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Amateur film. Harriet Gerry shot this film during an automobile journey from Rosedale to Williams Lake and Soda Creek on the Cariboo Highway, and part of the return trip via the Dog Creek Road, in the summer of 1941. Includes footage of wagons en route to the Williams Lake Stampede; rodeo events (various horse races, bucking broncs, etc.); Indians at stampede playing the team gambling game "lahal". Unidentified Indian village or mission settlement(s); boys at the swimming hole; women display their embroidery; fiddler plays and women with cane dances a jig. Livestock. Dip net fishing in Fraser River. School and convent buildings at St. Joseph's Mission, Williams Lake. Beaver aircraft at dock and taking off from lake. Staff of Williams Lake Indian Hospital. Views of landscape, back roads, wooden fences, steam shovel, etc. Dip net fishing. Dog Creek village scenes; displaying bead work. Views of and from the Dog Creek Road; Indians on horseback; cattle and cowboys on road. Examining a man with trachoma (eye condition). Car negotiating steep switchbacks; road conditions alternately dusty and muddy.

Public affairs. Jack Webster’s popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Update on Judge John Farris, former Chief Justice of BC now living in England after his departure, has applied for re-admission to the bar. A clip from Premier Bill Bennett’s press conference announcing BC Resources Investment Corporation (BCRIC) and the gifting of five shares to eligible British Columbians. Webster has a one-on-one interview after the press conference with Bennett and then goes through the proposal on his show. Interview with Dr. Nathan Divinsky, Chairman of the Vancouver School Board on the new budget and attrition; removal of sabbaticals; pay for summer school; ratio of students to teachers; Vice Principals teaching; supervisor aid program; English language curriculum; renting IBM computers; reduction of field trips; historic ESL courses; and enrichment programs for the gifted. Woman calls in and calls Webster a "pea-brain". Update on SFU strike, new offer of 6% over two years not accepted.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack interviews Dave O'Connor, president of the Truck Loggers Association, and Jack Munro, president of IWA for Western Canada, about logging companies doing a large-scale undercut of their lumber quota over the last six years without being penalized. Other issues are loss of jobs and revenue, mills being underused, allocating unused cuts to smaller timber companies, and the new Forest Act. Al Crawford, president of the Vancouver Elementary School Association and Tom Hanson, president of the Vancouver Secondary School Association, talk about the effects of cuts in the education system imposed by the Social Credit government. Issues covered are teacher/student ratios, teacher sabbaticals, school boards, and student needs. Show concludes with a tour of Mountain Prison and in-studio interview with reporter.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are listed in the subject area, below.

Guests:
Davies, Brian
Holmes, Tom

Topics:
Schools--British Columbia--Surrey

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Jack goes to Centennial High School in Coquitlam and speaks to the students there. He speaks briefly about his own adolescence and wants to know what these young people think about the world today. They discuss politics, the media, patriotism, education, choice of careers, labour and unions, the changing structure of the family, drugs, sexual equality, thermonuclear war, running for political positions. Steve Wyatt reports on French immersion education. He speaks to Andy Talmanis, Principal of L’Ecole Bilingue and Judy Gibson, BC President, Parents for French.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: John Crosbie, Minister of Transport, talks about a new icebreaker that likely will be built in Vancouver by Versatile Pacific Shipyards, Inc. (VPSI). Tony Brummet, Minister of Education, and Bonnie Spence-Vinge, special education coordinator for the prevention of sexual abuse in the BC schools, talk about sexual abuse in schools.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kate H. McQueen : growing up in early Vancouver and teaching RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-15 SUMMARY: Kate McQueen was born in 1884 and shares her memories of early Vancouver from 1891 onward. She discusses famous families in the city; her school life before 1900; and teaching in Vancouver from 1900 onward.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-02-04 SUMMARY: Miss M. Upshall was the First Metropolitan health nurse, ca.1936. Looked after schools (Japanese); pre-natal care program. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-02-03 SUMMARY: Mrs. J.B. Bothwell was a school teacher in Steveston, ca. 1920. Good details. School rules. Community life. Japanese. Finnish. Home remedies. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

