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The item is a reel of nature film footage about marine mammals of the Pacific Coast including sea lions, sea otters, fur and harbour seals, porpoises and killer whales. Also: Indigenous whaling techniques; whaling ship "Westwhale"; processing of whale carcasses at Coal Harbour whaling station.

Item consists of a documentary showing outdoor gathering of five men listening to Hugh Mann and Stu Phillips talk about their experiences flying the Supermarine Stranraer flying boat on the west coast. The flying boat is anchored near shore in the background and later seen in flight. The film is an excerpt from an episode of the weekly television show.

Item consists of aerial footage showing the BC coastline from a low-flying aircraft, shot through a circular window or lens. The area shown is uninhabited.

Masters' journals of M.V. Uchuck III, 1962-1975, concerning daily operations of vessel plying west coast of Vancouver Island, from Gold River to Zeballos. Collection includes newspaper clippings, poems, tariffs, and time-tables pertaining to vessel.

Amateur film. "This reel was likely photographed by a crewman of the "Columbia", the flagship of the Columbia Coast Mission boats. . . . No location is known for either the picnic or for what looks to be a dedication, but both events likely occurred on Vancouver Island. Pan across what is probably a church picnic outside a hall -- cooking pits, people eating and talking, etc. -- ends on [close-up] of a car with a 1935 licence plate with men gathered about talking. Meat roasting on fire. Pan across smoking cooking pit. Pan across picnickers. Men tossing horseshoes. Mother with baby, other picnickers. Group shot on what is probably the Columbia Coast Mission boat "Columbia". Two women, two men and a boy. Wharf in [background] with car. [Close-ups] of each of the women laughing into the camera. Three Anglican ministers on the stern of what is probably a Columbia Coast Mission boat, performing what appears to be a dedication service. Windy. A small crowd listens as the boat rocks in the sea. Boat appears to be tied up alongside another, from which vantage point this film is being shot. [medium shot, long shot, then close-up] of the three ministers performing ceremony. Various other shots of service." (Colin Browne)

CALL NUMBER: T0946:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Forrest "Jud" Johnston recalls coming from Kansas with his family to Earls Cove; his father, Charlie Roscoe Johnston, whose nickname was "Timberline" because he was 6'6"; how the family ;came to BC to mine around 1902; his father's involvement with shingle bolts; arriving at Pender Harbor; John West, the first white man to live in Jervis Inlet; what life was like there at that time; t;he Ray family; a description of Earls Cove, including people there; learning to row a boat; a description of Irvine's Landing and the trader Irvine himself; more on life at Earls Cove; a detailed account of traveling up Jervis Inlet; a description of Deserted Bay and Princess Louisa Inlet, including a winter there. TRACK 2: Mr. Johnston continues by describing Princess Louisa Inlet in detail; logging; native Indians, including their paddles and houses and totems; growing up; getting food; an incident with a bear; more on food; and how there was no sickness when he grew up.

CALL NUMBER: T0946:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Johnston continues by discussing his father's birthday celebrations and an anecdote about hunting deer, in which his father was badly injured; and a recent helicopter ride. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Cadwallader describes Kingcome Inlet in the first decade of the 1900s, the danger of flood in the area, settlers in the area including Lawrie Lansdowne and Ernest Halliday, the Powell River Logging Company in 1909, Indians at Kingcome and potlatches, Lawrie Lansdowne and his brother Baron, early life at Kingcome Inlet in 1903, education, oxen used on the farms and chores. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cadwallader continues with more on chores and leisure activities such as swimming, picnics, dances, and a story of a wolf scare incident.

CALL NUMBER: T1189:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey's seafaring background and her trips to Alaska (1937 and 1963) PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey talks about her childhood on Fidalgo Island, her impressions of the Indians and their skill with their dug-out canoes. She describes her first dug-out canoe and its background, ad;ventures during her trip to Alaska (1937), places and people she met along the route including: Dr. Darby, Rivers Inlet, Alert Bay, Columbia Mission Ship, Alison Harbour, Kitimat, canneries and memories of her reverse trip in 1963. TRACK 2: Betty Carey continues with recollections about her trip to Alaska (1937), Hartley Bay, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, the Inside Passage, her family ;life and a later trip with her husband, Neil. She describes Haida sites and villages, evidence of habitation, equipment and supplies for her trips, the Kozy family at Kelsey Bay and her impressions of; Ketchikan.

