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The item is a composite print of a promotional film made in 1947. It shows the celebrations marking Vancouver's 60th anniversary to provide a framework for a short history and description of the city. Jubilee events include parades, a pageant at Timber Bowl in Stanley Park, First Nations dancing and the induction of the Governor-General (Viscount Alexander) as an honorary Kwakiutl chief. There are historical photographs which show Vancouver's early development.

Contemporary footage reveals various aspects of the city: skyline, public buildings and street scenes including Marine Building, harbour and shipyards, False Creek CPR yards and roundhouse, Lion's Gate and Burrard bridges, Vancouver airport, bus and streetcar systems, Police and Fire departments, Kitsilano Beach, Stanley Park, Bowen Island, boating, sailing, Sun Salmon Derby etc. It also includes footage of regional industries: logging, mining, smelting, fishing, farming, hydro-electric sites.

SUMMARY: "Best Seat In The House" was a weekly series of Kunstkopf programs, produced in stereo. This episode, "Steveston", is a dramatic documentary in verse and prose by the well-known West coast poet Daphne; Marlatt. It is a sound portrait of the waterfront community of Steveston, BC -- its history, people, fishing industry, canneries and Japanese heritage. Recorded on the location in the spring of 1976;, with a narrative by the author. The voices heard include Walter Marsh, Rae Brown, Bill Buck, Merv Campone, Lillian Carlson, Robert Clothier, Catherine Croll, Peg Dixon, James Johnston, Jan Mortil, H;.S. Olson, Sam Payne, Al Pearce, Susan Ringwood, Eric Schneider, Shannon Shepherd, and David Stein. Source material was provided by the Aural History Programme at the Provincial Archives of British Co;lumbia.;

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0127 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: On Canadian national unity RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: In an interview with Henry Gininger of the New York Times, Premier Bill Bennett discusses various aspects of BC's place within Canadian confederation, Quebec and the prospects of separation, and problems of national unity in Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0128 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: On BC's place in Canadian confederation RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Mary Ann McNellis, Premier Bill Bennett discusses various aspects of BC's position within Canadian confederation, his proposed five-regions concept, and the place of Quebec within confederation. 27 April 1978. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0129 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Interviewed on CKNW RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-05-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Barrie Clark of CKNW Vancouver, Premier Bill Bennett discusses his personal background and several issues related to his tenure as head of the Social Credit government. Topics mentioned are: the Fort Nelson extension of the BCR, Social Credit party politics, the Jack Davis affair, the political climate in Victoria, and the controversy over establishing a fund in aid of Vietnamese children. Also: Roy Jacques of CKNW Vancouver airs portions of interviews with Premier Bill Bennett and Opposition Leader Dave Barrett on the issue of free trade and tariffs and their effect on BC. TRACK 2: Continuation of Roy Jacques' program on Bennett and Barrett. Bennett discusses his government's dealings with the federal government in Ottawa; Dave Barrett offers criticisms of the Bennett administration. Aired 26 May 1978.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0130 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: News conferences on transportation RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978-05-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a press conference in Victoria, 31 May 1978, Premier Bill Bennett discusses his recent meetings in Alaska regarding rail links between BC, the Yukon, and Alaska. He also discusses various aspects of transportation in BC. TRACK 2: At a joint press conference with federal Transport Minister Otto Lang in Victoria, 31 May 1978, Premier Bill Bennett comments on proposed fishing boundaries off BC's coast.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0131 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Controversy over BC fishing negotiations RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a statement to the news media on 1 June 1978, Premier Bill Bennett comments on information leaks concerning BC's position on international fishing negotiations. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Albert Dalton Burt recalls his arrival in Vancouver in 1900; a description of Vancouver; his father George Burt, a cement finisher who paved the sidewalks of the West End. He recalls his; school days in Kitsilano; fishing at Pender Harbour and other spots; the types of fish; selling the fish in Vancouver. He describes jobs on the fishing boats and various experiences concurrent with ;the famous Johnson versus Jeffery boxing match; more anecdotes about fishing on the coast all the way to Alaska; details about halibut fishing and the schooners used; details on Irvines Landing and Madeira Park; and details about several characters around Vancouver. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1016:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Finnish community at Sointula, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arvo Tynjala was born in 1897 and discusses the origins of Sointula. The arrival of the Tynjala family at Sointula in 1902. Early activities and settlers at Sointula. The meaning of the name.; Early buildings and living arrangements. The fire of 1903. TRACK 2: The fire of 1903 and its consequences. Plants and animals around Sointula. Fishing, lumbering. The end of the Kalevan Kansa Colonization Co. Ltd. Early settlers. Leaders of the community.

