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CALL NUMBER: T0098:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : pioneer life in Ontario and Saskatchewan RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-15 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill was born in 1885 and discusses life in Dunchurch, Ontario (1885-1903). Homesteading at Herbert, Saskatchewan in 1903 and the first winter spent there. Discusses methods of farming, house building, etc.; CALL NUMBER: T0098:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : homesteading in Saskatchewan RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-16 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses homesteading in Herbert, Sask. in 1903: crop planting, winters, Mennonite emigration 1904-5, social aspects, schooling, ranch hand in Saskatchewan, and own homestead in 1908. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : early life on the Canadian prairie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-18 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses starting a homestead, building sod houses, barns. He corrects some errors made in dates and schooling on the first and second interviews (T0098:0001 and 0002). These errors were made because his birth was never recorded (so when he thought he was 18 years old he was actually 21!). CALL NUMBER: T0098:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : a cowpoke enlists in the army RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-18 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill moves to Montana as a horse rancher and enlists in the American army. He discusses training, boxing in army, and experience of a "riot between the white and black", Washington, D.C. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : ride 'em cowboy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-25 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses release from the army after guard duty; his return to Montana to claim his horses which had scattered after the war; contracts typhoid fever and recovers in his parent's home in Manitoba. Most of the tape deals with professional rodeo riding. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : transition from the range to industry RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-09-06 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill worked in Helene, Montana at the American Smelter Co.; in Aberdeen, Washington at a door factory; and farmed his father's land for three years (3 crop failures) in Manitou, Manitoba. He later went to Calgary by freight train to look for work. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jack McNeill discusses being on city assistance in Calgary for two months during the Depression. Took part in the On-to-Ottawa Trek in 1935. TRACK 2: Different jobs discussed, unions mentioned as well as his personal feelings toward work, the Depression and unions.

CALL NUMBER: T0103:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki discusses his family background and role of Japanese-Canadians PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Tatsuro "Buck" Suzuki was born in 1916, after his father had come from Japan in 1905. Worked for a Japanese man in a salted-salmon plant on Dorn Island. 47 families lived in the area. Description of Japanese rituals and festivals. Member of the Japanese Fisherman's Union. Organized the Japanese-Canadian Citizen's Association. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki tells of the social conditions of Japanese-Canadians 1920-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki discusses the problems Japanese-Canadian's faced upon arrival in Canada. He continues to describe race relations during the period 1920-1945. He mentions how the Japanese-Canadians handled discrimination in this period. He tells of the impact of the Depression upon the Japanese. The reactions of British Columbians to World War II. The struggle to get enfranchisement for Japanese-Canadians. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki describes internment and military service during WWII. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki relates the reaction of the Japanese-Canadians to internment camps. He joined the Canadian armed forces and was eventually sent overseas on loan to military intelligence in the British Army during World War II.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Buck Suzuki interview RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1976-01-15 SUMMARY: Tatsuro "Buck" Suzuki started fishing in 1925 at 9 years old. He describes fishing: including fish, equipment, engines, and changes. He describes and criticizes the buy-back program, and highlights the centralization of the industry. He discusses how early unions were divided on ethnic lines which was good for companies, but not very co-operative. Japanese fishermen were deprived of certain rights -- limits on area, catch and number of boats. Describes anti-Japanese sentiment before WWII. He discusses two union groups: left-wing Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union and the right-wing B.C. Fishermen's Protective Association. The latter being all-white and limited, while the former was made up of a bunch of radical dreamers. Buck was a liaison between the two. Buck discusses the night of Pearl Harbor, the orders given to the Japanese people to tie up their boats. Surprise at the Canadian government's treatment of Japanese people. He advised negotiation and caution rather than fighting to the Japanese community. He tells of his experiences being the first Japanese to return to the coast to Steveston after the war. Discrimination and trouble fishing for Japanese. A committee established to protect the Japanese. Buck became Welfare Director of the Union. He discusses current (1976) and future state of fishing, and makes suggestions.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cyril Charlton : a former office manager remembers Fraser Mills and its townsite PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1940 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1973-02-19 SUMMARY: Cyril Charlton was born in 1901 and concentrates on the years 1920-1940 in this interview. He talks of the "Oriental townsite"; racial attitudes of the time; and differences between the "whiteman" and "Orientals" in the mill.

