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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dennis Cocke: Tribute to Rae Eddie, former NDP MLA for New Westminster RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977-02-07?] SUMMARY: NDP MLA Dennis Cocke (New Westminster) pays tribute to former New Westminster MLA Rae Eddie on his death, 07-Feb-1977.;

CALL NUMBER: T1347:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Meadows talks about his recollections of early Vancouver in the 1890s, including: streams, roads and a physical description of the city; his work as a messenger for the CPR telegraph, delivering to the saloons; the Westminster Road; New Westminster Exhibition, ca. 1900; the real estate boom 1911 to 1912; life in the city; Dominion Day Parade; the red-light district; development of the city; the West End; Stanley Park; False Creek; shipping and sports. TRACK 2: Mr. Meadows continues with recollections about sports in Vancouver; residential neighbourhoods and social classes; silk; imports and the silk trains to Montreal; neighbourhoods in the city; ethnic communities; mills; impressions of the city; childhood activities from 1895 to 1905; sports; youth organizations, like the ;YMCA; and juvenile problems, ca. 1910.;

CALL NUMBER: T1347:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-09-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Meadows continues with comments about education; thoughts about Vancouver; Victoria; Chinese; ships; shipping and travel; race riots; the McGeer family; Gerry McGeer; the land boom; vaudeville theatre in Vancouver; sports in the city; and False Creek. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nick Stevens recalls his early years on Salt Spring Island; his early life as a fisherman in the Gulf of Georgia; anecdotes about his childhood; fishing on the Fraser River; types of boats; living in a scow house; anecdotes; the Greek community on Deas Island; the Austrian community; the Spanish community; other ethnic groups in the Lulu Island area; community life and provisions. TRACK; 2: Mr. Stevens continues discussing various groups along the Fraser River; the Japanese community at Steveston; Spaniards on Duck Island; Portuguese; Kanakas from Salt Spring Island; Indian cannery ;workers; Austrians in Ladner; Chinese on Deas Island; cannery work; cannery equipment; the "Iron Chink"; the "Iron Squaw"; Deas Island; his work as a pirate fish buyer; land taxes on Lulu Island; life; on Lulu Island; fishing seasons; Chinese/Indian relations; Japanese/white relations; unloading German tin plate in Steveston; growing up in Steveston.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevens talks about survival in the forest; canoe trips with his mother, Emma King; characters from the Ladner area; Steveston; Ladner; travel to New Westminster; steamboats on the Fraser; in 1905; fishing procedures, circa 1900, on the Fraser and the Gulf of Georgia; sealing; sturgeon fishing; Canoe Pass; Port Guichon; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade, nee Yeomans, recounts her family's coming to Deroche in 1890; their arrival in New Westminster; construction of the family home; the murder of Mr. O'Shea in 1891; floods; church; ;Reverend Lovering; Nicomen Island; Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Deroche; entertainment; settlement; incidents from her childhood; other settlers; Felix Parent; the Deroche family; childhood at Nicomen; Indians; Sam MacDonald.

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche; Indians; Mission circa 1900; Italians; Silverdale; the Cade family; the first telephone at Mission; Japanese farmers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevenson talks about coming to Elgin in 1888 from the Orkney Islands; clearing the farm; dyking and draining the land; early Elgin; logging camps; early settlers; early crops; Brackman and Ker; shipping produce; the hotel in Elgin and Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit. Mrs. Stevenson talks about her father, Isaac Johnston; early New Westminster; the New Westminster market; family life; farms; the family potato factory; early Elgin; W. Kaye Lamb; early residents; Peter Bain; Ladner; John Oliver. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dinsmore recounts his parents' arrival in BC in 1888; his move to Elgin in 1891; purchase of property in Surrey in 1902. Mr. Dinsmore talks about the land; dyking; bog-shoes for horses; wells; water supply; taxes; subdivision of agricultural land; agricultural costs; Mud Bay; land conditions in the area; flooding; dyking the land; bogs; clearing land; drainage problems. TRACK 2: Mr. Dinsmore continues his discussion about drainage and development; the history of drainage problems; steamboats; lift bridges; Nicomen River; Serpentine River; fishing; local characters; New Westminster Market; schooling; early roads; Hadden's Mill; V.V. & E. [Vancouver; Victoria and Eastern Railway]; railway routes.

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick Whiteside recalls his parents, Helen and Guy Whiteside, and their arrival in BC in 1888; they homesteaded in Surrey, [at?] Pike and Yale Roads. He talks about the school at Tynehead in; 1900; subdivision of the homestead, today known as Fleetwood; his father's work as a fisherman in the Sunbury district; Port Mann; the land boom of 1913; Surrey Centre; the family homestead; clearing; land; logging; McNair and King Shingle Mill; other mills in Surrey; Jimmy Robson; South Westminster; Murphy's Dairy; Kennedy; Indian reserve; Johnny Wise. TRACK 2: Mr. Whiteside continues with recollections of Johnny Wise and his hotel, the Clarendon; Brownsville Hill; the Green Timbers area; the New Westminster Market; Murrayville; peddlers, Kidd & Israel; stoves; roads; Surrey Centre; John Churchland; settlers in Surrey Centre; Reverend Bell.;

