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RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-24 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. First impressions; Granby; air shafts; strike; WWI; South Wellington flood; Reserve; Senini; Extension mine; Chinese; 1883 explosion No 1; mine smells; mules; into mine; lamps sulphur; Fiddicks; Morden; fun; the Depression; Cumberland; beer; bosses; Lewis dies.

RECORDED: Lake Cowichan (B.C.), 1979-12-08 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Family; strike; co-op; houses; companies; family history; Extension; Morden; South Wellington; widows; house burns; education; food; community feeling; explosion No. 1; Extension explosion; Southfield flood; mine conditions; scabs; unions; WeeToo.

This series consists of records of the Commission on the Beban Mine Disaster,1937. Commission records consist of transcripts of hearings and report.

RECORDED: South Wellington (B.C.), 1979-02-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Mules; Brethren church; Negroes; scabs; Extension; Johnny Senini; wash house; church; education; meets wife; delivers milk; 1909 explosion; Fraser Street; South Wellington flood; strike.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Why leave Italy; first impressions; get a job; large family; mine work against nature; battery lamp; Crescent Hotel; singing; music; smells; rats; summer and winter work; nuns; football; Tunnel Hotel; bocce; mules; flood; no wash house; old miner dies; race names; money back to Italy; house in Extension; fire; women's work; cooked; bosses; wet mines; good old days.;

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-04-23 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Strike; funeral; Extension explosion; 1939 explosion; Draeger team; summer unemployment; move house; job; the Depression; relief; shoes; marches; uncle arrested for setting a fire; origins; Yugoslavs and the union; houses; leading families in union organising; excerpt of agreement between the company and the union, 1938; WeeToo; skilled workers; exams; scabs; Chinese and Indians; lodges; W.U.L.; Socialist party split.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Hugh M. Rae : A United Church minister in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-11-06 SUMMARY: END OF BUNT INTERVIEW (continued from T1991:0005): visits to Indian missions. REV. DR. HUGH M. RAE: Childhood in Scotland. Recruitment to fields in Canada, near Kamloops. Further education: McGill, B.C., Westminster Hall. First United Church B.D. Rosedale charge in 1917. Knox Church, New Westminster, and church union. Dunbar Heights, First Church in Ottawa. Retired supply in Vancouver. Anecdotes about experiences as a minister, including the coal miners' strike at Extension; Depression conditions; Japanese relocation; work on Evangelism And Social Service Committee, and others. Church music.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-03-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Building bees; strike; school; Finnish recreation; boarding houses; wash houses; father to Nanaimo; Extension; horse and buggy; Sam Guthrie; hoist; Finn halls; Mount Bickerton; ethnic groups; motor; Chinese; money earned; the Depression; father's accident.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father leaves England, travels by ship and train; freighter Miami; 1887 explosion; boat service on island; WeeToo; machine shop; conditions in mine; first home; water in Protection; Nicol and Haliburton Streets; barometer and explosions; swimming in baptizing tank; hole in Nicol Street; flood through the fire hall; Lantzville mine; South Wellington mine; rail gauges; locomotives; Nicol Street; Terminal Avenue fill and drainage; stream through the fire hall; Extension dump and other rock dumps; boilers; air pressure; Oscar; coal cars; Chinese man in boiler; hoist engine; air compressors; WeeToo and the Rainbow; scow; Protection.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-02-09 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; 1909 explosion; strike; father killed in a cave-in; church; mining in 1888; bus; Negros; mules; religion; bars; bucket of beer; mining in Extension; moving cars; waste rock; town of Extension; water; home; Croatians; Croatian Fraternal Union.

