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RECORDED: Lac la Hache (B.C.), 1975-07-25 SUMMARY: Mrs. Molly Forbes reads excerpts from her history of the United Church in the Cariboo Region, 1925-1975.;

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 1 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in Montreal. Move to Naramata, B.C., in 1909. His father and grandfather. Education. The first church at Naramata. Decision to become a minister. More about Naramata community. Effects of World War I. Life as a student minister. Ordination, 1926. TRACK 2: Young people's organizations in Vancouver in the 1920s; student Christian movement. Marriage. Work in Coalmont field. McBride and Giscome fields. Characteristics of the church in B.C. Community activities. Effects of the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ministers' financial problems in the Depression. The church's attitude to war, and to World War II. Serving the soldiers near Sardis. Outstanding figures in the church; Hugh Dobson and social concerns. TRACK 2: Dobson and social concerns (continued). J.S. Woodsworth, M.J. Coldwell, and Stanley Knowles and their backgrounds. The Sanford brothers. Re-location of Japanese (during WWII). The church in the 1970s.

CALL NUMBER: T1811:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church and social issues : tape 3 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-14 SUMMARY: The need for a new sense of brotherhood.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister and missionary PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-10-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood in Ontario. Move to the West. Decision to enter the ministry, 1912. Student fields. Further education and service in World War I. Graduation and marriage. Kaslo and church union. TRACK 2: Other experiences at Kaslo. Mission, BC, 1928-1931. The effects of the Great Depression. Missions to the Indians and Orientals, and his work as Superintendent of Home Missions. Relocation of Japanese Canadians. Visit to the Yukon. Policy in the Cariboo. [NOTE: The conclusion of this interview is on tape T1991:0006.]

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.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Port Simpson Mission 100th anniversary PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1948 RECORDED: Port Simpson (B.C.), 1974 SUMMARY: Dora Flewin: Father was the Reverend J.C. Spencer, minister at Port Simpson from 1914-21. She describes training for nursing. Discusses doctors, nurses and the Girls' Home in Port Simpson. Conditions at the Methodist Mission and the hospital. [Interview date: 1974-11-10] Reverend Robert Faris: Discusses history of the 'Ksan project at Hazelton, and the arts and crafts of the Northwest Coast native peoples.; [The tape may also include a brief interview with Reverend John Williams of Kitamaat Village, who is of Haida ancestry.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church activities in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Elsie Olive Bedlow: Her father, Reverend John Charles Alder, came from England with his family to be a Presbyterian minister in Abbotsford, 1907. Church Union, 1925. Her father's other posts. Church choirs. [Recorded in Abbotsford, B.C.] Iris Hardwick: Church activities in Vancouver. Work as Vancouver Presbyterial President and B.C. President of W.M.S. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-04-16.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Japanese minister in Canada, 1935-1945 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-06-30 SUMMARY: Reverend Yoshio Ono's memories of life in a Christian family in Japan. Study for the ministry in Canada in the 1930s. The Japanese evacuation in World War II: Hastings Park Camp and Tashme.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church women's groups, 1925-70 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Alex Jamieson: The beginning of Dunbar Heights United Church. The Women's Auxiliary. Organization of the W.A. Presbytery. Role as President of the Conference, 1949-51. Ordination of the United Church women from the W.M.S. and W.A. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C.] Edna Fotheringham: The United Church at Sardis, B.C. Work in the W.A. and W.M.S. President of the Westminster Presbytery. Formation of the United Church Women. Changes in missionary work. Coqualeetza Indian School. Changes in women's church work. [Recorded in Sardis, B.C., 1975-05-14.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister in B.C., 1900-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1964 RECORDED: Ocean Park (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: Reverend Francis Edwin Runnals, born in 1895, discusses his background and education as a Presbyterian minister. Working toward Church Union. His first churches in Grand Forks and Vancouver. Cedar Cottage Church in the Depression. Work as a minister in Prince George and Armstrong. President of the United Church Conference. His history of the United Church in B.C., entitled "It's God's Country".