CALL NUMBER: T1016:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Finnish community at Sointula, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1902-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-06-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arvo Tynjala discusses printing "Aika". The Finnish library. Opposition to religion. Temperance. Education. Athletics. Finnish organization and co-op store. Saunas. Fishing and working in the; canneries. TRACK 2: Fishing work in canneries. Chinese people. Native people. Farming. Finnish Sointula songs. Meaning of Kalevan Kansa.

CALL NUMBER: T1272:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Milo Fougner : arrival of Norwegian colonists in Bella Coola, 1894 PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1936 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Milo Fougner describes the early years of his life (born 1905). He begins with his first impressions of his first trip to Bella Coola including the first sawmill he ever saw, the influence of; the Church in his childhood, the arrival of Norwegian colonists in 1894, the lack of medical personnel, Sunday school at the Lutheran Church, the choir, poetry, organ music, the origins of the majority of the colonists, B.F. Jacobsen's arrival in Bella Coola, details of the colonists arrival in Bella Coola, the reception of the Indians on canoes, and the rivalry with Hudson's Bay people. TRACK 2: Fougner continues with details about life in the colony: transportation, land clearing, Rev. Saugstad, politics, the death of Rev. Saugstad, leadership of the colony after his death, the celebration;s on October 30th, the background of his father (Ivor Fougner), the adaptability of certain colonists, Milo's own life in the colony during the Depression years, industrial activities in the colony in;cluding logging and fishing, and details about the telegraph.

CALL NUMBER: T1272:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Milo Fougner : memories of Bella Coola colony between 1912 and 1940 PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Milo Fougner discusses the effects of World War I on the colonists, his father's occupations, and his own feelings toward Indians. Then he discusses the skills, knowledge, slavery, potlatches; and burial ceremonies of Indians. He then discusses growing up with Indian children and funerals including "crying hats". TRACK 2: Milo Fougner tells a story of Mr. Goldbloom who was a fur buyer fro;m 1919-1938, the name Klemtu, Lord Tweedsmuir's visit, nurse Jane Bryant, the Hudson's Bay Post in 1886, Fort McLoughlin, HBC Factor John Clayton, artists Mildred Valley Thornton and Emily Carr, the possibility of the railroad terminus at Bella Coola from 1912-1918, the Dunvegan Railroad, Milo's projections of Bella Coola as an oil line terminus, and cattle drives from 1928-1930.

CALL NUMBER: T2118:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ralph Edwards is a pilot who recalls his arrival in Lonesome Lake. He begins by describing his family background; his settling at Lonesome Lake from 1907 to 1912, including a description of the area; the process of making his home and life, and helping to build a telegraph line and other jobs. TRACK 2: Mr. Edwards continues by describing his early married life; more on settlement ;there; his interest in flying; earning his pilots license in 1952; an account of one of his forced landings; and his care of the trumpeter swans.

CALL NUMBER: T2118:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Edwards continues with more on trumpeter swans; grizzly bears; a bear story; and his pilot's license. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T2118:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ralph Edwards at Oona River RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Note: This tape is labeled "Ralph Edwards at Oona River", and is from a later date than the previous three tracks. Ralph Edwards describes being too old to keep flying; he tried to go to the; Yukon to farm, but was not received kindly, so he decided to start a homestead at [Oona River?] in 1966. Experiences flying in the interior; the hospitality of Karl Bergman; Mr. Edward's stint as a commercial fisherman; trumpeter swans; his airplane, including an accident and the sale of it. TRACK 2: Mr. Edwards describes receiving an award from the Governor General award in Ottawa in 1972 for ;his work with swans; and selling his ranch in 1966 to Robert Taylor.

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.

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.

CALL NUMBER: T0445:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Iverson recalls his work on the Sumas Lake dredging project and the King Edward Dredge. He talks about his family; his Norwegian father; his early life; his father's work as a fisherman; arriving at Sunbury in 1901; riverboats; living in scow houses; Collingwood; Tronjeim (Little Norway); Norwegian fishermen. TRACK 2: Mr. Iverson continues discussing the community of Norwegian fishermen; Mr. George Mackie; other ethnic groups in the area; Chinese workers in the canneries; canneries along the lower Fraser River; methods of fishing; Easthope brothers engines; setting nets.