RECORDED: Wellington (B.C.), 1983-05 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: East Wellington mines; East Wellington railroad; bluff; No. 6 Wellington; Ji;ngle Pot railroad; East Wellington; Jingle Pot mine; Maxi Road; powder house; No. 4 Wellington; Millstream; Northfield flood; Dunsmuir farm; Chinese; No. 3 Wellington; Wellington railroad; Bill Loudo;n; soldier's settlement land; Canadian Collieries; Loudon mine; Old Slope; ventilation furnace; Stronach mine; Wellington; railroad station; No. 1 shaft; Keighley's; Departure Bay; Ardoon; Meredith Ro;ad; sawmill. TRACK 2: Bluff; Rosstown; Dunsmuir; company houses; Northfield mine; coal rights; conglomerate; Wellington coal; coal quality; Northfield school; Extension; Somerset; Wellington; hotels; No. 6 Wellington; No. 4 Wellington; Maxi Road; Wellington railway; No. 3 Wellington; Old Slope; No. 5 Wellington; Ardoon; Loudon; Dunsmuir farm; small operations; tunnel stream; ventilation furnace; ;Chinatown; Stronach; Canadian Collieries; cave-in; Simon Leiser; E & N roundhouse.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-02 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Northfield; Northfield railroad; Northfield mines; Dunsmuir discovers coal; ;Diver Lake; East Wellington mines; Maxi Road; No. 4 mine, Wellington; No. 6 mine, Wellington; bluffs; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Old Slope; ventilation furnace; Extension; outcrop coal; coal quality; Dre;w family; East Wellington railroad; sawmill; fish for sale; Millstream; Millstone; Jingle Pot mine; orphan; Brechin Point mine; miners; union; mules; stagecoach; Wellington Road; Wellington; floor; Ro;sstown. TRACK 2: Houses; Rosstown; No. 6 mine, Wellington; Brechin mine; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Jones family; wooden tracks; fish oil lamps; pit lamping; coal allowance; eight hour day; temperature ;in mine; Granby mine; electric lamps; gas; safety lamp; explosion; Wellington cemetery; Chinese; ventilation furnace; hoists; Wellington railroad; No. 1 shaft, Wellington; Departure Bay wharves; steam;ships; 1890-91 strike; Rock City; Robeson family; Departure Bay school.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-01-30 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Union pension; George Edwards; boarding houses; 1877 strike; education; Extension explosion; blow-out at Granby; Brechin mine; temperature in mine; lamps; gas; ventilation; check numbers; hard work; 1912 strike; powder works explosion; miners' ticket; Jingle Pot; cave-ins; grievances; injury; scabs; protection cage; No. 1 whistle; dancing; deer hunting; coal ships; church; the Depression.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-04-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Describes coal mine; Joseph Mair; lamps; Extension mines; goes into mines; bars; strike; maps; fights; sailing ships; South Wellington; smelter at Mount Sicker; the Depression; driving mules; No. 10 blow out; reservoir; band; 1090 explosion; soccer.

RECORDED: Lantzville (B.C.), [1979-02 & 03] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Thirteen years old, into the mines; trapper; train to Extension; wages; explosion; strike; Lantz mine; Grant mine; bus.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Born in Northfield; blacklisting; school in Cumberland; wages; 1909 explosion; open No. 1; powder works explosion; living conditions; Jingle Pot with Joe Mair; working conditions; strike; medical coverage; scabs; union; Japanese, Chinese; militia; entertainment; Cumberland; Extension riot; red light district; 1919 No. 1.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Cape Breton; tickets; snuff; move; Protection; Granby; accidents; blowouts; self-employed; fire boss man dies; doctors; rescue team; wife worries; slag; Extension; small operations; fishing; jitneys; Italians; ethnic; Love's mining; long wall; lungs.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Protection cage; coal and rock dust; racism; ticket; Southfield Mine; Extension Mine; father; No. 1; rats; lamp; eight-hour day; pinned; mules; into the mine; John Hunt; water; money; beer parlours; bosses; horses; women; waiting for work; Guthrie; trains; partner killed; Daisy Waugh; C.P. companies; wire; Shetland; dead man on coal car; cave-in.;

RECORDED: Lantzville (B.C.) [?], 1979-06-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; Extension; wages; strike; union; mother copes; blacklist; schooling Lantzville; picking table; slack period; Lantzville housing; prohibition; recreation; jitney; red light district; movies; royalty; safety; shifts; compensation; Chinese; cage; small mine; horse; WWII.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-05 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Immigration; No. 5 mine, Wellington; Wellington; father injured; Extension; Loudon family; Dunsmuir farm; Ardoon; family grocery store; widow; working in Scotland; working in Drumheller; small coal operations; ventilation furnace; No. 5 mine, Wellington. TRACK 2: Bluff; No;. 6 mine, Wellington; No. 5 mine, Wellington; small coal operations; Loudon family; Wellington; wife dies; union; politicians.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-11-22 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Finns; Konstantine Maki; Finnish immigration; Wellington; Nanaimo, 1890s; Ch;ase River; family size; diphtheria epidemic 1912; Milton Street; Finnish language; father's death; farming; Maki Road; air shaft; Alexandra; South Wellington; bridal wear; 1912-14 strike; funeral; mot;her; widow; home; Stark's Crossing; Finnish cigar factory. TRACK 2: Milton Street; home; Chase River; obtaining firewood; Christmas; church; Ladysmith; Extension; Finns; father; family bible; weddin;g certificate; naming of children.;

