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RECORDED: [location unknown], [1970?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Nelson interviews Mr. Roy Mah, a director of the Vancouver Chinese Publicity Bureau, which publishes the "Chinatown News" (where Mr. Mah is the editor). Mr. Mah talks about publishing; the format and background of the "Chinatown News"; other Chinese newspapers in Vancouver and their audience and circulation. He discusses the local Chinese community; the Chinese school; education; Chinese-White relations; "Brotherhood Week"; segregation in schools; race relations; the Chinatown riot of 1907; early Chinese immigration; Asian wisdom; and the future of Vancouver's Chinese community. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating from different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is a documentary examining the anatomy of Vancouver's Chinatown as a society within a society. Chinese young and old provide their impressions of Chinatown today, and comment on the social, political and cultural influences that have played a part in shaping the community.

SUMMARY: The third of three radio documentaries about early Vancouver, combining narration with reminiscences from older residents. "Vancouver Around 1900" includes discussion of the following: street cars and chain gangs, recalled by Reuben Hamilton; chain gangs, city police and road work by Sam Walker; Captain Canessa on the impact of the Klondike gold rush impact on Vancouver; Carl Timms on early businesses, the first bridge and the harbour; Captain Canessa on boat travel across Burrard Inlet; Sam Walker on saloons and gambling houses; Sam Walker, Captain Canessa and Reuben Hamilton on the mistreatment of the Chinese and the "Chinatown riot".