PERIOD COVERED: ;1910;-;1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-?] SUMMARY: Dan Lee talks to Hilda Mortimer about the difficulties due to the lack of schools in the Chilcotin, and the relevance of education to the rancher.;

PERIOD COVERED: ;1908;-;1951 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-07-24 SUMMARY: Mary Wallace Hamilton, born in New Westminster, 1891, is a 1908 graduate of Victoria High School. McGill University graduate. Types of students who completed their high school education in 1908. Parental influence and encouragement concerning a girl's academic achievement. Opportunities for women; clerking, teaching, nursing or secretarial work. Role of women in school life. General attitudes towards women and education. Women's opportunities -- changes through the years.

CALL NUMBER: T1364:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part one) PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: This tape begins with Dr. English's early years as a student, then his early career in education as a teacher and principal. Discusses Putnam-Weir Report. Effect of Depression on education. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part two) PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Dr. English describes changes in education in the 1930s, and his experiences as a school inspector in the Peace River school district. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part three) PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1962 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Dr. English discusses his experiences as an inspector in Trail-Rossland district, and the differences between this district and the Trail school board. Talks about the problem of Doukhobors' refusal to send their children to school. Implementation of Cameron Report in the Greater Victoria area. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part four) PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Discussion of advantages and disadvantages of re-organization according to the Cameron Report. Discussion of changes in organization of the Department of Education, and changing responsibilities of officials. Policy decision under Social Credit government. Curriculum revision. The Chant Report. CALL NUMBER: T1364:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A career in B.C.'s educational system (part five) PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: Career as Deputy Minister of Education: discussion of implementation of Chant Report, of contribution of Ministers of Education, of changes in organization of Department of Education. Observations on the Legislature. General comments about trends in education and the preparation of annual reports. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [1975?] SUMMARY: Mrs. Schroeder's parents came to Victoria from North Hatley, Quebec in 1891. Another married daughter already lived there. Violet was one of eight children. The family lived on Rithet Street and at other rented homes in James Bay. Attended first services [1892] at James Bay Methodist Church (now James Bay United). Attended Kingston Street school, and then the new South Park School on Douglas Street, where Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was the principal. Recollections of Miss Cameron, her disciplinary style, and her Arctic travels, resulting in the book "The Far North". High school. Trained as nurse at Royal Columbian Hospital in Sapperton. Married Frank James Schroeder [in 1903]. Childhood recollections: games, clothing, Sunday dinners. The Dilworth family.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ida Clarkson : Victoria High School project RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-07-03 SUMMARY: Ida Clarkson was born on April 23, 1927. She graduated from Victoria High School in 1943. She discusses: Harry Smith; teachers; commercial program; army, navy, airforce careers for young adults; sergeant of airforce cadets; air cadet training, drills, uniforms, 1943; member of the stenographic corps; evacuation of Japanese students into the interior, 1942; irregular occurrences in school life directly related to the War; Glee Club; drum majorettes; school dances and high school graduation; dominant individuals.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Victoria High School project RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-06-20 SUMMARY: Jo-Ann Williams: 1962 graduate of Victoria High School. Accounts of school life -- academics, sports, social life. Courses offered at this time. Possible differentiations between male and female students at Vic High. Trends and patterns of high school life.

CALL NUMBER: T1483:0001 - 0002 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06-26 & 29 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Mrs. Laura Annie Moxon, the daughter of John Edward Moore of Alkali Lake, B.C. Moore came to Alkalai Lake in 1875. In 1909 he sold his ranch and bought the Onward Ranch at the south end of Williams Lake. Mrs. Moxon was educated in Victoria (1897) and in the east. She and her husband owned the Maple Leaf Hotel in Williams Lake in the 1930s. She recalls her father, the Onward Ranch and life there, local schools, and irrigation, as well as the packer Cataline (Jean Caux) and James Pinchbeck. Alkali Lake was originally called Paradise Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T1483:0002 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1975-06-29

