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Lillian Dixon interview

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-11-22 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Finns; Konstantine Maki; Finnish immigration; Wellington; Nanaimo, 1890s; Ch;ase River; family size; diphtheria epidemic 1912; Milton Street; Finnish language; father's death; farming; Maki Road; air shaft; Alexandra; South Wellington; bridal wear; 1912-14 strike; funeral; mot;her; widow; home; Stark's Crossing; Finnish cigar factory. TRACK 2: Milton Street; home; Chase River; obtaining firewood; Christmas; church; Ladysmith; Extension; Finns; father; family bible; weddin;g certificate; naming of children.;

Solomon Wilson interview

CALL NUMBER: T1168:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Solomon Wilson recalls Haida language and life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Solomon Wilson talks about his birth in Vancouver in 1887 and his father's work with the Hastings Mill. He speaks about Maude Island Village -- his uncle's village, the spread of smallpox to ;the Indian population, his childhood, his family, an Indian story about the earth's axel and earthquakes, the Haida language, word usage and names of geographical locations, family crests and potlatches. TRACK 2: Solomon Wilson discusses his childhood, leaving home at age 13 to go to school and incidents at residential school. He talks about his work fishing for halibut, Peter Wallace's cannery, Doughty's saltery, cannery and reduction plant at Alliford Bay (1912), the Maude Island village, villages of history, and the Skidegate village, Haida chiefs and hereditary, family tribes, crests and religion.

CALL NUMBER: T1168:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Solomon Wilson recalls Haida language and life RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Solomon Wilson speaks about his views on religion, the Haida and fighting, an incident in Port Hardy, Haida home life past and present, totem poles and Christianity, the selling of ceremonial; artifacts, Haida intermarriage, disappearance of the Haida language, white contact and the start of the fur trade. TRACK 2: Solomon Wilson discusses local celebrations, weddings, the integrated school, Haida representation on the school board, the influence of TV and the making of canoes at Sandspit.

Jeffrey Johnson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chief Jeffery Johnson : the Skeena River Indians (Gitksan) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chief Jeffrey H. Johnson discusses the Skeena River and his people. He speaks about the meaning of K'san (Skeena), the smallpox epidemic, pre-contact, the introduction of potatoes, pre-contac;t trapping, the arrival of the Hudson's Bay, churches and missionaries, Indian workers at the canneries, Indian fishermen, Indian women knitting the fishing nets and working in the canneries, fishing ;methods and pay, the cannery companies, introduction of the sternwheelers, competition on the Skeena, the wreck of the "Mount Royal" and the freight canoe crews and navigation. TRACK 2: Chief Johnson; continues speaking about the freight canoes, the diet of the crew, diet pre-contact, canoe travel pre-contact, Indian songs for the freight canoes and origins of the songs. Chief Johnson explains and; sings two songs used by the freighting crews, legends of the origin of the Skeena River, a war between the Haida and the people of Kitwanga, and a story about Kitselas Canyon.

Joseph Weah interview

CALL NUMBER: T1176:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joseph Weah recalls early life in Masset PERIOD COVERED: prehistory-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joseph Weah speaks about early Haida villages located in the Queen Charlotte Islands and their relocation to Masset. He describes village sites along the west coast, Tian, gathering sea shells for blankets, hunting sea otters, Old and New Masset, Yaku, Kiusta, totem poles, legends, a story of theft at an Indian doctor's grave site, Ashotla (?), the sale of totem poles, removal of totem po;les, effects of logging and tools and techniques for building canoes. Joseph Weah continues with songs, drumming and narration, including a feast song and a song of welcome. TRACK 2: Joseph Weah cont;inues with examples of songs with drum accompaniment including: The Song of Welcome, the Lahal Song, a thank you song, and the Bridal Song. He speaks about Haida marriage customs, regalia, Indian houses, the village at Tow Hill -- Yakun Point, destruction of the land by logging companies, coming of the missionaries -- Collison, the flu or smallpox epidemic, a story of a burial cave, sailing schooners and sealing and trapping.;

CALL NUMBER: T1176:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joseph Weah recalls Haida songs, marriage and missionaries PERIOD COVERED: prehistory-1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joseph Weah discusses Haida hospitality, Father Duncan and Metlakatla, the Masset Village, Archdeacon Collison and family, Charles Harrison, Father Hogan, hereditary tribes in the village, effects of alcoholism, development of Masset and Mormon education and youth groups. [Note: one file source states that Joseph Weah is a chief.]

