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Baptie, Susan Mary, 1944- Sawmills--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
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Frank Wilkinson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Master mechanic in the forest industry RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-05 SUMMARY: Born in England in 1902; came to Victoria in 1911; started work for Cameron Lumber Company in 1927; worked as a machinist and engineer; worked in logging camps in the Nitinat area in 1922; description of logging camps; machinery at the Cameron mill in Victoria; employees; types of machinery used and technological changes; retired as a master machinist in 1967.

H.G. "Harvey" Hanson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Head filer, Youbou; Superintendent, Vancouver Mill Division, BCFP PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1967 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Born in Minnesota, 1902. Came to Canada with parents. Father was mill manager in Vancouver. Worked in various mills as a filer in the 1920s. To Youbou, 1923, as head filer. Description of Youbou and the mill, etc. Superintendent, Vancouver mill, 1952-1960. Spruce milling. Mill fire of 1960. Superintendent at Youbou, 1961-1967. Retired, 1967.

H.T. Grier interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Retired as Superintendent, Victoria Saw Mill, 1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-06-04 SUMMARY: Started in a bank as a teller; because of health, went to Barnet Lumber Company's mill in 1926, until it closed during the Depression; conditions during the Depression; no job for two years; obtained job at Industrial Timber Mills in Youbou grading lumber; then the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau; assistant to the superintendent in Youbou; superintendent at Victoria in 1950.

John (Jack) Whittaker interview

CALL NUMBER: T0275:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Superintendent, Youbou Sawmill, Lake Cowichan, Retired 1959 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-21 SUMMARY: Born at New Westminster in 1896; worked at Barnet Lumber Company; Rat Portage Lumber Company; Capilano Timber Company; came to Industrial Timber Mills in Youbou, in 1932 as superintendent; description of changes in the industry; Youbou as a community; sawmill operations taken over by BC Forest Products; expansion, etc.; retired in 1959.

CALL NUMBER: T0275:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Superintendent, Youbou Sawmill, Lake Cowichan, Retired 1959 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-05-21 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]

Percy Clements interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Union organizer at BCFP RECORDED: Mackenzie (B.C.), 1974-12-09 SUMMARY: Started at Youbou sawmill for Industrial Timber Mills in February 1946; union organising for IWA; strike of 1946 and the results; Woodworkers Industrial Union of Canada breaks away from IWA in 1948; re-building the IWA; strike of 1952; the drive for better working conditions during the 1950s; serving as business agent and president of Local 1-80, 1962/63; back at Youbou; in 1974 was senior "C" mill foreman, Mackenzie.