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RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-10-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Childhood in Victoria from 1908; railways; horse transportation; fire service; BC Electric Railway construction; railway competition; advent of the motor car/bus, 1919-1920; apprenticeship to; coach-builders; John Meston [?]; whaling equipment; building commercial vehicles; streetcars; winter of 1916; street lighting; World War I; shipping in Victoria harbour; Empress Hotel; BC Electric st;ation and freight yards; the ice man. TRACK 2: Victoria's water supply; rail trips via BC Electric and CN; trip to Deerholme; wagon teams; coal and wood deliveries; career at Metsons and bus building; the Depression, ca. 1930; enters teaching profession; his own school days; WWII -- war effort, shipyard work and civil defence; the E&N railway; Victoria's brickyards; industries of the Inner Harbou;r and their decline; the Gorge amusement park.;

CALL NUMBER: T4277:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marion Crossley : family history RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1987-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marion Crossley was born Marion Lee in 1907, and she discusses her ancestors coming to Victoria around 1850. TRACK 2: Early history of Ucluelet settlers. Marion's life, including two years spent teaching in Ghana, Africa.

CALL NUMBER: T4277:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Marion Crossley : family history RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1987-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marion Crossley continues discussion of teaching in Ghana. Her memories of George Fraser, pioneer Ucluelet settler and worldwide-known plantsman and nurseryman. TRACK 2: Short section of Marion playing one of George Fraser's favourite songs, "Road to the Isles" on her piano.

The item consists of an audio interview with Bessie Dickinson recorded in Vancouver, B.C. on August 29, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Bessie Dickinson was born in Arden, Manitoba on September 8, 1892. She was a domestic science teacher from 1920 to 1953. She first taught at Strathcona School in Vancouver and in 1927 she went over to Templeton Junior High where she taught until 1953. She took her training at MacDonald Institute in Guelph, Ontario from 1918-1920. Explains how she decided to go into domestic science. Also describes the different courses taken in her domestic science training as well as the physical layout of the cooking classroom. She describes the philosophy of domestic science that was taught to the girls. She discusses her teaching experiences at Strathcona and Templeton, especially the sewing classes that she taught at the latter.

Track 2: Bessie continues her discussion of sewing classes at Templeton. Girls were also taught about childcare -- how to hold a baby and how to bath a baby. She explains why domestic science was taught to girls in junior high and high school.

CALL NUMBER: T4122:0001 - 0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese internment camp at Tashme, B.C. : second interview RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1984-02-08 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack, who graduated from UBC in 1940, was sent to Tashme, B.C., by the United Church to provide schooling for the children of the Japanese internees. She taught there from 1944 to 1946. She describes the camp living conditions, school courses, her pupils, and other people in the community.

CALL NUMBER: T4122:0003 - 0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Japanese internment camp at Tashme, B.C. : first interview RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1984-02-06 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack, who graduated from UBC in 1940, was to Tashme, B.C., by the United Church to provide schooling for the children of the Japanese internees. She taught there from 1944 to 1946. She describes the camp living conditions, school courses, her pupils, and other people in the community. [NOTE: The subjects covered in tapes 3 and 4 are similar but not identical to those on tapes 1 and 2, because the first tapes done (on 6-Feb-1984) were thought to have been lost.]; 4122:4 side 2 contains a Peter Gzowski interview with Joy Kogawa about Japanese Canadians and her book "Obasan". This was probably copied by Chambers off the radio and cannot be reproduced by the BC Archives.

CALL NUMBER: T4122:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tashme's final months RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-02-21 SUMMARY: Winifred Awmack discusses the final months at Tashme relocation camp.

The item consists of an audio interview with Maude Virginia Moss Lendrum recorded in Victoria, B.C. in 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Lendrum describes the home she lived in as a child. She discusses the kitchen and its importance. Talks of the wood and coal deliveries. The Chinese and Alexanders would stake them. Mrs. Lendrum's grandmother's kitchen on Yates St. is described. Mother's major chores were cooking and sewing. A Chinese man came on Thursdays to clean. Lendrum's chores were bed making and dishes. Describes her family's daily diet and special occasions such as picnics and Christmas. Discusses home deliveries. Father was a purchaser of food. Did not help a great deal in food preparation. Learned by watching.

Track 2: [Blank spot]. Lendrum describes domestic science class and teachers. Did not feel course was useful, learned more from her mother. Talks of getting married and moving to Trail. Describes how mother's domestic habits affected her behaviour. Talks of how domestic science benefited her daughter when she took the course. Uses a recipe that her mother got from domestic science in Girls' Central around 1897. Describes her teaching career.

