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CALL NUMBER: T3880:0009 track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Edelweiss Club, German-Canadian Culltural Society, Victoria RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1983-07?] SUMMARY: Mr. Koslowski, former president of the Harmonie Choir of the Edelweiss Club.;

CALL NUMBER: T3880:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Edelweiss Club, German-Canadian Culltural Society, Victoria RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1983-07?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Koslowski (continued); conductors of Harmonie; merging of the Harmonie with the Edelweiss Club in 1970-71; programs and operettas; language problems; other groups in BC; musical backgroun;d of the Koslowski family. TRACK 2: The Rheingold Choir of 1954; connections of the Harmonie Choir with the Vancouver Alpen Club; north Pacific; singing federation; statutes; remembering the beginnin;g of Harmonie; North Pacific Singing Federation; song festivals and programs; children's choir; Centennial Singing Festival in 1967.;

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to the experiences of German-Canadians in British Columbia.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kopplin, president of the Victoria Edelweiss Club; 13th anniversary of the club; beginning the club in order to have the equivalent of similar clubs east of the Rockies; remodeling a roller skating rink; attendance; objectives of the club; organisation; financing; recognition; honourary citizen of Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personal reminiscences : Russia, Poland, Canada, Germany RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-[Fall] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of Germans in Russia; in Poland; father's youth; 1905 Russian/Japanese war; languages spoken; father was a court musician; Tsarist Russia; German settlements; Russian court; Tsar and family; Rasputin; financial situation; reasons for WWI; beginning of the war; beginning of the revolution; relatives murdered; after escape from Kremlin; independent Poland; John as a child; Father and Germans in independent Poland; why Canada; trip to Canada; arrival in Winnipeg; first impressions; first moves; homesteading in Grande Prairie; John works in Canada; own bakery; Streuselkuchen recipe. TRACK 2: End of recipe; hard work; WWII; those born in Poland were drafted; others drafted; building up food systems in war camps; Lethbridge camp; German prisoners of war; superiors; post-war business until 1952; visit to Germany in 1953; businesses in Edmonton; to Victoria; German ethnic organisations; musical tradition and talent carried on in the next generation; some words in German.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christmas party at Deutscher Verein before 1914; Christmas at Hafer's; parents met in the German Club; mother's arrival; mother's relatives; father's background; fathers work as a machinist, now Hafer Machine Company Limited; land in Keating; return to Germany; father's machine shop; people of German background that father know; Masonic Lodge; German Lutheran Church; Dr. Otto Gerbich; father's death; Alvo von Alvensleben; mother's difficulties; farm and life in Keating; mother was "the neighbour of neighbours", a pioneer woman; German language died out in 1914; further education; road to Victoria; Farmer's Market; apprenticeship; mistake corrected; journeyman's time in the U.S., working with the help of relatives; German language after WWI; Victoria in 1924; own shop in Keating; WWII work for the airport; fountain system at Butchart Gardens; retired in 1968. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Edelweiss Club, German-Canadian Culltural Society, Victoria RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1983-07 SUMMARY: Mrs. Schumacher, President of the Ladies' Group of the Edelweiss Club; beginning of the group; planning of events; change for less work in 1978; finances; kiosk during Dominion Week at Centennial Squa;re in Victoria; personal life in Canada.;

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-07 & 08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; father's arrival in Winnipeg in 1891; minister; father's background and training; 1904 to South Edmonton; father's career; mother; parent's contribution to Canadian life; Mrs. Bergbusch's personal life in her youth; impact of WWI on the family; children chose friends without consideration of background; high school in 1917; Armistice; effects of WWI experiences; teacher training; normal school, teaching new Canadians; newcomers after WWI, mostly Germans from Eastern Europe, dispossessed by the Russian Revolution; husband, training, why future husband came to Canada; call; by church to preach to German communities in Manitoba; wedding; New Surrepta (Alberta); trip to Germany in 1931; reactions to trip; the Depression in New Sarepta; had harvest, no cash; to more well-to do Spruce Grove in 1936; cow; second-hand Ford for twelve years; WWII effect on people of German background in this country. TRACK 2: Military service; WWII effects on language of religious services; English and German church services alternated; husband's career; in 1949 to Saskatoon; English was the language of the Synod; children to university; their careers; why and when to Victoria; starting Good Shepherd Church in Victoria in 1955 at the age of 59; services at 9:00 in English, 10:30 in German; arrival of newcomers, better trained; housing, work; interest in church, gratitude; development of Good Shepherd Church until 1967; congregation without Bergbusch; present status of these immigrants from the 1950s; success as defined by Mrs. Bergbusch; a wish in German; voice of Reverend Bergbusch, aged 86 [?].