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CALL NUMBER: T3132:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fred Soon discusses background: born Canton 1908; immigrated 1921 on CPR boat with relatives; paid $ 500 head tax; held in Immigration Building for 3 weeks; Chinese 'a political football' prior to 1947. Early life for Fred Soon in B.C.: jobs limited to labour work in mills, on farms, in laundries, etc; sister-in-law not accepted into nurse's training in B.C. in 1950; attended Strathcona School to learn English; then Britannia; father made him take one year commercial course at John Oliver so he could run his own business; first lived in 'community house'; help clan associations offered Chinese. TRACK 2: More on Soon's life in Strathcona neighbourhood: grocery store during Depression then shipyard work at Burrard Shipyards building Liberty ships during WW II (considered a good job;); post-war grocery store then shingle mill work; active in IWA union as Chinese organizer; unions discriminatory in early days, but later changed mind.; CALL NUMBER: T3132:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community PERIOD COVERED: 1921-1968 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses the expropriation of his house on Pender Street for urban renewal: he refused to sell to City Hall because they would not give him replacement value only market value (unfair because area had been designated for clearance so property values had dropped); refused to go to arbitration; had to move out due to stress on wife but he never completely abandoned house; house was demolished without his consent on morning in 1967; went through three lawyers, none of whom could help him. TRACK 2: More on expropriation of house: third lawyer that represented him settled for Fred Soon without telling him first; Soon refused to accept money which was kept in trust by lawyer until just before his death when Fred Soon had to take it. Soon was active in early formation of SPOTA; labels ;urban renewal 'urban destruction'; points out basic errors in City Hall's program. Describes Depression jobs and how labour contractors worked. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Takla Lake (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Field was born in Scotland in 1902, and came to Canada in 1920. He spent two years on the prairies and then came to BC. After a few months working along the Fraser River, he came to the Cariboo on a freight train. He worked as a gandy dancer on the Pacific Great Eastern Railway before becoming a trapper in the Chilcotin.

RECORDED: Princeton (B.C.), 1981-10 SUMMARY: Mr. Baker came from England and engaged in many occupations, finally becoming a forest ranger at Princeton.;

RECORDED: Christina Lake (B.C.), [1982] SUMMARY: Svea was born in Lappland and came to Canada in 1907. He worked in the mines around Greenwood. He discusses some Swedish families in the area.;

RECORDED: Davis Bay (B.C.), 1982-03-19 SUMMARY: Mr. Bushell was born in England and immigrated to Canada in 1924. He went to Ocean Falls and worked in the pulp mill there.