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church missionary to Japan and Soowahlie Indian Band in Chilliwack PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1960 RECORDED: Chilliwack (B.C.), 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss May McLachan was born in Manitoba in 1895. Training as a teacher and missionary. Missionary work in Japan, 1923-1942. Taught Japanese-Canadian children in the internment camp at Tashme, B.C., 1943-1945. Returned to Japan as missionary after World War II, 1947-1963. TRACK 2: Missionary work in Japan continued. Missionary work with Soowahlie Indian Band near Chilliwack, 1964 on.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of Revelstoke churches, 1905-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1945 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-06 SUMMARY: Arvid Lundell: Memories of Revelstoke and the Methodist and United Churches there, 1905-1945. [Recorded 1975-06-12.] Muriel Campbell: Memories of Revelstoke and the Presbyterian, Methodist and United Churches there, 1910-1945. [Recorded 1975-06-17.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of United Church activities in B.C., 1925-1975 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Lorraine Bolton: Brief memories of Dundas United Church. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-06-20.] Miss Muriel Richardson: Work as Superintendent of the United Church Girls' Home in the 1950s and as a Deaconess at First United Church in Vancouver, 1944-52. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C., 1975-07-15.] Doris Jensen: Social life and United Church activities in Ocean Falls, B.C., ca. 1925-1950. [Recorded 1975-11-24; very brief.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The United Church in the Nicola Valley PERIOD COVERED: 1867-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Robert Taylor gives a brief history of the United Church in the Nicola Valley.;

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister on the Prairies and in B.C., ca. 1904-1960 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend D.H. Telfer was born in 1886 and recalls his earliest memories of London, England. His father's work in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in London. Family decision to settle in Canada, 1904. Settling on a section of land at Belvedere, Alberta. Father's role as a local Methodist preacher. His own early jobs. More about his father's life as a preacher, and his death in 1908. TRACK 2: ;Other local denominations. His own studies for the ministry. Effects of World War I. University studies and ordination, 1915. Marriage and a sales job. Effects of the Great Depression. How the churches helped in the 1930s. Church Union, 1925. Move to West Point Grey United Church, 1940.

CALL NUMBER: T2643:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister and World War II in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The Church in the community during World War II. Conscientious objectors. Changes in congregations and church participation. Church extension, 1951-58. Outstanding individuals: Chown. The World Won for Christ. Japanese re-location.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Brief account of life of a woman minister in the United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1976?] SUMMARY: Childhood in England and B.C. How her family became United Church. Education and training in theology. Ordination, 1940 and first pastorate. Experiences as a woman minister. Ph.D. and other pastorates;. Work in the Presbytery. First woman President of Conference. Relations with other ministers. Retirement in Langley.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of a C.G.I.T. leader PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Her own church and Sunday school background and experience in Canadian Girls In Training. C.G.I.T. camps. Experience on the C.G.I.T. board in the 1930s. C.G.I.T. today. The new uniform. Vesper services. Trips on the "Thomas Crosby".