Jimmy John interview

CALL NUMBER: T3536:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of an Hesquiat RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-29 SUMMARY: In an interview with Margaret Whitehead, Jimmy John talks about his father's life, as well as his own. Father's background and life story: smallpox epidemic in Nootka when he was young; family was Catholic because Father Brabant lived in Nootka at the time; father's memories of being taught by Fathers Brabant and Stanley; Father Brabant did not want him to go to school because he wanted to teach him himself; attempt on Father Brabant's life by some Natives; Catholic Church built by Nootka Natives; his mother's family from Hesquiat were carvers, but his father was not a carver; how he learned to carve; carved for the Natives, not white people; his first wife -- traditional marriage, wife chosen by his parents; came to Nanaimo to carve silver; first wife died, met second wife (Jimmy's mother); story of how he got land in Nanaimo. TRACK 2: More on Jimmy's father's life: experiences on a schooner -- went to the Bering Sea as a cook, did not get paid much money; shipwrecks along the west coast; used a canoe when he was hunting; early memories of Victoria; always liked to fish; Rivers Inlet anecdote; moving to Nanaimo; back to Nootka to visit occasionally; related to chief line of Nootka's; potlatches; reason his older brothers did not become chief; Nootka's acceptance of Catholic religion; discussion of tape he did about his memories.

CALL NUMBER: T3536:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of an Hesquiat RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jimmy John discusses the life of his father with Margaret Whitehead: translating his father's speeches at Nootka ceremonies (from Native language into English); discussion of dancing and singing at potlatches; potlatches forbidden under Catholic religion in early days. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

Agnes Russ and Grace Stephens interview : [Fortune, 196-?]

RECORDED: Skidegate (B.C.), [196-?] SUMMARY: TRACK 2: In a [filmed] interview with Bob Fortune, Grace Stephens translates for her mother, Agnes Russ. Mrs. Russ speaks about Haida slavery, her longevity, the Queen Charlotte Island villages, the duties of slaves, present-day Skidegate, the smallpox epidemic, her girlhood, the family house, cooking and storage of food, potlatches, and argillite carvings.

Early Vancouver : reminiscences

SUMMARY: "Early Vancouver Reminiscences" includes recollections of the following: the origins of the Salishan people, the coming of the "white people", the smallpox epidemic, and Indigenous villages in Stanley Park and the Vancouver area (described by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mrs.George); descriptions of Vancouver after the 1886 fire, the arrival of the first trains, road building, eviction of native people from Stanley Park, and the dedication of the park (by Sam Walker, Captain Canessa, Chief Khahtsahlano, and Carl Timms); dredging and construction work on False Creek, Granville Island, and various bridges over False Creek (by Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton); 1912 politics, IWW competing with Salvation Army for streetcorner audience, Mayor Findlay, labour meetings, descriptions of bars and ;saloons (by [Reuben Hamilton? and Captain Canessa); local characters "Lazy George","Pacific Slope", and Tommy Roberts (by Sam Walker); the Kitsilano district and the Greer land dispute (by Chief Khahtsahlano); the "Komagata Maru" incident, World War One, conscription, post-war strikes, and construction of the old Second Narrows Bridge (by Captain Canessa and Carl Timms); Gerry McGeer as a youth and as a politician, and his opponent Lyle Telford (by Reuben Hamilton).

Joe Clemine interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joe Clemine recalls some aspects of Indian life in the Dog Creek - Alkali Lake area, 1860 to 1920. Clemine discusses his family background and the land they lived on. He describes the Indian attitude toward land. He speaks of his grandfather, and how he used to raise horses. He describes packers and pack trains in the area. He offers a detailed description of the Alkali Lake Reserve and the 1862 smallpox epidemic. He discusses his school days at Mission School and the conditions of life for Indians at school.

TRACK 2: Mr. Clemine discusses Native schools in the 1960s. Then he discusses the Indian way of life: hunting, food, clothes, houses, stories of various altercations between Indian tribes, and the Indian religion.

Albert Franklin interview

CALL NUMBER: T0613:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Albert Veranous Franklin remembers life at Tatla Lake before 1900. Mr. Franklin recalls his family background, his father, Benny Franklin, the move to Tatla Lake, the reasons, the journey, the purchase of the homestead and establishing a store, getting supplies from Ashcroft, trading with the Indians, the smallpox epidemic among the Indians, excursions to Bute Inlet, the Waddington Massacre, Chilcotin Indians and more, and the massacre and the aftermath.