CALL NUMBER: T1189:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey : Alaska and the Queen Charlotte Islands (1939-1955) PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey continues with her recollections about her Alaska trip, subsequent trips to Alaska, a trip with her family (1955) to the Queen Charlotte Islands, Hecate Strait, Skidegate, Graham ;Island coast, and impressions of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

SUMMARY: "The Inland Sea" is number 12 in the series. A tour of the Gulf of Georgia, with stories of the people and places on the Gulf; including the Gulf Islands, Nanaimo, Comox, and inlets on the mainland. Stories of the coastal boats. Voices heard include: Ruth Jackson, Ada Dawe, Ida New, Freda New, Constance Swartz, Bea Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Geraldine Hulbert, Jud Johnstone, Clarence Joe, Joe Kneen, Ronald Norris, Donald New and Bill Law. The opening narrative about a sailboat in the gulf is drawn from reminiscences of Harry Roberts of Cape Coburn.

SUMMARY: "Tidewaters", number 13 in the series, is about the people who lived at different parts of the British Columbia coastline. The outer coast of BC, and the story of some of the wrecks around Cape Beale. Settlers on the coast: the Finns of Sointula, the Norwegians of Bella Coola, and the people who settled at the north end of Vancouver Island. Also the coastal Indians: the Haidas and their huge canoes, and the Nootka whale-hunters. Voices heard include: Ethel Cadorin, Edward Joyce, Annie Hayes, Ted Levelton, Milo Fougner, Arvo Tynjala, Frank Hole and Chief William Scow. The Hamatsa songs were performed by Mary Johnson, Annie Hayes, and Arvo Tynjala; another song was sung by Dick Willy.

SUMMARY: Recollections of the early days of settlement on Read Island, a unique and quiet island near Cortes Island at the head of the Gulf of Georgia. The voices heard are: Alvina Poitras, Allen Robertson, Bill Law, Henry Hess, and Canon Alan Greene.

SUMMARY: This episode was broadcast as a fill-in for the "People in Landscape: Queen Charlotte Islands" time slot. In this program, Walter Wicks recalls his early life at a cannery near the mouth of the Skeena River.

The sub-series consists of nine recorded talks from the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks", with Canon Alan Greene, formerly of the Columbia Coast Mission. Also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", the programs (episodes 1-6 and 8-10 of 10) feature Canon Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson on the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Harry Allison, a crewman of the "Zodiac Light" with many years' experience fishing on the B.C. coast.

Out-takes. The destruction of Ripple Rock, a long-time menace to shipping in Seymour Narrows, by the world's largest non-nuclear explosion. Footage includes animated diagrams of the project; preparatory tests with models; underwater tunnelling and drilling operations; the shipment and placing of explosives; aerial and general views of the Narrows, and the various technical preparations for the explosion, as well as the blast and its results.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nick Stevens recalls his early years on Salt Spring Island; his early life as a fisherman in the Gulf of Georgia; anecdotes about his childhood; fishing on the Fraser River; types of boats; living in a scow house; anecdotes; the Greek community on Deas Island; the Austrian community; the Spanish community; other ethnic groups in the Lulu Island area; community life and provisions. TRACK; 2: Mr. Stevens continues discussing various groups along the Fraser River; the Japanese community at Steveston; Spaniards on Duck Island; Portuguese; Kanakas from Salt Spring Island; Indian cannery ;workers; Austrians in Ladner; Chinese on Deas Island; cannery work; cannery equipment; the "Iron Chink"; the "Iron Squaw"; Deas Island; his work as a pirate fish buyer; land taxes on Lulu Island; life; on Lulu Island; fishing seasons; Chinese/Indian relations; Japanese/white relations; unloading German tin plate in Steveston; growing up in Steveston.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevens talks about survival in the forest; canoe trips with his mother, Emma King; characters from the Ladner area; Steveston; Ladner; travel to New Westminster; steamboats on the Fraser; in 1905; fishing procedures, circa 1900, on the Fraser and the Gulf of Georgia; sealing; sturgeon fishing; Canoe Pass; Port Guichon; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0826:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart recounts his grandparent's settlement in the Courtenay area in the 1870s. He describes his early life; Comox; Courtenay; Cumberland; the Indian settlement; life on his family's farm. Later he became a logger and trapper. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart continues with a description of his work on a fishing boat; and in a logging camp. He describes his reunion with his father in Alberta; the purchase of farm equipment; and his trek to the family's homestead. He recalls his time as a rancher; his trip to Vancouver; his time as a steam engineer; a successful logging operation.;

