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SUMMARY: Topley Landing ; Bear Lake Charlie.;

SUMMARY: Interview with an unidentified male speaker about Murrayville.

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "The Calling" is a radio play by J. M;ichael Yates, directed by Imbert Orchard and produced at CBC Vancouver. The play is a philosophical discussion revolving around a telephone call. The actors include Lillian Carlson and Lee Taylor.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. McLellan recounts her father's arrival in Victoria in 1862 from France; their farm on Cadboro Bay Road, the current site of Oak Bay High School; childhood memories of the family farm; s;chool; weather; the Uplands farm; slaughterhouse at Uplands; Chinese ranches in Oak Bay and recollections of Victoria at the turn of the century. Mr. Casanave [her brother] continues with his recollections of Victoria; St. Louis College; residential areas; the end of the pre-war boom; the Patrick Arena; other French settlers and the Deloume family. TRACK 2: Mrs. McLellan talks about the Uplands; subdivision of 1910; tourism in Victoria; development of housing and residential areas; visiting Indians from Discovery Island; summer camping at Oak Bay beaches; and incidents from her father's employment as cook for the Driard Hotel and during the gold rush.

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: T0755:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan relates some amusing early incidents from Langley; family history about his father, Samuel McClughan, who came from Ireland to Ontario, then Fort Langley in 1877; life of earl;y settlers; clearing land; the log cabin; homesteading; hunting; fishing; crops; fruit; steamboat travel. TRACK 2: Bill McClughan continues with recollections about steamboat travel; childhood memories; schooling; chores; driving oxen; clothing; churches and preachers; Reverend Bell; Reverend Dunn; peddlers and stores; description of Port Kells; Barnston Island; interesting characters.;

CALL NUMBER: T0755:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan continues with stories about interesting characters; MacLartey; the Chinese labourer on the farm; the BC Electric Railway and surveying for the line; agricultural land and soil; conditions in Langley. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Danny Milo recounts the story of his family and his birth; his family lived near Sardis; the legend of the flood; the Chilliwack tribe; the legend of Cultus Lake; stories of the Chilliwack River; the Vedder River; origin and meaning of place names; Indian dialects; legend of the Fraser River; the continuation of the legend of the flood; the story of the creation of man and woman; Indian religious beliefs. TRACK 2: Danny Milo continues with Indian legends; the legend of the bear children and the man who got a wife made out of alder; the conclusion of the legend of the flood; his father's bad luck; the legend of Cheam, Popkum and Tamiki Mountains.

