CALL NUMBER: T1311:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs."Nellie" Gillespie recounts the arrival of her father (J.H.Todd) in British Columbia in 1862, his grocery and cannery businesses, summer visits to the Fraser canneries, Skeena canneries, her father's early life in Ontario and BC, her childhood impressions of Victoria, Christmas celebrations, St.John's Church, childhood activities, schooling, theatricals, the Pooley family, recreation at Sooke Lake, and the navy in Victoria society. TRACK 2: Mrs.Gillespie continues with recollections about Begbie's funeral, the Birdcages, the Gillespie family, impressions of the city circa 1900, A;.E.Todd, Mayor of Victoria, the Klondike gold rush, the smallpox epidemic, her father's early activities in Victoria and Barkerville, and her views on tourism and the "Englishness" of Victoria.
CALL NUMBER: T1311:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs.Gillespie talks about getting to know people in Victoria, social life and her views on "Englishness". [TRACK 2: blank.]