CALL NUMBER: T0826:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04-& 06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ployart describes some of his logging and trapping experiences in the Courtenay area; operating a pack train for the government survey parties and CPR surveys; anecdotes of some mainland inlet settlers. TRACK 2: Mr. Ployart discusses the weather and storms common to the mainland inlets; a tugboat trip to Prince Rupert; boating incidents.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bob Langdon discusses current attitudes about airplane travel in and around Northern Vancouver Island. He describes flying weather; conditions; passengers; potential hazards; rapidly changing; weather; coastal pilot problems; night flying; and emergency flights. TRACK 2: Mr. Langdon recalls the various types of aircraft that have been used since 1948 on Northern Vancouver Island. He describes incidents that have occurred in emergency situations; his career as a pilot in Campbell River; the growth of his company Island Airlines; the impact of the airplane on the northern Vancouver Island region; impact on the logging industry; commuters; aviation centres; licensing.

CALL NUMBER: T0641:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Will Dawson describes why he came to the coast from Montreal during the Depression on his bike, rambling around until buying a boat and settling at Port Alberni, details about his six month bike trip, his prior experience sailing on the St. Lawrence, cruising he has done on the coast including the joy and conditions of the Gulf Islands, the physics of nautical miles, more on sailing details, the sport and lifestyle of sailing, using soundings for navigation, and sailing in fog. TRACK 2: Will Dawson continues by discussing sailing in winter, localized weather, places where the water is warmer, trips through Discovery Passage and the water currents, more anecdotes about boat trips, the hazards of sailing in Bute Inlet, and Howe Sound as the most beautiful inlet on the coast.

CALL NUMBER: T0641:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dawson continues by discussing night navigation. [TRACK 2: Blank.]

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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for tapes T0160:0002-0003.];

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: Leander Carlson came to Canada in 1905. He held various labouring jobs including construction on the prairies, rail road construction, logging etc. Became unemployed in 1914 and enlisted in the army. He "fought in every major battle the Canadian's were in". Came back to Saskatchewan and got a homestead which he left to become a prefect on an Indian reservation. He remained there for some years before finally leaving in order to be near a school his children could go to.

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: Leander Carlson's life after he left the Indian reservation as a construction worker and foreman. Time spent as a fish buyer on the coast of B.C. Becoming a Singer Sewing Machine repair man and animal; trainer after retiring. Sings a number of songs, some of which he wrote himself, about the early days in B.C.

CALL NUMBER: T0020:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leander Carlson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]

Industrial film. The British Columbia salmon industry. The province's salmon runs. The work of fishing vessels and their crews. The B.C. Packers cannery at Steveston: salmon being unloaded at the dock; cannery operations and processes (including brief shots of an "Iron Chink" salmon butchering machine); cannery workers (lunchroom, housing, other amenities); canning of salmon. Concluding scene of a family dinner.

Footage. Whaling operations of BC Packers (Western Canadian Whaling Ltd.) out of Coal Harbour, Vancouver Island. Scenes aboard whaling ship; sighting of whale; preparation of harpoon; whale struggling; flensing and processing of the whale's carcass at Coal Harbour.

Footage. Amateur footage depicting aspects of Bute Inlet logging operation.

