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Lawrence J. Wallace fonds

  • PR-2372
  • Fonds
  • 1862-2002

The fonds consists of records created or acquired by Wallace in the course of his life as a teacher, public servant and retired member of the community.

The records reflect events held across the province in celebrations of the 4 centennials in British Columbia in 1958, 1966, 1967, and 1971.

The records are primarily photograph albums or scrapbooks and were arranged by Wallace as volumes in chronological order.

A small number of records contain correspondence and personal records related to Wallace’s family history in addition to collected ephemera related to centennial celebrations.

Published material included in the donation has been transferred to the archives’ library.

Wallace, Lawrence James, 1913-2006

Salmon Arm Supreme Court wills

  • GR-4135
  • Series
  • 1985, 1986-1995, 1998

The series consists of original wills probated between 1986 and 1998 in the Salmon Arm Supreme Court registry. One additional record from 1985 was included with the records. Wills for probate nos. 3822 (1995) to 5626 (1998) were not transferred to the BC Archives and may be missing.

The wills are arranged by probate number, which can be found by using the index associated with GR-3013. Probate/will numbers may include ‘SA’ and/or part of the year. Make note of the file number, year, and person’s name when matching records. Not all probate records have an accompanying will. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51460-30.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Salmon Arm)

Salmon Arm civil orders

  • GR-3742
  • Series
  • 1980-1995

The series consists of civil court orders issued by the Salmon Arm Supreme Court and the County Court of Yale holden at Salmon Arm between 1980 and 1995. Orders are a formal expression of the court’s will, and orders in this series cover a variety of civil issues, including adoptions, foreclosures, family maintenance, divorce, letters of administration, consent orders, and will disputes.

When the records arrived at the Archives, some were loose and others were housed in Shannon folders. The records in the first box and most of the second had no discernible order. Archives staff arranged the orders by the order number in the upper right corner. Once records began to be arranged by volume and folio number, a sense of original order became apparent for the remainder of the records. The date provided in the file list is based on the date of filing.

The series also consists of two orders from the County and Supreme Courts of Vancouver. At least one was ordered transferred to Salmon Arm, but as the Vancouver records were loose, it was impossible to create any linkage between existing Salmon Arm records and the Vancouver transfers. These Vancouver records can be found at the end of box 830539-0004.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Salmon Arm)

G. Stephen Denroche fonds

  • PR-2360
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1990

The fonds consists of benchbooks created by Judge George Stephen Denroche who sat as Magistrate in Armstrong, Enderby and occasionally in Salmon Arm and Penticton from 1959 until 1990.

The volumes are notes of cases heard by Dencroche and are in his handwriting.

Denroche, Stephen

Autobiographical accounts and other material

The series consists of "Down Memory Lane" and "The Experiences of a Little Girl" autobiographical accounts by E.M. Leonard (Mrs. E.M. Fulmer) describing her early childhood in Salmon Arm, nurses' training at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke and work at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver. It also includes "The Story of John F. Leonard" by M. Fulmer, an account of her brother's life, a composer of operettas for Vancouver schools. Letters patent and items advertising E.M. Leonard's Peristaltic Therapeutic Apparatus.

Webster! : 1982-02-12

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: In a taped video segment, Webster interviews "Luke" who knows little about his background. Luke, developmentally challenged, was cared for by his brother and sister but was abandoned by them and left at Vancouver's Seabus with a note pinned to him requesting that someone call the police. Note: In a follow-up on the video segment, Webster announces that Luke's real name is Lucas Kuhlmann. Solange Chaput-Rolland, a French-Canadian author and broadcaster, talks about Prime Minister Trudeau's background and political views. Lorne Nystrom, Yorkton-Melville Saskatchewan MP and NDP trade critic, shares his political views and opinions of the party in power.

Guests:
Chaput-Rolland, Solange
Luke, [FNU]
Nystrom, Lorne
Nystrom, Renee

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Salmon Arm (B.C.)--Description and travel

Constance Johnson interview

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Constance Johnson. Constance Johnson's family came from New Brunswick in 1911. Her father ranched at Silver Creek and later moved to Salmon Arm. Discusses childhood in Salmon Arm, ca. 1920; Indigenous people around Salmon Arm; household features of the early days; dairy farming, orchards, service jobs; youthful activities like lectures, dancing, drama, and visits of Governors-General, and Zane Grey.

Victor Nancollas interview

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Victor Nancollas. Nancollas was involved in local Salmon Arm politics for 27 years. He traces the history of incorporation from the separate city and municipality to the amalgamation of the present day district. The topics of public works, emphasizing water and treatment of sewage are discussed, as are the community services such as the library and old age and youth centres. Mill rate with relation to industry is discussed, as is the development of the industries themselves. The one time fruit industry and the present (1977), sawmill and machine shops are all mentioned. He also gives personal views on the value of Regional Districts with special relation to city planning and agricultural land use. The size of the school district, the number of schools and special education facilities (such as schools for the mentally handicapped) are mentioned. He describes the B.C. and Confederation Centennial celebrations that took place in his district.