SUMMARY: Talk by unidentified speaker [George Clutesi] about native people in Canada; their rights, history and culture; and their relation with white people.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hance Ranch, Chilcotin : 1879 - early 20th century RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Rene Hance, whose father, Tom [Orlando Thomas] Hance, was the first white settler in the Chilcotin area in 1879. Chinese buildings near Hanceville. Visiting the Chinese. The ranch at Hanceville. Origins of Riske Creek. Life of the ranch. Other ranchers: Lee, Tretheway. Crime and punishment in the region. Mail service. Indian-white relations.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-17 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tom and Vera Parkin RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-01-28 SUMMARY: Tom was born in Vancouver and entered the fishing industry prior to WWII. Following War he became the organizer for the U.F.A.W.U. Spent 7 years in the north as North Representative for the Union. Returned to Vancouver in the late 1950s as Public Relations Director to campaign against dams on the Fraser. Union improved income, vacation with pay, etc. as well as dealt with the racial inequalities felt by the Japanese, Chinese and First Nations. In 1945 the U.F.A.W.U. emerged from the amalgamation of the previous unions. 1946 passed resolutions allowing Japanese back into the Union. Canneries all up and down the coast have disappeared. Only Sunnyside and Port Edwards up the coast remained in 1976. Originally agreements were reached with each company on an individual basis. He used to carry a binder of agreements in 1950. Later the companies formed the Fisheries Association of B.C. and there was one contract for the whole industry. Vera was one of the representatives on a trip to the Soviet Union to help organize international regulations concerning fishing in the North Pacific. She worked in fresh fish operation in Prince Rupert in 1951. Soviets are (1976) far more advanced and mechanized -- no independent fishermen, but mother-ship trawlers and traps. Union organization history. Discusses the future of the industry, and how important it is to the economy of the province.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Turner : tallyman and boat rigger RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-22 SUMMARY: John Turner came to B.C. from Scotland in 1920. Worked at Fraser Saw Mill, then got a job with the Union Steamship Co. on the "Camosun" in 1922. Went to work at Wadhams Cannery as a fireman for the first year. Then he went to Imperial Cannery to help with the fall fishing. He packed fish from Kitsilano to the Gulf of Georgia Plant. There was a big Indian population which lived in the shacks on the dyke close to the cannery. During the season, White people lived in better and more permanent houses away from the water. The Japanese also lived on the water in company houses. Bunk houses for the Chinese men who were fed only two meals a day. They got mostly rice and dried fish and they were "tickled to death" to be working in these conditions. They worked for the C.P.R. in the winter. The Indians were only there for the summer season. The Japanese were permanent residents. Discrepancy of wages according to race. Retired at age 75 the head rigger at Canadian Fish Co. Describes the machine that cuts the heads off of salmon. During the Depression one year he got only 6 weeks of work. Discusses pulp mill at Swanson Bay.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

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

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna Tremeer RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: Edna Tremeer worked on Quadra Island in 1932 and came to Steveston in 1948. In 1932, every job was done by hand except can cutting. Kids were tied to their mother's backs. Worked from 7 am to 12 am at night, no overtime. Better quality of fish then. No day-care. Describes "steam-box" a vacuum packer. Describes the steps in processing the fish from tallyman to packing, took about 4 hours to complete and cans had to be lacquered. Women paid less than men. Non-Indians get a guaranteed income. Whites and non-whites kept separate. Piecework was more profitable, no quota set. Had dances in the net loft. The internment of Japanese during WWII allowed the native people to make more money.