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CALL NUMBER: T4031:0032 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Dickie Michelson RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1982-02-26 SUMMARY: Dickie Michelson discusses: growing-up in Sointula; school; grandparents; working; many fishing anecdotes; cooking; economics; describes areas he fished in; catching tuna; weather when fishing.

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0033 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Dickie Michelson RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1982-02-26 SUMMARY: Dickie Michelson: trolling; Alert Bay-Sointula had honest competition; risk involved in fishing; logging; community spirit; Sunday school; athletics club; characters; logging kept Sointula going when fishing was bad; dad was also a good logger; farming; cows. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Ellen Mellstrom RECORDED: Saltspring Island (B.C.), 1982-02-05 SUMMARY: Ellen Mellstrom discusses her personal background and growing up at Cape Scott: born at Cape Scott; Danish mother, father born in Wisconsin; schooling by correspondence; interested in farming and gardening as a child/youth; grew most of what they ate; berry picking; wild geese for Christmas; dressed up every Sunday; father repaired shoes; picnics in summer to neighbouring beaches; musical ability of father and brothers; many books in household. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Ellen Mellstrom RECORDED: Saltspring Island (B.C.), 1982-02-05 SUMMARY: Ellen Mellstrom discusses early life at Cape Scott: learning to row; visiting friends in the area; promised road never built; shipped what they produced out to Port Alice by boat; fall fair; church not that important; spoke Danish all the time at home; father was at Cape Scott for 40 years- called King of Cape Scott by many; mother was gentle, a real lady. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Ellen Mellstrom RECORDED: Saltspring Island (B.C.), 1982-02-05 SUMMARY: Ellen Mellstrom discusses: her unhappiness at moving away from Cape Scott; ambiguous relationship with sea; beachcombing; hunting cougars and deer; moved down to Nanoose Bay; grandfather was one of first people in the lagoon; remembers her childhood fondly; dances 20 miles from Cape Scott when she was young. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alex Pouttu RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-11 SUMMARY: Alex Pouttu discusses: born in Sointula, 1907; father was one of first colonists; fishing and logging; father built own house, it's still there now; school; started working, 1923 in logging camp; worked in 34 different logging camps on the coast; fishing; farming; weather; plays; Finnish organization; war experience; carving; good place to grow up. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0026 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Wayne Homer RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-03-06 SUMMARY: Wayne Homer discusses early Sointula: born at Sointula, 1903; why Finns came to Canada and why they established temperance societies; 238 persons at Sointula by end of 1903 -- sawmill, blacksmith, etc; tragic fire led to many people leaving colony; Sointula policed by public until 1942; public meetings kept order; murder case involving woman killing baby; Malcolm Island settlement agreement; father was blacksmith in Sointula until 1922; father came to Sointula to escape exploitation; father was very strict; family background; boyhood experience. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0027 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Wayne Homer RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-03-06 SUMMARY: Wayne Homer discusses early Sointula: predecessors of Finns at Malcolm Island; Alert Bay -- B.C. Packers cannery provided jobs and houses for Natives; Harold Macmillan 'success story' in Depression; River's Inlet; starting to fish at age 15 years; buying own fishing equipment; logged in the fall/winter, fished in the summer; machinery involved in logging today; effects of logging on environment; Finnish organization; Communist Party of Canada; plays inherited from colony. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0028 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Wayne Homer RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-03-06 SUMMARY: Wayne Homer: humour very popular in Sointula in early days; community hall would be packed for performances of plays; orchestra; plays were very important; anecdotes about performers in these plays; lively co-op meetings; decision in 1909 to buy Peter Hilton out of store and create a cooperative store; Depression did not hurt Sointula too badly; farming in area; Natives and Finns were good neighbours, not so with Alert Bay whites; some Sointula boys married Haida girls. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0029 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Wayne Homer RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-03-06 SUMMARY: Wayne Homer: sawmills; saunas very popular with Finns- describes history, how they work, role in the healing/health process; midwifery an art in Finland; coming of TB to Malcolm Island; father was uneducated, but taught himself to write, read; mother had great knowledge of cows; good place to grow up; self-education. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0021 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Charles Henry Peterson and Sally Peterson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-11 SUMMARY: Sally Peterson discusses: school and her childhood; farming (her father was Teodar Tanner); picnics; community activities- dances, band; mother came here from Washington state; father's character. Charles Peterson: early logging experiences (Mission area); logging truck driver experiences- North Vancouver, Malcolm Island, Port McNeill, problems on hills, runaway truck, 3 wrecks in 3 years.