CALL NUMBER: T3534:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Christie : the early years in Canada RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1979-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill Christie recounts memories of his early life in Canada.: born in Scotland; in the infantry in World War I; moving to Canada with his new wife after the war; first impressions of Canada; working in the streetcar business in Winnipeg; working on a farm for an American owner, Roberts, in Manitoba -- problems with boss, farm. TRACK 2: Bill Christie discusses: buying a farm from an Englishman for $9000; experiences of owning farm; worried about going into debt, so sold property; went to Saskatchewan next to help on a farm -- quit after a short time; worked at another farm in Saskatchewan; rented a place in the Uncha Valley, B.C. to farm; stories about farming in this part of B.C. in the inter-war years; journey from Rosetown up to Burns Lake (in the Uncha Valley); buying and selling some land up in this part of B.C.; beginning his work with the Indian department. [Tape stopped recording at this point for an unknown reason -- means there is a gap in the narrative.] CALL NUMBER: T3534:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Christie : coming to the Cariboo RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1979-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill Christie discusses: the Farmers' Institute; hauling tiles; dances for community; the Christies had five children by this time -- not many educational opportunities, but lots of fun; finding references so he could apply for Indian Department job; meeting the Indian Commissioner; buying more cattle and livestock; becoming an Indian agent; description of their house near Williams Lake at the time; learning to be a good Indian agent; did some logging business to finance operation; book-keeping; story about Bella Coola logging; potato club in Bella Coola for the children; learning to drive a modern car. TRACK 2: Bill Christie discusses: driving a modern car for the first time from Vancouver -- eventful journey (cont'd); anecdotes about his time as Indian agent in Bella Coola -- trips around the area, building a school at Anaham, Father Bradley, Father Thomas, difficulty in getting qualified teachers, Jane Bryant (nurse), mixing of whites and Natives in schools (happened later on), Indian police, using an interpreter in meetings with the Bella Coola Natives; had powers of a magistrate; Barkerville murder. CALL NUMBER: T3534:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Christie : the Cariboo RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1979-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Christie discusses: the Barkerville murder (cont'd); case of two Natives wrongfully being accused of killing a steer; Natives were blamed for setting fires, even though farmers did it too; Reserve courts were never made legal, but they dealt with smaller crimes anyway; more on school in Anaham and Chilcotin Indian children who went there; chasing run-away children; difficulty in getting good lay school staff. TRACK 2: Mr. Christie discusses: story about an American teacher from aeronautical engineering school in Seattle; difficulty in retaining teachers at the Anaham school; Native children behaved well in the day schools; anecdote about a Masachi box; outbreak of T.B.; still trapping when he first came to the Cariboo; Natives would work on farms -- good at farming; Natives not good businessmen; Chilcotin Natives ethnicity; perception of Father Thomas; anecdote about Bishop Jennings; depending on interpreters; doctors in the area. CALL NUMBER: T3534:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Christie : the Cariboo RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1979-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Christie discusses: more on doctors in the Cariboo; anecdote about Dr. Haramia; story about getting half a deer from 'Sammy', a Native; needed to be practical to survive in the Cariboo; differences between those with university education and those without (like himself); Mission schools taught practical things to Natives, as well as reading and writing; difficulty in forcing children to go to school when schools were scarce -- Christie built schools to fix this problem. TRACK 2: Mr. Christie discusses: more about Mission schools; Archbishop Duke -- a Puritan, wanted to establish an Indian sisterhood; differences in Christianity- Catholic vs Protestant; Bella Bella mission; Father Bradley's visit to Elgatcho; relationship with the Archbishop; most independent Natives were the ones farthest from Williams Lake -- the Nemiahs and the Redstones; most troublesome Natives -- Anahams, some Alkali Lake Natives; poaching; little trouble between ranchers and Natives; Natives in Bella Coola did not mix well with the Norwegians; some land disputes. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T4185:0001 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: James Moriss, from Gradna (Grodno?) in Russia, born 1895. His father, a railroad builder, had work in Canada for three years, 1907. Jim, the only son, aged 15, wanted to come to Canada. Left Russia in 1911 with an uncle and several other young men. They were smuggled out of Russia and traveled by boat from Germany to Halifax; then by railway to Cochrane, Ontario, where a Jewish friend of his father's was to look after him. Jim worked on the railroad, and eventually got out to Prince Rupert. Worked on the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific, then on building the Pacific Great Eastern from Prince George south. The war in 1914 stopped all work. Jim and several others walked south past Quesnel, looking for work. Finally, at Australian, were hired by local rancher, Windt, to harvest potato crop. TRACK 2: Next year, 1917, Jim worked for R. Middleton; then for Robert Yorston for 4.5 years. Jim took up a pre-emption, built cabin and later a big house. Married Helen Zschiedrich, 1924. Raised four girls. Worked on building of the PGE after World War I. After World War II, considered returning to Russia, but changed his mind when he realized he couldn't live under Communist rule. CALL NUMBER: T4185:0002 RECORDED: Australian (B.C.), 1984-06-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jim Moriss speaks of many Quesnel area residents, including: Paul Krestinuk (a Russian); Robert Middleton and his wife; George Pickard; Sam Bohanon; Collins; Billy Lyne, John Lyne, Dave Lyne, and the Lyne Roadhouse; Clarence Fuller; Webster; Choates Zscheidrich; Charlie Ross. [TRACK 2: blank?]