CALL NUMBER: T1375:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Childhood and Youth, 1914-1933 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1933 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in Victoria, 1914. United Empire Loyalist stock in New Brunswick, 1786. Family moves to B.C. in 1912 (?). Father in feed business. Moved to Ladner. Father in debt. Moved to Salmon Arm. Father killed in 1927, putting the family into even greater debt. TRACK 2: Works for "The SAFE" in Salmon Arm. Mother ran a boarding house. Played in dance band through the Depression. Ambition to become a pilot. Normal School in Victoria. Member of Older Boys' Parliament. Worked as warehouseman and clerk. Depression years in Salmon Arm. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Student and teacher, 1934-1939 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Williston discusses his first teaching job in Hendon, B.C. in 1934. He then took a B.A. at UBC summer school, starting in 1935. Taught in Surrey, B.C. Talks about Surrey social life at the time, and his marriage in 1939. Moves to Princeton, B.C. Graduates from UBC in 1940. Discusses the social life in Princeton in the late 1930s. TRACK 2: Discusses teaching at the Princeton High School. UBC summer session discussed. Walks over Hope-Princeton trail in 1939. Gordon Shrum and Professor Sedgewick at UBC. Williston has attack of "nervous exhaustion". He develops an "abhorrence" of socialism during the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Airman and School Administrator, 1940-1952 PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rejects BCTF militancy in the 1930s. Rejection of socialism. RCAF (1940-1945) in Alberta. Returns to teaching in 1945. Supervising principal in Prince George. Joins the Department of Education as school inspector. TRACK 2: Reprimand by W.T. Straith, Minister of Education. Declines to run as a Socred in 1952. Runs in 1953 and elected (Fort George constituency). Unschooled in Socred monetary theory. Thought W.A.C. Bennett too conservative in financial matters. Socialism versus "adapted free enterprise". Voted for various parties in 1930s and 1940s. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Social Credit politician, 1952-1954 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1954 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Attracted to the Social Credit Party in 1952 by the people in it. Nominating meeting in 1953. Had job as a lecturer at the University of Washington, 1954. Became Minister of Education, April 1954. Aquatic events in the Gorge, Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]; CALL NUMBER: T1375:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): MLA and Minister of Education, 1953-1956 PERIOD COVERED: 1953-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: Williston reprimanded by William T. Straith, Minister of Education, for making public statements about education. Asked to resign as school inspector when he was nominated in 1953. 1953 election. W.A.C. Bennett speaks on behalf of Williston, 1953. Williston's first speech in Legislative Assembly. Williston gets favourable reaction from all sides. Responsibilities of "the press". Williston becomes Minister of Education, April 1954. Appointment kept secret until last minute. Initial problems and issues in education -- financing, teacher training, curriculum. Role of deputy ministers. Some senior public servants try to embarrass the new government, especially with regard to finances. School finances. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Minister of Education, 1954-1956 PERIOD COVERED: 1954-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Problems of school construction and finance, 1954-56. Establishment of teacher training in universities. British Columbia College of Education. Reinstatement of World Review in the schools. Education problems with Doukhobors. Doukhobor school at New Denver, B.C. The socializing role of the school system. TRACK 2: More on B.C. College of Education. Personalities in B.C. education. Salaries of education officials. School openings. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The "Sommers" Case PERIOD COVERED: 1955-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: "Sommers scandal" in which Robert Sommers is accused and convicted of accepting bribes in relation to the granting of forest land tenures. Williston's personal assessment of Sommers. Williston appointed Minister of Lands and Forests, 1956. Reaction within government to the scandal. Mel Bryan crosses the floor to protest Attorney-General Bonner's handling of the affair. TRACK 2: More on Mel Bryan and "Sommers scandal". Assessment of Ron Worley. Sloan Commission on Forestry, 1957.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Anna Lees : Clayton School, Hudson's Hope in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Anna Lees discusses immigration to Canada from Norway in 1928 at age 5. School days at Clayton School.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kari Espe : Norwegian settlers in the Peace River district, 1930-1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Kari Espe discusses her emigration from Norway in 1930. Farming and homesteading at Peace River from 1931-1940. Providence Hospital. Social life. Clayton School. Relations with English settlers.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mrs. Jim Beattie : first white woman to settle at Hudson's Hope, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1975?] SUMMARY: Mrs. Jim Beattie discusses the journey from South Fort George to Peace River in 1914. Farming 35 miles from Hudson's Hope. Indians and treaty money. Ranching. Daughter was the first white child. Husband's work at Portage on the telegraph, at the Post Office, and as a notary public. Children's schooling at Hudson's Hope.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

