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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-09-11 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-04 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-26 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-11-23 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-28 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-28 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker compares mills, describes 1950s PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Raposo (loader operator at a sawmill) from San Miguel, Azores. Description of town, of first job. Logging and sawmilling on Azores in 1940s-50s. Immigration, "herding" of people. Life on farm. Working for C.N.R.; job description, coming to Terrace. No other Portuguese at Weber's sawmill. Greenchain work. Friend Lowe [or Louie?] TRACK 2: Living at Lip's farm, John Lips. Learning English. Pohle's sawmill; changes in sawmilling methods and machinery. Use of trimming in Azores. Calling relatives; ties with homeland fade. Terrace in 1956. Visiting Kitimat by train. Recruiting workers, friendly treatment of immigrants.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: businessman recalls his immigration and Kitimat PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Francisco Trigo (shoestore owner) discusses background in North Portugal; immigration, work in restaurant, gold mine. Recalls Kitimat in 1950's; locating in Terrace; climate. Discusses shoe store; wages; ethnic identity; building construction and style; Terrace in 1963; the building at 4600 Park.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a grocery store owner talks of immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Claudino de Melo (grocery store owner) discusses auditing bakeries in Lisbon; immigration (Oromocto, Halifax); speaking Italian and English. Work at Montreal Portuguese Club. Learning of Kitimat, "trainload" to Kitimat, 1955. Employers' recruiting methods. Work in smelter. Shortage of housing. Mrs. de Melo arrives via Bella Coola. First baby. Providing room for new people. Sagimat Construction houses were moved to Terrace. TRACK 2: Alcan made it easy to purchase houses, restricted improvements, had regulatory power. Beginning a specialty store in Kitimat, reasons for relocating to Queensway, Terrace. Buying and selling Imperial Hotel. Trying business in Okanagan. Portuguese fish and other specialty products for sale at the Riverside Market. Luso-Canadian Club of Kitimat. Daughter; learns languages, business practices. "Calling" (sponsoring) relatives.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1950s and 1960s : history of house, description of Usk, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1951-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carl Louis Lavergne (edger, monkey wrencher) was born on December 18, 1914 in Ontario. Mrs. Lavergne (railway cook) was born on September 10, 1917. Background about their parents. Arrival in Terrace. Different forestry jobs. Description of Terrace on arrival. Settled in Terrace. Met Mrs. Lavergne in 1956]. Mrs. Lavergne's arrival in Terrace -- first in 1954, then in 1956. Moved to Copper River in 1960. History of house built by Bill Haggen. Types of animals raised at Copper. Power facilities. Food storage and canning procedures. Medical facilities. Location and description of hospital. Social activities. Bank robbery at the Royal Bank in the late 1950s. Arthur Clore [?]. Pat Beaton [?]. Description of Usk, B.C. Road to Usk. Old highway and roads in Terrace. Development of Terrace. House along highway to Copper River. Evidence of army. How bridges between Prince Rupert and Hazelton got named. Road to Kitimat. Hot springs. Effect of development of Kitimat on Terrace. Social atmosphere of Kitimat. Development of shopping centres. Change in people. Various characters. Original farm at Copper River. TRACK 2: Original farm continued. Johnny and Ida Haggen. Phone and light service. Subdivision at Copper River. Fishing and hunting.

CALL NUMBER: T3106:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : effects of World War II, exploitation of resources PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George Joseph Kofoed (bridge builder, construction foreman, faller) was born on April 4, 1933 in Terrace, B.C. Background about parents who were married October 31, 1929 in Terrace. Settled at base of Kalum Hill. Description of home. Food storage. Sewage facilities. Effects of the Depression. People from childhood. School life from 1939. Games. Moved to Thornhill in 1941. Description of house. Chores. Social activities. TRACK 2: Location and description of stores before the war. Businessmen in Terrace. Worked at Co-op in 1951. Earlier jobs. Types of jobs at Co-op. Joined the Air Force in 1952 and returned to Terrace in 1955. Various jobs for Canadian Cellulose. Changes in the forest industry. Addition of safety equipment. Roads near Terrace before and after the war. Motor vehicles before the war. Vehicle licenses before the war. Transportation before the war. Beginnings of the war. Impact of the military on Terrace. Effect of the military on everyday life. Food rationing during the war. Catholic church constructed by the army. Effects of the war on school life. Social activities. Feelings toward Japanese Invasion. Skeena Mutiny. Feelings amongst the military. CALL NUMBER: T3106:0002 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace B.C. in the 1930s and 1940s : effects of World War II ; exploitation of resources PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1:TRACK 2: Changes that should occur. Exploitation of the land and lumber. Personal feelings regarding management of resources and municipal development. Social impact of the logging industry; control over large companies to avoid environmental damage. Community preservation.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a D.P.W. workman recalls his immigration, jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Arthur (Artur) Soares (D.P.W. labourer) was born in 1930. St. Jorge, Azores, farm work. Immigration to farm in Newfoundland. C.N.R. extra gang. Learning English. C.N.R. section work, Telegraph Point. First house in Terrace. Work for Alcan, Kitimat; for Department of Public Works, Terrace. Construction: renovating small house, building large house. Description of house and garden. Easier for new immigrants now. Standard of living on Azores, emigration, getting ahead. Terrace in the late 1950s. D.P.W. work.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a smelter worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Germano Carrita, as a new immigrant from the Azores, had difficulty getting a railway job: hunger and bribery. Railroad work. Description of San Miguel, Azores. Immigration, problems of not knowing French or English. Alcan smelter: how pot room work has changed. Kitimat in 1955: a place to stay in the bunkhouse. Visiting Terrace, moving to Terrace. Description of house and garden.

CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leo Edward L'Estrange (truck driver, skidder, miner, owner of Red's Billiards) was born on June 12, 1937 in Prince George. Background about parents. Arrived in Terrace first in 1949 for work. Drove team of horses. Visited Terrace again in 1952. (blank gap). Came to live in Terrace in 1956. Changes in Terrace during these visits. Various jobs after settling in Terrace. Sports and other social activities. Roads and automobiles. Hiking and hunting. Houses and where they were situated. Sewage and power facilities. Medical facilities. Business community in 1956. Worked for Ernie Sandy. Changes that occurred around house on Straume. Changes across tracks near Agar, proposed shopping plaza. Farming near Terrace. Fruit growing. Evidence of the military occupation. Location of some military buildings. TRACK 2: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. CALL NUMBER: T3123:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Terrace in the 1950s and 1960s PERIOD COVERED: 1956-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: Impact of Kitimat on Terrace. Rail to Kitimat. Sewage problems in Terrace. Use of hot springs. Effects of increased population on environment. Fishing. Exploitation of tourists. Government control over exploitation. Changes that have occurred; environment; community spirit. Lack of community spirit and leadership. Deters large business establishment. Stability in community. (blank).

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-05-25 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-01-27 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

SUMMARY: This collection consists of interviews with eleven people of Oowekeeno origin, which document some of the ethno-history and ethnology of the Oowekeeno people. The interviews were conducted by David Stevenson (sometimes in conjunction with bilingual members of the Oowekeeno Band) in 1976 and 1977. The project was funded by a grant from the Museum of Man (Ottawa). The collection consists of 26 tapes; or approximately 20 hours of recording. Added to this collection are transcripts of the English portion of each interview. The transcripts, together with the index information used in the finding aid, were produced by the Indian History Film Project based at the University of Regina. Item-level descriptions of the interviews themselves can be found under their individual call numbers.

CALL NUMBER: T4210:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Lock Madill RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-03-07 SUMMARY: William Lock Madill was an early aircraft maintenance engineer. Initial training with the RCAF. Member of the Private Aircraft Club. Test pilot for Boeing of Canada during WWII. Helicopter Engineer post war. TRACK 1: Lock describes his first flight in 1927, entry into the RCAF and service at Jericho Beach Air Station in 1931, with description of activities at the air station. Description of working at Turner Boat Works following 1931 cuts in RCAF. [Note: Track 1 was part of a "trial interview" done to practice interview techniques. Much of it is repeated on Track 2.] TRACK 2: Lock describes his first flight and entry into the aviation industry. Joining the RCAF and recollections of Camp Borden, 1929. Jericho Beach Air Station in 1930. Rebuilding a Cirrus Moth with Harold Turner in the mid-1930s. The activities of the Private Aircraft Club in Vancouver in the 1930s. Test flying for Boeing Aircraft of Canada during WWII. CALL NUMBER: T4210:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Lock Madill RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Returned to Turner Boat Works, Coal Harbour. Instructed at Brisbane Aviation. Carpet business. January 7, 1952 joined Okanagan as engineer, very small company, flew up to Kemano and worked there for three years. Background to Kemano. Typical day. Nechako Dam closing. Maintenance on helicopters. Flying conditions, winter. TRACK 2: Mid-Canada Line operations with S-58. Background on Mid-Canada Line. Largest helicopter in Canada. American's lack of success on project. Problems living at Kemano. Dominion Government surveys in B.C., Y.T., and N.W.T. B.C. topographic surveys. Chasing bears; bugs; cleaning helicopters with Coca-Cola. Logistics of surveys. Salvaging Otter with S-58. Work in the shop. CALL NUMBER: T4210:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Lock Madill RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Carl Agar. Humour on the job. Atmosphere at company. Salvage operations. Aklavik. Team effort. Attitude of others in aviation to helicopters. Crash near Banff. Camp life. Evolution of helicopters. Technical developments. TRACK 2: Support of helicopter operations. Hiller 12 helicopters. Winter operations and duties. Vancouver Island work. Kemano ice melting operation. Helicopter operations and accident in New Brunswick. Rebuilding wrecks. Radio. Heaters. Bird strikes. Ferry flights.