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Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company Comox (B.C.) Railroads--British Columbia--Vancouver Island
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Thomas Menzies interview

CALL NUMBER: T0816:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Menzies describes the early churches of the Comox-Courtenay district. His father [Thomas Menzies] was a Presbyterian minister, and later an independent member of the Legislature in Victoria. Mr. Menzies recalls his early life in the Comox area; schooling; Cumberland; Royston; Union Bay; Dunsmuir and the E & N Railway; Courtenay; early settlers; Joseph McPhee; Comox; logging and farming. TRACK 2: Mr. Menzies continues with his description of early Comox and Courtenay; early settlers; Indians; Robb family; Muir family; schools and school teachers; Royal and Canadian navies; hotels; pioneers including Fred Burns and the Parkins family; logging.

CALL NUMBER: T0816:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Menzies describes early logging in the Comox-Courtenay area; headquarters; Bevan; Sandwick; Duncan family; transportation; railways; World War I; the Grants. [TRACK 2: blank.]