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CALL NUMBER: T4303:0220 SUMMARY: Another copy of the above.

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0256 SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. This program won the Peabody award; in 1980. "Peniel, the private ground of a cancer patient" is a radio feature set in the wards of the Cancer Control Agency of BC. This program won the Peabody award in 1980. Tapes T4303:0378 - 0382 comprise field recordings for this program.

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0220 SUMMARY: Another copy of the above.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A sound feature by Jurgen Hesse following the stages in the process of a surgical operation, and the complications that develop.

Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.

CALL NUMBER: T2002:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Neen describes her personal and early educational background up to beginning nurses training in 1923; a description of life in the nurses residence, curfew and roommates; the emphasis of the course, lectures, duties, and Ward X; a statement of qualifications for nursing in 1923 and the size of the VGH class; a brief statement of jobs held after graduation; special nurse in Trail, Nanaimo and San Francisco; introduction to the Rotary Clinic, staff, location and an aside on relief. TRACK 2: More on the Rotary Clinic and treatment available for TB patients; isolation techniques, enforcement and placarding; a brief recollection of Dr. Norman Bethune and his visit to Vancouver; changes in the Rotary Clinic; association with VGH; amalgamation with Metropolitan Public Health staff in 1936 and changes in treatment with the introduction of PAS and streptomycin; a discussion of the effects of the Depression on health units; the growth of baby clinics; services, restrictions and time spent at; involvement in social work; referrals to out-patients VGH, Social Services; Children's Health Centres. CALL NUMBER: T2002:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Public health nursing ; a practical experience in involvement PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Involvement in school health programs and an anecdote about Miss Elizabeth Breeze; activities in schools, examinations, iodine tablets, athletics; growth of mental health program and an anecdote about TB derangements and problem of civil rights and forced hospital admissions; public health nurse and changes in VD clinics; anecdotes of follow-up situations; Shanghai Alley at Alexander and Cordova Streets; Stella the prostitute. TRACK 2: A continuation of the story of Stella; the Stafford Hotel and the issue of money; Miss Neen took a supervisory course and McGill in 1947 and returned to coordinate the TB program; a description of the mobile TB units and their locations; the involvement at Oakalla, including the installation of the TB units; staffing and training, the hospital, problems, security, and an anecdote about arriving at the prison gates; anecdote about a Lancashire man as an example of the scope and involvement of a public health nurse; retirement in 1963 after forty years in service.

CALL NUMBER: T1983:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Don Watt : medical missionary work, United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background in Ontario; medical positions held; Skidegate Inlet, 1946; Queen Charlotte Hospital, 1955; type of medical work there, coronary work; life style in the Queen Charlottes; influence of church on Dr. Watt; effects of United Church medical work; Bella Bella, 1942 -1960, large growth; tuberculosis in BC; Port Simpson Hospital; types of medical problems in United Church Hosp;itals. TRACK 2: Christianity and medicine; income of United Church doctors; payment other than money; income tax; Government subsidy for rural isolated doctors; payment for services; regional hospital districts; United Church and government takeover of Bella Bella Hospital; penicillin; x-ray equipment; technical advances in rural medicine; satellite communication.;

CALL NUMBER: T1983:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Don Watt; Medical Missionary Work, United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Hugh McGuire, an outstanding surgeon from Alabama with futuristic ideas for rural medicine; liaison between city and country; United Church involvement; use of specialist from UBC Faculty of Medicine for medical programs; veterinary experiences. TRACK 2: Humourous veterinary experiences; work anecdotes; Red Cross; Indians in society; birth control; sterilization; abortion.

