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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-11-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-04-23 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-26 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0001 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christian Sivertz (father) and his background in Iceland; emigration to America; settling in Winnipeg, 1883, and life and work there; move west to Victoria, 1890; impressions; work on the B.C;. Electric railway. TRACK 2: Icelandic community in Victoria; grocery store enterprise; farming in Point Roberts; return to Victoria; joins post office; political activity; unionization of letter car;riers; trade-union activity and its effect on the family.;

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0002 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-03-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Life in the Sivertz household, Victoria, early 1900s; social life -- the Victoria Icelandic community and its culture; organization of the household; school days in Victoria; trade union acti;vities of Christian Sivertz; James Watters; formation of B.C. Federation of Labour, 1910; Christian Sivertz as BCFL president; political activities of Christian Sivertz and views on a labour party; at;titude to J.S. Woodsworth and the CCF. [TRACK 2: blank.];

RECORDED: Mayne Island (B.C.), 1983-08-30 & 1983-09-03 SUMMARY: Bill and Marguerite Morson explain how they met in Belgium after World War I; married 1920. Life in Vancouver -- adjusting, family (five children) before [age?] 23. Marguerite's life in Huy, Belgium, under German occupation: 4.5 years. Lillian Wardle interview includes remembrances about the London blitz, immigration to Ontario 1946, war bride experience.

The fonds consists of records of the British Columbia Historical Association, Victoria Section. The records date from before 1983, the year the provincial parent body changed its name to the British Columbia Historical Federation.

The fonds consists of two groups of records. MS-3287, General office files, dates from 1961 to 1982, and includes minutes of regular meetings and of executive council; correspondence; membership-related records; mailing lists; publicity records; and notes on historical information about pioneer families of the Victoria area.

The second group of records in the fonds consists of 72 sound recordings of lectures and talks on historical subjects which were presented at the monthly meetings of the Victoria organization between 1969 and 1977.

The sound recordings were originally held by BC Archives under a fonds numbered AAAA8103. These recordings then were given the number and title PR-2251 - British Columbia Historical Association, Victoria Section collection. In 2016, PR-2251 was renamed British Columbia Historical Association, Victoria Section fonds, and the sound recordings were made a series (MS-3289) within the fonds.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-05-27 SUMMARY: A presentation by Allan Anderson and Betty Tomlinson, authors of "Greetings from Canada: an album of unique Canadian postcards from the Edwardian era, 1900-1916".;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-03-28 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Mrs. Charlotte Freeman discusses her experiences as a pioneer school teacher, including life in the schools and the hardships borne by schoolchildren.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-01-27 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-12 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971-05-22 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-02-22 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

The item consists of two audio half track masters recorded in 1973. The author John Travis talks about Robert Rundle, a pioneer missionary in Canadian Northwest.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-09-26 SUMMARY: Allan R. Turner, British Columbia's Provincial Archivist, discusses the work and role of archives.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-06-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971-03-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1970-05-28 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-09-27 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-06-22 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood in Victoria from 1908; railways; horse transportation; fire service; BC Electric Railway construction; railway competition; advent of the motor car/bus, 1919-1920; apprenticeship to; coach-builders; John Meston [?]; whaling equipment; building commercial vehicles; streetcars; winter of 1916; street lighting; World War I; shipping in Victoria harbour; Empress Hotel; BC Electric st;ation and freight yards; the ice man. TRACK 2: Victoria's water supply; rail trips via BC Electric and CN; trip to Deerholme; wagon teams; coal and wood deliveries; career at Metsons and bus building; the Depression, ca. 1930; enters teaching profession; his own school days; WWII -- war effort, shipyard work and civil defence; the E&N railway; Victoria's brickyards; industries of the Inner Harbou;r and their decline; the Gorge amusement park.;

The series consists of minutes of regular meetings and of executive council; meeting notices; membership and mailing lists; publicity records; correspondence; and historical information about pioneer families of the Victoria area.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971-09-23 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-24 SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];