RECORDED: Parksville (B.C.) [?], [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father's arrival; sick brother; registering births; Chinese; Japanese; Hindus; Wellington; Dunsmuir; Indians; mother dies; Extension; Nanaimo jail; Wellington explosion; look of the country; strike; drilling ahead of mining; Extension; killing a cougar; hunting.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-05-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Major Maxwell Kirkpatrick-Crockett talks about his arrival in Vancouver in 1911; early jobs in Vancouver; work in Victoria; Arthur Currie; commission with the Fifth Regiment; Victoria at the; outbreak of World War I; coast defense batteries at Esquimalt in 1914; the affair of the "BC submarines"; fear of coastal attacks; state of coast defenses; the 5th Regiment sent to Nanaimo because of rioting [i.e., striking] coal miners; the damage at Extension. TRACK 2: Major Kirkpatrick-Crockett continues speaking about incidents at Extension; Ladysmith; German interest in British Columbia in; 1914; [von] Alvensleben; anti-German feeling; history of St. John's Church; Victoria; Christ Church; Bishop Hills; Reverend Cridge and conditions in Victoria after World War I; work in the Victoria Machinery Depot and for the City of Victoria.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Phyllis & Richard Whisker : community life during the Vancouver Island miners' strike, 1912-1914 RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Both Phyllis Whisker and her husband Richard came from coal mining families. Richard worked in the coal mines as a boy, before the 1912 to 1914 strike. The strike occurred when the United Mine Workers organised because of unsafe conditions. The 72nd Highlanders were brought in to put down the strike and arrested miners in Extension, Ladysmith and Nanaimo. Mrs. Whisker's father was secretary of the union and was forced to go to New Zealand to find work, as he was blackballed for his union activities when he was released from prison. Mrs. Whisker's mother was a member of the Women's Labour League and fought for it to retain its labour orientation. Women were present on picket lines during the strike in support of their husbands and the strike in general. The women were independent and willing to take risks. The community pooled its resources during the strike, living off hunting, fishing and gardening. The company evicted the miners' families during the strike. The strike resulted in long-term hostilities in the community between the families of strikers and strike-breakers. TRACK 2: Mr. Whiskers later worked in the wood industry as a rail man.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-19 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Big strike; blacklist; union; origins; timberman; No. 10; Extension; shoot the roof; Wellington; mule driver; No. 4 Flood; boat harbour; boilers; bologna strike; young man's first job; Chinese; ships; lamp cabin; motors; Brattice; closing Extension; bars; ventilation; panwall; explosions; wages; train; sulphur.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-02-06 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Blasting; mining the coal; Chinese; "laggin'"; Beban's mine; flood; forest fire; powder house; Lamphouse Mine; noise; burning rock pile; Extension; burning buildings; Chinatown; Mines Regulations Act; train; shipping at Ladysmith; mine whistle; mules; deaths; mining pillars; bucket brigade; racism; closing mine; strike; black damp; low seam.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-11 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Extension No. 1; dumping coal; exterior of mine; mules; miners' store; life is speeded up; wages; miners' picnic; scabs; Plymouth Brethren; strike; the Depression; safety; religion versus the union.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-12-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: James Sharp; Rebecca Sharp Sanders; John Sanders; Sarah Barlow Sharp; Wellin;gton; boarding house; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Chelsea Cornish; Port Alberni coal mine; immigration; Vera Aidenhead Maffeo; Five Acres; Extension; Jingle Pot Road; mine accident; Wellington Hotel; Welli;ngton school; Ladysmith; Extension-to-Ladysmith railroad; Saunders anglicized. TRACK 2: Extension/Ladysmith railroad; Wellington; Sarah Sanders Cornish; Grand Templar's Lodge; John Waddington Hilbert; Black woman; fashion; Emily and John Johns; Sunday school; Simon Leiser; Wellington Hotel.;