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CALL NUMBER: T0719:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Danny Milo recounts the story of his family and his birth; his family lived near Sardis; the legend of the flood; the Chilliwack tribe; the legend of Cultus Lake; stories of the Chilliwack River; the Vedder River; origin and meaning of place names; Indian dialects; legend of the Fraser River; the continuation of the legend of the flood; the story of the creation of man and woman; Indian religious beliefs. TRACK 2: Danny Milo continues with Indian legends; the legend of the bear children and the man who got a wife made out of alder; the conclusion of the legend of the flood; his father's bad luck; the legend of Cheam, Popkum and Tamiki Mountains.

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Milo speaks about Indians and the first white man; killings in the canyon; a childhood visit to Yale; the meaning of "Siwash"; Indian lands; the first pioneers; the Whatcom Trail; school days at Coqualeetza Home School; Captain John; the Indian preacher. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. William T. "Bill" Murphy describes how his father, John Joseph Murphy, came over to Canada from Ireland to Seaward Bluff as a stone mason in the 1880s and worked for the CPR. He worked as a homesteader as well, and worked at Ruby Creek. Mr. Murphy describes Yale at the turn of the century; some old timers, such as Ned Stout, a pioneer who came up the Fraser who lived to be 104 years old; more about Yale, homesteading, the development of Yale including the CNR and roads being built, Laidlaw, the St. Alma Valley, Indians on the reserve, the church, more on Indians, schools, and finally, the hard winters. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Item consists of one bound album measuring 41 x 55 cm. It contains maps of the Railway Belt of BC in 1907 prepared by James White, F.R.G.S., Geographer, under the direction of R.E. Young, D.L.S., Superintendent of Railway and Swamp Lands for the Dominion Department of the Interior. Each map depicts trails; trails surveyed; post offices; railway stations; range numbers; township numbers; homesteads patented and homesteads entered for and unpatented; sales, special grants, mining land sales; lands disposed of by provincial government; forest reserves and parks; timber berths; and (First Nation) reserves. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

The special edition maps "showing lands disposed of" include: Port Moody and Yale sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Kamloops and Lytton sheet (west of sixth and seventh meridians), Sicamous sheet (west of sixth meridian), and Donald sheet (west of fifth meridian).

Item consists of one bound album measuring 43 x 57 cm. It contains seven maps of the Railway Belt of BC photo-lithographed at the Surveyor General's Office in Ottawa after September 28, 1904. Maps depict trails, trails surveyed, post offices, railway stations, range numbers, and township numbers. Each also includes a diagram "shewing subdivision of townships".

Maps include: Donald sheet, west of fifth meridian (90, revised to March 13, 1902); Sicamous sheet, west of sixth meridian (91, revised to Jun 4, 1903); Seymour sheet, west of sixth meridian (92, revised to July 5, 1904); Yale sheet, west of sixth meridian (93, revised to September 25, 1902); Lytton sheet, west of sixth meridian (94, revised to June 24, 1903); Kamloops sheet, west of sixth meridian (95, revised to September 28, 1904); and Port Moody sheet, west of seventh meridian (96, revised to August 2, 1902).

Item consists of one photograph of Yale, taken from a distance. The Fraser River is visible on the viewer's right and the Cascade Mountains are in the background.

The item is a stereo print taken by Richard Maynard in 1881. It shows Andrew Onderdonk's house in Yale.