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: T3720:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Len Jung : Chinese at work in B.C. : shingle mill worker PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-06-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Describes background: born in Yen Ping, Kwantung, China, 1898; immigrated to Canada 1912 on merchant's visa. Description of voyage to Canada on Empress of India: living conditions, food, fellow passengers, gambling on board, staff sell "black-market" food. Description of Immigration Building in Vancouver: detention in the building for one month, "graft" by Chinese interpreter. Stayed with father in Nanaimo, where his father owned large dry goods grocery store. Went to public school for 3 months but his father removed him from the school because he was worried Hong Len would not return to China if he had too much education. Work as a houseboy in Shawnigan Lake District. Father sold business in Nanaimo and went into managing gambling houses. Refers to the murder of a white woman by her Chinese houseman; after this, no Chinese can get work in Victoria (ca. 1914). Went back to China to marry; marriage arranged by parents. Returned to Canada and soon worked in a shingle mill. [TRACK 2: blank.]; CALL NUMBER: T3720:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Len Jung : Chinese at work in B.C. : shingle mill worker PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Describes third trip home to China (1921-22), daughter was born; fourth trip home to China, second daughter was born; fifth trip home to China, purchased more property and business; sixth trip home to China, married a second wife in hope of producing a son. Present (second wife) left for Hong Kong after Chinese Civil War, 1949. Jung applied for Canadian citizenship and sent for his two "paper" sons and wife to come over. Purchased house on Gore Street. Wife worked as a farm day labourer and at the fish canneries. Shingle mill in 1950s had very little work for him; he was earning only $200-$300 a month. In 1954, purchased "paper son" papers and sent for nephew. In 1957 purchased 1st hotel/rooming house. Describes visit to village in mainland China, first since Communist take-over. Speaks of his father and grandfather, their work in Canada, and their subsequent retirement to China. Speaks of the domination of the shingle mill trade by Chinese of the Toy San and On Ping District. TRACK 2: Started in shingle mill in 1915. Talks about his work at the shingle mill: wages; accommodations; food; workmen's compensation and accidents at work; racial mix of workers; distance of mill from town. Saved money for trips to China and sending remittance home by dividing and budgeting wages into four equal portions. Unionization of shingle mills. Teamwork of shingle bolt cutter, sorter and piler. Comparison of wages earned by shingle mill workers, lumber mill workers and restaurant workers. CALL NUMBER: T3720:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Len Jung : Chinese at work in B.C. : shingle mill worker PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1949 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Worked 6 days a week at shingle mill. Leisure activities after work. Kept room in Chinatown even when out of town or in China. Soup lines in Chinatown during Depression. Description of "fong"; rooming/commune style of living. Victoria CCBA send destitute Chinese back to China at this time. Talks of head tax, poll tax, lasting until 1949. Description of voyages back to China on CPR Empress lines and Blue Funnel lines. Description of the Chinese Theatre and the Cantonese Opera company. Member of the Hung Ming (Triad) Society in China before he came to Canada, member of the Chinese Freemason in Vancouver. Active in Vancouver as a member of the Jung Family Association, Yen Ping Locality Association. In 1918, he listened to Sun Yet Sun speak. Was involved with Freemasons as executive and organizer. Purchased $1000 worth of Kuomingtang bonds. Sent money home to China via San Francisco during Sino-Japanese War. Voted in every election in Canada when Chinese were re-enfranchised. TRACK 2: Speaks of Tong fights between Kuomingtang Society and the Chinese Freemasons: explains the differences between the two fractions. Discusses mortgaging of Freemasons in Vancouver; buildings in Victoria and collection of money for the revolt against the Manchus. Speaks of Christian faith, Chinese ancestral worship, and his views of both. The Chinese were not as badly off during Depression as white community. Prosperous Chinese in Vancouver purchased homes outside of Vancouver Chinatown (prior to 194(). Chinese businessmen bringing "false" wives to Canada, and selling these women to other businesses, or into marriage. Looking after the "dead"- Ching Ming commemorates the dead. CALL NUMBER: T3720:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hong Len Jung : Chinese at work in B.C. : shingle mill worker RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: [No summary is available for this interview.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Daphne Gibson RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Daphne Gibson discusses: background -- born in England, to India in 1914, back to England after the war, move to Tofino after seeing Canadian government advertisements; father was a judge in India, very well-educated, a dreamer at heart; no land left for pre-emption when they arrived in Canada; Daphne did not like Canada at first; father's oldest brother named the Guppy fish; collecting the cows every night; father lived alone on the island; father eventually returned to Trinidad; Fred Tibbs; brother collecting human bones and bringing them to a picnic; the Leach murder; Japanese community before the war.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Jack Dale RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Jack Dale discusses: why people came out from England to Vancouver Island in the early twentieth century (because the CPR was promoting land speculation); Vargas Island was advertised, and 14 families went there; CPR was owned by men who used to be involved in railroading in Great Britain; in Canada, people got land from the government, but CPR was very involved in the process; the steamship "Maquinna"; CPR a very capitalist organization; government repossession of settlers' land if taxes were not paid; story about Fred Tibbs; working class nature of many settlers on Vancouver Island's west coast.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Winnifred Scott Dixson RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Winifred Scott Dixson discusses: father (Douglas Scott Dixson), who had practiced medicine in an old monastery in Edinburgh; ghosts in monastery; family decided to go to Canada; first came to Winnipeg; nice trip over from England to Canada (dances, concerts); arriving at the P.K. Ranch; meeting 'real' cowboys; anecdote about a Mexican who "liked to shoot people"; trip with her brother to the badlands; moved to Victoria because Calgary had too high an altitude; mother had bad asthma, so doctor advised family to move to Tofino; going up to Tofino on the 'Teas'; mother died in an accident in Tofino; father became paralyzed in a bear trap accident; things have changed now in Tofino; describes her father's accident; after her mother's death, she had to look after 300 chickens. Her father did not want her to marry because she had a weak heart. Fred Tibbs courted her (and many others). Went to college before she came to Tofino. Describes Japanese community in Tofino. Relations with the Natives in the area. Father was a partner in a mining operation with Bill Spittle. Ogopogo story. Stories about Natives. The Grant family. Old cannery falling down with an earthquake.

