CALL NUMBER: T1717:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele, born in Vancouver in 1886, talks about his family; his aunt Sara Anne Reimer, his uncle, Tom Hugh, and his grandfather, Mr. Hugh, coming to Vancouver. He recalls property sales; funerals; subjects from the family diary; family homes; the Mount Pleasant school and community in the 1890s. He describes the family house; gardens; streetcars; the development of Mount Pleasant; trails; Cedar Cottage; Fairview; the McGeer family; False Creek; and Christmas.

CALL NUMBER: T1717:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele continues with recollections about the Mount Pleasant area; Christmas; birthdays; school; Nightingale's (the local general store); the chain gang road work; breweries; wildlife; hunting; fishing; childhood; Trout Lake; ice skating; False Creek; and streetcars. He discusses land business and personal transactions mentioned in his grandfather's diary; land transactions; depressions; speculation; the 1907 depression; the 1911-1912 land boom; land auctions; and girls' and boys' education. He describes the views of Mount Pleasant and Vancouver that he would have seen (and might have; photographed) from the tower at the fire station at Quebec and Main Street, 1901. CALL NUMBER: T1717:0003 [CD T1717:0002A] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Mr. Steele continues describing of views of Vancouver from the fire station at Quebec and Main.

CALL NUMBER: T0076:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Enomoto RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-16 SUMMARY: Ellen Enomoto was born in 1922 in Canada and is a high school graduate. Her parents came from Japan in their teens and her grandfather and father bought a drugstore on Powell Street. At first the family lived in Fairview where she started to go to school. Since her grandmother went back to Japan, her family moved to Powell Street to look after the grandfather, until he eventually returned to Japan as well.

CALL NUMBER: T0076:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Enomoto RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-16 SUMMARY: Ellen Enomoto attended the Japanese Language School everyday after public school but she did not find it useful so she quit when she started attending senior high school. After graduating she kept learning piano and was a music major for two years. The family moved to Minto, a self-supporting evacuation centre, in 1942 when she married Mr. Enomoto who was a car mechanic. He worked at sawmills and a garage in Bralorne. They later managed a wok-house for the sawmill in Lac La Hache until 1960.

CALL NUMBER: T1327:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: COLONEL LOW recalls Vancouver in the 1890s and 1900s; his father, who worked for the CPR; his impressions of the Seymour Street area; Hotel Vancouver; Granville Street; the Howe Street races; the Badminton Hotel; the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York. He continues with childhood memories of home on Seymour Street in 1899; Dawson School; incidents; and the Fairview area. He recalls Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; streetcars; his position as electrical inspector for the city; pageants; arches in the city; first automobiles; Saturday night entertainment and vaudeville shows. TRACK 2:; Colonel Low continues with recollections of teenagers, ca. 1900; newspapers and journalism; the Imperial Theatre and other theatres. WILLIAM WALLACE gives his impressions of Vancouver in 1906 including Carrall Street and the Grandview district. He recalls boyhood incidents; schooling; East Indians; lacrosse; sports; the Grandview District; the Okimo Club, a social club for boys and girls; the chain gang; and the Riel Rebellion.

CALL NUMBER: T1327:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1960?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wallace recalls the change in traffic directions. JACK MEHAN was born in Nanaimo; his family came to Vancouver in 1905. Mr. Mehan talks about the early streetcar lines; childhood pranks; Main Street; Granville Street; the BC Electric [interurban] line to Steveston; Point Grey; the CPR gardens in Kerrisdale; the collision between the "Princess Victoria" and the "Chehalis"; and Captain Alex MacLean. [TRACK 2: blank.]