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Item consists of one audio recording, with recordings on tracks 1 and 2. On track 1, Rev. Dr. Emma Smiley (1895-1983) discusses Emily Carr's religious beliefs and her association with the Victoria Truth Centre, beginning in 1933. Emily Carr's search for companionship and friendship. Her love for animals. The reasoning behind some of her paintings. Carr's influence on Mrs. Smiley, religious and otherwise. Attitudes towards circuit and local religious lecturers of the 1930s. On track 2, Carr's reasons for specifically attending the Victoria Truth Centre, and her interviews with the church pastor, Mr. Weston. Carr's eventual return to the Anglican faith of her youth.

Item consists of audio recording in which Hazel Edwards and her daughter, Flo Bell, recall Emily Carr's last sketching trip to Mount Douglas Park in August 1942. Mrs. Edwards was proprietor of the Mount Douglas Tea House, and Flo helped carry Carr's art supplies, etc. Carr's week-long stay at the tea house during the sketching excursion. Location of the tea house, cottage, etc., and relation to Carr's painting sites. Carr's personality and physical state at the time of their meeting. Track 2 is blank.

Item consists of audio recording of interview with Madeleine Nation, in which she discusses Canadian artist/painter, M.A. Suzor-Cote. Nation discusses her first acquaintance with Suzor-Cote, their early friendship in Montreal, and Suzor-Cote's method of art and subject matter. Nation also describes her modelling experience for Cote's sculpture sessions, as well as Cote's temperament and approach to his work. Nation also talks about her instruction in art with Brimner in Montreal.

The interview was recorded in Victoria in 1979, and covers the time period of 1912-1914. Track 2 of the tape is blank.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-12 SUMMARY: Phyllis Eltringham recalls Emily Carr.

Item consists of an audio recording in which Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher reads the text of an address that she [later] delivered as part of an extension program, "Victoria's Art Circles and Victoria's Women, 1932", offered by the University of Victoria in February 1983. The address discusses women artists in Victoria, particularly Emily Carr and other members of the Island Arts and Crafts Society.

The item was recorded in Victoria.

Item consists of an audio recording in which Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher reminisces about Emily Carr, possibly for a CBC radio or television program.

One photograph on one of the album pages (originally from a bound album) received in association with MS-2094.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-07-11 SUMMARY: Gertrude Ball discusses her recollections of early theatre in Victoria, including stock company productions at the Coliseum or Empire Theatre, before it became the McPherson Playhouse. She also recalls life at Emily Carr's boarding house, The House of All Sorts.

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-07-23 SUMMARY: Harold Gelling recalls his experiences in the world of Victoria theatre, including the Oak Bay United Church drama group; Victoria Little Theatre; Beaux Arts; experiences as a young actor in Hollywood; (mid-1930s); more Victoria Little Theatre; radio drama on CFCT/CJVI; story of the Langham Court Theatre and the Victoria Theatre Guild; drama festivals; repertory companies; Reginald Hincks; Theatre Under The Stars and its Victoria offshoot, Starlight Theatre; story about Emily Carr; theatres in Victoria.;

News item. An all-around view of the Emily Carr Gallery. Close-ups of totem poles in Carr's paintings are shown to good advantage by the camera.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Journalism in B.C. : interview with Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-01-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell describes her memories of the newspaper business in the inter-war years. Mrs. Macdonnell discusses her career with the Victoria Daily Times: her love of writing; family's disapproval of her work on a newspaper; growing up as a socialite; began as Ken Drury's assistant; writing for the magazine section; being one of the few reporters with some education in journalism; Nancy Hodges; her dislike of the society page; World War II; changing the society page into a report of what women were doing for the war effort; conditions at the Times; newspaper guild. TRACK 2: Mrs. Macdonnell discusses: newspaper union (cont'd); anecdote about holding hands in the park with Jim Nesbitt; interviewing Emily Carr; why she had to retire once she was pregnant. (End of interview)

SUMMARY: Talk by Professor G.G. Sedgewick about the life and death of Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr.;

SUMMARY: First half of radio program with Doug Nixon, announcer; Ira Dilworth, CBC Regional Director; Garnett Sedgewick, professor; and Lawren Harris, painter, about: literature; Emily Carr's book "Growing Pains"; art, painting.

SUMMARY: Talk by Lawren Harris, artist, about the Group of Seven, Emily Carr, and the National Gallery.;