CALL NUMBER: T2395:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mr. Ichikawa relates experience of coming to Canada and early jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mr. Ichikawa's experiences on the trip from Japan. Working in a sawmill in Richmond, B.C. Commentary on several jobs which he held in Vancouver: milk factory, railroad, grocery store. CALL NUMBER: T2395:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese-Canadian labour unions and personal job experience PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1937 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mr. Ichikawa's experiences working in a logging camp. Discusses working at a sawmill on Vancouver Island. Gossip about Japanese Labour Unions and Japanese 'semi' mafia. Visiting Japan. CALL NUMBER: T2395:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese-Canadian visit to Japan : some impressions PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1937 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Visiting Japan. [Most of this tape is blank.] CALL NUMBER: T2395:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): World War II and changes in the Japanese community PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: Mr. Ichikawa's experiences working in a Nitric Acid Factory in Ontario. World War II and evacuation. Timber mill. Influence of World War II and changes in Japanese community. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T2400:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mr. Kitamura discusses his life in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Mr. Kitamura discusses: how he came to Canada and went to school in Prince Rupert; living in the United Church in Vancouver; fishing; his rooming house business; life in internment camp; his new job in Toronto.

CALL NUMBER: T2400:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Discrimination during the war, and life afterwards PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Mr. Kitamura discusses: discrimination during World War II; his sons and daughters; the Japanese community in Toronto; visiting Japan. (End of interview);

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Nass River Valley, 1907-1930 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur F. Priestley was born in 1887 in England. Immigrated to Canada in 1905. Experiences as a recent immigrant to Canada, 1905-1907. Rural work in Alberta. Settled in the Nass River valley, near Aiyansh, in 1907. Description of Rev. J.B. McCullagh, Anglican missionary of Aiyansh. Homesteading experiences. Travelling by freight canoe on the Nass River. TRACK 2: More on Rev. J.B. McCullagh and his missionary work with the Nisga'a Indians. Description of house fire, 1909. Start of homesteading in 1912 and 1913. Priestley opens a store on the Nass River new Aiyansh. Problems of homesteading. Food supply. Mail. Early settlers in the Nass Valley. Most homesteaders defeated by about 1918. Marries McCullagh's daughter in 1910, and sells out in 1930.;

Border entry lists, 1908-1918, of the Immigration Branch. This unit contains those reels which have British Columbia entry ports on them although other Canadian entry ports do appear.

Alphabetical indexes to policy and subject files relating to immigration, citizenship, and other functions of the department. Includes dates and file numbers. The files form parts of RG 26, Citizenship and Immigration and RG 76, Immigration Branch, Public Archives of Canada.

