CALL NUMBER: T1811:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in Montreal. Move to Naramata, B.C., in 1909. His father and grandfather. Education. The first church at Naramata. Decision to become a minister. More about Naramata community. Effects of World War I. Life as a student minister. Ordination, 1926. TRACK 2: Young people's organizations in Vancouver in the 1920s; student Christian movement. Marriage. Work in Coalmont field. McBride and Giscome fields. Characteristics of the church in B.C. Community activities. Effects of the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ministers' financial problems in the Depression. The church's attitude to war, and to World War II. Serving the soldiers near Sardis. Outstanding figures in the church; Hugh Dobson and social concerns. TRACK 2: Dobson and social concerns (continued). J.S. Woodsworth, M.J. Coldwell, and Stanley Knowles and their backgrounds. The Sanford brothers. Re-location of Japanese (during WWII). The church in the 1970s.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 3 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: The need for a new sense of brotherhood.

The fonds consists of records created and acquired by W. Kimball Nichols between 1922 and 1967. The records include records created by his father, W.K. Nichols and consist of contracts, correspondence and reports from 1922 to 1929 of the Eagle Lake Spruce Mills Ltd. in Giscome BC. There is also a photograph showing a forest fire at Giscome BC ca. 1928. This company was managed by W.K. Nichols. The fonds also includes financial records of Beaver Pass Gold Placers of Wells, BC from 1951 to 1967. This gold mine was owned and operated by W. Kimball Nichols and W.E. North.