The item consists of a black and white photographic print of the St. George's hospital on fire. The hospital was in Alert Bay, BC and the fire took place in 1923. This photograph has been matted and may have been hung.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pediatrics RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal history; education; interest in medicine; description of University of Toronto Medical School, 1943 to 1948; how antibiotics affected training; the development of Pablum; university description continued; interning at the Royal Jubilee Hospital from 1948 to 1950; big flood in the fall and spring of 1947/48; advent of hospitalisation; how hospitals were almost empty waiting for January 1949 when hospitalisation was paid; Toronto Mental Institute at 999 Queens Street; depressing; uses of shock treatment discussed; Great Ormond St. Hospital for thee month paediatric course in the fall of 1949; went to Davenport in 1950 to work at maternity hospital for six months; midwifery discussed; France for a holiday and onto the Semmelweis Clinic in Vienna, observing and assisting with operations; 1951 back to London, Ontario, working for a obstetrician and gynecologist doing circumcisions; Vancouver in 1953. TRACK 2: Description of Vancouver; job with Savage Shoes doing research on children's feet; working afternoons at a baby clinic; moved to Richmond in 1954; got job with metropolitan health in 1955; moved back to Vancouver so could continue working at the baby clinic; viewpoints of need for family life education; some discussion of what the school board is doing right now; handicapped children's needs; English needed as a second language by 33% of elementary students.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0005 track 2
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 2: [Original tape #1, Box 30.]
Canon Alan Green discusses his personal background, including his birth in Orillia; Ontario; his father, who was the vicar at the parish there; and his siblings. He describes coming to BC in 1911 at the request of Christ Church Cathedral to work with John Antle as a student missionary on a steamship up to Van Anda. He gives his first impressions of BC; how he eased into boating; and details about the Van Anda Hospital. He then tells anecdotes about "gettin' in" with people at the logging camps and settlers on the coast. He outlines what he offered as a representative of the Anglican church, and how he would adapt his approach based on what worked in a specific community. Finally; he discusses John Antle's character.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0006
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #2, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues by describing his career with the Columbia Coast Mission, and how he came to know John Antle through a man named Cecil Owen. He discusses Antle's belief that "the Church was not there to hold services, but to render service", and anecdotes that reveal Antle's character. Then he discusses hospitals; his hospital rescue ship the "Rendezvous"; and he compares loggers and fishermen. TRACK 2: [Original tape #3, Box 30.] Reverend Greene discusses lighthouses in Bute Inlet and their keepers, including a man named Smith; anecdotes about navigation in Bute Inlet; Skookumchuck Rapids; more on adventures on Bute Inlet; and stories about settlers, including some from the Orkney Islands.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0007
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #4, Box 30.]
Reverend Green continues with his story about the settlers from the Orkney Islands before discussing floating logging camps in detail. The story of a rescue involving the "Columbia" hospital ship; how the "Columbia" had the first radiotelephone in the area; and more on Bute Inlet, including logging and settling attempts and various old timers. TRACK 2: [Original; tape #5, Box 30.] Reverend Greene tells about various adventures around Read Island and Surge Narrows; the burial of Father Lambert of the Seventh Day Adventists; weddings aboard the "Rendezvous"; a large women that he had carry on his back to get ashore for Christmas parties; details about old-fashioned Christmas parties; various ministers on the islands; earthquakes; various characters, including Bill Frost and John Jones.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0008
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #6, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues with more on the characters of Read Island; Bob Tipton, a justice of the peace, who threatened a man with a shotgun for trespassing; and others, including George Stafford. Reverend Greene also discusses the community at Quathiaski Cove on Quadra Island; the Columbia Coast Mission; and the role of the church at Bute Inlet today. TRACK 2: [Original tape #7, Box 30.] Reverend Greene comments on the role of the church in 1969; details on the history of Quathiaski Cove, circa 1905; Reverend R.J. Walker and Chief Billy Assu. [end of interview]

CALL NUMBER: T3860:0074 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dan Campbell (backgrounder) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-04 SUMMARY: Dan Campbell (backgrounder).; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0075 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Allan Williams and company RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-11 SUMMARY: Allan Williams "and company" on the special sitting of the legislature; Jim Nielsen on skid row report.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0076 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Vander Zalm RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill Vander Zalm on Gray Line sale; "will go". TRACK 2: Bill Vander Zalm on regional districts.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0077 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bob McClelland hospital increases ; Dennis Cocke RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bob McClelland on hospital increases. TRACK 2: Dennis Cocke on ICBC.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0078 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Garde Gardom RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-20 SUMMARY: Garde Gardom on RCMP break-ins.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0079 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace McCarthy RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-21 SUMMARY: Grace McCarthy on new approach to Human Resources.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0080 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rafe Mair ; Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-12-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rafe Mair blasting Lieutenant Governor's Christmas message. TRACK 2: Premier Bennett on Mac-Blo takeovers.;

Footage. Colour footage of Hycroft Veterans Home -- building, grounds, men playing outdoor checkers, views of Vancouver skyline. B&W: opening of George Derby Health and Occupational Centre in Burnaby, plus scenes in wards and solariums at Victoria Veterans Hospital [now part of Royal Jubilee Hospital].

