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The sub-series consists of nine recorded talks from the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks", with Canon Alan Greene, formerly of the Columbia Coast Mission. Also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", the programs (episodes 1-6 and 8-10 of 10) feature Canon Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson on the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Albert Dalton Burt recalls his arrival in Vancouver in 1900; a description of Vancouver; his father George Burt, a cement finisher who paved the sidewalks of the West End. He recalls his; school days in Kitsilano; fishing at Pender Harbour and other spots; the types of fish; selling the fish in Vancouver. He describes jobs on the fishing boats and various experiences concurrent with ;the famous Johnson versus Jeffery boxing match; more anecdotes about fishing on the coast all the way to Alaska; details about halibut fishing and the schooners used; details on Irvines Landing and Madeira Park; and details about several characters around Vancouver. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Annie McLeod, wife of George McLeod, describes her arrival in Nanaimo in the ship "Maude"; mining on Texada Island; her father James Raper and the Cornell Mine in 1898; and a description; of Marble Bay, Van Anda in 1900. She then offers her impressions of her father; Van Anda, including the church and opera house; the Columbia Coast Mission and Hospital; and copper mining. She describes her arrival at Vananda; union steamships; Van Anda company town life; Gilles Bay; the 1913 "Cheslakee" shipwreck; the origin of the Van Anda name, involving Harry Whitney Treat; the town's decline in 1921 and the re-growth after WWII with new mining prospects; the influence of Treat; and comments on Van Anda in the past and present. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-12-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape "Canon Greene dub", Box 29, recorded December 18, 1961; recorder not identified.] This tape consists of reminiscences by Reverend Greene including: (1) his experiences as a student missionary in 1911 aboard the boat "Irene"; (2) an anecdote about an impromptu service he gave at a logging camp at Lund [similar to the story he recounts on T0944:0004; (3) his efforts to get ;a collection together from a group of poker-playing loggers; (4) a story about some men who knew how to "take life easy"; (5) an old-fashioned Christmas party at Refuge Cove involving a little girl of; a English family recently emigrated from India who was very excited about Christmas; her father, who froze to death in the water a month after arriving; and the wife, who re-married aboard Reverend Greene's boat; (6) an interesting interpretation of religion by a man named Harry; (7) Scandinavian setters, and specifically a man he calls Charlie, who ate his horse named Lindy [similar to the story; he tells on T0944:0004]; (8) the ability of people on the coast to face any challenge, including one man who had to build a graveyard; (9) the funeral of a man named Tompkins, who capsized and drowned at Campbell River; (10) a lunch he had with a man named Bill, whose broken flush toilet blew him out of the outhouse; and (11) another story about Bill who designed a mausoleum for himself.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charlie Wray discusses his parents move from England to Vancouver; his father's wanderings from place to place looking for work before ending up at Pender Harbour. Mr. Wray then discusses various places: False Creek; Squamish; Bowen Island; Roberts Creek; Hidden Bay; Nelson Island and Pender Harbour. Wray describes his work in a quarry for W.C. Ditmars and Charlie Irvine of Irvines Landing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0795:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Frances Brown, daughter of Frank Togan Allison, describes life on Galiano Island, where her father operated the Porlier Pass Lighthouse from 1902 to 1941. The interview begins with her father's backgound, and how he got his nickname "Sticks" following a mining accident in Nanaimo. He took over the lighthouse in 1902. Her mother was Matilda Georgeson from South Galiano; the Georgesons; were also a lighthouse family. Subjects recalled include: Indian graves in the area; the lighthouse operation, and method of using the hand foghorn to direct ships; types of vessels that used Porlier; Pass; Coon Point. The tape continues with Mrs. Devina Baines; younger daughter of Frank Allison; recalling her childhood at the lighthouse; Indian neighbours; school; Porlier Pass; Chief John Peter, ;possibly of the Penelakut Band; lighthouse life; Japanese fishermen who lived on their boats and supplied the salteries. [TRACK 2: blank.] NOTE: This interview continues as T0797:0001.