The item consists of an audio interview with Evelyn Flett recorded in Victoria, B.C. on July 20, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Evelyn Flett was born Evelyn Stoddart in Whitehorse in 1912. At age 8 she came to Victoria with her family. She describes their houses in Whitehorse and Victoria. Diet, household chores, and her mother's workload raising 5 children are discussed. She went to the George Jay School, Victoria High, Victoria College and Normal School. Domestic science was taught in grade 8 and she recalls things that were made in both cooking and sewing.

Track 2: Evelyn Flett talks about her teaching experiences beginning in 1931 (at age 19) at Meldon (?) Creek, Chezacut, the Kootenays, Pitt Meadows, Duncan and Victoria. While teaching in Duncan she took a shorthand and typing course. Wanted to work in an office but was frozen into the teaching program during the War. Began to teach shorthand and typing to members of the forces in night school and then later in day school during the War. Married in 1942 and set up her own home at that time. Talks about how she raised her children and how it was different from when she was a child.

The item consists of an audio interview with Marjory Holmes recorded in Victoria, B.C. on July 29, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Marjory Holmes' family moved to Victoria in 1907. She describes home in Esquimalt. Bought coal for the winter but used driftwood from the beach in the summer. Bought vegetables from the "Chinaman at the door". Family had occasional help and a Chinese cook who did a lot of things. The cook taught her some things about cooking, making bread. She describes diet. Used Girls Home Manual and Mrs. Beaton's. Went to Normal School in Vancouver in 1912 for one year. Did not work in the summers. No female teachers at Normal School. Taught at Crofton when she was 18, then Esquimalt. She disliked teaching, got $70.00 a month and had to do her own janitorial work.

The item consists of an audio interview with Louise Iverson recorded in Victoria, B.C. on May 27, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Louise Iverson was born in Victoria in 1905. She describes the home she lived in as a child, boarders, the kitchen. Describes their daily diet and specialty foods. Talks of salted fish and fresh salmon delivered by Indians. Describes Rogers, their milkman, home deliveries and garbage truck. Did little domestic work at home in kitchen. Mother made own recipes. Grade 6 started classes in domestic science at South Park. The first thing she cooked in class was bacon. Gas plates. Teacher was Miss Juniper. Describes domestic science room. Remembers some of what was taught. Set up her first home in 1943 in Princeton.

Track 2: Describes home she set up with her husband. Went to teach at 18 and boarded. Taught in Fraser Canyon one-room school. Taught in another rural school in Princeton. Describes teaching experiences.

The item consists of an audio interview with Lauretta Holdridge recorded in Victoria, B.C. on May 31, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Lauretta Holdridge came to Victoria at age 5. Her family, the McCall's, lived in Nellie McClung's brother's home. Her family was not wealthy and therefore did not have servants, etc. She describes her duties at home, which were extensive because her mother was not well. Describes duties i.e. canning, soap making, cooking. Defines a good housekeeper and a woman's place in "those days". She describes in detail her domestic science class and teacher's Miss Ramsey (sewing) and Miss Blankenba (cooking). Felt there was a conscious effort to train girls for the future.

Track 2: Mother's advice on marriage and father's advice. Setting up her first home in Winnipeg, 1939. She later describes her teaching career in Prince George for two years. She was a pioneer teacher, with a one-room school with 8 children.

The item consists of an audio interview with Helen Meilleur recorded in New Westminster, B.C. on June 27, 1983.

Tape summaries:
T4088:0025 track 1: Helen Meilleur was born Helen Young in Canada in 1910 and grew up in Port Simpson. She describes the two homes she lived in as a child -- one on an Indian reserve, the other on Hudson Bay lands. She describes her mother's daily tasks in great detail -- preparation of meals, washing and ironing, baking, preserving and canning, etc. She also tells of the items her father sold in his store.

Track 2: Helen Meilleur describes the cooking tasks done in the home by the children and her mother. Cookbooks and recipes are discussed. She attended a one-room school in Port Simpson and in 1921 moved to New Westminster where she attended old Central School. She took domestic science and tells of the recipes prepared in class.

T4088:0026 track 1: Helen Meilleur tells of the advice her mother gave her when she married. Discusses teaching and community experiences in Hewlett around 1928. Left teaching to become a stenographer. Took training at Sprott-Shaw in Vancouver. Worked at H.R. MacMillan and talks of wages and working conditions. Married in 1943 and set up her home in Powell River. Describes the difference between her mother's home and her own.