CALL NUMBER: T0445:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Iverson discusses gillnetting and seining methods; Steveston; canneries; Annieville; selling fish; contracts with canneries; fish runs of 1913; salmon prices; nets. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Parmiter recounts coming to Ladner in 1874; his father's involvement in coal mining in the Queen Charlotte Islands; early Ladner; the family farm; other residents; early roads; transportation; early farming; Vancouver; cattle; growing oats and hay; Pemberton's farm; sloughs; canneries; Deas Cannery; Canoe Pass; recreation; floods; dykes; flood boxes; his work at the Standard Cannery on the Skeena River; fishing and farming in Ladner; winters; ice skating; roads; dances. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Swenson talks about his father [Paul Swenson] who came to Westham Island in 1881 from Sweden, and later managed the British American and Canoe Pass Canneries and bought a farm on Westham; Island in 1886. Mr. Swenson discuses the bridge to the island in 1909; early family history; local Indians; anecdotes about his father and family; Tamboline Slough on Westham Island; history of the Ladner/Delta area; the sturgeon banks; farming; development; Canoe Pass; early settlers of Westham Island and dyke construction. TRACK 2: Mr. Swenson continues discussing dyke construction on Westham Island; Chinese labour; farming; canneries; fishermen; ethnic groups in the area; Japanese; inducements for fishermen to join a cannery; Icelandic immigrants; Finnish immigrants; getting fish to the canneries; local characters; strikes; Count [Alvo von] Alvensleben; Tsawwassen Reserve; raising sugar beet seed.

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], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joyce describes his family's settlement on Quadra Island; establishment of their farm; fishing; Indians; construction of roads; interesting characters including "Skookum Tom" or Tom Leask. TRACK 2: Mr. Joyce recalls Heriot Bay; Quathiaski Cove; social events; boat wrecks, including the "Northwestern" and "Cottage City".

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Walton recalls when he came to Hornby Island in 1946. He discusses how islanders make their living; farming; logging; fishing; tourism; comparison of old and new times on Hornby Island; electricity on the island; relationship with the BC Government; subdivision; need for local control; preserving island life and parkland. TRACK 2: Mrs. Walton discusses what she likes about Hornby Island. She speaks about her work as a nurse; the Red Cross outpost; the islander's co-operative spirit; the Ratepayer's Association; subdivision; art colony; pollution; poor logging practices; noise;.

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.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rintaro Hayashi RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1972-03-29 & 04-19 SUMMARY: Rintaro Hayashi (Harry) has been one of the most influential men in Steveston, who devoted himself to improving the Japanese position, which was victimized by anti-Japanese racism in B.C. before the Second World War. Such racism was manifested in such government policy as the cut-down of Japanese fisherman's fishing licences, against which the Japanese Fisherman's Union fought.

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.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: Note: Introductory segment, no sound. No sound for the first three minutes of the show. Show begins with a taped news segment about a sports complex in Hedly, BC. One minute of audio problems. According to guests Frank Chidley and Ivan Adam, the government fisheries department favours larger fishing companies over smaller trollers. In a taped interview Wally Johnson, Regional Director General of the Fisheries Department, gives refuting statements. Next is a 15 minutes news segment [from W-5] about Webster and his show.

RECORDED: Lasqueti Island (B.C.), [1975-01-31?] SUMMARY: Allen Farrell discusses rowing trawlers of the Depression years; salmon fishing and living on the water during the 1930s and 1940s; anecdotes about the Depression; cod fishing in the 1940s; Allen's boat building; sailing with his family on the Pacific.