CALL NUMBER: T0795:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: See T0797:0001.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: NOTE: This interview is a continuation of T0795:0001. TRACK 1: Francis Brown describes her father, Frank "Sticks" Allison (who was the Porlier Pass lightkeeper 1902-1941), including his background i;n Scotland and Nova Scotia. Other subjects are: her sister Devina's accident causing a bad lye burn; childhood around the lighthouse; Chief John Peter; Granny Shaw; schooling; Japanese fishermen; the ;herring fishery and saltery. Other aspects of lighthouse life include the foghorn; newspaper delivery; mission boats; the M.V. "Thomas Crosby"; missionary visitors; mail pick-up on Kuper Island; the ;Bell family; Indian legends; Starvation Bay on Valdes Island; hostility between natives and whites; how Christmas was celebrated. TRACK 2: Francis Brown and Devina Baines speak alternately on the following subjects: more on the Japanese herring saltery; followed by North Galiano families; farming; fishing; roads and trails; stores; boat travel. They tell of the wreck of CPR ship "Peggy McNeill"; navigational dangers in Porlier Pass. Further discussion of native people on Valdes Island; the Hanson family; the operation of lighthouses including the advent of Aladdin mantle lamps; blackouts during WW2; Virago Point; responsibilities of the lighthouse keeper.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Flinn recalls her arrival in Lang Bay in 1911; other settlers on the beach on Quadra Island; the origin of the name Lang Bay; logging; reasons for coming to Lang Bay; life in Lang ;Bay; the Columbia Coast Mission including John Antle and Reverend Greene; more on life there; more on logging including an anecdote about Brookes Scanlon and O'Brien Camp concerning liquor; her husband; and another logging anecdote. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "The Inland Sea" is number 12 in the series. A tour of the Gulf of Georgia, with stories of the people and places on the Gulf; including the Gulf Islands, Nanaimo, Comox, and inlets on the mainland. Stories of the coastal boats. Voices heard include: Ruth Jackson, Ada Dawe, Ida New, Freda New, Constance Swartz, Bea Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Geraldine Hulbert, Jud Johnstone, Clarence Joe, Joe Kneen, Ronald Norris, Donald New and Bill Law. The opening narrative about a sailboat in the gulf is drawn from reminiscences of Harry Roberts of Cape Coburn.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gerald Thulin discusses the arrival of his father, Fred Thulin, and his uncle, Charles Thulin, in 1889 from Sweden to Canada. He then discusses the founding of Lund in 1889; the first hotel and liquor licenses there in 1894; and the first post office in 1892. Mr. Thulin then discusses the founding of Campbell River in 1904 and the building of the hotel wharf. He then returns to his discussion of Lund as a centre for loggers and tourists and he discusses boating. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of B.C.'s Lower Coast, including parts of the South Coast and Lower Mainland regions (and several coastal islands), from the 1890s to the 1950s, including some material up to 1968.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Martha Warnock discusses her early life on Lasqueti Island; her father, William Rouse, from Germany; life at Van Anda; her mother's work as a midwife; how she went to a convent in Vancouver in 1899; the family move to Ladysmith in 1900; Dr. A.C. Frost; the family's move to Earls Cove in 1909; a description of Irvines Landing including details about Ted Dame's post office; saloon hotel; store; a description of the first few nights at Earls Cove and what life was like; and her husband Martin Warnock. TRACK 2: Mrs. Warnock continues with more on her husband including his career; as a logger and then as a fisherman; an anecdote about cougars; her marriage; more on the working career of Martin Warnock; the crossing of Hecate Strait to the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the year ;they spent there.

CALL NUMBER: T0968:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Otto Weiler, who is a justice of the peace, discusses the connections between the outside world and Cortes Island including mail boats, planes and roads. Then he discusses his reasons for coming to Cortes; his impressions upon arrival; fishing in the area; oyster and salal gathering; timber salvage; the community spirit of the islanders; social life, including a New Years' dance; an;d adventures of living on Cortes, including a discussion of the helpfulness of the people. TRACK 2: Mr. Weiler continues by discussing the friendliness of Cortes people; the self-governing type of l;aw and order on the Island; activity among the islanders; and media on Cortes. Then Mary Weiler recalls her work as a nurse with the Columbia Coast Mission and then later at a clinic; Christmas celeb;rations; religion on the Island; and pros and cons of living on the island.;

CALL NUMBER: T0968:0002 SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this tape.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. May Salo discusses her family background; the arrival of her family, the Farmers, from Wisconsin to Lund in 1899 to farm; her marriage to George Thulin; her marriage to a Mr. Arnold in ;Vancouver; the move to Theodosia Island; the history of Fred and Charles Thulin which led to the founding of Lund; a description of Lund; and her parents on Theodosia Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. Salo continues by describing her marriage to Charlie Salo; clearing land on Theodosia Island; cougar stories; a wolf story; a bear story; more on clearing land; another cougar story; Indians on the island; and; a discussion about climate in the winter.

CALL NUMBER: T0811:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. "Sparky" New, involved in coastal shipping since he arrived in the 1920s, discusses the development of the Coast Ferries company from early freighting and passenger travel in the Gulf of Georgia, including the supplanting of the Union Steamship Company by scow, tug and airplane. Included in this discussion is the role of logging and mining in the coast economy and navigation problems in the Gulf. TRACK 2: Mr. New comments on fruit production and lumber mills in the Gulf. He describes his early experience working on ships, and eventually getting into the towing business in 1937. He praises the CP Steamship Company's coastal service when roads were non-existent. He compares CPR with the Union Steamship Company, and compares transportation in early decades with the present [the 1960s]. He tells the history of his first boat, "Brentwood".

CALL NUMBER: T0811:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. New tells the story of the loss of the "Petrel" and other ships and mentions hazards at places such as Cape Mudge, Fraser River mouth, and Bute Inlet. He describes the kind of work that coastal boating was in early years, and some major changes in the towing industry since then. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: This program is about "discovering the spaces around us", as illustrated through childhood memories of life on the Strait of Georgia: guiding ships with a hand-operated foghorn, looking out from a lighthouse, travel by boat and canoe, etc. Voices heard include Frances Brown, Devina Baines, Geraldine Hulbert, Beatrice Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Constance Swartz, Rose McKay, Martha Warnock, and Nick Stevens. The Indian lullaby is sung by Annie Hayes.