Track 2: Helen Meilleur talks about the differences in child rearing between her mother and herself -- different attitudes. Also discusses her husband's role as father being quite different from her father. Explains the changes she saw taking place in other husbands with regards to household duties.

The item consists of an audio interview with Mabel Love recorded in Victoria B.C. on August 4, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Mabel Love describes home, home deliveries, daily diet and chores. Took domestic science at George Jay. Classroom had stoves around the perimeter, and made things in individual servings. Thought the class was practical. Classes oriented towards homemaking. Graduated from Normal School in 1927. The school had an "apartment" that they could stay in over the weekend to "practice". Thought they took domestic science to prepare them for living on their own. First teaching job at 17 years old at Cherry Creek. Made $100.00 a month. Then taught at 100 Mile House.

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Father wants to leave Doukhobor faith; comes to Brilliant in 1913; anecdote about immigrant train; communal life in Brilliant; privation of settlers; graft in commune; father quits commune and moves to Grand Forks; mother, ostracized because her husband left, leaves commune. Anecdote about Grand Forks brothel. Father moves to Trail; family moves to Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan; life in Blaine Lake; moves back to Trail in 1924; train and boat trip back; anecdote about boat ride; child molester; anecdote, father leaded in 1928; 1927 polio outbreak. TRACK 2: Recovery from polio; high school in Trail; father sick; Normal School in Victoria; Mr. McClarren, (principal) started first Doukhobor schools; teaching certificates; back to Trail in 1931; Doukhobor school trustee, Mr. Sheffield, offers her a job; anecdote about Sheffield coming to her house; teaches at Ootischenia school for 114 dollars a month. School in cobbler's shop; teacherage in commune; trials and tribulations of teaching; Sons of Freedom children returned from foster homes; salary cut to 90 dollars a month; moves to Glade, becomes principal; accident kills several teachers; Major Clarke takes over from Sheffield; Glade school bombed in 1936; rebuilt school burned same year it was rebuilt; was paid to call the roll at burned school to keep it open; anecdote about poor heat in school; guard at Glade School; reminiscences about recreation at Ootischenia; anecdote about Glade ferry. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0005 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1983 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdotes about Glade ferry; recreation; relief camp at Shoreacres; ferry operation; relief camp worker anecdote; transients calling for food and clothing during the Depression; anecdote about clothing; KC jam factory; Brilliant Doukhobor library; Depression life and commerce; local economy of the Kootenays; CPR and local economy; first radio in Ootischenia; Pat Romaine on local economy; dances at the Castlegar community hall; anecdote about courting; Swedish immigrants in Castlegar; immigration during the 1920s; Ukrainians in Castlegar; Eremenko's first store; Plotnikoff's store; White Russians arrive in the 1920s; Castlegar boomed with car pools; bought land in 1943. TRACK 2: Kinsman Park donated to city; Pauline meets Pat Romaine; father in hospital; courting Pat Romaine; anecdote about homemade beer in Trail; anecdote about a dance at Deer Park; moving to Castlegar in 1944; brother killed at Cominco; father leaded at Cominco; moved in with parents; lead poisoning and compensation; brother killed on hill; Pat Romaine on unionism; conditions before unions; move to Deer Park; electioneering in Deer Park; party at road opening; Robert Sommers as Social Credit candidate; Pauline hired as teacher; bad feelings against her as a teacher; rewards of working with children. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0006 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-10-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: How the children she taught turned out; discussion of modern school politics; one room school in Deer Park; difference in lifestyles; feuding between neighbours in Deer Park; fruit farm goes down hill; local packing house; [steam?] boats taken off lake in 1954; employment lost with boats; CPR buying policy; gyppo logging on lake; log picking; Renata fruit box factory; local economy dries up; Procter maraschino cherry factory; changing fruit markets; good fruit refused; pig farming; anecdote about pig farming; BC Tree Fruits; anecdote about fruit from Australia; Grand Forks war time seed farms; fruit market during the war; forestry employed people to cut fire trails and to work as fire lookouts. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: In an interview on the CBC Radio show "Morningside", New Westminster teacher Bonnie Daiken talks about a teacher's part in the anti-restraint protests.;