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stan May RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-18 SUMMARY: Stan May first started out in the cannery business at 15 years old at Walkers Lake. There was just a little cabin with a stove. You would light the stove and put the wet mattresses around it to dry and then put the mattress on your bed. He was a very "homesick boy" who was used to being around a big family. The next year he went to Namu, and put in four years there as an apprentice machinist. Then took a job as a full fledged lineman when he was 22 on the Nass River. It was a small cannery, just two lines but good experience. The cannery was run by a steam engine. Would put in four months on the Nass River, then come south and work at American Can overhauling machinery during the winter. Did that for quite a few years then switched companies and came to Canadian Fish in 1939. Went to Carlile Cannery on the Skeena River. Would go up in the spring and drive piles, work on machinery. Put in seven months a season. Got $150.00 a month and board with electricity. He would put $100.00 a month in the bank and at the end of the season walk away with $700.00. He had his wife and two small children with him. When the War came along they started working all year round. Worked one year at Phoenix Cannery in 1942. It was the biggest sockeye salmon run in the Fraser River. Remembers a seine boat leaving one morning at 7 am and they were back in at 4 pm and had made $1,200.00 per man. In those days he was making $6.75 a day and working 16 hour days. There was no union or overtime; you just worked for a monthly rate. Unions. Foreman at age 27. Did cold storage, reduction plant, herring and salmon. His kids needed educations so they moved to Richmond where he got a job at A.B.C. Packing Company at Phoenix cannery, as a lineman again. Within 3 months he was made foreman. Stayed at Phoenix for 26 years. Liked working for Phoenix. Discusses modern methods and equipment. Speaks on the discrimination of the Indians and Chinese in the 1930s.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vince Frank RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-03 SUMMARY: Vince Frank began fishing with his father when his was 10-12 years old, gill netting. Growing up in Steveston and living there. Attended Lord Byng Elementary and Richmond High. Originally came from Courtenay, on Vancouver Island. Came to Steveston in the early 1940s. His father's skiff would be towed out by a packer and dropped off. His father fished the majority of the time for Nelson Bros. but also for B.C. Packers, Canadian Fish and Millard & Co. Started fishing commercially when he was 10 on a seine at using cotton web lines, wooden (Spanish) corks, and pulling the net in by hand. Discusses net use and care. Fished with his dad most of the time, or else with his brother-in-law. Canadian Fish hardly hired any Indians at all. They did not discriminate against Japanese however. Worked in different canneries. Discusses the employment of Indians. Discusses boarding in a company house for 17 years with his whole family. His father worked in the net loft in the cannery for the winter. He joined the U.F.A.W.U. in 1947 and afterwards joined the Native Brotherhood. Discusses union and Native Brotherhood. He prefers wooden hull boats to aluminum and fibreglass. He's fished from Seattle to Alaska. Discusses current (1976) fishing and cannery conditions. He is a first class net man -- he can make any net you want: an increasingly rare skill. Discusses modern equipment on boats. In the old days in Steveston it was like one big family. When he went to Lord Byng School he and his sister were the only two Indian children there and he got it many fights because of it. Japanese internment and treatment. Changes in the river. He fished at Rivers Inlet 1937-1939 at that time the canneries were Rivers Inlet Cannery, Kildala, Brunswick, Good Hope, and Goose Bay. Story of dangerous storm near Alaska in 1966. Tells story of working in reduction plant and pulling Danny Gordon, drunk, out of a bin full of fish guts and wheeling him home in a wheelbarrow and throwing him on his bunk.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Robert Ransford RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-03-17 SUMMARY: Robert Ransford was born in Steveston in 1913. Father worked in Richmond Cannery. Used to go fishing with his father at the end of the dock at Richmond Cannery for salmon. Father was bookkeeper for Todd's. Richmond Cannery burned down in 1924. First started work in 1926 with a gillnet boat. In 1927 went gillnetting commercially in a row boat. There was only 2 or 3 white fishermen in the gillnetting industry in Steveston then. Back in the 1920s it was all Japanese gillnetting. There were seines, but they didn't seine in the Fraser River then because the seiners were confined to the northern areas. By 1927 there weren't that many Indians gillnetting in the River. The Japanese were using gasoline boats by then, and the only way to get a boat was through the company. All the Japanese lived in company houses. The Japanese were very hardworking people, very productive. There were a lot of fish in the Fraser River at that time. The cannery couldn't handle all the fish. 5 days fishing a week. Explains exactly how fishermen go about finding fish, the tides, the runs, etc. It's quite a study to do it correctly. No matter how long you've been gillnetting, its something you never stop learning. Discusses different canneries