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Ted Brown interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ted Brown RECORDED: Ganges (B.C.), 1982-04-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ted Brown's recollections of life on Saltspring Island, various jobs on the prairie, and logging on the B.C. coast. Arrival on Saltspring via Victoria from Hull 1906. School at Cranberry Marsh until 1920. First job at Ganges Garage. Road work. Falling and bucking for Ollie Garner. Justice Sawmill. Farming at Metchosin. Longshoring at Victoria. McMorran's Garage, Victoria. Harvesting in Saskatchewan. Hand logging at Burgoyne Bay. Cusheon Cove mill. Tie mill. Cusheon Cove dock collapse. Work on Rainbow Road extension. Loading scows. K2 mill in Cranberry. Knee injury. Relief work, 1931. Firefighting. Cutting pulpwood. Singer Mills. Setting up mill in Cranberry. TRACK 2: Cutting firewood. Called up for military service, 1942, but medically rejected. Assistant civil defence warden. Running cattle and sheep at home. Job with water works. Sharpening mowers at Ganges Garage. Sale of garage. Island Freight agent. Spar tree accident, 1948. Snowstorm. Pipeline work, 1949-1950. Falling and bucking in Shepherd Hills. Chainsaw accident. WCB problems. Pipeline repairs. Placing new pipe from Maxwell Lake to Ganges and Harbour House to Vesuvius. Road widening. Survey work for Wolfe-Milner. Building Centennial Park. Private garden work. Retirement, 1972.

The 132,000 volt submarine cable in the Mainland - Vancouver Island interconnection : part 1, preliminary construction

The item is a workprint of an industrial film from 1956. It is the first film of a three-part engineering record of the manufacture and laying of an undersea power cable from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Part one shows surveys, preparations, construction of shore installations and the hanging of overland and overwater cables.

The 132,000 volt submarine cable in the Mainland - Vancouver Island interconnection : part 3, cable laying

The item is a workprint of an industrial film made in 1956. It is the third film of a three-part engineering record of the manufacture and laying of an undersea power cable from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Part three shows the laying of five cables from Saltspring Island to Parker Island (3 miles) and from Tsawwassen Beach to Galiano (14 miles) by the cable-laying ship "Ocean Layer". It also shows shore operations and connections. The cable became operational on 25 September 1956.

The 132,000 volt submarine cable in the Mainland - Vancouver Island interconnection : [short version]

The item consists four film elements that make up the short version of an industrial film about a 132,000 volt submarine cable. The footage shows a condensed version of the three-part production, depicts shore installations (cable chases), cable manufacture (in England) and actual laying of cable from Tsawwassen Beach to Vancouver Island (under the Straits of George and Trincomali Channel).

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