CALL NUMBER: T4044:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1983-02-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: family background; father's work as school inspector in India; Anglo-Indian upbringing in Calcutta and England; memories of prep school and schooldays at Oundle; recollections of Oundle School headmaster, F.W. Sanderson and assessment of Sanderson's international reputation as educator; studies at Cambridge University; decision to settle on Vancouver Island; chicken ranching at Errington; interlude as harvester on prairies, 1926; teaching experiences at Shawnigan Lake Boys' School (SLS), 1927-29; impressions of SLS founder, C.W. Lonsdale. TRACK 2: Discusses: recollections of SLS and Lonsdale (cont'd); reasons for continuing studies at Victoria College and UBC, 1931-33; anecdotes and reminiscences of Walter Gage, G.G. Sedgewick, Gordon Shrum, Freddy Wood, and other contrasts between UBC and Cambridge; decision to open private school at Qualicum Beach, 1935; early difficulties attendant upon building and locating school; philosophy and educational ideals of Qualicum College (QC) inspired by Oundle and Sanderson. Assistance received from brother, G.H. Knight, and A.D. Muskett, Victoria schoolmaster, in establishing QC. CALL NUMBER: T4044:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1983-02-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: philosophy of Qualicum College (cont'd); first students and characteristics, family background of other students; attitudes of local community towards QC; recruiting campaigns to increase enrollment; curriculum of QC and daily routine; importance of organized games in school life; importance of discipline on boys and folly of modern permissive views of education; description of specially-made birch cane used in QC. TRACK 2: Discusses: origins and significance of school traditions, uniforms, school motto, song, prefectorial system, etc; value of school cadet corps; humorous; recollections of staff members and student pranks; contacts with Fairbridge Farm School, Duncan, and relations between QC and other private schools in B.C.; relationship with provincial Department of Education; hopes for science labs and other school facilities; reasons for closing school in 1970; reflections on career as scholar, sportsman and educationalist. (End of interview)

The item consists of an audio interview with Lillias Milne recorded in Sidney, B.C. on June 13, 1983.

Tape summary
Track 1: Lillias Milne lived in Egerton, Alta. Describes home. They cut their own ice and stored it over the summer. Describes her chores. They had a live-in helper. Mother used the Five Roses Cookbook, and she has one passed down by her mother. Mother taught her baking. They had some unusual special foods. Took home economics at the University of Alberta, 4 years, mostly science. Describes course content, in their final year they prepared a formal meal and had the services of a maid. Stressed nutrition. Had portable stoves and fireless cookers. Used new utensils in home economics, and new kinds of equipment. Taught home economics at the Vermillion School of Agriculture. Students made individual size portions. Trained the women to be homemakers -- they learned cheese making, gardening, baking, sewing etc. so they could be efficient.

Track 2: Describes school fairs, and what the students had to do. Taught for the Department of Agriculture in B.C. and would stress various food, i.e. eggs or milk as well as the basics, i.e, tea biscuits. School fairs were judged by market agents, who were looking at vegetables to be sold. Taught home economics at Oak Bay High in later years.

The item consists of an audio interview with Kathleen Tobin recorded in Victoria, B.C. on June 21, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Kathleen Tobin begins by describing her home and kitchen. She talks of the conversions of her stove and her preference for a wood burner. The household chores of her mother and family are described. In her teens, as a summer job she would berry pick. Describes tools and appliances in her mother's kitchen. Laundry was both done by hand and picked up by a laundromat. Daily diet. Dinner was an evening meal. Talks of favourite foods. When young, helping in kitchen not a responsibility. Foods considered bad by mother: mushrooms, bananas, and cucumbers. Not all that conscious of food value.

Track 2: Describes a favourite food. Home deliveries i.e. buying milk tokens. Advertising did not have a large effect on them. Describes domestic science at South Park. Found hand sewing boring and didn't get much out of cooking. Describes class. Neither mother nor school tried to directly teach a woman's role. Manners were taught at St. Ann's Academy. Talks of South Pender teaching career.

The item consists of an audio interview with Lillian Williams recorded in Victoria, B.C. on July 12, 1983.

Tape summar:
Track 1: Lillian Williams was born in England in 1903 and came to Canada at age 8 1/2. She describes her home on Shelbourne Street and the daily tasks required in looking after a family. The family's social functions are discussed -- church functions, picnics; her mother belonged to many organizations. She remembers having difficulty adjusting to the Canadian school system. Attended Girls' Central, Oakland School, Victoria High and Normal School. Started teaching in 1921 at Mill Bay.

Track 2: Lillian Williams set up her own home in 1928 in the community of Glenora and had a family of six children. She describes the difficulties during the Depression. Returned to teaching in 1952 when her husband was injured in an accident. Compares her own childhood with that of her children.

