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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Smith : first school teacher in a North Peace community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1975 RECORDED: North Pine (B.C.), 1975-11-16 SUMMARY: Amy Smith describes her trip north at age 18 to become the first school teacher at North Pine, B.C. (20 miles from Fort St. John) in 1930. Room and board arrangements. Teaching eight grades in a one-room log school. Winter. Recreation and social life in the community. Bears. Raising a family of 11 children. Changes in the community.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): David M. Woodward : a Welsh immigrant in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1938-1960? RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1976-01-02 SUMMARY: David Woodward describes his journey of emigration from Wales to Fort St. John, B.C., 1938, by various means of transportation. Homesteading -- the novelty and the solitude; hard work. Filing for a homestead. Wild animals. Social life, sports activities, etc., in the community. The community now.

CALL NUMBER: T0262:0001 track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dina Woodward RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-12-10 SUMMARY: [No content documentation available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T0262:0001 track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Violet G. Woodward RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-12-18 SUMMARY: [No content documentation available for this interview.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Emmett Smith : hauling freight and furs on the Fort Nelson Trail RECORDED: North Pine (B.C.), 1975-11-16 SUMMARY: Emmett Smith describes how he arrived in the Peace River country from Saskatchewan in 1928. Work during the 1930s. The fur trade economy. Freighting up to Fort Nelson by horse sleigh on frozen rivers (in winter) or scow on river (in summer). Overnight stops and severe weather. The native people, then and now. Wild animals. Construction of the Alaska Highway. Settling down.

RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1973-12-18 SUMMARY: Arrival in area. Gardening attempts. Wild berries galore. Sheep. Brush fence. Hunting. Women's Institute started in October 1933 -- Christmas program, hospital. School started in 1934. Box-social auctions. No roads at all. Log houses -- two bedrooms and big room. Candy making. Rug hooking. Health nurses visited. Nutrition. Cheese making. Oven canning -- berries, meat (moose, chicken, deer; rabbits were diseased). People brought cows in with them. Froze dairy products in winter and buried them in summer. Huge quantities of garden produce. Homesteads -- lots were claimed, then abandoned for jobs in the city. Mostly people from Saskatchewan. Magazines. Library started. Effects of isolation.

RECORDED: Charlie Lake (B.C.), 1975-11-29 SUMMARY: Francis Sandy is a well-known painter of Peace River country landscapes. "The first white child born in Princeton." Trained at St. Joseph's Hospital. Met husband (Ray Sandy) in Stewart, and moved to Fort St. John in 1937. Dr. Kearney. The Sandys open a restaurant in Fort St. John, 1941, followed by a drug store. Muddy streets. "Ghost town" prophecy unfulfilled. Daughter delivered newspapers with a dog team. Painting landscapes. Chicken ranch. Medical problems -- wheelchair and cataracts. Isolation. Cooking for oil-rig crew. Social life. Taylor, B.C. Ma Murray and the Alaska Highway News; worked as social editor for the paper.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gene Daniel : the development of Northern Lights Broadcasting Company PERIOD COVERED: 1960-1975 RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1975-11-19 SUMMARY: Came to Fort St. John in 1965 to work at the radio station for a one-year stint; still there in 1975. Justification for local radio in Fort St. John. Setting up a one-man station in Fort Nelson, 1967 -- "frontier radio", shoestring operation. Programming. Special features of broadcasting in the Fort St. John area.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Baker : life in the changing North RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1975-12-02 SUMMARY: Trapped near the Mackenzie Delta, near Aklavik, for seven years. Medical emergencies. Worked in the south for Yukon Southern and CP Air. Grant McConachie. Radio operations. Settled down in Fort St. John as an insurance agent. Changes and modernization in the North.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marguerite Davies : cultural growth of an isolated B.C. town, 1940s RECORDED: Fort St. John (B.C.), 1975-11-15 SUMMARY: Interview with historian Marguerite Davies, co-author of "The Peace-Makers of the North Peace." Her arrival is Fort St. John from Ontario, 23-Dec-1949. Her impressions of the town. Community activities.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to the history of the Peace River region.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ray Sandy : a life of adventure in the North - a magistrate at Fort St. John, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1960 RECORDED: Charlie Lake (B.C.), 1975-11-29 SUMMARY: Emigration from England, 1910. Education. Stewart, B.C., in 1924. Surveying and prospecting. Joining the Provincial Police (Rolla-South Peace River), in 1932. Opening a restaurant and pharmacy in Fort St. John, 1937. Police duties. Indian-white relations. Alaska Highway construction. Magistrate at Fort St. John. Prospecting for gold in the Arctic.