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Whiteside talks about Cloverdale; the Boothroyd family; Alec Matheson, a constable and blacksmith; Joe Drinkwater; Harry Bose; Tynehead; Port Kells; recreation; Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit; farming; roads and trails; D.M. Robertson; Tynehead Nurseries; the Boothwell family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about his parents, John Murdoch Gillis and Sammie Ann Gillis, who came from P.E.I. in 1888; they homesteaded in Tynehead. He talks about the family farm; family members; William and Donald Gillis; early life in the area; settlers in the area; travel on the Fraser River; roads in the area; Hjorth Road; his father's work as a logger; his mother's work on the farm; the New; Westminster Market; winter incidents and anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis talks about his father's work on the Great Northern Railway; Liverpool Station; Bonnacord Station; Port Kells; Johnny Wise's ;hotel; Brownsville; bridges over the Fraser; Great Northern Railway; incidents; school; derailment of a circus train; childhood; school activities; Annadale School; childhood; recreation; church.;

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about fishing and hunting; chores and work for children; Barnston Island settlers and description; Port Kells; Port Mann; land boom; Surrey; incidents during road work; caterpillar plague in 1909; mosquitoes; D.M. Robertson. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis continues with reminiscences about the Tynehead Church; D.M. Robertson; William Bothwell; lost in the woods in 1902; Green Timbers area; incidents involving the local policeman; Alec Mathieson.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: Emmanuel Ronse interviews Howard Hume, who discusses his father Fred Hume, the founder of New Westminster radio station CFXC (which later became CJOR).;

CALL NUMBER: T2796:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Gruhs family of Horsefly, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gruhs family history. Homesteading. Stores and successive owners. Food. Social activities: community hall; gopher dance. Severe winters. Stove. TRACK 2: Religion. School teaching. Engagement; and marriage to Ben Gruhs. Esther's early childhood in New Westminster. Education. Preserving. Bridge in Horsefly. Road building. Fire in 1934 that almost destroyed home. Cars.;

CALL NUMBER: T2796:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for this tape.];

SUMMARY: News reports on the CKNW station fire, Sunday, May 9, 1954. Heard are the newsmen and CKNW owner Bill Rea. Scratchy reception (taken from a radio); airchecks done [i.e., recorded?] by CKMO. Many offer;s of equipment and assistance from other Vancouver radio stations.;

SUMMARY: Program marking CKNW's switch to a 5000-watt transmitter, November 1954. With: Hal Davis, Bill Hughes (manager), Senator Tom Reid (opens the transmitter), announcer Bill Duncan, Dan [Don?] Franks, Jer;ry Fuller Quintet, Jerry Davis, Bonnie Shannon, Joe Chesney, George Haun (gov't), Red Watson (banjo), Monty MacFarlane, MP Earhart McGeer [?], Lorraine McAllister, Wally Garrett, Ray Louden (vibes), J;immy McLaughlan. [Four disc sides; possibly incomplete.];

The item is a reel of film footage. "Four girls in uniform spelling TECH. Girl's drum-and-bugle corps marching onto field and playing. Scarlet jacketed pipe band playing while marching past crowded grandstand. New and old Queen arriving with dignitaries. Abdication speech. Dancing about Maypoles in the field. Old Queen placing crown on head of new Queen, new Queen smiling. TECH marching squad marching by. Fancy drill by TECH girls. Folk dancing by kids -- large crowds watching. Girl's drill team with staves. Boy's drill team doing semaphore. Making patterns on the field with shirt colours -- boys. Mt. Baker Union High School banner preceding their Highland band, which marches past. Boy's drill team with red, white & blue flags performing field-wide precision marching." (Colin Browne)

The item is a reel of film footage. "Fourth reel of duplications and out-footage from the B.C. Forest Service's documentation of the Royal Visit of 1939. Scenes include: Huge parade of veterans with crowds near Pattullo Bridge in New Westminster, a building across the street called "Pacific Motors". [Steamship] "Prince Robert" leaving Victoria. "Will ye no come back again" captioned across the sky. People on the breakwater, Victoria, watching the ship carry the Royal couple back to Vancouver. Planes fly over Lion's Gate Bridge, Vancouver. Children dance around the maypole to honour the King and Queen. Crowds of people. Parade of veterans. King and Queen, preceded and followed by many cars, drive around a curve in the road. A ceremonial Welcome arch in Saanich. A sign reading "Saanich School Children", kids waving flags. King and Queen drive over a wooden bridge under Saanich arch, throngs of people cheering and waving flags. Lunch at a picnic table for a family. Street in Esquimalt (?) with cars and buildings decorated. Highland band marches past." (Colin Browne)

The item is a print of a documentary film. The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Robert Bellinger, visits British Columbia to celebrate the centenary of the union of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Film shows ceremonial events at New Westminster, Fort Langley, Government House in Victoria, and elsewhere. People shown include Centennial officials, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, actor Raymond Burr, etc.

The item consists of a kinescope of the August 5, 1954 CBC coverage of the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, sponsored by Northern Electric. Events reported on include: rowing finals from the Vedder Canal (Prince Phillip in attendance, Canada wins gold medal in the eights); boxing from the Forum; wrestling from Kerrisdale Arena; fencing from Lord Byng High School gymnasium; lawn bowls from New Westminster; track and field from Empire Stadium; and swimming from Empire Pool. Includes ad inserts for Northern Electric flash bulbs and kitchen appliances.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Mrs. Marien Starnes, who emigrated from Norway to Canada in 1905. She talks about the journey to Canada, Arrowhead B.C. (1905-1911), New Westminster in 1911, May day celebrations, Haley's comet, 1907 depression, her father as a fisherman, Girl Guides, teaching experience, work at Coqualeetza Indian school, journey to Peace River 1919-1920, Rolla B.C., the trapping camp, gold panning, birth of first child at Red Cross outpost hospital.