CALL NUMBER: T2622:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Halpern discusses: arrival in Vancouver and Strathcona neighbourhood; first job and working conditions; staying with his sister; how he got into the peddling business; learning the peddling business. TRACK 2: Mr. Halpern discusses: the peddling business (cont'd); marriage to a Polish woman; life in the Strathcona neighbourhood; move near Jewish Community Centre, 1940s; unemployed destruction and economic conditions; synagogue and rabbi.

CALL NUMBER: T2622:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Halpern discusses: how rabbi helped the immigrants; stores on Georgia Street; stories about life in Strathcona neighbourhood and life as a peddler & store keeper. TRACK 2: Dolly Kopelow (daughter of Harry Halpern): memories of evacuation of Japanese friends; Strathcona school; language at home and school; growing up in Strathcona neighbourhood; poultry scales, junk dealers' vending; stalls on Pender; and anecdotes about the neighbourhood. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2628:0001 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-01-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background; oriental population; characters up the Big Bend, ca. 1920; pack trains and prospecting up the Bend; early Revelstoke history; CPR; churches; business; red light district. TRACK 2: Prospectors in the 1920s; school in Revelstoke, A.E. Miller; entertainment; making of the film "Silent Barriers" [i.e., "The Great Barrier"]; first marriage and personal experiences up the Bend; work and interests outside the home; father's jobs; CPR strike 1902; ice cutting on the Columbia; south country communities.

CALL NUMBER: T2628:0002 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), [date unknown] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: More on A.E. Miller; natural disasters; more on father's jobs -- surveying, cattle ranching, dairying, forest ranger; Indians; hobo jungle around 1915; family history; building of Connaught tunnel; snake rooms in old hotels; formation of the Revelstoke Art Club. [TRACK 2: blank?]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life at Big Eddy, 1908-1940 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-02-17 SUMMARY: Father was an early farmer at Big Eddy -- his farm was, for several years, a government sponsored experimental farm; field day; roads and bridges; neighbours; country schools; Christmas concerts; teachers; how a young couple dealt with hard times in the Depression; event when Nels Nelson became world champion ski jumper.

RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-03-21 SUMMARY: Family arrives in Farwell, 1895; early Revelstoke hotels and businesses, 1900s; early churches and their attitudes toward each other; activities; ministers; attitudes toward prostitutes, alcohol; father's business; school days; job as a telephone operator; fire brigade; white slavery; Chinese population; Chinese funeral.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1930-1959 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), [date unknown] SUMMARY: Toby Belinski discusses business, schooling, movies and life in Revelstoke, 1930 to 1959. Discusses the 1930s film "The Great Barrier."

CALL NUMBER: T2636:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Beaton, B.C., and area, 1921-1965 (part 1) RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-03-04 SUMMARY: Calder Soules describes transportation, mining, taxi business, schooling in Beaton, and the Upper Arrow Lake region, 1921 to 1965.;

CALL NUMBER: T2636:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Beaton, B.C., and area, 1921-1965 (part 2) RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1977-03-04 SUMMARY: Calder Soules discusses the history of Beaton and Revelstoke, 1921 to 1965.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Howard Carson RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977?] SUMMARY: Howard Carson discusses homesteading in the Peace River region in 1928. Ms. MacDougall: teacher, friends, and boarder with family. School days. Local colour. A posse goes after a wolverine; a forty-pound weasel. Clay Martin or "his place" mentioned several times. Second half of tape has a great deal of interesting information concerning freighting with horses in the winter.

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.];