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RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1984-02-02 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Italian immigration; Scavarda family; Cumberland fire; Bono family; family s;ize; Graham family; widows; Italian community; Marocchi family; domestic coal; union camp; travel; bootleggers; brewery; bakery; doctors; roads; Union Bay; Tom Ripley; Union Coal Company; Robert Dunsm;uir. TRACK 2: Walker family; Robert Dunsmuir; Fort Rupert; Minto; Royston; 1912-14 strike; riot act; union camp; old miner; attempted suicide; Italian community; Chinatown; bakery; widows; Waverly Ho;tel; Union Bay; Graham family; Scots; McGarrigles; midwifery; dirty town; Pigeon Lake dump; subsidence; No. 6 explosion.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-12-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: James Sharp; Rebecca Sharp Sanders; John Sanders; Sarah Barlow Sharp; Wellin;gton; boarding house; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Chelsea Cornish; Port Alberni coal mine; immigration; Vera Aidenhead Maffeo; Five Acres; Extension; Jingle Pot Road; mine accident; Wellington Hotel; Welli;ngton school; Ladysmith; Extension-to-Ladysmith railroad; Saunders anglicized. TRACK 2: Extension/Ladysmith railroad; Wellington; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Grand Templar's Lodge; John Waddington Hilbert; Black woman; fashion; Emily and John Johns; Sunday school; Simon Leiser; Wellington Hotel.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Why leave Italy; first impressions; get a job; large family; mine work against nature; battery lamp; Crescent Hotel; singing; music; smells; rats; summer and winter work; nuns; football; Tunnel Hotel; bocce; mules; flood; no wash house; old miner dies; race names; money back to Italy; house in Extension; fire; women's work; cooked; bosses; wet mines; good old days.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-05 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Immigration; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Wellington; father injured; Extension; Loudon family; Dunsmuir farm; Ardoon; family grocery store; widow; working in Scotland; working in Drumheller; small coal operations; ventilation furnace; No. 5 mine, Wellington. TRACK 2: Bluff; No;. 6 mine, Wellington; No. 5 mine, Wellington; small coal operations; Loudon family; Wellington; wife dies; union; politicians.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-02-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Mining techniques, shovels, dynamite; mules; union; arriving in Canada; productivity; effects of sulphur; living at Cumberland; cane-in; no work and strikers; hunting; check numbers; working in England; soccer; Guy Fawkes; payday; beer; leaving England; wages; injury; Reserve; commuting to Cumberland; Chinese; Italians; Swedes; Yugoslavs; no baths at mine; food; shifts; black damp; British; the Depression.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Young miner in Scotland; welfare retirement; Granby; wages, hours; Sam Guthrie; smells; the Depression; Elite Hall; UMWA; Chinese in the union; Northfield; mules; strike, James Knowles; Northfield flood; Beban flood; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father leaves England, travels by ship and train; freighter Miami; 1887 explosion; boat service on island; WeeToo; machine shop; conditions in mine; first home; water in Protection; Nicol and Haliburton Streets; barometer and explosions; swimming in baptizing tank; hole in Nicol Street; flood through the fire hall; Lantzville mine; South Wellington mine; rail gauges; locomotives; Nicol Street; Terminal Avenue fill and drainage; stream through the fire hall; Extension dump and other rock dumps; boilers; air pressure; Oscar; coal cars; Chinese man in boiler; hoist engine; air compressors; WeeToo and the Rainbow; scow; Protection.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-25 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Trip out; into mines; contract work; the old country; quit the mine; hunt; strike of 1948; the Depression; organising; union agreement; miners' picnics; risks; welfare; the Chinese; the Women's Auxiliary; rates; WeeToo; No. 10 explosion; mules; closing No. 1; May Day; accidents; differential.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Arriving in Canada; timberman's helper; wages; Cumberland explosions; Orientals; boarding houses; entertainment; Blacks; ethnic; union; medical; pubs; company train; company houses.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Trip from England; why to Nanaimo; strike; church; ice-cream Johnny; payday; calibre of people; sulphur; praise of Nanaimo; Guy Fawkes; beer; young people, the Depression.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-01-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Bicycle; Dickinson; small mines; travel to Cumberland; coal explosions; Welsh chorus; ventilation; Jordan Mine; conditions; origins; miner's ticket; father dies; trip to Canada; Superintendent of Canadian Collieries; end of coal; arriving in Cumberland; the Depression; salt water cure; learn from father; Dunsmuir; strike; Christmas Eve fire; Mr. Grant; Canadian Collieries; shovelling snow; houses; coal promotion; retirement; Hawthornthwaite; Alvo von Alvensleben; Chinese; marriage; Jingle Pot mines; fire boss; Wald.