he worked for. Goes into great length about the discrimination between the Japanese and White fishermen. Discusses the companies' preference to the Japanese. The Japanese kept strictly to themselves, with their own customs and culture. In the early 1920s, the average fisherman made about $1,000.00 a season. Describes the Japanese living conditions the Japanese evacuation during WWII. The canneries tore down all the Japanese row houses in 1942. Mentions the Chinese being phased out and talks about the Chinese contractors. Fished in 1948 for Millard and Co. and got paid every day. Independent fisherman you could always get a little more money. Collector boats. The Japanese saltery in Steveston. The salted fish was usually for the Chinese market.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tom Johnson RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), [1976-02-27?] & 1976-03-05 SUMMARY: Tom Johnson started fishing in 1912 when he was living in Steveston. Moved to Rivers Inlet. There were no gas engines then, all fishing was done by hand in skiffs. Skiffs continued to be used up north into the 1930s. Around 1912, gillnetting was done at night as the fish could see the linen nets in the daytime. There was no market for pinks during WWI. Salmon fishing was done mostly by gillnets in 1914. In 1912, the companies owned all the nets. Each company had a painted cedar block attached to their net. He was part of the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union in 1946. Discusses unions. Lived in cannery houses at Kildala. Describes living conditions of shacks provided by companies. Fishermen didn't own their nets until 1917. Remembers when Mike Davis got his own net. Powerboats arrived in Rivers Inlet around 1924. Talks about the progressive mechanization of the boats and its effects. Spent time as a fish collector. Discusses wages, hours, etc. Settled in Steveston for a while. Bought the Lulu Island Marina which his wife operated while he gillnetted during the summers. Worked in logging camps during the winter to make ends meet. He has been in the U.F.A.W.U. ever since it started. Remembers the big strike of 1936, when he was on the executive board, and discusses the strike in detail. Discusses race relations in the industry. He fished during both the World Wars. Discusses the Japanese internment during WWII. Relates prices of items in 1912. Feels that the fishing industry is in danger of extinction. He would like to see a provincial department of fisheries. [Interview is continued, although recorded on a different date 1976-03-05]. Shortage of fishermen during WWI as war plants needed the manpower. The price of fish jumped during War, then dropped following it, causing the strike. Discusses the impact and return of the Japanese fishermen following their internment. Discusses housing in Steveston in the 1920s. Role of women in fishing industry. 200 mile fishing limit.

CALL NUMBER: T2618:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Crosetti discusses background: born in Cumberland, B.C., 1902; father's grocery store, Europe Grocery; parents' migration from Genoa, Italy via the U.S. to Vancouver. Discusses: origin of Branca and Crosetti stores; ethnic groups in the neighbourhood; favourite play places; dances; theatres; sports- lacrosse, hockey, skating. Describes: the False Creek area; interurban streetcars; False Creek fill-in; swimming at Jericho Beach; CN station; fishing and rafting on False Creek. TRACK 2: Discusses: cows in the neighbourhood; activities of a 13 year old in store; Mrs. Alexander; street vendors; neighbourhood characters; lack of crime; red light district; soap, gas and water works; schooling -- Strathcona School, King Edward High; Anglo-Saxons in neighbourhood; sports; theatres; visiting circuses; Hobo jungle; early jobs; wartime harbour explosion. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-12 & 21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on wartime harbour explosion. Recollections of hunger marches, demonstrations in the Depression. Longshoremen's' strike 1935. TRACK 2: Discusses: Rev. Robbins (?) of the United Church; relief offices in the Depression; interior of Crosetti's Europe Grocery store; street cars; home garden; wood and coal stove; Prior St. cabins; bawdy houses; bootlegging. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Angelo Calori, the Hotel Europe and the Sons of Italy. Origins of various fraternal organizations. Columbus Day dances. Marathon race story. Reasons for long-term residency. Birds in the area. Rats and mice. Main Street. Comments on neighbourhood photos: circus parade; Westminster Bridge; Imperial Theatre; dredging of False Creek. TRACK 2: Comments on photos: gas stations; undertakers; Hogan's Alley; Strathcona School; Main St.; Chinatown; fire hall. CALL NUMBER: T2618:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-21 SUMMARY: Mr. Crosetti comments on photographs about Strathcona neighbourhood. Not transcribed.