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0022 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Charles Henry Peterson and Sally Peterson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-11 SUMMARY: Charles Peterson: Great cedar on Malcolm Island; turntable for logging trucks at booming ground (description of this). Sally Peterson: not much work for women in Sointula in terms of a career; co-op annual meetings- all day affair, kids there for lunch; religion- parents did not need it; Sointula is a good place to bring up kids; few memories of the colony. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Irene Michelson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-12 SUMMARY: Irene Michelson discusses: coming to Sointula in 1905 as an infant (5 months old); school; chores at home- everyone had to pitch in; father's character (father was Teodar Tanner); hopes and dreams of colonists; active in plays and choir; anecdote about stage experience; picnic places; income from father's farm. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Vilho Oksanen RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-12 SUMMARY: Vilho Oksanen discusses: conditions in Sointula when he arrived; no police, no jail, no church; had heard of A.B. Makela in Finland; Makela was Justice of Peace; he helped Oksanen get his fishing license; Makela was a great writer, but poor speaker; influential in socialist experiment at Sointula; happy times at colony, but arguments too; no money when he bought his land; hunted deer; worked together in the community to survive; having a child and sending him to school. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: arriving in Holberg in November 1911, age 7 years old; uncle already in Cape Scott- he was marriage commissioner, Justice of Peace; work was hard to get at this time; father bought out local store; hard life in Cape Scott at this time; logged for 2-3 years, starting at age 15; worked in cannery; then went to sea as a cook; fishing; looking for work in Quatsino, Port Alice; life at the canneries; going to dances; more on fishing.; CALL NUMBER:

T4031:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: fishing (cont'd); competition in hard times amongst fishermen in the area; wolf stories; anecdotes about cougars; geese, ducks and deer; going to school in Holberg, Cape Scott; Mr. Christensen; uncle, Knud Hansen was early settler. Mrs. Nancy Hansen discusses: arriving in San Josef Bay in 1915; father cleared land and created farm; few neighbours- once a month there was a get-together at Lake Erie; celebrations at Christmas, New Year's; a lonely life, especially for young people; managed to make own amusement; married in 1922 on beach at San Josef; people had to leave because there were no opportunities; parents.;

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: politics not discussed much in Cape Scott; dreams of early Scandinavian settlers of creating a long-lasting community at Cape Scott; more about logging. Mrs. Nancy Hansen discusses: going to San Josef.;

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Clara Hersley RECORDED: Nanoose Bay (B.C.), 1982-02-09 SUMMARY: Clara Hersley discusses background and youth: she was eldest daughter of Theo Frederiksen; grandfather came in first settlement, and he tried to build a dyke by himself; she had to walk 2 miles to school every day; C.B. Christensen was teacher; chores; catalogues for Christmas gifts; description of making butter; haying- all pitched in, water came up under stacks at high tide; community work -- men; cared for trails and roads; produced a lot of their own food -- animals, game, fish, food from Quatsino; weather signs; lots of berries; toys; dad brought organ back from Vancouver; dances -- visits to neighbours meant very long walks (25-30 miles); beachcombing finds -- cotton bale, crates of oranges; parents seemed to cope with difficulties; why dad came back to Nanoose Bay. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0010 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Clara Hersley RECORDED: Nanoose Bay (B.C.), 1982-02-09 SUMMARY: Clara Hersley discusses: doing lots of walking in her youth; trapping mink and raccoons around Cape Scott; gardening crops; favourite place -- watching the ways; cougars -- looking for tracks on the Sand Neck, father and brothers hunted them, cougar tracks on the way back from getting mail, meeting cougar on trail; father's character -- man of principles; father did not want to leave the Cape; DEW; line station and Air Force came; grandfather and dykes; entertainment- radio from Calgary, music; some characters here at the time; brothers lost at sea -- taking boat to Scott Islands, long search of beaches; mail service- capsized once, but everything saved; birth of sisters -- local midwives. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Petra Amsden RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-03 SUMMARY: Petra Amsden discusses her time at Cape Scott: arrived in 1899; idea of Cape Scott was to have a little Denmark away from home; farming was difficult because of dense forest; tricky to dry hay because Cape Scott was so wet; lived in a house near the store at Fisherman's Cove; school attendance for children at the time was erratic because they all had to help at home; teacher, Mr. Christensen (?); father was an educated man; berry picking; garden; father hunted deer, geese and ducks; story about a pet deer.

