RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Stores; close of mines; beer; death of a miner; gas; 1887 explosion; dentistry; Finns; three babies; mine rescue teams; black lung; W.C.B.; amputations; life span; lodges; hospital Chinese; attitude toward amputation; hatchet man; pneumonia; burn cases; maggots and leeches; recreation; soccer; lacrosse.;

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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Swenson talks about his father [Paul Swenson] who came to Westham Island in 1881 from Sweden, and later managed the British American and Canoe Pass Canneries and bought a farm on Westham; Island in 1886. Mr. Swenson discuses the bridge to the island in 1909; early family history; local Indians; anecdotes about his father and family; Tamboline Slough on Westham Island; history of the Ladner/Delta area; the sturgeon banks; farming; development; Canoe Pass; early settlers of Westham Island and dyke construction. TRACK 2: Mr. Swenson continues discussing dyke construction on Westham Island; Chinese labour; farming; canneries; fishermen; ethnic groups in the area; Japanese; inducements for fishermen to join a cannery; Icelandic immigrants; Finnish immigrants; getting fish to the canneries; local characters; strikes; Count [Alvo von] Alvensleben; Tsawwassen Reserve; raising sugar beet seed.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bertha Souderholm : fruit and vegetable workers organize at Websters Corners RECORDED: Maple Ridge (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Souderholm was active with Finnish community organizations in the Maple Ridge area during the war. The tape describes that community during the Depression; the cooperative movement; women's organization in the community; work and organizing at Berryland; women in the war industries; conditions in the fish canneries. Websters Corners, where she lived, had a long history of progressive organizing. Women in the Finnish community traditionally had their own organizations. Men in Websters Corners worked in industry, while women built and maintained the community. The Women's Defense League organized a defense of political prisoners during the 1930s. Later organizations gathered clothing for Finnish war relief. The unions in the 1940s established old age pensions and unemployment insurance; workmen's compensation, family allowance and medicare. The labour at Berryland was very difficult as there was little automation. Women were called in to work and received only an hour's pay if little fruit was available. TRACK 2: Women worked at Berryland on a seasonal basis, without the benefit of seniority to supplement their household income and pay taxes. Women tried to organise and several women were fired. A wildcat strike occurred later on and the union was established. This created a seniority system and year-round work.

The file consists of photocopied material compiled by C.P. Czartoryski and includes a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources dealing with the history of the ethnic communities of Amber Valley (Alberta), Bella Coola (British Columbia), Falher (Alberta), La Crete (Alberta), Saltspring Island (British Columbia), Skarv (Alberta), Sointula (British Columbia), students' newsletters in Finnish from Sointula, 1912.

SUMMARY: (1) "Tidewaters" was the 13th program in "From the Mountains to the Sea", a series about the history and people of British Columbia's regions, based on oral history interviews recorded by Robert (later Imbert) Orchard. It deals with the people who lived at different parts of the British Columbia coastline. The outer coast of British Columbia and the story of some of the wrecks around Cape Beale. Settlers on the coast: the Finns of Sointula, the Norwegians of Bella Coola, and the people who settled at the north end of Vancouver Island. Also the coastal Indians: the Haidas and their huge canoes, and the Nootka whale-hunters. Voices heard include: Ethel Cadorin, Edward Joyce, Annie Hayes, Ted Levelton, Milo Fougner, Arvo Tynjala, Frank Hole and Chief William Scow. The Hamatsa songs were performed by Mary Johnson, Annie Hayes, and Arvo Tynjala; another song was sung by Dick Willy. (2) In a concert from the Courtenay Youth Music Camp, Simon Streatfield conducts the Faculty Orchestra in works by; Vivaldi, Bach and Respighi, with soloists Steven Staryk, Otto Eifert and Ray Still. NOTE: Only the "Tidewaters" documentary is on this tape, which is tape 1 of 2.

Negroes, Finns, Sikhs: Education and Community Experience in British Columbia. Unpublished paper presented to Inter-University Committee on Canadian Slavs, Ottawa, 1971.