CALL NUMBER: T2621:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-03-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Raymond Culos discusses: family background in Italy; immigration of family to Vancouver, ca. 1910; problems of Italian immigrants; father as a dairy farmer in Coquitlam; mother's family worked on B.C. Electric; father's family in hotel work, catering and cleaning. Adjustment of first generation immigrants. Problems of being an Italian from the east end of Vancouver. Family life. Britannia High School. Jobs and sports. TRACK 2: Life of east end kids: entertainment; False Creek characters. Feelings about the neighbourhood as a newspaper boy and streetwise youth. Anglo-Saxons in the area. Sacred Heart School and attitudes and ambitions of local children. Literature at home. CALL NUMBER: T2621:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-03-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Preoccupations of pioneer parents. Children from many ethnic groups. Learning about prejudice. Examples of success and failure. Hogan's Alley. Bootlegging. Hardships in the Depression. His father's life as an athlete and businessman. Relations of Italians to events in Italy, especially during World War II. TRACK 2: Leaders in Italian community. Story of uncle's immigration to Canada. His mother and father as a unifying force in Italian organizations. Other local Italian families. Wally Wallace story. Anecdotes about his own family and other Italians in America. Additional memories of Sacred Heart School. His present activities. CALL NUMBER: T2621:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses his grandfather's grocery business. Comments on photos of family members and of the Strathcona area. More on Sacred Heart School. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2623:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the black community PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dorothy Nealy discusses: childhood in Manitoba; racial background; move to Strathcona in 1944. Description of the area: ghetto for blacks. Describes: Fountain Chapel; racism in jobs; housing; fights in neighbourhood caused by white kids slumming. TRACK 2: More on fights in neigbourhood and 'black-baiting'. Bootleg joints. Shake-ups. Prostitution. Network of Madames across Canada. Blacks move out in 1950s. CALL NUMBER: T2623:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the black community PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-28 & 05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dorothy Nealy discusses: bootlegging; violence in the neighbourhood; drug use; work with U.F.A.W.U. 1963 strike; workers in fishing industry -- women, Chinese, Japanese, East Indians. TRACK 2: Dorothy Nealy discusses: lack of discrimination in neighbourhood; changes in neighbourhood; why she has stayed in the neighbourhood; arrival of Natives; Natives as cannery workers; Native attitude to Mackenzie pipeline; neighbourhood reaction to redevelopment plans; SPOTA. CALL NUMBER: T2623:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the black community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dorothy Nealy discusses: community meetings; SPOTA; Vancouver Resources Board; first redevelopment survey 1945; multi-racial qualities of the neighbourhood; poultry business; work in Visco Poultry Packing House; blacks and Italians in the neighbourhood; New Delhi club and other entertainment; drinking habits in '40s and '50s. TRACK 2: Mrs. Nealy discusses: liquor laws; drug usage in the neighbourhood. CALL NUMBER: T2623:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the black community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: black migration from prairies in '30s; work at Chicken Inn and Cliff House; gypsies in Strathcona. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2624:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood: Rev. Annie Girard and Fountain Chapel PERIOD COVERED: 1932-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-01-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rev. Annie Girard discusses: Fountain Chapel of African Methodist Episcopal Church; family background in Alberta and B.C.; religious beliefs; arrival in Vancouver, 1938; marriages; car accident and changes in herself and her beliefs. TRACK 2: Called to religious service. Visions. First experience preaching. Dealings with kids and Jesus People in 1970. Purchase of Fountain Chapel. Ordination. Decision about evangelizing.