Letters to Mrs. A. Mason

The file consists of photocopies of letters to Mrs. A. Mason of Epsom, Surrey, England from her son Percy. Percy Mason emigrated from England to Salmon Arm in 1913, enlisted in 1914, and was killed in 1916. The file also includes letters of sympathy on the death of her son.

Dave Barrett : [1975 election campaign, continued - December 1-9, 1975]

CALL NUMBER: T1704:0089 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1975-12-01 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech, Nanaimo, 1 December 1975. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0090 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Proposes freeze on commercial rents RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-12-01 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett announces a proposed freeze on commercial rents, and an extension of the price freeze to 16 February 1975 [i.e., 1976?]. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0091 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech to pensioners RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-12-02 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett speech to a group of old age pensioners at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, 2 December 1975. Also speaking are: Liberal leader Gordon Gibson Jr., Conservative leader Dr. Scott Wallace, and Social Credit spokesman Bob McClelland. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0092 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-12-02 [or 03?] SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech to a Vancouver rally at the PNE Agrodome, sponsored by "Reach Out". Also, a speech by Bill Bennett, and a question-and-answer session with all four party leaders: Barrett, Bennett, Gordon Gibson Jr., and Dr. Scott Wallace. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0093 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Salmon Arm (B.C.), 1975-12-03 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech, Salmon Arm, 3 December 1975. CALL NUMBER: T1704:0094 - 0095 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Penticton (B.C.), 1975-12-04 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech, Penticton, 4 December 1975 (part 1 & 2). CALL NUMBER: T1704:0096 - 0097 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Prince George (B.C.), 1975-12-08 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech, Prince George, 8 December 1975 (part 1 & 2). CALL NUMBER: T1704:0098 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dave Barrett: Campaign speech RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1975-12-09 SUMMARY: Premier David Barrett campaign speech, Coquitlam, 9 December 1975.

Ray Williston interview : [Reimer, 1975 : part 1]

CALL NUMBER: T1375:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Childhood and Youth, 1914-1933 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1933 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born in Victoria, 1914. United Empire Loyalist stock in New Brunswick, 1786. Family moves to B.C. in 1912 (?). Father in feed business. Moved to Ladner. Father in debt. Moved to Salmon Arm. Father killed in 1927, putting the family into even greater debt. TRACK 2: Works for "The SAFE" in Salmon Arm. Mother ran a boarding house. Played in dance band through the Depression. Ambition to become a pilot. Normal School in Victoria. Member of Older Boys' Parliament. Worked as warehouseman and clerk. Depression years in Salmon Arm. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Student and teacher, 1934-1939 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Williston discusses his first teaching job in Hendon, B.C. in 1934. He then took a B.A. at UBC summer school, starting in 1935. Taught in Surrey, B.C. Talks about Surrey social life at the time, and his marriage in 1939. Moves to Princeton, B.C. Graduates from UBC in 1940. Discusses the social life in Princeton in the late 1930s. TRACK 2: Discusses teaching at the Princeton High School. UBC summer session discussed. Walks over Hope-Princeton trail in 1939. Gordon Shrum and Professor Sedgewick at UBC. Williston has attack of "nervous exhaustion". He develops an "abhorrence" of socialism during the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Airman and School Administrator, 1940-1952 PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rejects BCTF militancy in the 1930s. Rejection of socialism. RCAF (1940-1945) in Alberta. Returns to teaching in 1945. Supervising principal in Prince George. Joins the Department of Education as school inspector. TRACK 2: Reprimand by W.T. Straith, Minister of Education. Declines to run as a Socred in 1952. Runs in 1953 and elected (Fort George constituency). Unschooled in Socred monetary theory. Thought W.A.C. Bennett too conservative in financial matters. Socialism versus "adapted free enterprise". Voted for various parties in 1930s and 1940s. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Social Credit politician, 1952-1954 PERIOD COVERED: 1952-1954 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-01-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Attracted to the Social Credit Party in 1952 by the people in it. Nominating meeting in 1953. Had job as a lecturer at the University of Washington, 1954. Became Minister of Education, April 1954. Aquatic events in the Gorge, Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]; CALL NUMBER: T1375:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): MLA and Minister of Education, 1953-1956 PERIOD COVERED: 1953-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: Williston reprimanded by William T. Straith, Minister of Education, for making public statements about education. Asked to resign as school inspector when he was nominated in 1953. 1953 election. W.A.C. Bennett speaks on behalf of Williston, 1953. Williston's first speech in Legislative Assembly. Williston gets favourable reaction from all sides. Responsibilities of "the press". Williston becomes Minister of Education, April 1954. Appointment kept secret until last minute. Initial problems and issues in education -- financing, teacher training, curriculum. Role of deputy ministers. Some senior public servants try to embarrass the new government, especially with regard to finances. School finances. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Minister of Education, 1954-1956 PERIOD COVERED: 1954-1956 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Problems of school construction and finance, 1954-56. Establishment of teacher training in universities. British Columbia College of Education. Reinstatement of World Review in the schools. Education problems with Doukhobors. Doukhobor school at New Denver, B.C. The socializing role of the school system. TRACK 2: More on B.C. College of Education. Personalities in B.C. education. Salaries of education officials. School openings. CALL NUMBER: T1375:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The "Sommers" Case PERIOD COVERED: 1955-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: "Sommers scandal" in which Robert Sommers is accused and convicted of accepting bribes in relation to the granting of forest land tenures. Williston's personal assessment of Sommers. Williston appointed Minister of Lands and Forests, 1956. Reaction within government to the scandal. Mel Bryan crosses the floor to protest Attorney-General Bonner's handling of the affair. TRACK 2: More on Mel Bryan and "Sommers scandal". Assessment of Ron Worley. Sloan Commission on Forestry, 1957.