Presented by C.P. Czartoryski, Vancouver, 1976.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eino Ahola RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-05 SUMMARY: Eino Ahola fished the central area all this life. Was 11 years old when he first fished in a skiff. Fished alone at age 17 in 1915. He was born in Finland in 1897, and came to B.C. at an early age. His parents settled at Sointula, Malcolm Island. Low fish prices then. When the Fins came to Canada, they weren't used to fish, and didn't consider cod as food. They did eat some shellfish. He started out with a flat-bottomed skiff in Rivers Inlet. They did most of their fishing at night, pulling their nets in at the morning. They used a square chunk of wood with license number to mark their nets, and at night they had a lantern. He was part of the founding convention of a union in 1925-26. Discusses union development and the strike of 1936. Had his first gas boat in 1925 with a 5 HP Vivian engine. Discusses engines, new equipment and changes in fishing. Each cannery had their own colour of boat to help the packers identify them: Kildala was white, Wadham was red, Brunswick was blue, Beaver was yellow, and Provincial was green. He was a camp man for 3 or 4 seasons at Storm Bay and Johnson Straits. A camp man repairs the nets for the fishermen, and manages the camp. (Tape becomes garbled due to low battery while recordings -- reduce to 1 7/8 ips). Sointula has changed from a Finnish community to one with all kinds of nationalities. He used to build boats at Sointula for 50 years in the wintertime and fished in the summer. Pilchards were fished by seiners, for the reduction plant, but one year they just disappeared, probably because of the change in water temperatures. Eino was recently made an honourary member for life of the U.F.A.W.U. for his part in union organizing. Story of the Kingcome Indians who got boats from the government but never paid for them. Tells the story about Skookum Charlie and the tourist who took his picture.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-03-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Building bees; strike; school; Finnish recreation; boarding houses; wash houses; father to Nanaimo; Extension; horse and buggy; Sam Guthrie; hoist; Finn halls; Mount Bickerton; ethnic groups; motor; Chinese; money earned; the Depression; father's accident.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. A (Ethel) Cadorin acts as a translator for her mother, Katri Riksman, who recalls the Finnish community of Sointula on Malcolm Island. Mrs. Riksman describes her father, Matti Riksman, ;and the beginnings of the Sointula community; earlier settlements in Nanaimo, Hoquiam and Australia. Then she discusses the ideals of Sointula and Kaleuan Kansa; her own impressions upon arrival in Sointula in 1902; the fire of 1903 and its consequences; and the breakdown of Sointula. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-04-05 SUMMARY: Anna Tynjala sings Finnish folk songs with accordion accompaniment. In the interview that follows, she discusses Finnish folk music in Canada.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wyngaert discusses his father, Alfred Wyngoert, and his arrival in Vancouver, and then in Gibsons Landing in 1909. Then he discusses his own move from the retail business to chicken ranching; skid roads, from 1880 to 1910; various settlers in the area; exposure to the Finnish settlers from Sointula; more on skid roads; the postal service at Gibsons Landing; W.W. Winn and his store an;d post office in 1915; and the beginning and growth of Gibsons Landing in 1886. Finally, Mr. Wyngaert describes J.S. Woodsworth and Dr. Fred Inglis. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred Wastell describes the arrival of his father, Alfred Marmaduke Wastell, in Alert Bay in 1898, the beginning of the box factory, the Indian reservation at Alert Bay, the town from 1909; to 1920, transportation, race relations, potlatches (including their practice and suppression from 1900 to 1915), the Finnish commune of Sointula, prominent citizens of Alert Bay, industry, the trial;s of 'Big Head Tom', and religious life at Alert Bay. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0547:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life in Alert Bay, 1909-29, and Telegraph Cove, 1929-74 PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1974 RECORDED: Telegraph Cove (B.C.), 1974-08-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Wastell describes: early life in Alert Bay; description of Alert Bay, ca. 1910; prominent families in Alert Bay, 1910-20; sawmill and Indian village at Alert Bay; potlatches at Alert Bay; visitors' accommodation at Alert Bay, 1920s; cannery and fish hatchery in Alert Bay and Nimpkish area. Description of Alert Bay, 1910-20: settlers around Nimpkish Valley, 1912; Tracey & Garland Logging Co; Hand logging Operations, 1920s; sawmill operation and Beaver Cove, 1918. TRACK 2: Fred Wastell discusses: labour problems at Alert Bay; problems with sawmill organization at Alert Bay, ca. 1920; Wood and English mill at Englewood, 1924-25; description of Mr. Wood and Mr. English; Telegraph Cove sawmill operation, 1929-74; saltery operation and problems at Telegraph Cove, 1929-37 Japanese business practices, 1930s; cannery influence on government policy, 1920-40; labour supply at Telegraph Cove mill, 1920-74.