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Petra Amsden RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-03 SUMMARY: Petra Amsden discusses: working with her father on the farm, hunting; many books; religion important; Mr. Jensen was leader; favourite places at Cape Scott; lived 5 days away from Victoria; community never lacked food, but sometimes tobacco was scarce; too far away to have playmates; bonfire with Mr. Christensen; wonderful shells on the beaches; other childhood memories; leaving in 1906-07, when she was 11. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0011 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Lester Ray Peterson RECORDED: Gibsons (B.C.), 1982-03-11 SUMMARY: Lester Peterson discusses his background: father's family to B.C.; helped establish colony at Cape Scott; Lester born 1917; WWI killed colony; promised road never really materialized; difficulties in transportation; more on his father- farming, mining; mother met father in San Josef and married him there; early twentieth century was a busy time for his family; uncle Henry Ohlsen's store; much cooperation in community; leadership; canneries built by grand-uncle; first settlers were Lutheran. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Lester Ray Peterson RECORDED: Gibsons (B.C.), 1982-03-11 SUMMARY: Lester Peterson discusses: Sointula history; his experiences fishing; the 1936 strike; union formation; opening of new canneries; the Japanese community; anecdotes about the Frederiksens; after gold rush subsided, the colony dispersed; colony was very serious at first about creating a truly cooperative way of life; Quatsino used to flourish, now it is in major disrepair. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0013 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Lester Ray Peterson RECORDED: Gibsons (B.C.), 1982-03-11 SUMMARY: Lester Peterson discusses: WWI; the promise of a road to Cape Scott; parks and trails in area now; trails are hard on the older people though; he is glad that Cape Scott is a park now, as there is no need for it to be a community. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0018 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-10 SUMMARY: Alfred Williams discusses: his background- third generation Finnish-Canadian, born 1921, mother's family was one of original groups that came to Sointula; father came from Lake Superior when he was 6 years old; educated himself through books he ordered on subjects he was interested in; worked on construction of store and school; honesty was an important value in the community; always interested in politics; getting involved with the Finnish organization when he was young. Mrs. Williams comments on hearing about Iso aiti "Great Mother", even though her family lived in Vancouver. Alfred Williams discusses: Finnish culture; getting into trouble at school; getting his own boat in 1938; difficulties of this lifestyle; food and diet. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0019 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-10 SUMMARY: Alfred Williams: first time he went to Cape Scott; fishing gear; politics; characters of the time; goals of community founders- individuals not radicals, haven for communists; people involved in the war effort; differences between the old days and now in the area; Fraser River backyard boats; description of the fishing operation. CALL NUMBER: T4031:0020 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-10 SUMMARY: Mrs. Williams discusses what life was like when she first went up to Sointula: people did not know she was Finnish; everyone knew everyone; much more communal lifestyle in Sointula -- no hurry, lots of friends; seeing grouses. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0030 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Janet and Ted Tanner RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-12 SUMMARY: Theodore Teuvo Tanner discusses early life in Sointula: born here; school days; fishing at Rivers Inlet; details about trolling and halibut fishing; made a home-made tractor; did not like chores; didn't like acting in plays. Janet Tanner: dances and plays important when she came to Sointula in 1925. Ted Tanner: his father was original co-op store member; father's character; fishing union details. Janet Tanner: born in 1918 in U.S.; went with family to Soviet Union; then to Sointula; first impressions of Sointula.

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0031 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Janet and Ted Tanner RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-12 SUMMARY: Janet Tanner: her father farmed in Sointula; discussion of saunas; describes May Day parade and sports; politics of Sointula. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Johanna Harestad RECORDED: White Rock (B.C.), 1982-03-17 SUMMARY: Johanna Harestad discusses her life at Cape Scott: parents moved to Cape Scott in 1896 from Wisconsin; government promised Holberg-Cape Scott road, so father decided to stay at Sea Otter Cove; land was hard to clear; beautiful place to grow up in as a child; made their own entertainment; loved the rain and fog; few children in community, but she had 8 in her family; ducks, geese, deer were hunted; anecdotes about cougars; picking berries; marrying John Harestad; description of her parents; values of the community; father wanted to make sawmill into a viable business but could not; Cape Scott park; meeting her husband (end of interview). (Other voice in tape is John Harestad, her husband)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Olavi John Anderson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1982-02-12 SUMMARY: Olavi John Anderson: born 1913 at Sointula; background of father; boat building in 1918; dad's fishing; Olavi started fishing in 1936 in Johnstone Straight- then big strike; father was educated; school- learning English; Mr. Christensen; Finnish culture; Finnish organization; fishing union; his daughter still works in co-op office; discusses what he learned at school; current events, politics; hungry '30s- better for those in Sointula than city dwellers. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams and Olavi Anderson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: Alfred Williams and Olavi Anderson discuss: Suquash mine; Rough Bay; Kaleva; Toivo Aro; Pulteney Point; Keisler; Hylton brothers; Mandie.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Olavi Anderson, Sam Maki, Vivian Maki SUMMARY: Olavi Anderson: Finnish Organization; the labour movement; knowing everybody in Sointula; Makela was an educated man for the times- leader of the community. Sam Maki: bootlegger anecdote; fishing with his father; getting a power boat in the '50s; everyone acquired drums; boats are still well looked after in Sointula. Vivian Maki: going out in a boat named Vivian; staying on boat in Rivers Inlet for a month to fish in the summer; school in the fall and winter; both girls and boys got to fish in the boats; all the kids had to go out, so there was no one to stay home and babysit. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: Alfred Williams discusses his early life at Sointula: life at Sointula; Rivers Inlet; Darby Channel; Ocean Falls; Johnstone Straight; Malcolm Island; Rough Bay; Fort Rupert; Bull Harbour; hoochies; humpies; highliner; Finnish Organization.