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Webster comments on current news stories and his investigations into the administration of justice in BC courts; the RCMP in need of guidelines for high speed chases. Brian Coxford and Webster discuss the case of a 19 year-old woman who was arrested and kept in jail on a failure to appear, which was erroneous. A report on "wasted" hospital beds, that is, the use of acute care beds being used for extended and chronic care patients; care of the aged; includes an interview with Margaret Woodward, Administrator, and Dr. John Fransen, Chief of Staff, both of Surrey Memorial Hospital. Phone in regarding callers' experiences with long term and elder care. Remarks on the United Way report on G.A.I.N. Brian Coxford interviews a former wife batterer. Heart Month; research; Dr. Sidney Katz. Producer Linda Dutka talks about tomorrow's guests.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack talks to John F. Bulloch, founder of Canadian Federation of Independent Business, about how federal politics affect small businesses. Jack reports on acts that are unconstitutional and Brian Coxford reports on the construction of Eagle Ridge Hospital.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): General Surgeon and Work for the Workers Compensation Board PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background, childhood; schooling and music lessons; university and medical training; post graduate work in surgery; internship at Toronto General Hospital; practice in Welland after internship; effect of Depression on practice; war years; practicing Ottawa; aviation doctor and medical statistics; practice in Kamloops and discussion of facilities there; the formation of the Seymour Clinic in Vancouver; teaching at UBC Department of Surgery; surgical consultant at WCB; assistant director of medical services at WCB; duties; employee health unit. TRACK 2: Medical Director's responsibilities; coordination and education; pensions for disability; psychology playing larger role in claims; industrial hygiene at WCB; sound pollution; rehabilitation at WCB.

CALL NUMBER: T1271:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna Darby recalls life as doctor's wife in Rivers Inlet and Bella Bella, 1914-1955 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edna Darby recalls life as a doctor's wife (married to George Darby, 1889-1962) in Rivers Inlet and Bella Bella, 1914-1955: Edna describes her arrival in Rivers Inlet in 1914, the four childr;en she raised, the hospital at Rivers Inlet, more on her children including details about George Jr. at age 3 in a near drowning experience, fishing canneries at Rivers Inlet, other doctors, and the move to Bella Bella in 1914 including the reasons why. TRACK 2: Edna Darby continues with a description of the Bella Bella region, the hospital there, William Henry Pierce, relationships with Indians,; the granting of the Indian name 'Woyala' to Dr. Darby, more on Indians, how Dr. Darby happened to arrive at Rivers Inlet, other duties Dr. Darby performed, and a book written by Dr. George Darby.

CALL NUMBER: T1271:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna Darby : doctor's wife PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edna Darby recalls a story of the first 'skin graft', witch doctors, a story of a patient with tuberculosis, the Indians' attitudes toward Edna, more on Dr. Darby and the children she raised,; and more again on Dr. Darby. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A sound feature by Jurgen Hesse f;ollowing the stages in the process of a surgical operation, and the complications that develop.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. This program won the Peabody award; in 1980. "Peniel, the private ground of a cancer patient" is a radio feature set in the wards of the Cancer Control Agency of BC. This program won a Peabody award in 1980. Tapes T4303:0378 - 0382 com;prise field recordings for this program.;

Amateur film. Miscellaneous footage taken during the time that Miss Gerry worked as a nurse for the federal Dept. of Indian and Northern Affairs. Includes footage of Indian reserves and villages, celebrations and school children; a First Communion procession at St. Paul's Indian Catholic Church in North Vancouver; hospital and clinic scenes; residential schools and Coqualeetza Indian School and Hospital; Cariboo highway and scenery; Williams Lake Stampede; etc. Also includes OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, a discrete two-reel film that depicts a 1941 automobile journey to visit Indian reserves and missions in the Cariboo. For a detailed content summary of OUR CARIBOO NEIGHBORS, see item description AAAA5215.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Native Indian Tuberculosis Control Programme PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Introduction; graduation; first interest in tuberculosis; Saskatoon Sanatorium; treatment of tuberculosis then; moving to BC in 1941; opening hospital at Sardis; problems; public attitudes; case-finding facilities; incidence of TB among Indians; Indians attitudes toward the hospital; development of TB control program; public education; opening hospitals at Nanaimo, 1945 and Prince Rupert,1946; treatment, streptomycin. TRACK 2: School for patients; handicrafts; fire at hospital in 1948; relation between federal and provincial TB control; TB Christmas Seals.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped & community health services PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Personal background; training for rehabilitation work, 1945 to 1947; early rehabilitation work in BC; provincial government involvement, 1948 to 1950; development of rehabilitation programs; experimental programs. TRACK 2: Continued discussion of experimental programs; work in Kelowna and Nanaimo; reception of programs by the public and physicians; work in Chilliwack and Prince George; operations and developments since 1967; rapid expansion of programs; finances of cost shared programs; future hopes of programs.;