CALL NUMBER: T0547:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life in Telegraph Cove, 1929-74 PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1974 RECORDED: Telegraph Cove (B.C.), 1974-08-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Life in Telegraph Cove. Personnel and Jobs. Building of the road to Telegraph Cove. Advantages of a large mill operation over a small mill. Sointula Finnish commune settlement. Social conditions in Telegraph Cove. The naming of Telegraph Cove. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Grace Chamberlin relates the story of her birth at Gibsons Landing, which was called Howe Sound at that time; her mother's father George William Gibson, who came to Vancouver in 1886 wit;h her mother and father; Gibson's pre-emption; jobs her father worked at in Vancouver; his eventual move to Gibsons Landing; various "skid roads" in the area; Native Indians in the area; other settler;s; Ralph Gibson's store around 1893; life in Gibson's; impressions of George William Gibson; a comparison of today and yesterday; details on how the old timers lived; impressions of Finns including Jacob Hintsa; J.S. Woodsworth and the Methodist Church. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Inez and Kaarlo Huovinen RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-05 SUMMARY: Both Inez and Kaarlo Huovinen have their own gillnetters. They began living in the Vancouver area in 1928, fished on the Skeena River and came to Finn Slough area in 1930. Bought $125.00 boat and put a model-T Ford engine in the boat. Came from Finland in 1924. Worked at logging in Ontario, then on the railway, then on the prairies harvesting, then logged when he first came to B.C. The Depression conditions. 1932 River was too low and lots of fish died at Hell's Gate. Fished 5 days a week. Modern gear is too efficient. Inez started fishing all on her own. Kaarlo owned 2 boats, and he wanted to sell one so she took it over with her son. So he put a high-speed motor in her boat and she caught as much as the men "Fish, you know, don't know who's in the boat, you see, as long as your net is right in the water". Discusses the strikes at Rivers Inlet 1930s. 1945 union included the cannery workers. He fished for the Phoenix Cannery on the Fraser. Names other canneries. There was a co-op cannery in Ladner. Lived in a fishermen's shack for 16 years at the present (1976) Crown Zellerback site. Moved to their present (1976) house in 1947. Japanese treatment during WWII as opposed to treatment of the Finns (Finland fought against the Allies), no government discrimination. Kaarlo tried to learn to speak Japanese but didn't. Discusses B.C.'s Finnish populations. Discusses nets. Inez fishes mostly in the river to "make ends meet" and operates the boat mostly by herself. Discusses the river. Discusses different unions. Discusses fishing seasons and sports fishing. Oscar Niemi lived on the Crown Zellerback site, and it was said that Oscar knows all the stumps and snags in the river from New Westminster to the mouth of the river. Discusses wildlife in Richmond, and its replacement with development. Discuss big changes in cannery work, used to be lots of people, now few people and lots of machines. The buy-back program is discussed and criticized.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kal Kaisla RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1976-03-04 SUMMARY: Kal Kaisla was born on Malcolm Island, Sointula, in (1904). Sointula was primarily all homesteads, fished sockeye at Rivers Inlet. Logging was also an important occupation. He got his first fishing license when he was 15 by appearing older in big boots and south-wester in front of the fisheries officer. First boat was a skiff with oars up at Rivers Inlet. Started as a boat puller when he was 8 years old at Rivers Inlet. Discusses canneries, canning fish, and fish prices. He lived in Sointula for 20 years. First gas boat in 1927, a converted cannery skiff with a 5 HP 2-cycle "Eagle" put in by his father. Changes in fishing equipment. He owns a 41 foot troller now (1976). He discusses and critiques "license limitation". He lived in Bella Bella for 27 years. Discusses unions. Used to hand log at Bella Bella as well. Discusses grade school at Sointula, had to move to lower mainland for his kids' high school education. Dislikes cars and pollution -- would rather live in Sointula. Both his boys have trollers and are fishing herring. During the War, you had to stop and check in with the navy boats. Describes hand logging. Discusses local history and tells stories.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-02-20 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; Alexander mine; E & N; Fiddick's job; father's death; prostitutes; Hawthornethwaite; murder of Stark; sailing ships; surveying; education; strike; South Wellington; Scotchtown; Mark Bate; other nationalities; Finns; timbers; racial mix; Dunsmuir; land grants; Chinese.