Documentary. "The Columbia Coast Mission boat making its rounds near Alert Bay, Vancouver Island. A number of small settlements, with fishboats, are seen in the distance. They are visited, then left. Bones Bay is visited. Shots of fishermen working on wharf outside Bones Bay Cannery. Village Island is visited, as is Mrs. Kathleen O'Brien, M.B.E., who lives on the Reserve and works for the Anglican Church. Shots of the church and the main street. Logging show with steam donkey. Scenes of logs being felled, yarded with a spar tree and donkey, and loaded onto rail cars pulled by small diesel locomotive. Logs being delivered to a long pier and dumped into salt-chuck. Ship, the 'Venture', at the end of the wharf, and leaving. Burial at sea, performed on the Mission boat with flag at half-mast and with red ensign covering body. Families up the coast living on floats in sheltered bays while the men are away logging. Kids going to school on motor launch. A long caption details how accidents are reported to the hospital ship 'Columbia' from an isolated logging camp via the Dominion Government Radio Station at Alert Bay, and how the boat is despatched immediately to lend assistance. The exact story concerns a picnic during which a young boy hurts his foot badly. Probably the whole episode was dramatized, but only the opening sequences remain: the wounded boy in a launch with his family, a man running along rails to a logging camp where he makes use of the radio telephone, a man in Alert Bay on the other end sending an alert out to the 'Columbia'." (Colin Browne)

Footage. A record of the Columbia Coast Mission hospital ship "Columbia" on patrol with Canon Alan D. Greene. Depicts the people, places and events encountered: logging operations; community scenes; children; weddings, christenings and church services officiated by Canon Greene. Military personnel are seen at several stops, including personnel from the RCAF and the "Wrens" (Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service), as well as a CWAC (Canadian Women's Army Corps). An RCAF floatplane and a large flying boat are seen -- possibly at Shearwater, a wartime military seaplane base on Denny Island near Bella Bella. The "Syrene I" (formerly the CCM boat "John Antle I") appears briefly. The only positively identified location is Yuculta Landing on Quadra Island.

News item. [Footage at beginning taken underground - too dark.] Interview with Herb Shuttleworth, mines superintendent, about the closure. He says he hates to see such fine crews of miners leave. Shots of overall surface mine operations taken from an elevation. Interview with motel owner who says closure will impact his business. Interview with Arnold Walker, Vice-President and Mine Manager, Texada Mines Ltd. Main reason for shutting down mine, he says, is depletion of ore reserves and increasing costs. Mr. Walker says most of the employees do not want to leave the island -- it is a "nice place to live". All mine shafts will be closed and all the equipment disposed of within the next year. Interview with Ben Nicholas, Shop Steward for Local 168, Rock and Tunnel Workers. He says the company has aided employees by providing extra training to help them get other mining jobs. Aerial footage of the mine surface and surrounding areas. Shots of surface operations taken from outside it, and rather dark shots of the mine's mill.

RECORDED: Cortes Island (B.C.), 1976-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Douglas Morton of Gorge Harbour, Cortes Island, was born in Wales and came to Canada in 1919. Farming at Salmon River. Logging work at Menzies Bay and Seymour Inlet. Fishing. Work and experiences on the mission boat "Rendezvous" with Canon Alan Greene. Fishing, fish packing, and canneries. Union Steamships. Owen Bay. TRACK 2: Indian legends. Buying and selling clams. Fish camps: Egmont, Lund, Cortes Bay. More on Canon Greene and mission boat. Tourists. Store at Big Bay.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03 SUMMARY: Mel Parker has been logging for a number of years, and is the son of Dewey Parker. (See T1922:0001.) TRACK 1: Recollection of early life and schooling in logging camps. The Depression. Started working in the woods at age 12. Bunkhouse life; camp conditions and food. Camp characters. Safety equipment. Comparison of logging equipment then and now. More camp characters. Places worked: Bloedel's Camp; 5, Victoria Lumber Company, Kingcome. Unions. Entertainment in the camps. Union Steamships. Communications. Increasing use of airplanes for coastal travel after the war. Benefits offered to loggers working in more isolated camps. [TRACK 2: blank.]