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RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: A series of four [?] oral history interviews with John Gerald Prentice, who has served Canadian Forest Products Limited since 1944 as vice-president, president, and chairman of the board. From 1938 to; 1944, Prentice was president of Pacific Veneer Limited in New Westminster. [No content summary is available for these interviews.]

RECORDED: Sidney (B.C.), 1973-03-31 SUMMARY: Over afternoon tea, Elizabeth Gould interviews her mother, Mrs. Grace Bosher, and her aunts Mrs. Patty Mitchell and Mrs. Ruth Anstey. These three sisters (nee Simister) recall how their family -- Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Simister, with five daughters and one son -- emigrated from England to Vancouver Island in 1911-1912. They also discuss their early impressions of Victoria and Sidney, and their early years there.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Saddler from Saskatchewan : the full life of John George PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John George was born on January 29, 1878 and discusses his childhood in Lincolnshire and farm jobs. Learning saddle and harness business. Why he decided to leave England and come to Canada in; 1904. First jobs as saddler and farm worker. Marriage in 1907: first bridal couple in Viscount. Children and homesteading. The Great Depression and issuing relief. Moved to Saskatoon in 1938 to work ;as a saddler for cartage firms. Choir activities. TRACK 2: More on choir activities in Saskatoon. How her came to return to university to study geology at the age of 94.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Landscape gardening and landscape architecture : life of George Chatfield PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Chatfield discusses his childhood in Brighton, England. Job as a houseboy. Apprenticed as a sailor. Training as an estate gardener. Immigration to California. Return to England during ;the Depression. Wartime in England. Return to U.S. Changes in U.S. Receiving M.B.E. in 1962. Move to Canada. BC government gardener. Painting. TRACK 2: Landscape work in B.C., 1963-1967.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The sky painter : Robert N. Hurley PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Robert Newton Hurley was born in London on March 26, 1894 of Irish parents. Odd jobs. World War I service. Decision to come to Canada in 1923. Work on railway as a harvester. Marriage and chi;ldren. His work as an artist. Years on relief. Work at University of Saskatchewan as a lab technician. Religious experiences. More about his work as an artist. Honorary doctorate in 1975.;

CALL NUMBER: T3665:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tea with Chris Luff [tape 1] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-03-19 SUMMARY: An interview with Chris Luff, a 97-year-old retired C.I.L. employee, and past secretary of the Victoria Section of the Canadian Socialist Party. TRACK 1: Small talk while driving to the interview (life at James Bay Lodge, etc.). Conditions at the C.I.L. "soda" plant. Management/employee relations, problems; retirement policy. Luff's eventual retirement from C.I.L. and pension provisions. TRACK 2: His first days working on the London underground (1902). Construction methods and problems of building the underground; wages; etc.

CALL NUMBER: T3665:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tea with Chris Luff [tape 1] RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-03-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chris Luff talks about working conditions on the docks in Newport, England, and in the London Underground. Treatment of unemployed workers, etc. Visit to South Wales and eventual return to London. TRACK 2: Unemployment statistics for that time: about 2,500 men for 18-20 jobs as manual labour on the road crews, etc. Working in the sewers in Battersea. Voyage to Canada, 1911; arrival in Quebec. Working on the railway as a supervisor of immigrant workers; working conditions, pay, etc. Anecdotes, etc., leading up to his quitting the railway. Travelling to "Le Touque" by train and working; unloading "soda" at a pulp mill. Returning to Montreal and working in a dynamite factory ("powder plant"). Working conditions in the factory. His wife's immigration to Canada. The war, and how some men escaped recruitment. [End of interview?]

CALL NUMBER: T4185:0001 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: James Moriss, from Gradna (Grodno?) in Russia, born 1895. His father, a railroad builder, had work in Canada for three years, 1907. Jim, the only son, aged 15, wanted to come to Canada. Left Russia in 1911 with an uncle and several other young men. They were smuggled out of Russia and traveled by boat from Germany to Halifax; then by railway to Cochrane, Ontario, where a Jewish friend of his father's was to look after him. Jim worked on the railroad, and eventually got out to Prince Rupert. Worked on the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific, then on building the Pacific Great Eastern from Prince George south. The war in 1914 stopped all work. Jim and several others walked south past Quesnel, looking for work. Finally, at Australian, were hired by local rancher, Windt, to harvest potato crop. TRACK 2: Next year, 1917, Jim worked for R. Middleton; then for Robert Yorston for 4.5 years. Jim took up a pre-emption, built cabin and later a big house. Married Helen Zschiedrich, 1924. Raised four girls. Worked on building of the PGE after World War I. After World War II, considered returning to Russia, but changed his mind when he realized he couldn't live under Communist rule. CALL NUMBER: T4185:0002 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jim Moriss speaks of many Quesnel area residents, including: Paul Krestinuk (a Russian); Robert Middleton and his wife; George Pickard; Sam Bohanon; Collins; Billy Lyne, John Lyne, Dave Lyne, and the Lyne Roadhouse; Clarence Fuller; Webster; Choates Zscheidrich; Charlie Ross. [TRACK 2: blank?]

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey discusses his life in Hungary and reasons for coming to Canada in 1928. Coming to Victoria following the Second World War. TRACK 2: Albert de Mezey gives the history of his Samuel Maclure-designed house at 931 Foul Bay Rd.. Kildonan House.;

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey gives details of his business career in eastern Canada and the United States. TRACK 2: He describes his involvement helping Hungarian refugees in 1956.;