The item consists of an audio interview with Isabelle Goodwin recorded in Victoria, B.C. on August 23, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Isabelle Goodwin was born in Nanaimo in 1909. Her family moved to Victoria in 1910. Describes the home and daily tasks performed in running the household. Also discusses daily diet, home deliveries, shopping etc. Father belonged to Engineer's Union, was the President of the Trades and Labour Council in the 1920s and also a member of the School Board. Her mother belonged to a women's church group. She took domestic science from Miss Davidson at Girls' Central School while attending Sir James Douglas. She describes the classroom and what was taught.

Track 2: Parents encouraged her to continue her education. She taught up island for two years, and in Victoria for another two years. Got a job at the Victoria Public Library and worked there for 26 years. In 1953 she married and set up her own home in Victoria. Parents encouraged her to go out and do things, "..to make the world a better place for your presence in it". Discusses her present involvement in music.

The item consists of an audio interview with Ruth Howell recorded in Victoria, B.C. on August 3 and 9, 1983.

Tape summaries:
T4088:0038 track 1: Ruth Howell's father built on to kitchen, had breakfast room, pantry, built-in storage tins, outer kitchen. Describes house and changes to home and kitchen, enabling them to take in boarders to supplement family income. Clothes were boiled. Describes mother's housekeeping duties (waxing only came into vogue later) and the children's chores. Mother didn't have much spare time, although was active in church and ladies aid activities. Took home economics in grade 7 and 8. Students had to "practice" cooking at home and have their mothers write comments on a form. Home economics also in Normal School.

Track 2: Took sewing skills in grade 5 and 6, sewing swatches. In public school they were not allowed to talk or be seen near the boys at Boys' Central. Explains accident in kitchen that left her with a mark on her cheek in the shape of the stove logo! Father cooked the Sunday roast. Describes regular diet, and food prepared at home (pickles etc.). Great detail about desserts. WWI seemed quite remote. Received a weekly allowance. Describes mother working at telephone office, and her accident around the kitchen.

T4088:0039 track 1: Early teaching experiences. Took home economics in Normal School which interested her in sewing. In her rural school all the students, both boys and girls, took basic sewing and some of the boys' parents complained. Job opportunities for women then. She was kicked out of her first boarding house. Role of school inspector was to protect the "young ladies" out teaching.

The item consists of an audio interview with Ethel Wisehart recorded in Victoria on June 7, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Ethel Wisehart describes home she lived in, her jobs around the house and her diet. Married in 1929. She and husband moved to an isolated area where he was the caretaker of a cannery. Then moved to Bamfield where they ran a bakery. Domestic accident burned their home down in 9 minutes. Grocery boat delivered food once a month. Shantyman boat (missionary boat) came by periodically to do a service for them. Indian women came down to visit her. She taught at Garbella [?] Indian village. She walked from Pacheena to Claloot [Clo-oose?] lighthouse -- stories therein.

Track 2: Conditions on early West Coast Trail. Went up to Bamfield on the "Princess Mary" on her honeymoon. Took home economics in grade 8 at Victoria West School. Her husband's recipes were passed on to her children rather than hers.

The item consists of an audio interview with Muriel Lang recorded in Victoria, B.C. on August 4, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Muriel Lang discusses home in Revelstoke, describes the kitchen and conveniences very clearly. Weekly chores of family members. Raised a lot of chickens for show. Mother made most of their own food -- stored everything for winter. Learned cooking from mother indirectly, did mending. Mother had regular calling days, teas, and was involved with various groups. Afternoons were "her" time.

Track 2: Mother active in church activities. Took cooking at Normal School, and made apron and headpiece. Boys took manual training. Started teaching at 17. In high school had "jitney" dances. Taught first in Kaslo, in the Kootenays, in a one-room school. Describes schoolhouse and routine, lack of equipment (which she improvised to replace). She had to use a wall map that had the provinces incorrectly delineated.

The item consists of an audio interview with Christine McNab recorded in Victoria B.C. on August 9, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Christine McNab lived with her mother in a home provided by B.C. Tel in Saanich in 1920. Describes home, had to pump the water into the washroom tanks. She and her mother lived alone and ran telephone office, hired 8 other women. Went to Girls' Central and was taught by Miss Juniper. Was not impressed by anything she took, although says she did try the recipes out at home. At Normal School they took "Nature Study" and had garden plots, "a psychological garden". The classes there were not mixed. Summer jobs included filing, gardening and picking fruit. Teaching salaries dropped during the Depression, married women could not teach, and they were not allowed to have "bobbed" hair. Didn't think many of the classes in Normal School were very practical. Her first principal was a woman, she was shocked when she met her and she was wearing slacks!