The item is a copy of a thesis by Eleanor Piggott titled "Dominion government policy on Immigration and settlement in Canada, 1867-1938." 177 p: tables. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1950. Bibliography: i-vi.

The file consists of a photocopy of a thesis by F.M. Bhatti. It is titled "East Indian Immigration into Canada, 1905-1973". vi, 547. Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Surrey, 1974. Vita.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), [197-?] SUMMARY: Violet Raymond was born in Hartford, England, 12-Jun-1880. Family background; father's father a judge. Father was Frederick Burchell; mother was Eliza Augusta Sophia James. Ms. Raymond arrived in Canada 1904-05-10. First lived in Edmonton, Alberta. Emigrated because the man she married had Bright's disease and a French doctor thought it could be cured or remitted by living in a colder climate. Husband worked for photo store in Edmonton. Married in Edmonton in 1904 to Arthur Percy Raymond. [No further documentation available.]

CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Director of Medical Services; Veteran's Affairs, Ottawa PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Goes to Ottawa as Director of Medical Services for Veteran's Affairs. Christie Street Hospital in Toronto from 1942 to 1943; what this position involved; how Sunnybrook Hospital started and the other administrative problems of the building; in 1950, he came to Vancouver and was Chief Medical Officer of Shaughnessy Hospital. Discussion of Shaughnessy and how he worked there; meeting Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip; John Diefenbaker, Louis St. Laurent; Danny Kaye and Bob Hope. TRACK 2: Discussion of the people he met; being awarded the OBE; conclusion of interview -- how medicine has changed, and prevailing attitudes in medicine today. CALL NUMBER: T1986:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. T. Bain, Veteran's Affairs and Shaughnessy Hospital PERIOD COVERED: 1898-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in 1898 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; schooling in Scotland; came to Toronto at 14; got job at Eaton's; enlisted in 1915; discussion of army life; training and overseas; in 48th Highlanders, 15th Battalion; went overseas in 1916, Vimy Ridge and Ypres; deciding to go to University of Toronto to take medicine in 1920; description of classes and classmates; interest in public health. TRACK 2: Graduated in medicine in 1926; then interned at Toronto General Hospital; lived at Knox College at the university; entered overseas service to examine immigrants to Canada; went to England; went to William Head on Vancouver Island; quarantine station; 30 cases of smallpox; how the Depression affected him and the people he saw; description of William Head and its purpose; stayed until 1939 and went to Vancouver to take over Shaughnessy Hospital; brief history of Shaughnessy Hospital; how he got his next position.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: Frank London: Born in London, England; came to Saskatchewan in 1908; worked as a farm labourer; when family came out later, they bought a farm; hailed and frozen out; moved to a CPR "ready-made" farm in Alberta; met his wife at Lougheed; farmed there for seven years, then sold out and came to Vancouver. Worked as a marine pipe fitter at Wilson Drydocks, building and repairing ships; recalls building the millionth ton of new ship (wartime); arming of transport ships. Working conditions in holds of ships; sulphur fumes from acetylene torches damaged his lungs. Only medical insurance was an employee sick benefits fund, paid entirely by employees; later, when he had a heart attack, the WCB had been established. Clara London: Born in Minnesota; came to Canada in 1905; father homesteaded 125 miles southeast of Edmonton; rented land for the summer; then father built a covered wagon, loaded the family of eight, plus beds and stove, and traveled 100 miles to Lougheed, staying at farmhouses overnight. She met and married Frank there in 1914; had six children, two born at home. Recollections of old remedies -- goose grease and turpentine spread on the chest for colds, peppermint tea and barley water for upset stomachs. Flu epidemic of 1918-19; Mr. London had a slight case; the new brick schoolhouse was turned into a hospital. Other home remedies. Food preservation. Life in a retirement lodge.

