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SUMMARY: This program features recollections of the interesting personality who created the world famous landmark called Butchart Gardens. Voices heard include Mr. George Mowat and Miss K. Agnew.

SUMMARY: This program comprises some random impressions of growing up in Victoria at the turn of the 20th century. Voices heard include: Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Robertson, Major Montieth, Mrs. Hood, Mr. Walter Engelhardt, Mr. Justice J.B. Clearihue, Mrs. Pinder, and Mrs. Madge Muskett.

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a series that recreates early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. "The Old Doctor" comprises two one-hour programs based on the memoirs of Dr. John Seba;stian Helmcken, who was for many years the Hudson's Bay Company doctor at Fort Victoria. The programs trace the growth of Victoria from an HBC fort to a city, and describe what life was like during t;hat period. "The Old Doctor" is a CBC Vancouver production, written and researched by Peter Haworth (who is heard as Dr. Helmcken), and produced by Imbert Orchard. The actors include: Peter Haworth, Barbara Tremain, Pat Williams, Yvonne Adelian, Roy Brinson, Sam Payne, Robert Clothier, Roger Norman, John White, and Betty Phillips.;

Stock shots. Original footage and outs compiled from various Parry Films for use in TWENTY GREAT YEARS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (1972). Includes BC Electric buses in North & West Vancouver, ca.1949; section from GIANT MASCOT showing mine fire and aftermath; general views of Vancouver and Victoria (1960s); BC and CN ferries; the commissioning of the ferry "Queen of Prince Rupert" by W.A.C. Bennett and other dignitaries (Victoria Inner Harbour & Swartz Bay, April 1966); sport fishing; skiing; costumed dancers in pageant; agricultural exhibition; installation of picnic tables (Okanagan Lake Provincial Park?); airliner in flight & aerial views; Greyhound bus on highway; tracking shot up Douglas Street, Victoria, 1960s; freight train in Fraser Canyon; Premier Bennett and Hydro officials open powerhouse (Duncan dam, 1967?) and Portage Mountain dam, 1967; ratification of Columbia River Treaty at Peace Arch Park, 1964; Simon Fraser University scenes; family in car on highway. There are also some scenes shot specifically for TWENTY GREAT YEARS.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Richardson describes how her father, Gerald Payne, came to BC in 1885 to Saturna Island; Saturna Island characters Warburton Pike and Billy Trueworthy; Gerald Payne's exploratory expeditions with Pike to northern BC and the Yukon in the 1890s; Gerald Payne's marriage in San Francisco in 1898; the story of his romance; Dorothy's birth in 1902; Gerald Payne pre-emption of land; on Saturna Island; farming operations are described; details about sheep farming; story of Billy Trueworthy who was a shepherd and bootlegger. TRACK 2: Richardson continues with more on Trueworthy; the Payne's hired hand John "Old Jack" Blanton; rum running in the Gulf Islands; education and schooling; going to private school, especially Crofton House; problems of adjusting to city life; a description of Miss D.W. Trickey, who was a private tutor to the Payne family.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner describes how sealing began in Victoria in 1869, how he fished out of Victoria when he was a small child, hunting seals in 1903 on a vessel called "Enterprise", sealing experiences aboard the "Diana", a description of a White Schooner and an Indian Schooner, a very detailed description of a sealing boat at that time, what life is like aboard a sealing boat, what happens when you see a seal, using smokeless powder, and what to do after a seal has been shot. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner describes more experiences about life aboard a sealing ship, signals between sealers, sealing techniques, keeping a boat steady in rough waters, using compasses, and a story about getting back to a schooner in the fog.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner offers anecdotes about boats and people who got lost at sea around 1906 including George Peddie from Newfoundland whom they actually found and Alec MacKenzie whom they buried, more on life aboard sealing ships, the history of sealing on the coast from the first ship in the 1869 built in Sooke by Charles Spring, all the places that he sealed, schooners anchored in Victoria, and an anecdote about being bitten by a seal. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner continues by offering an anecdote about an experience when his boat was attacked by a killer whale, details on killer whales, and more anecdotes about experiences on whaling ships.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner continues with experiences aboard ships including how he heard about the San Francisco earthquake, anecdotes about a man named Alex McLean, and sealing in the Bering Sea. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner continues with more anecdotes about life aboard sealing ships, when Alex McLean died and more details on him, pay for skins, his last adventures aboard sealing ships, what life was like in Victoria at that time, where he was born and how he came to move to Victoria including details about his family, and the history of the yacht "Vera" which was used as an opium smuggling ship before being used as a sealing ship up until 1911.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0004 track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lohbrunner offers anecdotes about interactions and competition with Japanese schooners in the Bering Sea around 1907, more anecdotes about sealing around the Alaskan coast, different islands and area where he trapped, what happened when the sealing industry closed in Victoria, more on competition with the Japanese, and the market for seal skins today. [End of the Imbert Orchard interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0004 track 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-?] SUMMARY: TRACK 2: [NOTE: This is NOT part of the Imbert Orchard interview with Max Lohbrunner. It is a separate recording, made on another occasion, by two unidentified interviewers -- a man and a woman. It may be the soundtrack from a film interview, possibly shot for CBC television.] Max Lohbrunner describes how he came to Victoria from New York in 1887 with his father who was a carpenter; the 122 sealing schooners that used to be docked in Victoria; an experience sailing to Cape Horn in 1903 to go sealing; the specific wharfs in Victoria that were built by sealers and anecdotes about what life was like when the industry was thriving; why he is allowed to live at the wharf when no one else is what happened to his life after the sealing industry closed; the otter he has as a pet; and various anecdotes about his life and sealing.