Track 2: Church activities, organizational activities, worked for IODE and Teachers' Federation and Teachers' Association (fairly political). Worked for wages and working condition improvements.

RECORDED: Ganges (B.C.), 1983-03-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mary Inglin discusses her father, Raffles Purdy, who was born in 1861 and emigrated from England to his sister's home in Nebraska in 1880. Move to Victoria via San Francisco. Purchase of a sloop. Blown ashore in San Juan Islands. Sailed again from Sidney. Camped for the summer at Beddis Beach, and helped build Beddis family's log house. Became teacher at Vesuvius School. Pre-empted 12;3 acres on Beddis Road. Built barn with Mr. Bullock's ox team. Planted 900 fruit trees. Married in 1911 in England. Problems of home-making. No electric power until 1948. Made and sold butter. Made own soap. Shipped apples to Victoria and the Yukon. Sheep shearing. Mrs. Inglin attended the Divide School, then Ganges School and the "Chicken House School". Dealing with fleas. Doing homework by candlelight. Social life: picnics, boat trips, beach parties, corn roasts and family dances. Cutting wood. Petition to keep cars off of Saltspring. Learning to drive a Model T Ford pick-up at age 16. Horses scared of cars. Difficulty of training horses to pass on right side of road in 1922. Becoming teacher at Divide School. First radio set. First piped water, 1942. Farm work. Summer work in Vancouver ;cannery. Running cafe on Robson Street. War work at Boeing. Return to Saltspring. Mr. Bullock coming to tea. His training of Dr. Barnardo's boys. Dressing up for his parties. Visiting Miss Pedder on Blackburn Road, with her room full of stuffed animals. Mr. Henry, Postmaster at Central.

