Fires--British Columbia--New Westminster, 1898

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Albert Drinkwater interview

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater recounts his parents' arrival in Langley Prairie, and later Surrey, in the 1890s. He describes schooling; early life; childhood experiences; incident with a bear; New Westminster fire of [1898]; potlatches at Semiahmoo; Indian encampments; family life; farm chores; fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with a discussion about fishing; winter; logging in Surrey; sawmills; Ross McLaren Mill; Yale Road; traveling store, Kidds and Isaac; sounds common at the turn of the century; a cougar incident; railways.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; logging methods; equipment; working horses; teamsters; oxen teams; selection of timber; loggers; the scaler; skid roads; transportation of logs. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; life in the logging camps; skid roads and donkey engines. He talks about Surrey Centre; early residents; Reverend; Bell.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his recollections of early residents of Tynehead; the Bell family; Halls Prairie settlers; the MacKenzie family; the Robertson family; incidents; the Brown family; Johnny Wise and the Clarendon Hotel; riverboats. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater talks about the Yale Road; dredging and dyking, methods, procedures and equipment; Sumas Prairie dyking; constructing the; route for BC Electric; logging.

Isaac Nelson interview : [Stevenson, 1976]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Isaac Nelson RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-27 SUMMARY: Isaac Nelson's father came from Norway in 1896 to settle in Squamish and then they went to Whonnock, a Scandinavian community. He was born in a boat. Began rowing boats at an early age, 24 foot skiffs. Skiffs were flat bottomed and supplied by the canneries. He started rowing out in the Gulf at age 7. Built his own boat in 1909, a 32 foot skiff, because he was too young to get a cannery boat. His father died when he was one year old, and he lived unhappily with a step-father. Used his skiff for one year then bought a round-bottom boat with a 2 cylinder Easthope. Fished sockeye and springs. Later became a fish buyer for the companies. Bought his own packer; ran company boats up the coast. Then he was a net boss for Nelson Brothers, getting the gear ready for the fishermen. He had eleven children, the oldest was lost in the War. Wife the daughter of Jake Lehman, a pioneer family. He was in the carpentry business and built a couple of sawmills. No relief in those days; if you wanted to eat you had to work. Learned to be a carpenter from his step-father. Lots of canneries on the Fraser at one time, but mechanization has done away with it. He worked at Arndale on the Nass River as carpenter and net boss. Cannery machinery is described. The Iron Chink did away with hundreds of workers. He rebuilt the boat that his father had bought for $10.00. The Lee boys started building round-bottom boats and his job was to blow the dust away from the saw; that's how he learned about boats. He packed fish for B.C. Packers, Nelson Brothers, and he also worked as a net boss. He got along well with the Indian fishermen. There were off-years (poor catches) in the early years because of spring floods. 1913 was a good year. Discussion of the Westminster fire of 1898. He actually saw the fire. He never had trouble getting work during the Depression. Married three times. He plays a tune on his fiddle; he is self-taught.

Robert Doherty interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Doherty recounts his family's trip to Vancouver from New Brunswick in 1887, and his memories of growing up in Mount Pleasant; schooling and playing lacrosse. He recalls the Gastown area; his livery business; horse teams; hauling and excavation for the city; his stable on 8th Avenue; and construction of early buildings from the 1910s -- the Vancouver block and the Birks building. He talks about farming with Charlie Oldfield on Lulu Island, 1913-1915; the trucking business; his home and dairy on Sea Island; his Ladner farm; roads and trails; the New Westminster fire [1898?]; bicycle registration; weather; political life; Jimmy and Gerry McGeer; False Creek; slaughter houses; recollections of his wife; and his property on Sea Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Victor MacDonald interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Victor MacDonald discusses traveling across Canada to Chilliwack in 1897; various jobs he held; incidents and memories of Chilliwack and Five Corners; recollections; living in the Okanagan in 1903; other employment; Morris Valley; stories about Dick Ward. TRACK 2: Mr. MacDonald continues with stories about Dick Ward; Sasquatch stories; Morris Valley life; farming; families; Morris Creek school; preachers and churches; Fraser River boats; the fire in New Westminster.