock Foggo.;

CALL NUMBER: T4102:0001 track 4 item 01 RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1964-08-10 SUMMARY: Conclusion of interview with Mr. and Mrs. Jock Foggo.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Reid [first name unknown] recalls people and events around Adams Lake from the 1900s to the 1950s, including: the first white inhabitant, a prospector named Andy McConnell; the story about the rescue of a trapper with scurvy, Jack Wallace of Sunset Creek; and trapper Bill Anderson, who died of a stroke. He describes the Adams River Lumber Company, a horse logging operation that once employed 400 men. He recalls a colony of Seventh Day Adventists that lasted four years on upper Adams Lake. He tells about the failed attempt to settle Doukhobors on upper Adams in early 1950s. He tell;s about a man who robbed a U.S. Army payroll and used the money to start the Cariboo Lodge on the lake, but was eventually caught. The Lodge was taken over by a German named Jacob. Reid operated the steamboat "A.R. Hellen" for the Adams River Lumber Company, and was involved in the rescue of a mentally-ill Swede and others who became sick. He describes the system of dams built by Adams Lake Lumber; Company to transport logs down to mill in Chase. The interviewee concludes with an account of how he came to Lower Adams Lake, beginning with birth in N.B., work in Saskatchewan and then Vancouver, b;efore going to Adams Lake where he married and settled. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: Interviewed at Raspberry Lodge. [No content summary available for this interview.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ross Defoe discusses Castlegar. He came from Albert Canyon in 1909 with his family. He offers his first memories. His father, Tony Defoe, was section foreman. He describes Castlegar; as it was in 1909: the sawmill; boats from West Robson; fruit farming; Castlegar as a divisional point for the CPR; the brick yard; the railways; the name Castlegar; characters such as Bill Washburn, Indian Alex Christian and Joe Trickle; crossing the river including the ferry and bridges; the Doukhobors including the settlement at Brilliant; Peter Verigin; marketing and Jimmy Davidson who was a ;ferry operator. TRACK 2: Ross Defoe continues with more on Jimmy Davidson. Then Noah Defoe offers his memories of Castlegar in 1909; tall tales; Jimmy Davidson; the Doukhobors; and prospectors.