CALL NUMBER: T1691:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Watson Anderson : Department of Finance, 1913-1952 (part 1) PERIOD COVERED: 1891-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in Scotland in 1891. Family background. Father in the newspaper business in Scotland. Stories of Anderson's boyhood in Scotland. Schooling. Immigration to Canada in 1908. Stories of the trip. First impressions of Canada. Family purchased property in Victoria shortly after arrival. Anderson's first jobs as a clerk. Anecdote about prisoners from the provincial jail. Comments on Victoria and Sidney Railway. TRACK 2: Worked for B. Wilson and Co., ice dealers. Selling ice in the Rockland area. Worked for Victoria Truck and Dray. Becomes an accountant, c. 1910. Joined the Department of Finance, 1913. Comments on the patronage hirings in the civil service. Patronage worse under Liberals than Conservatives. Anderson as secretary to the Deputy Minister of Finance, W.J. Goeppel. Comments about J.V. Fisher, later Deputy Minister. CALL NUMBER: T1691:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): William Watson Anderson : Department of Finance, 1913-1952 (part 2) PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story about J.V. Fisher. Working conditions within the public service. Tentative steps towards a public service union. Anderson in the Canadian Armed Forces during World War I. Anderson's war work as an air mechanic and bookkeeper. Bookkeeping innovations introduced by Anderson. Anderson went to work in the Sales Tax section, 1949. Brief comments on the Bennett government. TRACK 2: Anderson a member of the Canadian Legion and Masonic Order. Anderson peripherally involved in the "Police Scandal", 1942, which involved Premier John Hart. Anderson testified before an investigating committee. Anderson's family. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family arrived in B.C. in the 1890s. Her father, Ling Lam, arrived and worked first in Victoria then settled in Steveston. Hong Wo Store started in Steveston, 1895. Ling Lam died 1939. By 1939 he owned a mixed farm, general store and operated a fish contracting business to hire labour for the canneries. Jessie and her brother John bought-out other family members in the business after 1939. The company had contracts with vegetable/fruit canneries such as Empress Factories, Grower's Canneries (Royal City Brand), and to some wholesalers in Vancouver Chinatown. The farm hired full-time Chinese workers who lived on the farm and Japanese women and their families as day labourers. Description of Chinese farm workers' living and working conditions on the farm. Details of father and mother's family background prior to immigration to Canada. Description of second store after the first store burnt in 1904. Store built on stilts over water, and warehouse on wharf over deep waters for boats/fishermen to shop and pick-up supplies. Location of farm. Description of father as a "gentleman farmer" wearing three-piece serge blue suit. TRACK 2: Discusses veg/cannery contract with Empress Factories. Description of their farm's Chinese foreman and his sons who worked on the farm all their lives. Ling Lam did not permit swearing or gambling on the farm, or by any family members. Details of Ling Lam's children's education. Description of farm workers' meals. Ling Lam's invention of cucumber grader and his introduction of the Utah green celery to the area. Ling Lam was head of the Chinese Growers' Association, the group against B.C. Coast Marketing Board. Making boxes for farm produce.

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1900s-1960s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Farm produce on consignment to wholesalers up until the 1960s. Ling Lam supplied all Occidental and Oriental labourers to the Phoenix Cannery (ABC) until the 1930s; then just Oriental labourers. Ling Lam was active with the clan organization the Lum Association. Jessie Lam comments on the difficulties of her contemporaries in finding professional jobs after receiving post-secondary education. Describes some neighbouring farms. The credit/accounting system with farm workers on wages. Jessie Lam's summer vacation work experience on the farm. Shipping/transportation of pickles by railway to Eastern Canada. Chinese women day labourers working on the farm in the 1950s. The end of the fish contracts with B.C. Packers (Phoenix) in 1968. Sugar rationing during WW II. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mother had Caucasian cleaning ladies to help with the household. Jessie Lam went to chaperoned parties/social functions during her teens. Talks of the soup kitchens in Vancouver Chinatown during the 1930s Depression. Marriage of brother John and sister Mary. Talks of the family motorcar holiday trip to Oregon in 1928. Recalls mother's prized baking, and father's vegetable competition at the PNE. An anecdote of father's temperament. Refers to the community of Eburne on Sea Island. Attending church on Sundays at the Methodist Chinese Church in Vancouver Chinatown. Describes her typical Sunday activities with her family. Going to Chinese language school after regular school day. Jessie Ross was "Miss China" during WW II as part of the Allied countries effort to raise money for the troops. Helped sell government bonds during the war. Involved with the Chinese community's effort to raise funds for the "Rice Bowl" campaign. Chinese professionals in B.C. could only attract Chinese clientele in the 1920s-50s. TRACK 2: Chinese vegetable and fish peddlers in Jessie Lam's neighbourhood (as a child) and Jewish junkmen. Milk delivered by horse and carriage until WW II. Speaks of various prominent Chinese families in Vancouver during her youth. Refers to Chung Chuck, Delta farmer who fought with her father against the B.C. Coast Marketing Board (to the Privy Council). Problems farmers, especially the Chinese, had with the Board. The closure of the farm and store in 1971 and liquidation of the property and business in 1973. Lists of goods sold at the store. Anecdote of Jessie Ross and brother John rowing out to Steveston Island.