TRACK 2: Franklin continues with more on the Waddington massacre, the story of the introduction of smallpox among the Indians as told to Franklin by John Hickory McLean, who was a member of the Waddington party, the effects of smallpox, names of early settlers, stories of life at Tatla, an anecdote about seeing the ghost of a dead Indian woman, the new road from Alexis Creek to the Nazko Valley, an account of the Indian game of Lahal, and moving to Nazko from Tatla.

CALL NUMBER: T0613:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Franklin discusses the move to below Anahim Rancherie, Norman Lee, partnerships in the Chilcotin, Indian-White intermarriage, the Franklin homestead, an account of his father's death and burial, his father as Justice of the Peace, his mother, Marie Forest, the move into the Chilcotin in 1889, early days at Tatla Lake, the reasons for moving to the lake from Nazko, and Indian agitation.

TRACK 2: Franklin tells the story behind Indian agitation, a trip to Skeena River, early days at Bute Inlet, his father's excursions between Bute Inlet and Tatla Lake, life after leaving the Chilcotin in 1903, the trip from Tatla Lake to Bute Inlet and back, 1892 or 1893, and place names.

Andy Schooner interview

CALL NUMBER: T1277:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Andy Schooner recalls Bella Coola Indian legends, villages and ceremonies PERIOD COVERED: 1733-1883 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Andy Schooner is a Native man who recalls Bella Coola Indian legends, villages and ceremonies. He begins with a discussion of various Indian villages that were in the area, the origin of the ;name 'Bella Coola', the smallpox epidemic of 1864, traditional salmon fishing and practices, potlatches, the use of 'crystals' and 'man eating' ceremony to teach children respect, the 'hao-hao' bird, a thunderbird story of lightning, and a story of creation. TRACK 2: Schooner continues with more on the cannibal ceremony and then he discusses longhouses, eulachon grease and boxes, missionaries in ;1883, Alexander Mackenzie in 1733, the Indian name for white people, an Indian version of a flood, Indian medicine, and two stories about Indian doctors.

CALL NUMBER: T1277:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Andy Schooner recalls Bella Coola Indian legends, villages and ceremonies PERIOD COVERED: 1733-1883 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Andy Schooner discusses a story about a discovery of stone canoes and people, and Native art depicting potlatches. Orchard and Schooner talk about miscellaneous items. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Commission on the Epidemic Outbreak of Small-Pox (1892-1893)

  • GR-0761
  • Series
  • 1891-1894

The series consists of records created by the Commission on the Epidemic Outbreak of Small-Pox, 1892-1893.

The records include transcripts of evidence, exhibits, commissioner's notes, printed matter, a manuscript report and other miscellaneous documents related to the Commission.

The notebook of Judge Begbie also contains notes regarding several other commissions which he was involved in between 1891 and 1894.

British Columbia. Commission on the Epidemic Outbreak of Small-Pox (1892-1893)

Nellie Gillespie interview

CALL NUMBER: T1311:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs."Nellie" Gillespie recounts the arrival of her father (J.H.Todd) in British Columbia in 1862, his grocery and cannery businesses, summer visits to the Fraser canneries, Skeena canneries, her father's early life in Ontario and BC, her childhood impressions of Victoria, Christmas celebrations, St.John's Church, childhood activities, schooling, theatricals, the Pooley family, recreation at Sooke Lake, and the navy in Victoria society. TRACK 2: Mrs.Gillespie continues with recollections about Begbie's funeral, the Birdcages, the Gillespie family, impressions of the city circa 1900, A;.E.Todd, Mayor of Victoria, the Klondike gold rush, the smallpox epidemic, her father's early activities in Victoria and Barkerville, and her views on tourism and the "Englishness" of Victoria.

CALL NUMBER: T1311:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs.Gillespie talks about getting to know people in Victoria, social life and her views on "Englishness". [TRACK 2: blank.]

Alexander Menzies interview

CALL NUMBER: T1984:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : industrial, municipal, provincial PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Menzies talks about his early childhood on Pender Island and various jobs in the sawmill and on the farm; early education and entrance into Westminster Hall, Vancouver, and acceptance into the Manitoba Medical College in 1913; description of the medical program; the outbreak of the First World War; problems of finance; recruitment into the 12th Field Ambulance in 1915 and lead-in to wartime experiences; overseas experiences from 1916, including battle conditions and medic responsibilities in Ypres, Amiens, Somme and Grand Serviens. TRACK 2: The return home in March 1919; the problems of leaving England and the trans-Atlantic trip, discussed in some detail; the return to medical school; Dr. Tisdall and the apprenticeship in the summer of 1919; Dr. Menzies completed his final fifth year in 1920 and passed the medical counsel exams; a brief description of his internship at VGH follows; in October of 1921, Dr. Menzies became staff doctor at Britannia Mines; the mine cave in that occurred two days later.