CALL NUMBER: T2624:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood: Rev. Annie Girard and Fountain Chapel PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1975 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-01-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: more on history of Fountain Chapel and her purchase of the Chapel in 1974; parishioners; experiences with kids and Jesus People. TRACK 2: Describes relations of blacks and whites. Views on "Roots", racism, and money. Closing the church. One of her sermons, "Denying yourself the right of being a human being.". (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2680:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gil Tiveron: born in Italy, 1909; came to Canada, 1911; first house on Union Street. Ted Hovi: born in Washington state to Finnish parents, 1909; moved to Vancouver, 1922; house on Keefe. Scandinavian boarders; conditions during the Depression; Powell River smokestack job; longshoremen's' strike 1935; Vancouver riot. Tiveron: crowd on Hastings in 1930s. TRACK 2: Tiveron: Hastings St (con;t'd). Hovi: Ballantyne Pier Riot [1935]. Tiveron: memories of Italian community; Strathcona School; Chinese vs. Italians; Chinese and Japanese; teachers and discipline. Hovi: Strathcona teachers and discipline. Hovi and Tiveron: youthful adventures; whore houses; prostitution and bootlegging; street vendors; theatres. CALL NUMBER: T2680:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-04-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hovi and Tiveron: movies and theatres; dances at Silver Slipper and Parish Hall; other ethnic groups- Finns, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Ukrainians, Poles; neighbourhood characters; leaving the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Hovi and Tiveron identify pictures: synagogue; Spencer's stable; Pini's Spaghetti House; theatres; Croatian Hall; Hogan's Alley; city market near Westminster Bridge; Morrow's Wood and Coal; False Creek flats. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2682:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A prairie migrant to the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leona Risby: born and raised in Alberta; description of life on the prairies in 1920s and 1930s; move to B.C. in 1933; work at Mrs. Alexander's and then Mrs. Pryor's chicken houses, 1930s and 1940s; Strathcona neighbourhood in 1938; black and Chinese; Fountain Chapel. TRACK 2: More recollections of Athabaska Landing, Alberta. First impressions of Vancouver as a rough town. Powell Street memories. Japanese evacuation. Fountain Chapel. Salvation Army in the area. Shantytown.

CALL NUMBER: T2682:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A prairie migrant to the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leona Risby discusses: cooking then and now; home remedies from the farm; moving to Strathcona neighbourhood,1935; lack of racism; BCAACP; her own businesses; her children and grandchildren, and foster children; statements about bitter blacks. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2699:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Yugoslavian families in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1935 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Veljacic discusses background: born in 1913 on Keefer St. of Yugoslavian (Croatian) parents; father's background; reason parents emigrated; their first impressions of Canada; work done by her father and other immigrants; father's role as interpreter for other immigrants. Describes: stores, banks, libraries in neighbourhood. Her husband, a 1929 immigrant, and his work as a fisherman. ;Problems of Yugoslavian immigrants in World War I. Good relations in neighbourhood. Strathcona School. The synagogue. TRACK 2: Discusses: Jewish neighbours; a Jewish funeral; funerals at Buddhist Church; games and children's' activities; Prior St. neighbours; more about games, youthful activities and holiday festivities; music and traditional stories; family life. CALL NUMBER: T2699:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Yugoslavian families in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 & 06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Veljacic discusses: childhood activities; anecdotes about neighbours and parents; status of parents as early immigrants in neighbourhood; Woodward's and Spencer's stores; family talks and motherly advice. TRACK 2: Visits to Deadman's Island. The Croatian Fraternal Union. Croatian Hall. Political differences among immigrants. Assimilation of second generation. Preserving Croatian language and culture in her home. Slovenes and Croatians group and family gatherings. Role of Catholic Croatian Church in preserving language and music. Hardships in Yugoslavia. CN station and yards: collecting lumber and watermelons. Omae brothers and the Japanese evacuation. Neighbourhood sharing and mutual help. Dr. Tomsett. CALL NUMBER: T2699:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Yugoslavian families in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Recollections of Dr. Tomsett. The flu epidemic of 1918 and other health problems. Mutual protection among young people. Helpfulness of an East Indian neighbour. Italian neighbours. Movies. Celebrations and festivals. A local madam and comments on prostitution. Owl Drug Store and ice cream sodas. Father and children's injuries. Embroidering and sewing. Gypsies. Fishing boat picnics. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2700:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Eurasian girl growing up in Mount Pleasant and Strathcona neighbourhoods PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ivy McAdams talks about some random recollections: born Ivy Kaji in 1920 of Japanese-Canadian father and British mother; father's background in Japan and Canada; father's service in WW I; his death in 1928; Ivy's schooling in Mount Pleasant area; difficult conditions of childhood because of mother's TB; racist taunts; Orientals in Mount Pleasant; East Indians; becoming a part of the Chinese community; dances for Japanese-Canadians; Powell Street; Japanese baths. TRACK 2: More recollections: public baths; problems in WW II; end of schooling at Fairview Commerce; move to Strathcona in 1938-39; she and her brother were only Eurasians at school; conditions in the Depression; youthful activities and living quarters; conditions in WW II; evacuation; permit to visit mother until her death in 1942; refusal to register as an enemy alien. CALL NUMBER: T2700:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese-Canadians in Strathcona : WW II and evacuation PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-26 & 06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ivy McAdams discusses: her arrest for refusing to register as an enemy alien in World War II; an exception being made in the case of herself and her brother; conditions for Japanese and Italians during World War II. TRACK 2: Discusses: Japanese evacuation; stores along Powell Street closed; description of Powell Street's Japanese stores; description of Japanese reaction and social life there; panic sales as evacuation approached; response of Japanese to evacuation. CALL NUMBER: T2700:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese and Chinese-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1950 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Japanese evacuation (cont'd); property never returned; fear of reprisals; support of friends; evacuation of children a cause of her mother's death; Powell Street after evacuation; Shanghai Theatre in Chinatown; Sam Kee building; Chinese opera; Chinese women; immigration policy for Chinese; work and social life among the Chinese; occidental interest in Chinese businesses and restaurants; Chinese school; myths about the dangers of Chinatown; help from a Chinese friend of the family; Chinese hostility to East Indians and whites. TRACK 2: Discusses: the raising of Chinese children; problems with the new generation of Hong Kong immigrants; Cordova and Hastings Streets in the 1940s; skid row; crime and prostitution; prostitution in Chinatown; few Indians in the area; gypsies around Main and Prior; Japanese Day feasts. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elisa Negrin discusses: her parents' Italian background; parents' first jobs in Vancouver; garden and animals on Atlantic Street; looking after cows; manure used in medicine and other folk remedies; butchering at home; fodder for cows; barn at Atlantic Street house. TRACK 2: Mutual help in the neighbourhood. Police in the neighbourhood during the Depression. Transients in the Depression.; Relations of girls with neighbourhood boys and transients. Chores and schools. Helping with midwifery in the neighbourhood.;

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: work and her attitude during her teens in the Depression; school life -- activities, ethnic groups; mutual help in the neighbourhood and attitudes of ethnic groups toward each other and neighbourhood problems; languages spoken in the neighbourhood; trees and sidewalks and proposed changes in the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Taking in borders in the Depression. Credit from stores. Attitudes toward teachers. Prevalence of TB in the war years. Other diseases: diphtheria, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever. (End of interview);

