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CALL NUMBER: T1096:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Garnet E. Willis talks about his father and the people of the Chilliwack and the Similkameen region, 1894 to 1916. He describes how his family farmed near Sardis; what Chilliwack was like in his youth; steamboats on the Fraser; Harrison House; hard work on farms; school days; stories about Bill Miner; stories about John Ryder and his family; the Nelson brothers; how his father hauled freight; his father's background with the fur brigade; a discussion of the brigade route; details of his father's travels in Fort Garry, California and BC; his father's claims in the Cariboo; how his father logged on the present site of Vancouver; and John Beatty. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis continues with a story about an old man; the circumstances by which he came to the Similkameen area with his father in 1914; an anecdote about his father and the farm at Sumas; a comparison of Chilliwack and Similkameen areas; cattle and cattle drives over the Dewdney Trail; several stories about travels on the Hope Trail; a discussion of Herman Grell, known as "Shorty" Dunn; Jack Budd; and train robber Bill Miner.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willis continues with more on Shorty Dunn of Bill Miner's gang; a story about Pat Kennedy of Princeton; Jim Slater; a story about Charlie Rheinhardt; Price Chandler; the beginning of Keremeos; Keremeos centre; the town of Loomis, Washington; a description of Princeton in 1913; Bill Allison; Mr. Willis' own place near Princeton; several stories about August Carlson; a story about Steve Mangat; the Olalla Mine; other mines and drilling. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis offers a story about Duncan Woods of the Hedley Mascot Mine; a discussion of his wife's uncle, a packer named John Worth; Bill Bristol and his stopping house east of Hope; a discussion of "Colonel" Robert Stevenson and his tall stories; a story about tracking lost cattle; more about Stevenson; more about Jack Budd and Bill Miner; and a story about a foot race in Montana.

SUMMARY: The dyking and draining of the Delta area; Point Roberts; the old railroad to Port Guichon; the fish traps in Boundary Bay; and stories about John Oliver, the east Delta farmer who became Premier. Voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Arthur Swenson, George Dinsmore, Mike Whalen, J.J. Brown, John Oliver, H. Weaver, Levi Wildgrube, and Leon Ladner.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mike Whalen discusses coming to the Delta area in 1890; settling land in Point Roberts; the border controversy; early Point Roberts settlers; Icelandic settlers; life in the area; Ladner; Steveston; work in the area; trap-fishing in Juan de Fuca; local canneries like P.P. & N. TRACK 2: Mr. Whalen talks about John Oliver; effects of the Klondike gold rush; the depression of 1894; growth; of Vancouver in the 1890s; incidents at Blaine and Elgin; fishing on the Nikomen River; Charlie Hunt.

CALL NUMBER: T1651:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Francis Edmund Fredette of Victoria describes how he always wanted to go to sea, and so ran away from home on a sealing ship when he was fourteen; he describes the vessel he was on, including life aboard it; sealing with shotguns; what Victoria Harbour was like at that time; wages; his time (1909) as an apprentice at a shipyard where sternwheelers were built for use on the Skeena River; more on sealing including details on the seal themselves; how the Canadians, Japanese and Americans were the only ones sealing at that time; more on the sternwheelers he helped to build by hand; a six-month trip to the Bering Sea for salt cod in 1912, including details about the trip, the schooner they were on, and the fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Fredette continues by discussing his experience in 1919 when he got a job aboard a ship as a carpenter; anecdotes about experiences on the ship; shipping laws at that time and implications; and a story about a criminal incident during prohibition.

CALL NUMBER: T1651:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fredette discusses McNeil Island, a U.S. federal penitentiary in Washington State, and continues a story which occurred in 1919 relating to prohibition; anecdotes about sealing boats in 1912; a trip from San Francisco to Haiti; his experience on Christmas Island; and more anecdotes about boats and the industry. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1965]
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miscellaneous short interviews and sound effects recorded by Imbert Orchard while on a northern freightboat trip on the B.C. coast, ca. 1965. Conversation about cruising the waters around Vancouver Island, Princess Louisa Inlet, early days of yachting around the San Juan Islands, etc. Continued conversations on west coast boating with other boaters and their children, including Dr. Martin Nelson (of Redding, California). More conversations. Descriptive narration of the cruise, including trip to Stuart Island through Yuculta Rapids, and into Big Bay. Description of cargo being dropped off on dock at night, and sounds of same. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell recounts the early history of the Ladner area: William H. Ladner; Thomas Ellis Ladner; first settlement in 1868; early residents; subdivision; the Sutherby family; C.F. Green, her ;grandfather; A.R. Green; a journey on the "Tynemouth" from England; the Green family in 1871 in the Ladner area; family history; family stories; floods; building of dykes circa 1895; other residents; ;the McNeely family; steamships; Chinatown in Ladner. TRACK 2: Mrs. Bell continues with her recollections about the Chinese community in the Ladner area; canneries; other ethnic groups; ship building; fishing; fish plants; mills; navigation in the area; farming; family history; Canoe Pass Cannery; Wellington Cannery; the Ladner family; social life; her parents; the Reverend Bell; the McNeely estate; establishment of the monastery; memorial park; community hall; transportation to Vancouver; the land boom of 1911 and 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell continues with her discussion about transportation to Vancouver; the Delta district; BC Packers; the Japanese community; social amusements; camping at Boundary Bay; history of Point; Roberts; the Icelandic settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Weatherell recalls early years on Saltspring Island. She discusses her family background; her father, Frank Scott, came with his brothers and settled in the Ganges area. She discusses Reverend Francis Wilson, her grandfather; fruit farming; economic life; Dr. Gerald Baker; the private school in Ganges that she attended as a student and where she was later appointed as a teacher; early residents; the Mowat family; the Woods family; farms; Saltspring Island Creamery; Black residents; and the British atmosphere. She also describes her early visits to Victoria, where as a child she watched the horses being harnessed for the fire department; a trip to the San Juan Islands, and a visit to Vancouver during World War One. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Myrdal talks about his coming to Canada in 1876 from Iceland; his early memories in Iceland; the family's journey to Scotland; emigration; memories of Manitoba; North Dakota in 1880; the; family's move to BC in 1887. TRACK 2: Mr. Myrdal talks about the family's arrival in British Columbia; his father, Sigurd Myrdal, was a lay minister; the family's life in Victoria; Oliver Johnson; ;the depression of 1893; George Messer; an 1894 trip to Point Roberts; settling in Point Roberts; roads; post office; squatters; early settlers; the government military reserve.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-16 SUMMARY: Mr. George "Romey" Kingsley came from Washington with his father in 1899 and landed in Midway. He went to Anarchist Mountain, then known as Rock Mountain, though people called it One-Eyed Mountain. He speaks about life in Caldville [i.e., Colville, Washington]; mining, hunting, lack of borders, farmers and prospectors. He discusses the history of Bridesville in great detail and then Greenwood; mining stories, surrounding farms and several people who lived there. Then he discusses the Dewdney Trail which ran from Creston to Salmo and the stagecoach routes of the time. Kingsley describes Salmo in great detail with dates of good crop years and bad crop years, prices for crops, what the town consisted of and stories of the settlers.