RECORDED: Kleena Kleene (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mr. Brinks was born at Hagensborg near Bella Coola; he went to school in Bella Coola. Later he fished from there, before moving to Kleena Kleene where he trapped and ranched. He also owned the general store, garage and post office there.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tom and Vera Parkin RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-01-28 SUMMARY: Tom was born in Vancouver and entered the fishing industry prior to WWII. Following War he became the organizer for the U.F.A.W.U. Spent 7 years in the north as North Representative for the Union. Returned to Vancouver in the late 1950s as Public Relations Director to campaign against dams on the Fraser. Union improved income, vacation with pay, etc. as well as dealt with the racial inequalities felt by the Japanese, Chinese and First Nations. In 1945 the U.F.A.W.U. emerged from the amalgamation of the previous unions. 1946 passed resolutions allowing Japanese back into the Union. Canneries all up and down the coast have disappeared. Only Sunnyside and Port Edwards up the coast remained in 1976. Originally agreements were reached with each company on an individual basis. He used to carry a binder of agreements in 1950. Later the companies formed the Fisheries Association of B.C. and there was one contract for the whole industry. Vera was one of the representatives on a trip to the Soviet Union to help organize international regulations concerning fishing in the North Pacific. She worked in fresh fish operation in Prince Rupert in 1951. Soviets are (1976) far more advanced and mechanized -- no independent fishermen, but mother-ship trawlers and traps. Union organization history. Discusses the future of the industry, and how important it is to the economy of the province.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ron Malcom RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-01 SUMMARY: Ron Malcom started fishing in 1935 when he was 23 years old. His father was an engineer for the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. He has always had his own boat. He was born in Cranbrook. Several of his childhood friends also became fishermen. Description of early fishing and fishing equipment. Discusses fishing for dogfish when they were in demand around 1948 at the mouth of the Fraser with a sunken net. The wharves in Steveston have changed: the boats are better protected and there is a breakwater. He believes that electronic technology on boats is too efficient: it has cut the number of days you are allowed to fish from 5 to 2. Monofilament nets are illegal to use in this country but they are legal for the fishermen in Japan. The Japanese are the best fishermen in the world. He discusses Canada getting a 200-mile boundary. Canadians have 100 ft. draggers whilst the Russians have freighters. Canadian draggers may pick up 3 tons of fish whereas the Russian freighters will pick up 25030 tons at a time plus the Russians work 24 hours a day: "fishing can't stand that sort of thing". Canadian fishermen can't go off the coast to catch salmon. Discusses the difficulties of establishing international fishing regulations. Discusses the internment of Japanese during the War. There was a meeting of Steveston residents to protest this action by the government, which he attended. He was getting 50 cents a piece for sockeye in 1935. Discusses and gives an example of the high mark up of fish prices between the fishermen and the consumer. Deckhands used to be called partners of boat pullers, they got about one third of the profit. He recalls the first strike he was involved in. If a fisherman went out during the strike, others would get two rocks with a rope tied between them and drop it over the guys net who was fishing thus causing the net to sink. Discusses the various improvements the union has made. Log barges pollute the water with wooden needles that get in gills and kill the fish.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vaino Matson RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-02-09 SUMMARY: Vaino Matson was born in Ladysmith, and came to Steveston in 1942. Started fishing in 1914 at Sointula which was a big family type of community. Fished in a Canadian Fish Co. sailboat in Rivers Inlet. Stayed out in the 26' boat for 4 or 5 days at a time with a canvas tent over the bow. He bought fish, collected for the company and seined as well. Got his first gas boat in 1924. Linen nets used before nylon. Began fishing in the Fraser River in 1942 for B.C. Packers. Unions before the War, the Pacific Coast Fishermen's Union and the Japanese had their own. Big strike at Rivers Inlet in 1936. Fish prices. Importance of unions. Fishing is not good for a family man, too much time away. Went to school in Sointula, classes were in English. His father was a coal miner and them a fisherman in Ladysmith, Nanaimo and Comox. Lived on Chatham Street in Steveston since 1942. Steveston hasn't changed or improved since 1942. He never farmed. Trapped up north and still has a trap line on Gambier Island. Not much change in Fraser River. The river is polluted and you shouldn't eat the fish from it. Used to fish halibut at Hardy Bay on the end of Vancouver Island. Discusses canneries. Got along well with Indian fishermen "If you treat people square and honest, they treat you the same, that's the best way to be". His wife never worked in canneries. Prefers gillnetters and working alone. (sound level becomes inaudible). Discusses early Sointula. During the War, you had to stop and report to a centre at York Island just before Port Melville Island. He tried to get by one night in sloppy weather and he was shot at twice by the navy. Recalls working in North Vancouver during the war. Discusses the Depression. Talks of people at Rivers Inlet: Chief Johnson and his wife who smoked fish at Kildala Bay in 1918. In 1927, if it wasn't for H.R. MacMillan, B.C. Packers would have folded.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harold Iverson RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1976-02-26 SUMMARY: Harold Iverson was born in 1912, the son of a long line of fishermen. Fishing in skiffs at 7 and 8 years old in the river for salmon. At age 16 he got a powerboat, a 5 HP one cylinder engine. Powerboats came in the 1920s, and power winches came in 1938. Fished mostly in the Fraser River until the 1950s, then the off shore Japanese fleet and fishery closures made it necessary to go further a field. Used to fish at San Juan and Queen Charlotte Sound and the Skeena River. As a kid, he remembers the stern-wheelers that used to deliver to farmers up and down the river. Not much farming on River Road, too expensive and too boggy. Came from a family of 6. Long lined halibut for 20 years, trolled and also gillnetted salmon. Changes in fishing and equipment. Lost a 50 ton boat in 100 mph gale in 1970 in Queen Charlotte Sound, and his partner ship came to pick him up in the thick spray. He was wired to the rigging, and had to dive to free himself and then swim to the other boat. His clothes weighed about 100 pounds with water. Just about quit fishing, but changed his mind. Discussion of fish prices. The Americans don't practice conservation, but they take more than their share of the Fraser River salmon. Discusses fishing history, unions, practices and restrictions. At one time there were 40 canneries in the Fraser, but now (1976) there is only one. He fished for the Canadian Fish Co. for 20 years. The Vancouver Co-op worked for a while but it went bankrupt due to people being greedy. Shellfish such as crabs and oysters were ignored until after the War because there was lots of other fish to eat. Discusses the old Union Steamships, they were very comfortable. Discusses canneries. Discussion of wild life around his River Road home. Discussion of the herring fishery and reasons why it depleted before 1971. Wants a Minister of Fisheries from B.C., not back east. Discusses halibut fishing. Fishing in Smiths Inlet. Pollution in water. Rum running during prohibition.