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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): News conference on recreation proposals for the East Kootenays RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-03-10 SUMMARY: Sam Bawlf, Minister of Recreation and Conservation, reacts to a brief presented by the Palliser Wilderness Society regarding recreation proposals for the East Kootenays, 10 March 1977.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lillian Ban Quan discusses her father, who was Cantonese, and how he ran a store at Rock Creek. Her mother was a Chilliwack Indian. Her mother married Chu Ban Quan at Rock Creek in 1907.; She describes Wildhorse, St. Eugene Mission and the dramatic method of mining used at Wildhorse. Then she discusses her marriage at sixteen to a forty-five year old man. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alexander Ritchie describes how he came from Calgary in 1896; drove a stage between Fort Steele and Windermere for a few months; went back to Calgary, but returned to Windermere in 1898; worked on ranches and mined until 1910; was part owner of CVI [Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands, Limited] with [R.R.] Bruce for five years; broke up with Bruce and eventually owned the whole company and site; CPR board of directors were the driving force behind CVI; KCRR [Kootenay Central Railway] reached Athalmer in 1912; the Paradise Mine and some anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie continue;s by discussing Fort Steele as a "wide open town" in the 1890s and the stage run from Fort Steele to Windermere. He then discusses democrats (i.e., type of wagon).

CALL NUMBER: T0883:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ritchie continues his description of the Fort Steele to Windermere stage run; more anecdotes; Windermere as the earliest settlement in the area; Mr. Ritchie's several trips across the Rockies and taking horses east to sell in Alberta. TRACK 2: Mr. Ritchie describes an incident at Banff with Indians and selling horses as far north as Grande Prairie. Then Mrs. Lizzie Ritchie describes how she came from London to Winnipeg in 1904; her first husband was Charles Burgess, who was bookkeeper for a lumber company; Waldo as the first ghost town; and some anecdotes about the lumber industry.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Leonard Flesburg came to Wardner in 1911 from Melford, Saskatchewan, on doctor's orders, to help his rheumatism. He had worked building railroads and logging in Saskatchewan and Wisconsin before coming to BC. He worked at the Wardner sawmill for thirty years. He discusses the mill and how it produced 150;000 feet in a ten hour shift, but how the company never made a lot of money. He discusses Jim Wardener, a gambler; and the grading of lumber; falling productivity and its consequences; and finally he recites a poem about duck hunting. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John Bird describes how he came to England to St. John's in 1910, and went to work at a farm in Manitoba for ten to fifteen dollars a month. He describes the wages he earned in Winnipeg. Eventually he was promoted to office work for 22 cents an hour. He transferred to Cranbrook on November 4, 1910 as a store keeper. He describes Cranbrook as a "wild and woolly" place which was booming due to its lumber mills. He describes Cranbrook and its growth in 1919 to the form which it resembles at the time of the interview. Mr. Bird describes his experience after enlisting for service; in World War I. He describes the "Empress of Asia scheme" to found Camp Lister, a soldier settlement project. He tells the history of Camp Lister. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John M. "Jake" Turnbull remembers the Kootenay mining region from 1897 to 1906. He describes how he came to the Kootenays in 1897; his first impressions of the mountains; working at Lanark Mine near Revelstoke; more about Lanark Mine; the "Mucker Gang" and "Happy Charlie"; the close of the Lanark Mine; Sandon in 1897; the journey to Fort Steele and the North Star Mine; miners returning from Fort Steele after an annual spring vacation; Sir Donald "Dan" Mann; Fort Steele in 1897; Cranbrook in 1898; North Star Mine; scenery; shipping ore; a trick played on a provincial meteorologist; St. Eugene mine at Moyie; a job at Nickel Plate mine at Rossland; Rossland in 1898; and meeting Father Pat. TRACK 2: Mr. Turnbull continues with his story about meeting Father Pat; Rossland and t;he spirit of the 1890s; moving to California; returning to Rossland in 1901 as chief engineer; the importance of a superintendent; the Rossland mining strike of 1901; work in 1902 as a consulting engi;neer developing coal resources; the completion of the railroad; Rossland music halls; Jack Kirkup; the Trail smelter; and sulphur as a nuisance in 1906.