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Family life and early manhood PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1938 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. L.J. Wallace recalls his early life at the William Head Quarantine Station, B.C. Born April 24, 1913. Siblings: Robert, Mary and Jack. Father was Chief Steward at Quarantine Station. Discussion of Wallace's forebears, mainly in the Metchosin area. Family to Victoria in 1916. Father's occupations. Father on Victoria School Board prior to death in 1938. Anecdote about great-great-grandmother, Granny Vine, of Metchosin. Genealogy of wife's (Lois Inata Leeming) family. Married 1942. Discussion of Wallace's siblings. All trained as educators. Active in First Presbyterian (later First United) Church. Church basketball in Victoria in 1920s. Victoria Normal School, 1931-32. Taught at Alberni Indian Residential School, 1933-36. Schooling: Bank Street School, George Jay School, Victoria; High School. TRACK 2: More on Victoria High School in 1920s: Ira Dilworth, Harry Smith, Bill Roper and other teachers. Wallace not a "recreational" reader. Admirer of Rev. Bruce Gray, Rev. W.G. Wilson, Prof. Walter Gage, William T. Straith, Ira Dilworth and Harry Smith. Part-time and summer jobs. Post-secondary education at Victoria College, Victoria Normal School and University of British Columbia. Graduated B.A., 1938 in history and mathematics. Master of Education from University of Washington 1946-47. Victoria College in the early 1930s. UBC, 1936-38. Member of Psi Upsilon fraternity. More on Alberni Indian Residential School.;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early teaching career and the Royal Canadian Navy PERIOD COVERED: ca. 1920-1946 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. L.J. Wallace tells of his parents' education. Father a member of Victoria School Board. Father prominent member of Masons and Orange Lodge. Wallace graduated UBC 1938. Taught at Duncan High School, 1938-41. Involvement with co-curricular activities while at DHS. Joined Navy in 1941. Part-time training at Naden, late 1941. Officer training at Royal Roads, 1942. Active Naval Service, beginning April 1942. Married Lois Leeming, April 1942. More on Royal Roads training. Service on RCN corvette, "Ville de Quebec". TRACK 2: More about the new RCN corvette, "Ville De Quebec". Convoy duty out of Halifax, 1942. Transferred to Fairmiles submarine chasers. Caribbean duty based in Miami, 1943. On staff of King's College, Officer training school, Halifax, 1943-45. Taught navigation and "c;ommand" techniques. Commander of training ship "Charney". V-E Day in Halifax, 1945. Wallace has command of the new training ship, "New Liskeard". VJ Day in Lunenburg, N.S. Discharged from RCN in December 1945 with rank of Lieutenant Commander. University of Washington for M.Ed., starting spring 1946. Began teaching at Victoria High School, September 1946. Daughter Marilyn born 1944.;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): World War II and teaching career PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1953 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lawrence J. Wallace comments on the cooperative spirit displayed in Canada during World War II. Comments on Wallace's family life during the war (short track, about 5 minutes). TRACK 2: Effects of the Depression on the Wallace family. Wallace's father out of work. Comments on the C.C.F. and Social Credit during the 1930s. Wallace briefly a member of the Liberal Party during the late 1940;s. Father was president of Victoria Liberal Association. Taught at Victoria High School, 1946-53. Basketball at VHS. Founding of the Vancouver Island High School Basketball Championship (short track, about 15 minutes).;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Teaching career and British Columbia public service PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1967 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-04-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lawrence J. Wallace discusses his career as a teacher at Victoria High School, 1946-53. Wallace the chairman of the project to build Memorial Stadium at VHS. Assistant Director of the summer school for teachers. Unwilling to leave Victoria to become a school administrator. Joins Department of Education as Director of Community Programs Branch, October 1, 1953. Also Director of Adult Education. Wallace's appointment to the Centennial Celebrations Committee in 1955. Ray Williston and Ken Kiernan recommend a Centennial celebration for 1958. No models to follow for the 1958 Centennial. The structure of the Centennial Committee. TRACK 2: More on the structure of the 1958 Centennial Committee. The "matching grants" scheme for community projects. The scheme adopted for the Canadian Centennial in 1967 (short track, about 15 minutes).;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): "Mr. Centennial" PERIOD COVERED: 1958-1971 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: L.J. Wallace discusses his work on the B.C. Centennial Committees for the Centennials of 1958, 1966-67 and 1971. Visit of HRH Princess Margaret in 1958. Century Sam. More on the 1958 Centenni;al celebrations. Fort Steele Historic Park. TRACK 2: Wallace's assessment of the lasting significance of the Centennial celebrations. Wallace becomes Deputy Provincial Secretary, 1959. Centennial time capsules. Comments on Hon. W.D. Black. The Royal Tours of 1959, 1966, 1967 and 1971. Story of the British Columbia flag.;
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ALL NUMBER: T3835:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Deputy Provincial Secretary and Deputy to the Premier PERIOD COVERED: 1959-1977 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-05-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: L.J. Wallace describes major changes during his tenure as Deputy Provincial Secretary, 1959-1977. The British Columbia Civil Defence Program. The B.C. Civil Service Commission and the demise ;of "patronage". Wallace's various government appointments. Replaces George E.P. Jones on the Purchasing Commission, 1965. W.A.C. Bennett invites Wallace to become Deputy Premier. Wallace declines but agrees to become "Deputy to the Premier". TRACK 2: Discusses the change of government, 1972. Receives many job offers after defeat of Social Credit government, 1972. More on the 1972 change of government. Wallace asked by "every major party" to run for office. The working relationship between Wallace and W.D. Black. Wallace took cabinet oath, 1972. Wallace's relationship with cabinet. The NDP as ;a new government, 1972.;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Deputy Provincial Secretary and Deputy to W.A.C. Bennett PERIOD COVERED: 1959-1975 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: L.J. Wallace discusses his working relations with various ministers. After hours and emergency work including tsunami at Port Alberni. Wallace appointed to Purchasing Commission, 1965. Operation of Purchasing Commission. The construction of Heritage Court as a Centennial project in 1967. Delegate to meeting of Colombo Plan, 1969. Peace Arch meeting between Prime Minister Pearson, President Johnson and Premier Bennett. Named to Order of Canada, 1971. More about the provincial elections, 1972 and 1975. TRACK 2: Speculation about W.A.C. Bennett's intentions regarding resignation. Relations between Phil Gaglardi and W.A.C. Bennett. Bennett expected to be succeeded by Leslie Peterson. Succession scenarios. Wallace encouraged to run for public office but declines. Violence incident in ;New Westminster during 1972 cabinet tour. Election night, 1972. W.A.C. Bennett as Leader of the Opposition. W.A.C. Bennett's ideas about his sons in politics. The redistribution commission of 1975.;