CALL NUMBER: T3719:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jessie Lam Ross : Chinese at work in B.C. : The Hong Wo Store and the Richmond Gardens Farm RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1980-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [No content summary available for this tape.] TRACK 2: blank.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967 SUMMARY: First of two oral history interviews with John James ("Dick") Roddis. He immigrated to from England to Canada in 1912 (aged 22). On 14-Feb-1914, he left Vancouver with two horse-drawn sleighs en route to the Cariboo, travelling through 141 Mile House, Soda Creek and Quesnel. He talks about his travels, local ranches and prospectors, ferries and boats on the Fraser River, and the BX stage.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Madeline A. Turnor came from Staffordshire in 1911; her father was Phillip Watson Turnor, who had practiced as a doctor in England; the official title of R.R. Bruce's settlement scheme w;as the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands; he had made no preparation for the arrival of the settlers; WWI resulted in the sale or abandonment of many of the farms; raising beef cattle became the main concern of the farmers after the war; she describes the difficulty of clearing land; most English settlers had a pension or other means of income; the prices were always higher than what had been ;given in Bruce's pamphlets. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert Winstanley describes the Michel Mine through the eyes of the local magistrate; came to Michel from Staffordshire in 1912; Michel established in 1898 when Crowsnest railroad came through; many miners earned money and bought farms; Mr. Winstanley was the timekeeper at the mine, and later was in charge of the office; at first he had difficulty understanding the many other English; dialects he encountered at Michel; many different ethnic groups; Italians were the largest; little opportunities for young people at Michel; mining going downhill since the twenties; Michel considered a safe mine. TRACK 2: Local labour relations were always good; big strikes in 1911 and 1919; it is Michel's coal production and the market for it in Trail which has enabled Michel to survive; Mr. Winstanley was the magistrate for thirty years; less camaraderie among miners now.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kenneth Wallace remembers the early days at Boswell. He came out from Manchester in 1910 and he offers the reasons why. He arrived at Kootenay Lake and he describes his first years: cutting cord wood; roadwork; clearing; work at Earl Grey's Boswell Ranch. Then he discusses the Boswell region; the development of the Boswell Ranch; the name Boswell; the first settlers; fruit shipment; roadwork as secondary income; shipping fruit to Alberta; cherry diseases; modern population and economy; modern living conditions; prospectors in the Boswell and Sanca area around 1910; the community at Sanca; Alex Mackie at Earl Grey's Boswell Ranch; Boswell fairs and school. TRACK 2: Mr. Wallace discusses novels about the Kootenay area; an anecdote about weather; Alan H. Coomber wood products; poor business; road construction; social life and dances; religion; Captain Roland Ellis; James Johnstone and real estate promotion; Sydney Cummings; fishing; Baker Lake; wild life and Lockhart BC.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Steven Stephano describes how he came to Canada from Italy when he was eighteen, including the story of how he obtained a passport, his experiences in Ontario after landing in Hamilton, jobs, and traveling and working in Manitoba and Western Canada. TRACK 2: Mr. Stephano describes working on the railroads in BC for the Grand Trunk Pacific and the CNR, the competition between the two, techniques of building railroad tracks, a boat trip up the Fraser River, and other job experiences.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. David Ross discusses the reasons for the building of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, the story of his coming to Canada from Scotland in 1908, and the series of jobs he held beginning i;n Medicine Hat. He describes early Prince Rupert and his work on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, including construction camps, building the rail line, settlements in Terrace, Kitselas and Skeena Crossing, more on railroad work and tunnels at Kitselas. TRACK 2: Mr. Ross discusses the various nationalities of the workers on the railroad, more on railroad work, Cedarvale, including an area description, and characters such as Barney Mulvaney and Wiggs O'Neill.