SUMMARY: A talk with Roderick Haig-Brown, well-known writer, fisherman, and magistrate of Campbell River, B.C., about "the waters of the Gulf (of Georgia) and adjacent streams, and about fishing and pollution."

SUMMARY: Recollections of the early days of settlement on Read Island, a unique and quiet island near Cortes Island at the head of the Gulf of Georgia. The voices heard are: Alvina Poitras, Allen Robertson, Bill Law, Henry Hess, and Canon Alan Greene.

SUMMARY: The dyking and draining of the Delta area; Point Roberts; the old railroad to Port Guichon; the fish traps in Boundary Bay; and stories about John Oliver, the east Delta farmer who became Premier. Voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Arthur Swenson, George Dinsmore, Mike Whalen, J.J. Brown, John Oliver, H. Weaver, Levi Wildgrube, and Leon Ladner.

SUMMARY: A look at the history of Bute Inlet, and its exploration and promotion as a way into and out of the BC interior. The story of Alfred Waddington, his efforts to put a trail through to the Chilcotin via the Homathko Valley, and how this enterprise ended with the massacre of several members of a construction party by Indians.

SUMMARY: In this program, some of the people who grew up on Cortes Island recall how the settlement began, and discuss the quality of life there -- as it is today, and as it used to be. Voices heard include: Otto and Mary Weiler, Elmer and May Ellingsen, Rose (Manson) MacKay, Allan Robertson, and Duncan Robertson.

SUMMARY: Stories from the Fraser River delta: early explorers; land pre-emption; farming; the Ladner brothers; the 1911 plan to develop a harbour at Sturgeon Bank. The voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Isabella Hall, Arthur Swenson, and Leon Ladner.

SUMMARY: "People in Landscape" was a series about people and places in British Columbia history, based on oral history interviews by Imbert Orchard. The series aired from 1968 to 1972. This episode is from th;e first series (1968-69), which dealt with life on B.C.'s lower coast and the Strait of Georgia. Ben Ployart talks about some of his adventures as a young logger and rancher.;

SUMMARY: A description of life in the early days of white settlement on Mayne and Galiano Island. Voices heard are: Mary Backland, Mrs. Crawford Twiss, Dora Payne, Ida New, Donald New, Archie Georgeson and Captain George Maude.

SUMMARY: A documentary about the fishing industry in the Fraser River Delta prior to World War I. It mentions the contribution of a number of ethnic groups to the fishing industry. Also described is the operation of canneries in the region. The people interviewed for this program are: Issac Nelson, Arthur Swenson, Engman Iverson, and Nick Stevens.

SUMMARY: An on-the-spot account of a journey in a small coastal freightboat that delivers supplies to logging camps and stores in and around the inlets and islands on the mainland and northern side of the Gulf of Georgia. Voices heard include: Captain Peter Sherst, Captain Mim DeCrop, and Mr. O.H. New.

CALL NUMBER: T1436:0001
SUMMARY: The first of two programs about three families who grew up on three of the Gulf Islands -- Saturna, Samuel, and South Pender. Though their farms could have been called isolated, there was a great deal of coming and going between them, and they all had pleasant and energetic lives. Their vivid and amusing memories are the basis of this program. Voices heard include: Constance Swartz, Beatrice Freeman, Geraldine Hulbert and Dorothy Richardson.

CALL NUMBER: T1436:0002
SUMMARY: The second of two programs about three families who grew up on three of the Gulf Islands -- Saturna, Samuel, and South Pender. Though their farms could have been called isolated, there was a great deal of coming and going between them, and they all had pleasant and energetic lives. Their vivid and amusing memories are the basis of this program. Voices heard include: Constance Swartz, Beatrice Freeman, Geraldine Hulbert, Dorothy Richardson, Dora Payne and Herbert Spalding.

SUMMARY: A program about some of the First Nations of the Gulf of Georgia -- early days, encounters with white explorers, and contemporary experiences -- and particularly about the Sechelt, Cape Mudge and Musqueam people, including the latter's struggle with Vancouver City Council over the development of land on their reserve. Voices heard are: Chief Clarence Joe of Sechelt, Chief Councillor Moon of Cape Mudge, Ed Sparrow of Musqueam, and Roderick Haig-Brown.

SUMMARY: Stories and descriptions of the early days of logging among the islands and inlets of the northern Gulf of Georgia. Voices heard include: Allen Robertson, Duncan Robertson, Ben Ployart, and Albert Drinkwater.

SUMMARY: A program about missionaries and missionary work on the Gulf of Georgia -- the Catholic and Protestant missions, and the story of Columbia Coast Mission run by the Anglican Church. The voices heard are Canon Alan Greene and Chief Clarence Joe.