CALL NUMBER: T3835:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Agent-General and Deputy Minister to the Premier PERIOD COVERED: 1959-1981 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-07-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: L.J. Wallace discusses his role on the Capital Improvement District Commission, 1959-77. Electoral Redistribution Commission, 1975. Change in government, December 22, 1975. Appointed Agent-General in London, 1977. Mandate as Agent-General. Made freeman of the City of London, 1978. Pays tribute to wife and family. Comments on growth of bureaucracy. Victoria High School Centennial, 1976. Becomes Deputy Minister to the Premier, 1980. As Deputy, established "Premier's Ministry". TRACK 2: Comments on his terms as deputy to W.A.C. Bennett and W.R. Bennett. The pressures on a premier. Role ;as an administrator versus policy maker. Role of "advisor". Scheduling for the Premier. Comparisons between W.A.C. Bennett and W.R. Bennett. Wallace's views of public service. Comments on attitudes in; the public service. Feels he and his brothers would have been successful in private life as well as public life. Wallace offered position in federal public service. Summary remarks. (End of interview)

RECORDED: Abbotsford (B.C.), 1981-07 SUMMARY: The trials and tribulations of a pioneer school teacher. Pearl was one of sixteen children. Her father immigrated to Canada and took up a homestead in Saskatchewan, where Pearl was raised. She recalls school and home life and the Depression. She taught school in Saskatchewan and later in Port McNeill BC, and retired in 1975.

RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mable's parents came to Bella Coola in 1898 with the early settlers. Mable married in 1929 and became a school teacher. Her first home had no running water, electricity or indoor plumbing. She tells the story of her life in the Bella Coola Valley, and her teaching experiences. She continued to live in the house she came to as a bride.

CALL NUMBER: T4084:0001 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09-22 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Hannah "Mickey" Dorsey and Eve Chignall, pioneers in the Chilcotin region. TRACK 1: Mickey Dorsey (born 1910 [1911]) recalls her childhood in Vancouver and Bella Coola; early adulthood; marriage; teaching at Anahim Lake; childbirth. TRACK 2: Eve Chignall recalls giving birth in Tatla Lake, where she moved in 1935; ranch work; marriage. Mickey Dorsey talks about pack; trains; relationship with native women on the reserve; isolation; medical emergencies with children.; CALL NUMBER: T4084:0002 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mickey Dorsey: family life, living conditions; getting water, provisions, clothing; teaching at Rose Lake. TRACK 2: More on school teaching: started Indian school at Anahim Lake (first in ar;ea); moved to Williams Lake to put two youngest children through high school; taught in Williams Lake for 13 years (taught coninuously, 1930-1976); changes in teaching methods.; CALL NUMBER: T4084:0003 RECORDED: Williams Lake (B.C.), 1981-09-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mickey Dorsey describes the routine of a typical spring day with four children, five years old or younger; setting trap lines in early morning; carrying water on yokes; fording a stream. TRA;CK 2: Family history (current); cattle drive and cattle train to Vancouver; sounds of the Anahim area -- birds, coyotes, snow, spring break-up; changes in life style, attitudes, new equipment, etc.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sidney, B.C., 1912-1914, as seen by a young school teacher from Manchester RECORDED: [location unknown], 1981-03 SUMMARY: Mr. and Mrs. J.F. Simister and family emigrated from Manchester, England, in 1911-12, and settled in Sidney, where they purchased and operated a restaurant and later a dry-goods store. This interview records the recollections of the eldest daughter, Ruth, who was 21 when she arrived, and who remained with her family until 1914, when she married and moved to Victoria.

RECORDED: Nelson (B.C.), 1980-10-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. McDonald, daughter of a northern pioneer family, taught at a small school in the Boundary country. She talks of the famous pioneer Richter family and of her happy boarding situation in an old-fashioned ranch house. Also speaks of her social life in the farming community; of her visiting overnight at a ranch house with bush rats running through the room and bedbugs falling from the ceiling. After her marriage she returned to teaching as a home economist in Trafalgar school, Nelson. Advocates return to the basics in school and extols the one room school because of the moral training children received when they had only one teacher.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Col. G.S. Andrews talks of his early education, experiences as a teacher, and survey work in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1933 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1980-11-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: G.S. Andrews talks of his early schooling in Vancouver and problems encountered in obtaining admission to UBC. Teaching certificate obtained from Normal School. Early teaching experiences at Big Bar Creek. Description of travels to Kelly Lake and the establishment of the school at Kelly Lake. Teaching methods and memories of Kelly Lake school. TRACK 2: Andrews talks of his continuing education after four years of teaching. Toronto university and first year forestry. Reasons for entering forestry. Surveying as an undergraduate. Permanent employment in B.C. Forestry department. Recounts the first time he used aerial photography. Survey methods before the advent of aerial photography. Report on Flathead forest. Tranquille and Naskonlith forest and use of aerial photos. Use of aerial photgraphy in the Shuswap forest. Bush River. The period prior to travelling to England to continue his education.