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Turnbull continues to talk about the Kootenay mining region; Walter H. Aldridge, who was the general manager of Canadian Smelting Works; Aldridge and the CPR negotiated with Augustus Heinze for the Trail smelter; Aldridge negotiated an arrangement between the CPR and the Great Northern railways; Hall Mines and the smelter closes; Selwyn G. Blaylock was the manager at St. Eugene mine; ;the background of the takeover; "square setting" is explained; more about Aldridge; a fire at the assay office in Trail in 1902; F.W. "Bill" Guernsey; Peter Verigin; a practical joke; E.P. Matheson an;d coal supplies. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cliff Harrison describes how he came to Ootsa Lake, and the good reputation of the land for agriculture. He discusses his father, who was a miner in the Kootenays and his memories of the; East Kootenays; the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in 1914, his experience working in a Hudson's Bay Company store in Kamloops; work for mining companies; reminiscences of Ootsa Lake in 1912, including ;that there was no doctor; how people had to help each other. He describes a few local characters and early settlers: Harry Morgan, Mike Touhy, Shorty Matheson, Cataline (Jean Caux), Barney Mulvaney, a;nd Skin Tyee, who was also known as Charlie Clutesi. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues with more on local characters Skin Tyee and Florence Hinton. Mr. Harrison then recalls his experiences with Native Indians, and the introduction of aviation to the Ootsa Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-05-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Cliff Harrison recalls how Indians came to have their legends via observations with no evidence, and the Indian legend of "Devil Man"; a story of a man dying of scurvy; and discusses trappin;g and selling fur in Kimsquit Valley. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison recalls a bear story; anecdotes about what he did for amusement; and traveling through the Interior, including how he traveled.;

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harrison recalls trapping beginning in 1906, including how trappers came to the area; fighting in World War I and coming back to the wilderness in 1919; anecdotes about selling furs in a; fluctuating market; a trapping convention and basket social; Mr. Harrison's recollections of other trappers, including John Mikkelson, Jack and Arthur Shelford, Harry Morgan (who was the first white man in the area), Skin Tyee and Jimmy Morgan. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues discussing trappers such as Jimmy Morgan. He tells a story about mixing flying with trapping, and starting a trend for other trappers learning to fly; miscellaneous events connected to trapping, including almost freezing to death; and impressions and anecdotes about wolverines.

CALL NUMBER: T1028:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harrison recalls growing up in the East Kootenay, including what life was like before the railroad; a detailed description of Captain Armstrong, a steamboat captain who navigated the Columbia River; the significance and details on the running of steamboats at that time; logging and wages. Harrison describes his arrival in BC in 1904, including his impressions. Harrison recalls various characters (and elaborates on what life was like at that time): Rufus Kimpton, Jim Brewer and a few more. TRACK 2: Mr. Harrison continues with more characters and events: the opening of the Paradise Mine; real estate promoter Randolph Bruce; "Bugroom"; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lake; Frank Stoddard, who had a hotel; several stories about blacksmith Sinc Craig,including one where he broke his leg falling into a grave at a funeral; Malcolm Cameron, the first policeman in the area, and how early pioneers were very law abiding, E.J. Scoville, who was the first magistrate and was also a champion speed; skater based out of Wilmer, and Jim McKay, the cattle baron at Athalmer.

SUMMARY: "A Journey of Two Summer Moons" is about the first crossing of the Rockies by explorer David Thompson in 1807, and a trip made by Imbert Orchard and Peter Haworth in 1972, re-tracing Thompson's route;. The program combines excerpts from Thompson's journal with recordings made on the 1972 journey.;