CALL NUMBER: T1984:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : Dr. A.R. Menzies PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1936 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Menzies goes into some detail about his life at Britannia Mine; flood in 1921 is the major topic, including a description of the disaster and medical problems; a brief description of the main town site and mountain camp and the common injuries and first aid practice; Dr. Menzies' role as Provincial Health Inspector and experience with communicable diseases such as STDs, smallpox and scarlet fever. TRACK 2: The Britannia experience is ended with Dr. Menzies resignation over a conflict of interest; he mentions again the relationships and prevalent accidents; his return to Vancouver; and work in the laboratories of VGH. Dr. Menzies went to U of T School of Hygiene in 1930, under a fellowship, and returned to Vancouver the following year. In 1931, Menzies became Provincial Epidemiologist; his role in such issues as typhoid control, sanitation and food handling.

CALL NUMBER: T1984:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health : Dr. A.R. Menzies PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The issues involved in public health dentistry, such as fluoridation. Vision and hearing tests in schools were also part of the program. Dr. Menzies relates his most embarrassing situation involving a co-ed student at UBC. In summary, Dr. Menzies discusses the advantages and disadvantages of being involved in public health service. TRACK 2: In 1936, Dr. Menzies joined the Metro Health Committee. He gives a description of its organisation and his first assignments; a discussion of the personnel and programs in the schools and baby clinics; Unit #1 and the issues of food handling and the kindergarten clinic; contact with communicable diseases such as polio; facilities for the handicapped. Dr. Menzies gives a description of the locations of the health units from 1936 to 1959. In 1959, Dr. Menzies became Senior Medical Health Officer. He describes his responsibilities, and discusses changes in the health department, personnel, offices and services.

Doris Mellish interview

CALL NUMBER: T1988:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; nurses training and early job experiences; life on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island; health care on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island; involvement with the Vancouver Health League; mental health; amalgamation of city health and school health; start of Mental Health committee; description of Parent Teachers Association; parent education courses. TRACK 2: ; Description of courses; formation of Vancouver Health League and the Community Chest; Council of Social Agencies; smallpox epidemics of 1919 and 1932; vaccinations for small pox; school vaccination; Cancer Foundation; BC Cancer Society; Tranquille. CALL NUMBER: T1988:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Community program takeover by government; choosing members of family service organisations; payment for services by government; availability of services throughout BC; care of aged; nutrition; results of Conference of Aged; law resulting from the study of facilities; nutrition in Vancouver; fluoridation. TRACK 2: Fluoridation; water pollution; registry of disabled children; handicapped aids; building codes for handicapped; residential treatment for disturbed children. CALL NUMBER: T1988:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Doris Mellish, General Medicine, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Vancouver Health League; mental health; house for residential treatment; mentally retarded; formation of BC Mental Health Association; volunteers for mental health centres; preventorium; Sunnyhill; formation of Victoria Order of Nurses; industrial health in Vancouver; Community Chest organisations. TRACK 2: Community Chest; changes and budget deficits; opinions of resource boards; Community Chest; future.

Flora Moffat interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reading from autobiographical piece, "One Foggy Morning", prepared by Mrs. Joy Duncan, medical historian in Alberta; arriving at the Bella Bella hospital on 22 October 1944; Dr. George Darby; R.W. Large; Matron Marjorie McDowell; Dr. Darby was a "ten talent man"; native Indians; night duty; anecdote of Beatrice, a patient; staff; holiday; first radio-telephone in 1947; births; burns anecdote; 1948 government takeover of hospital finances; antibiotics; the Kitimat flu epidemic; ear infection anecdote; donations; rare diseases; fragile bones; Vince Ton Van Coni syndrome; Von Reckle Heim's disease; cysts; summer hospital at Rivers Inlet; five babies delivered in five nights; immunization; summer hospital closed in 1957; first aid post at Wadhams Inlet [Landing?]; cold snap; Dr. Darby's work; Dr. Ruth Allison was the first full time assistant to Dr. Darby; Dr. David Chisholm; Dr. Page, now Dr. Henderson; little Nellie from Takoosh; skin condition; Adenbrook lighthouse; premature baby; shin abscess; food poisoning of three sisters and the analysis and discovery of the toxin by Dr. Dolman at the provincial lab; trip to Vancouver with a boy with a club foot; storm in Queen Charlotte Sound; statistics for the Bella Bella hospital in 1958; burial of dead patients; off duty activities; social life at Bella Bella. TRACK 2: Social life of Bella Bella; Indian lifestyle; anecdote about a grounded boat; medical student at Bella Bella; Dr. Clarence Coho and his poem celebrating a birth on the high seas; farewell party for Dr. Darby in 1959 when he left Bella Bella; Dr. Peter Kelly's words for Dr. Darby; her birth in Ontario; Detroit hospital nurses training; why Bella Bella?; Dr. Bob Henderson; various other doctors; Dr. Darby's illness and funeral.