Salmon Arm pioneer : Roger Elgood

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: J. Roger Elgood, who immigrated to Salmon Arm, B.C. from Leicester, England in 1907, tells about his early experiences farming in BC; the first winter; hardships after his father's death; pacifism in World War I, and the decision to join up with the medical corps; farming in the twenties and thirties; outside jobs and the sale of the farm; political attitudes in the thirties.

Roger Elgood interview

RECORDED: Salmon Arm (B.C.), 1974-01 SUMMARY: J. Roger Elgood, who immigrated to Salmon Arm, B.C. from Leicester, England in 1907, tells about his early experiences farming in BC; the first winter; hardships after his father's death; pacifism in ;World War I, and the decision to join up with the medical corps; farming in the twenties and thirties; outside jobs and the sale of the farm; political attitudes in the thirties.;

Salmon Arm Supreme Court letters of administration

  • GR-3151
  • Series
  • 1932-1974

Salmon Arm letters of administration (some handled by the Official Administrator). Letters of administration from County Court (Form 156), 1932-1952, from Supreme Court (Form C), 1951-1974 and those handled by the Official Administrator, 1954-1972.

British Columbia. Supreme Court (Salmon Arm)

Willard and Gladys Peters interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1971?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willard (Bill) Peters, 75 years of age, describes his siblings and his father (who is 104 years old); the story of his father, who came to Salmon Arm in 1904; December 7, 1866, was the day his father was born; his mother's and father's lives, including details about their lives and jobs and characters; mail workers along the CPR in 1911; details about his father's experience upon coming to Salmon Arm in 1904; his father's job as a police officer in Salmon Arm, with a reputation of being able to get handcuffs on anyone regardless of their size; more on what life was like. Then Mrs.; Peters joins the conversation, and discusses how her family came to Salmon Arm from Carmen, Manitoba, when she was six years old; more on age and family history, including family members who fought in the war of 1812; what family gatherings are like; and what life is like now as compared to then. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Percy Gorse interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Percy Gorse relates how he came from London to British Columbia after working for the foreign service to finalize the accounts of the British Colonies; a failed land deal with a man name;d Freeman; how he came to Fort Qu'apelle, and his first impressions of the area; then how he came to British Columbia, and landed at Revelstoke in 1904. He describes Revelstoke when he arrived and hi;s first job. He describes his first winter in BC living with his brother, Frank, on a bank of the Columbia River. He tells various anecdotes about his life, as well as jobs working for a butcher, picking and selling strawberries, including a discussion of salaries; and detailed accounts of fighting bush fires for a man named Charlie Lindmark. TRACK 2: Mr. Gorse continues with more on firefighting; work tracking out to Salmon Arm, and life on the land he and his brother bought near Salmon Arm. He gives his impressions of Salmon Arm and the surrounding area. He recalls characters in the are;a including Bob Fortune and Pat Owens; fruit growing; the lumber industry and dairying around Salmon Arm; building a house for his parents; and describes some characters who came from India.