CALL NUMBER: T2717:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Black-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-07-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nora Hendrix discusses background: born in Tennessee in 1883; brief record of where she lived including places in Vancouver from 1911 to 1977. Life in Strathcona: Strathcona area restaurants; work for Mrs. Pryor's chicken house and at Soldier Williams; Jackson Street Church begun by black community in 1918; church activities -- bazaars and suppers, services, early families, entertainments, choir. TRACK 2: More about her life in the Strathcona area: big church dinners on American Thanksgiving; chitlin suppers; other black families; attitudes to life, hard times and the Depression; work as a washerwoman and cleaning lady; taking her children to the silent movies; Vaudeville and other entertainment; Mrs. Pryor's minstrel club and shows in the 1930s; husband's work; hardship for family in the Depression. CALL NUMBER: T2717:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Black-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-07-14 & 28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Grey Sisters' lunches for men in the 1930s; a big wedding in the black community; 1911, social club for coloured people on Homer St.; other black newcomers; Jackson St. church; black businesses in 1911; Buddy White's place and other clubs; Ernie King family of Prior St. TRACK 2: Conversation about the Tosi family. Talks about: Fountain Chapel; cherry trees; carnival on Powell St.; Mayor McGeer's ideas for Stanley Park; celebrations in Chinatown; Mayor Taylor and prostitution; Chinese lottery. CALL NUMBER: T2717:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Black-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Chinese lottery; lack of crime; description of Chinatown; prostitution in the area; Hogan's Alley clubs; Tamale sellers; stories about life during the great flu epidemic of 1918; dances in the Orange Hall in the '20s; public washrooms at Hastings and Main. TRACK 2: More about public washrooms. Story about a shooting and comments on coloured people and crime. Steambath on Hastings St. Difficulties of black men getting jobs. How Italians got rich. Visit to a bootlegger. Georgia Viaduct, 1914. Music in the family. Benefits of poverty. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2718:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marino Culos discusses: document on Sons of Italy formation; Angelo Calori and the Europe Hotel; the Culos family migrates to Vancouver 1907; the Italian community in Vancouver; work of Italians in construction industry; Ferrara Court; family work at the Klondike Hotel café; other prominent Italians and their professions; chores at the Klondike Hotel. TRACK 2: More description of the Klondike Hotel. Cordova St. meeting hall. Meeting father at train station. Italians in World War I. Early residences and a childhood accident. Strathcona school days. Ethnic groups and relations in the schoolyard. Language barrier. Boarders. Leisure activities among Italian immigrants. Sculptor Fabri. 1927 Marathon race. CALL NUMBER: T2718:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1904-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: History of the local Sons of Italy organization. Father aided by Sons of Italy after accident. His work for Carrelli and the Klondike Hotel. Other activities of the Sons of Italy. Constitution of the Sons of Italy. Description of funerals provided by Sons of Italy. Sons of Italy costumes and behaviour. TRACK 2: Dress in the '30s. Geography of the neighbourhood. Description of Union St. Shanties under the Georgia viaduct. Ravine at Hawks and Union. [Deletion.] Bootlegging. CALL NUMBER: T2718:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Deletion] First jobs: Klondike Hotel; farm and grocery jobs; bought own store; other grocery and bakery jobs. Study to become an accountant. First Honourary Life Member of the Sons of Italy.; Other Italian organizations. TRACK 2: Effects of World War II on the Italian community: persecution and internment. Role as President of the Sons of Italy during the war. Conditions of internment at Petawawa. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Phyllis Culos discusses: family (Minichiello) background and emigration from Italy; first experiences in Canada; starting a grocery store in 1912; death of baby sister, 1915; detailed description of store; house and store; mother's heavy responsibilities; learning English; school, and Jewish and Chinese friends; Sunday picnics in Stanley Park; father's first car; 1918 flu epidemic; Union St. people; description of store and locality; Italian families on 500 block of Union St.; Jewish families at 700 block Union St.; childhood games and other recreations. TRACK 2: Discusses: lack of prejudice; social life and family life; parents' trip to Italy, 1926; traditions -- Christmas and Easter food and festivities; Sons of Italy and its' Ladies' Auxiliary; activities of Ladies' Auxiliary; Depression memories; never felt deprived; store run by father, then by Marino and Phyllis Culos; family owned Dobson Hotel. (End of interview)