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.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Matthew J. Mackie describes how his parents, Nestor and Susan Maki, came from Lapua, Finland in 1891 or 1892, after hearing about the gold rush; the family homestead at Gleneden; how he had t;o walk five miles each way in to school at Tappen in 1901; what his parents were doing near Revelstoke when he was born in 1893; his earliest memories including the family move to Salmon Arm as his father was promoted on the railway to a foreman; what Gleneden was like; how the town got its name; his earliest memories of Salmon Arm; dairy farming; various jobs; memories of railroading; orange celebrations in Salmon Arm on July 12; Seventh Day Adventists baptizing people; Sam McGuire, an early Salmon Arm settler who had a general store; when they first saw East Indians; and other early memories; of childhood in Salmon Arm, including a few characters. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The file consists of a photocopy of Silakka Ja Leippa made in 1977. It contains the reminiscences (in Finnish) of John Anderson, a boat builder in Sointula.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A feature by Don Mowatt and Jurgen; Hesse, recorded among the Scandinavian communities in the Pacific Northwest. The program profiles their music, their national holidays, their customs, and their memories of the homeland. Includes mat;erial read by Esse W. Ljungh [former head of CBC Radio drama].;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A feature by Don Mowatt and Jurgen; Hesse, recorded among the Scandinavian communities in the Pacific Northwest. The program profiles their music, their national holidays, their customs, and their memories of the homeland. Includes readings by Esse W. Ljungh.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Allan Henry Salo titled "The Kalevan Kansa Colonization Company, Limited: A Finnish-Canadian millenarium movement in British Columbia." 1978. xii, 217 leaves: tables, diagrams, appendices. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia. 1978. Vita. Canadian theses on microfiche, 40776.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vaino Matson RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-02-09 SUMMARY: Vaino Matson was born in Ladysmith, and came to Steveston in 1942. Started fishing in 1914 at Sointula which was a big family type of community. Fished in a Canadian Fish Co. sailboat in Rivers Inlet. Stayed out in the 26' boat for 4 or 5 days at a time with a canvas tent over the bow. He bought fish, collected for the company and seined as well. Got his first gas boat in 1924. Linen nets used before nylon. Began fishing in the Fraser River in 1942 for B.C. Packers. Unions before the War, the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union and the Japanese had their own. Big strike at Rivers Inlet in 1936. Fish prices. Importance of unions. Fishing is not good for a family man, too much time away. Went to school in Sointula, classes were in English. His father was a coal miner and them a fisherman in Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Comox. Lived on Chatham Street in Steveston since 1942. Steveston hasn't changed or improved since 1942. He never farmed. Trapped up north and still has a trap line on Gambier Island. Not much change in Fraser River. The river is polluted and you shouldn't eat the fish from it. Used to fish halibut at Hardy Bay on the end of Vancouver Island. Discusses canneries. Got along well with Indian fishermen "If you treat people square and honest, they treat you the same, that's the best way to be". His wife never worked in canneries. Prefers gillnetters and working alone. (sound level becomes inaudible). Discusses early Sointula. During the War, you had to stop and report to a centre at York Island just before Port Melville Island. He tried to get by one night in sloppy weather and he was shot at twice by the navy. Recalls working in North Vancouver during the war. Discusses the Depression. Talks of people at Rivers Inlet: Chief Johnson and his wife who smoked fish at Kildala Bay in 1918. In 1927, if it wasn't for H.R. MacMillan, B.C. Packers would have folded.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-15 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Finns; Extension; Richardson mine; pillars; broken leg; move to Ladysmith; parents come; 1909 explosions; wash houses; timbers; saunas; old South Wellington mine; safety; hotels; gas; Sam Guthrie; buried in a cave-in; kids meet dad; mules; horses; Dunsmuir; bosses; strike; watching cows.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-10-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: No. 1 shaft at Wellington; No. 5 mine at Wellington; Wellington; East Wellington mines; Robert Chandler; Robert Dunsmuir; wagons; rope riders; switchers; candles; fish oil lamps; chewing toba;cco; dip of the slope; small coal companies; Alexandra mine; football field; South Wellington; Chase River; Finns; Southfield; The Black Road; Douglas mine. [TRACK 2: blank.];