Cliff Kopas interview

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas recalls arrival in Bella Coola in 1933 and tells some early history, 1862-1894 PERIOD COVERED: 1862-1933 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas recalls his arrival in Bella Coola in 1933 and discusses some early history of the region (1862-1894): his arrival in Bella Coola by following Alexander Mackenzie's route in 19;33, the trip from Quesnel to Algatcho, his arrival in Firvale, and his first impressions of the Bella Coola Valley. TRACK 2: Clifford Kopas discusses the Waddington massacre, the death of Governor Frederick Seymour in 1869, fishing, the arrival of Lieutenant H.S. Palmer of the Royal Engineers in 1862, "The Grease Trail" from 1862 to 1869, "overlanders" who came to Bella Coola in search of gold, 1;869 Hudson's Bay Co. established their post, a series of men who served at the fort from 1869-1882, the 1883 arrival of missionaries including William Henry Pierce and Thomas Crosby, how in 1885 B.F. Jacobsen visited Bella Coola and took 9 native people to Germany, and the Norwegian settlers who arrived in 1894.

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas : Bella Coola road, 1951-1955 and more history, 1922-1937 PERIOD COVERED: 1793-1955 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas discusses Bella Coola Road (1951-1955) and more history from the region (1922-1937). Kopas discusses the construction for the Bella Coola Road including problems, costs, a com;parison to previous trails, the canyon, the precipice, and Indian routes. Then he discusses other activities pertaining to the road including tourism, logging, mining, and fishing. TRACK 2: Clifford Kopas continues with more on the road including the need for a highway, the building of an airstrip, television, the differences between isolation and civilization, tourism and hotels. Kopas discusses; petroglyphs (rock carvings) which were unearthed in 1922 , the origins of Indians in the area including details about crossing the Bering Strait, a description of Alexander MacKenzie's trip in 1793, Kopas' own trip through the Interior (compared to MacKenzie's), "Grease Trail", Lord Tweedsmuir's visit, Bella Coola's move in 1937, and details about the typhoid epidemic.

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas : life in Bella Coola - the people PERIOD COVERED: 1966-1966 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas describes relationships between whites and Indians, the Indian adaptation to white civilization, a breakdown of the male population in occupations, agriculture in the Bella Coo;la Valley, how milk is brought in from Vancouver, weather in the winter, his impressions of Anahim Lake, community spirit and Norwegians, and the advantages of Bella Coola as a port. [TRACK 2: blank.;]

Lillian Green interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lillian Green discusses her husband, Dr. Frank Green, who worked on Crowsnest Pass; the typhoid outbreak in Cranbrook; performing medical services for several lumber companies. Mrs. Green's father was an unsuccessful partner in a private bank. Mrs. Green's father, Otis Staples, built a lumber mill near Cranbrook; she married in 1905. She describes Cranbrook's first hospital in 1904. TRACK 2: Green continues by discussing Sullivan Mine operating before it was sold; why the town always turned out for theatrical and musical companies; the Cranbrook to Vancouver route, which required switching boats and trains seven times; the mines keeping the businesses in Cranbrook alive; and Staples Mill going out of business after WWI.

Heritage theatre : Influenza : 1918

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Inf;luenza: 1918" by Tom Cone, looks at the killer epidemic of that year.;

Health records with regard to disease outbreaks

  • GR-2586
  • Series
  • 1924-1939

The series consists of files kept by Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Henry Esson Young, from 1924 to 1939. The files relate mostly to outbreaks of disease, including smallpox, infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis), plague, trachoma, tick paralysis, psittacosis, and leprosy. The files contain correspondence of the Provincial Health Officer with Medical Health Officers in B.C. and the U.S. Public Health Service about outbreaks of infectious disease, including the 1932 smallpox epidemic in Vancouver and recurring incidents of diphtheria at the Queen Alexandra Solarium. They also include reports relating to lab services.

British Columbia. Provincial Health Officer