Frank Kappel interview : [Imbert Orchard, 1966]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Kappel describes how he came from Wales with a friend, Loland Salt, after seven years in Germany, because English was the language of Canada, and because the family of the woman he; was engaged to had land out by Shuswap Lake. He describes his first impressions upon coming into the area; remittance men; the process of building a house; selling wood; settling at Notch Hill; hostility aimed at the British; the first settlers at Chase; the first sawmill in the area, and the family who started it; the development of more sawmills; his property at Celista and the first settlers there; the timber industry at that time; having to clear land in order to get a patent to farm it in Magna Bay; his time in WWI; his job as a fire warden; other jobs he has worked at; how much he loved; his outdoor work; his work decoding German messages during the war; and his impressions of Indigenous peoples. TRACK 2: Mr. Kappel continues by discussing sawmill activity in the area; how in 1926 the company; he worked with built a sawmill in Canoe, then later sold it; a man who was rumoured to be a direct descendant of Robert the Bruce; an anecdote about a murder; the discovery of gold at the big bend of; the Columbia at Seymour Arm [?]; details about Sicamous; Notch Hill; growing apples at Salmon Arm; families in the area; game in the Shuswap area; how his wife liked the country; various odd characters; salmon runs before the slide at Hell's Gate; stories about various old timers and characters.

Matthew J. Mackie interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Matthew J. Mackie describes how his parents, Nestor and Susan Maki, came from Lapua, Finland in 1891 or 1892, after hearing about the gold rush; the family homestead at Gleneden; how he had t;o walk five miles each way in to school at Tappen in 1901; what his parents were doing near Revelstoke when he was born in 1893; his earliest memories including the family move to Salmon Arm as his father was promoted on the railway to a foreman; what Gleneden was like; how the town got its name; his earliest memories of Salmon Arm; dairy farming; various jobs; memories of railroading; orange celebrations in Salmon Arm on July 12; Seventh Day Adventists baptizing people; Sam McGuire, an early Salmon Arm settler who had a general store; when they first saw East Indians; and other early memories; of childhood in Salmon Arm, including a few characters. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Nancy Chaplin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Nancy Chaplin discusses how her father, David Salmond Mitchell, came from Edinburgh; Scotland, and was trained as an architect before coming to Vancouver; he eventually became a surveyor;, and worked on building the road from Salmon Arm to Enderby; more on her family and living at Tappen before moving to Salmon Arm; taking trains to Chase for the summer; what life was like back then; how her mother was the farmer; and a story about a pure-bred bull they acquired to improve their herd. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Jay Haines interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jay M. Haines describes how his family and another came from Montana to Salmon Arm in 1901; looking for places to settle and everything being taken up to Silver Creek; settling land in t;he area; how the mosquitoes and flies kept them out of the Alberta area, so they ended up coming west to settle; his father,Joseph Miller Haines, and the other people who came north with them; what Si;lver Creek was like in 1901, including the landscape and jobs available, and wages for these jobs; what settlers did to survive; growing crops; what the soil is like there; the community; the first sc;hool; what roads were like when he arrived; the first settlers George Moore and George Armstrong; how Silver Creek got its name; how community life developed; the first ministers, including a man name;d Woods; other people in the area; dairy farms; and details about Yankee Flats. TRACK 2: Mr. Haines continues by discussing when his other brothers' families came to the area in 1902; when his broth;er Louie had to abandon his place to move to Salmon Arm to work when he was very badly hurt clearing land, and had to go to Enderby to see a doctor (he died a few days later); more disasters clearing ;land; more characters including Jim Evans; native Indians in the area; moose migrations and wolves; salmon runs; the value of different furs and pelts; the 1928 hunting season; and hunting stories inc;luding one about a cougar.;

Edgar Fortier interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Edgar Fortier discusses his life after his father drowned when he was seven years old. He discusses schooling; working; his siblings; several characters around Salmon Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Harry Ferguson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry A. Ferguson describes his father's life as a gold miner who came over in 1862 from Belfast via San Francisco; he went to Barkerville; he built a hotel in Clinton and then bought a hotel on the south side of the lake in 1885; in 1874 his father took the first horses to Alberta with 300 head for the Mounted Police; a description of his father's journey is given; and he describes growing up in Salmon Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

James Sutcliffe Day interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Jim S. Day describes how he came from Lancashire after the South African War and landed in Halifax in January 1904; his train ride out west, and jobs he worked as he made his way westward; his arrival in Vancouver; a contract he accepted in Salmon Arm in 1906; anecdotes about his life there, including details about Jim Edmunds and about a school concert; his time opening a contracting; business, and all of the buildings he built in the first decade of the 1900s; what Salmon Arm was like when he arrived; building a road; the Columbia River Lumber Company; shipping fruit; building churches in the area and the support of the population of these churches; Scottie Mitchell, who was an architect, and a story of him on a survey crew. TRACK 2; Mr. Day continues by telling a story about the building of a wharf and building of a dam; wedding celebrations; and being elected to council in 1929.

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