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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life on Tibbs Island, 1944-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1944-1950 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Mr. & Mrs. Robby McKeand of Nanaimo, B.C., interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978. Subject of the interview: life on Tibbs Island [now Arnet Island]; the local Natives; the Japanese-Canadians in the Tofino area. Also, discussion of: rumours about a Japanese sub shelling a lighthouse in World War II; Japanese ambitions of running the world; anecdote about a Japanese fisherman.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-28 SUMMARY: Interview with Dr. Joe Boucher, an eyewitness to events surrounding the supposed shelling of the Estevan Point Lightstation by a Japanese submarine in June 1942. Boucher was engineer on the patrol vessel "Santa Maria" at the time, and his account contradicts the "official" explanation on a number of key points.