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections about O.M. and A.M. Sanford PERIOD COVERED: 1871-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Osbert McLean (Mac) Sanford talks about his father and his uncle, the Reverends O.M. and A.M. Sanford. Biography of A.M. Sanford. Story of his father, Reverence O.M. Sanford: pastorates in Iowa, Nicola, Kamloops (1909-1913), and Vancouver. Mount Pleasant Church, young peoples camping at Ocean Park in the 1920s. TRACK 2: Olive Sanford talks about women's groups at Mount Pleasant Church. Mac talks about men's activities. More comments about his father. Beginning of the Religious Education Council in B.C. History of Ocean Park Camp 1910 to 1975. His own work as Chairman of the Board of Ocean Park Camp, 1943-53.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life as a layman and minister : Bella Coola and Keremeos, 1920-60 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Luther Schuetze discusses how he became involved in church work. Working with native people. Pastorates in Bella Coola, Keremeos, and Penticton.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A United Church minister in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Everett S. Fleming was born in 1895, and discusses his childhood in Saskatchewan. School and farm chores in Kelowna, B.C. Education for the ministry: first mission fields and a trip through Europe. Ordination, 1926. First pastorate in the Kootenays. Master of Theology in New York. Posting to Dawson City. Marriage. Church buildings at Dawson City. Moved to Burns Lake, 1930, and Ocean Falls, 1938. Bible story in rhyme. Other pastorates: Ladysmith. TRACK 2: Other pastorates: Whalley, Campbell River, Fernie. Retirement to Kelowna.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of a B.C. United Church minister PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1962 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Lyn Clerihue describes childhood in Deloraine, Manitoba. Move to Deroche, B.C., 1907. Work as carpenter in mills. Decision to go into the Presbyterian ministry, 1913. Student fields.; Further education. Marriage and ordination. Pastorates at Britannia Mines, Port Moody, Fort William, Windermere Valley, Trail, Burnaby, Victoria, and North Vancouver. Out of retirement at Port Kells.; TRACK 2: Treasurer of conference and financial problems. Beginning of Development Fund of the United Church of Canada. The future of the Church.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of Marpole United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1860-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Winnifred Kidd recounts a history of the Marpole United Church.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister and his wife in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1886-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Peter Connal was born in 1886 and spent his early life in Glasgow, Scotland. Studying for the ministry in Canada. Ordained in Rutland, 1919. Pastorates in Alberta and B.C., including;: Salmon Arm, Prince George, Golden, Merritt, Haney, White Rock, Cumberland, and Kitsilano. TRACK 2: Mrs. Peter Connal recalls her childhood in Ontario. Teaching experience. Marriage to Peter Connal,; 1925. Life as a minister's wife in B.C.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cultus Lake Camp of the United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Fred Leary, Supervisor of Boys'' Work for the United Church talks about Cultus Lake Camp: acquaintance with the Manuel family, beginning of Cultus Lake Camp, location and buildings, and administrative changes.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First woman ordained in the United Church of Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Reverend Lydia E. Cruchy discusses childhood in France and England. Teaching in Saskatchewan. Ordination, 1936 (first woman). Executive Secretary of Committee on the Deaconess Order and Women Workers.; Other Saskatchewan pastorates, 1943-1962. D.D., 1953. The Church in Saskatchewan during the Depression. Work with New Canadians. Activities in retirement.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An active life in the United Church in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1890-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Reverend R.W. Hardy was born in 1890 and spent his childhood in Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and served in World War I. Edinburgh University. Ordained and married in Whitby, 1921. Pastorates in Saskatchewan and B.C., including Cranbrook and Kitsilano. Secretary of Conference. St. George's, South Fraser. Changes in Christian Education. Changes in the Church. Church's role in the Depression. Retirement activities since 1955. The Church in the future.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister in B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1915-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Reverend Robert J. Love was born in 1905 and spent his childhood in Manitoba. Teaching experiences in Manitoba. Further education. University of Manitoba, 1930, theology, 1933. Student Christian movement activities. Student fields. Port Essington. Other student experiences. Married and ordained 1933. First pastorate in Port Simpson. Pastorates at Quesnel, Armstrong, Murrayville and Vancouver. Christian Education work, 1950s and 1960s. Pastorate at Como Lake and White Rock. Retirement activities. The church in the future.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A history of First United Church, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: A history of First United Church in Vancouver. First Presbyterian Church and its community centre. Union with Turner Institute. Ethnic changes in the neighbourhood. Camp Fircom. More about people at First United Church.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Forty years at Grandview United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1923-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Janet McNeill was born in 1906 and come to Vancouver in 1907 at age one. Forty years in Grandview area: attending Grandview Church. Camp Fircom.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Longtime member of First United Church, Victoria PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Fred McGregor was born in 1888, and joined the First Presbyterian Church in 1894. Buildings, attendance, church activities, Young People's. Church Union.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Longtime member of James Bay United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1885-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Childhood recollections of Sunday School in James Bay and the building of James Bay [Methodist] Church. Marriage and children. Women's activities.;