SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. "The Great West Road", which comprises two episodes, presents the story of two journeys from the Fraser River to the Pacific Ocean: th;e first by Alexander Mackenzie in 1793, and the second by a party of scientists following Mackenzies's route in 1975. Dr. Roy Carlson, Dr. Rudi Haering, and Dr. Earl Nelson describe their own adventu;res en route, while Mackenzie's story is told in excerpts from his journal.;

CALL NUMBER: T3150:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: How Dr. Nelson, Dr. Roy Carlson and Dr. Rudi Haering became involved in exploring Alexander Mackenzie's trail through central BC and looking for the source of a form of obsidian used in trade among native people; their first adventures travelling by horse in a pack train. TRACK 2: Following Mackenzie's trail from Haering's Blackwater Ranch; confirming Mackenzie's fish story; impressions of the landscape; camping along the route; discoveries of obsidian; local residents; finding the trail; crossing the Blackwater River to Kluskus; church at Kluskus; wildlife on the trail; Indians at Kluskus; artefacts.

CALL NUMBER: T3150:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Trail from Kluskus to Pan Phillips' dude ranch; obsidian in the Ulkatcho mountains; travel to Dean River; trip to Vancouver to have rock analysed; visit to Ulkatcho village. TRACK 2: Trail through Tanga Lake; trip over Mackenzie Pass to the Bella Coola River and down to Bella Coola; visit to Mackenzie's rock; canoe trip down the Bella Coola River; radio contact with the outside world; brief comments on the trip as an experience.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Roy Carlson describes his part in the trip over Alexander Mackenzie's trail to find the source of mysterious forms of obsidian used in native trade; visit to the Trudeau ranch; travel on horseback; Kluskus village, its church and archaeological sites; the obsidian trade and why it is studied; adventures while travelling from Blackwater Ranch to Tanya Lake, through Mackenzie Pass to Bella Coola; finding sources of obsidian. TRACK 2: Information from locals; sources of obsidian and the trade along the trail; comments on ranching in that part of the Chilcotin.

CALL NUMBER: T3149:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The obsidian trail : [tape 1] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Rudi Haering tells how he became involved in exploring the trade route along Alexander Mackenzie's trail through BC, and looking for the source of a form of obsidian used in trade among native people; X-ray techniques in archaeology; trade routes; how the three scholars (i.e., Haering, Carlson, and Nelson) got together to find the source of the mysterious obsidian; findings; problems along the trail. TRACK 2: Finding the trail from Mackenzie Pass to the Bella Coola Valley; trip from the Blackwater Ranch to Mackenzie Pass through Kluskus and Ulkatcho; Burnt Bridge Creek; canoeing down the Bella Coola River with natives; Indian story about Mackenzie.

CALL NUMBER: T3149:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The obsidian trail : [tape 2] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Retracing Mackenzie's route from Blackwater Ranch on horseback and wagon; campsites; wildlife; artifacts; local ranches; more on campsites; Kluskoil Lake. TRACK 2: Pan Phillips' ranch; looking for obsidian in Ulkatcho mountains; more about Kluskus; other travellers; trail from Eliguk Lake to Ulkatcho; Mackenzie's accomplishment; visit to Mackenzie's rock; Saugstad house at Hagensborg.

Docudrama. A re-enactment of Simon Fraser's 1808 journey down the Fraser River from Fort George to the Pacific. The re-enactment, a special project of the British Columbia Centennial Committee, is also featured in the film CARIBOO VENTURE (CBC, 1958).

SUMMARY: This special program was broadcast separately from the season's regular "People in Landscape" sub-series. It features some of the experiences of the early Spanish and English explorers in the Gulf of Georgia, told in excerpts from their written accounts.

SUMMARY: Gordon Hilker, reporter Jack Webster, and Provincial Archivist Willard Ireland discuss the journey of Simon Fraser.

SUMMARY: "Voyage Of Two Summer Moons" contains excerpts from David Thompson's "Narrative of the Expedition to the Sources of the Columbia River and the Kootenay and the Flatbow Indian Countries", 1807. There i;s also a modern-day re-tracing of Thompson's route by Imbert Orchard and Peter Haworth, made in 1972. This documentary combines narratives from both these journeys. The second part of the program is "The Selfish Giant", a chamber opera by Canadian composer Charles Wilson, based on the story by Oscar Wilde. [Note: This portion of the broadcast is missing.]