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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Allan Davidson talks about life in the Westbank area from 1892 to 1908. He discusses how his family came to the Okanagan from the Fraser Valley and settled north of Shannon Lake in 1893. He describes his first cabin; his father's background; a story about an Indian coming to the cabin; his new house; how his father was a 'square peg in a round hole'; the family farm; his relationship with his father; logging from the farm; a vivid description of the Nez Perce Indians en route to the hop fields at Coldstream; the trail along the east side of the lake; Indians and Alec McClennan. TRACK 2: Mr. Davidson continues with more on McClennan; development in the area; the mail service; the founding of the village of Westbank; land development; more on the mail service; the ferry and; Leonard Hayman who was the operator; a story about "Wild Goose Bill" at the ferry landing; more on Hayman and the ferry; Kelowna at that time; D.E. Gellatly and the family; an anecdote about fighting; a forest fire in 1905.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1955 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. James Bacon Knowles discusses the development of Kelowna from 1905; the coming of the railways; aquatic associations; the water supply; ferry service; the civic centre and city parks. TRACK 2: Mr. Knowles discusses the first white men in the Okanagan in 1811; details of their travels; the Okanagan brigade trail; fur trading in the area; mining around Rock Creek; Father Pandosy and the first white settlement in the valley; other early settlers; transportation; land development; Mr. Knowles' arrival in the area; his first impressions of Kelowna in 1905; Kelowna people; orchards in the area; the development of Kelowna; recreation; social life; the Guisachan property at Kelowna and more on Guisachan Ranch.;

CALL NUMBER: T0458:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Leonard Hayman recalls life in the Okanagan, 1901 to 1945. He discusses how he came out to the Okanagan Valley in 1901; worked on a ranch near Vernon; worked on CPR steamboats; incident;s on the farm; crews on boats; Indians on the reservation south of Kelowna [Westbank?]; working his way up to captain on steamboats; early days in Kelowna; cows in the streets; drinking in Kelowna; Reverend Thomas Green; an anecdote about Tom Ellis and the church organ in Penticton; and a Pauline Johnson concert. TRACK 2: Mr. Hayman discusses steamboats coming into Penticton; people in Penticton; how Mr. Hayman came to run the ferry across Okanagan Lake; a story of a boat which was wrecked in a storm at night; a man lost on a canoe in the lake; the Okanagan Brigade Trail; running ferries under the government; roads on the west side of the lake; stories about "Wild Goose Bill"; Indians and ferry operations.

CALL NUMBER: T0458:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This track begins with an anecdote about Mr. Hayman stealing his own pig; stories about the police; Sam Lee of the Chinese Laundry at Okanagan Landing; a funny story about a minister at Field; pioneer supplies such as flour sacks; stories about Indians; a story about an Indian in court who wanted a receipt for his fine; and a story of a Chinese man who was shot by mistake. TRACK 2: Mr. Hayman offers more stories about a bear shot from a sternwheeler; swimming the lake to see loon eggs; a story of Joe Casorso and an Indian and a cougar skin; Reverend Solly and the burning down of the Naramata church; a new organ in the Penticton church; a story about Tom Ellis and the church organ; Price Ellison; lake ferry problems; how Mr. Hayman took the ferry over; church services; a story a;bout a funeral and poison ivy.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Phyllis Gore discusses her life and business in the Kelowna area, 1907 to 1936. She came out from England in 1898 to live with her brother at Qu'Appelle Station, and she describes her ;life there including the land and the farmers in the area. She describes her marriage to Stanley Gore and their move to Winnipeg; her time in Winnipeg; coming to the Okanagan in 1907; and their first; house on the west side of the lake. She discusses Mrs. Keefe and her children; Mr. Death and his loggers; the McDougall boys; Boucherie Mountain; the ferry across the lake to Kelowna; working on a d;airy farm at Kelowna; her house burning down and the result. TRACK 2: Mrs. Gore continues discussing hard times; starting a laundry; running a business and building a new laundry in 1936; more about; the business; the school; bad roads; the main street in Kelowna; going to the store on Saturday night; Dr. Boyce helping out; horses; buildings in town; people who went down to meet the boats; the train; the division of society and entertainment.