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Milo speaks about Indians and the first white man; killings in the canyon; a childhood visit to Yale; the meaning of "Siwash"; Indian lands; the first pioneers; the Whatcom Trail; school days at Coqualeetza Home School; Captain John; the Indian preacher. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pfister talks about living on Lulu Island in 1899; he arrived from Switzerland and lived in Port Angeles for five years. He worked on Sea Island during the 1893 depression and later moved to Lulu Island; his wife's family, Udy, owned a brickyard in Vancouver. He discusses clearing land; wooden horse shoes; drainage ditches; drinking water; dykes; floods; the Terra Nova Cannery; local stores; Steveston; Steves Stage Coach; Terra Nova Stage; the railway; present day [1963] conditions; land ownership. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Victor MacDonald discusses traveling across Canada to Chilliwack in 1897; various jobs he held; incidents and memories of Chilliwack and Five Corners; recollections; living in the Okanagan in 1903; other employment; Morris Valley; stories about Dick Ward. TRACK 2: Mr. MacDonald continues with stories about Dick Ward; Sasquatch stories; Morris Valley life; farming; families; Morris Creek school; preachers and churches; Fraser River boats; the fire in New Westminster.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Boston recounts her parents arrival in Milner; they later homesteaded in Aldergrove in 1887; early settlers; pioneer life; the farm; mail service; mills; the Home Improvement Company; churches; Reverend Dunn; the first school; Aldergrove; logging; the Great Northern Railway; the BC Electric Railway; dairy farming; schooling; family life; bus service to New Westminster; Goodman Hamray; peddlers; Richmond A. Payne. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Lehman talks about her grandparents at Aldergrove; her grandfather, Philip Jackman, came out with the Royal Engineers in 1859; he settled and had a store at Aldergrove after various jobs. Mrs. Lehman recalls early Aldergrove; customs; horses; the beginnings of Aldergrove; the railway; development; naming the town; the hotel; sawmills; the town site; the Cottle family; churches; the blacksmith shop; incidents with horses; her father's farm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster tells of his family moving from Ontario initially to Vancouver, then Agassiz in 1902, where his father took over a general store and ran it for twenty years. He describes the varied products supplied by the general store and the main competition, Inkman's store, and that the busiest time of year was during arrival of migrant labour for the hop harvest. Comments on operation ;of the BC Hop Company; Hindus and Chinese grew and processed the hops; Indians did the picking. He describes Agassiz businesses and the character of the town; Agassiz and Bella Vista Hotels; he recalls the one-room school environment and teachers, Mrs. Herd and Mrs. McQueen; as well as another, very unsuccessful teacher. He gives an account of the attempted robbery of Bank of Montreal, formerly ;Bank of British North America, which was thwarted by Webster's father. TRACK 2: Mr. Webster discusses local transportation including the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry and the trains that serviced Agassiz. ; He describes the Harrison Hot Springs Hotel talley-ho that picked up guests from the railway station. He tells of the Inkman family, their musical talents, and contribution to social life; of Mrs. Agassiz and her daughters, including their exclusiveness and farming origins. He talks about Bert Horwell, town blacksmith, and how his shop was a gathering spot, along with Webster's store, where oft;en politics was discussed. He describes the political affiliation of local people, including Reeve McRae, and of visitors Richard McBride and John Oliver. He tells of the importance of churches as social centres. He mentions Agassiz's strong baseball tradition and the good teams it produced. Mr. Webster describes the Agassiz Valley and views of surrounding mountains; including Mount Cheam. He ;gives an account of the local election process and discusses the role of the Odd Fellows Society and its hall as the center of political and social activity.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cyr, nee Lagace, recounts her father's arrival in Hatzic Prairie from Quebec; the family homestead; Mrs. Thompson; Italian settlers; her family traveling through the Rockies in a covered wagon; Captain Stanley Thompson; Mrs. Cyr's father; her mother; dances; picnics; schooling; local residents; Father Fouquier; Durier; Boucher; the Lagace family. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cyr continues with her recollections about her family; her mother; her husband, Zoel Cyr; his logging work at Stave Lake; the Matsqui Hotel; ranching in the Dewdney area; family incidents.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Rowe discusses her father, Oscar Henderson, including how he ran away from Norway at 13 to go to sea, and details about his character; anecdotes about his character and her experie;nces growing up with a father who was a Captain; how he met her mother (Maude Muir) in Halifax, and how they went to sea on the ship "John Johnson", how he sister Inga was born in Nova Scotia, how Edith was born in Hong Kong aboard her father's ship the "John McLeod", anecdotes about her parents around the time of her birth, and details about ships and crews. TRACK 2: Edith Rowe discusses life ab;oard sailing ships, what it was like being a child at that time including the clothes that they wore and games they played, schooling in England, more anecdotes about life on the ship, an experience o;n the Sargasso Sea, getting to know your ships, and anecdotes about various ports, clothes the seamen would wear, what clothes she and her siblings would wear, life in the tropics, and swimming.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rowe discusses her parents' view of education, how she was schooled on the ship by her parents, the meals they would have aboard ships, how lime juice was supplied to avoid scurvy, dogs ;on the boat and more details about life, memories of the sea including phosphorous and the sounds of the sails, her memories of storms, more anecdotes including one about a race, and she relates a shanty. TRACK 2: Mrs. Rowe discusses communication with other vessels, the use of tugboats, a story about the coast of Peru, more anecdotes about life an adventures aboard ships, her memories of BC in 1;901, what the family was doing in Esquimalt, and a ship they came across that hit them in the fog and sank.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 & 1964-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Mrs. Rowe discusses other shipwrecks, stories about their interactions with survivors and their families, the inquiries, how living on land was boring, the next boat they lived on, more sea incidences including experiences from Chile, her feelings about other girls (they were "sissies"), she reads a poem called "Ships" by Robert N. Rose, the smell of the land, a discussion of the poem "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad, a story about catching a shark, the sport of catching sharks, how sharks are enemies of sailors, stories about albatross sightings, how dolphins and porpoises follow the boats;, and sailing strategies. TRACK 2: [Interview resumes on April 22, 1964.] Mrs.Rowe offers an anecdote about an old sea custom called the working up of a dead horse which consists of the sailors getting a months advance pay before leaving on a voyage and they make a horse, Rowe sets of a bell to exemplify signals, more on the horse, the meaning behind the horse, stories about crossing the equator,; more on superstitions, a story of a sailing from Tacoma to South Africa in 1902, a dramatic incident in which her sister was almost thrown into the sea, and another which shows her sister's courage.;

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rowe discusses how as children they were always more comfortable at sea then on land, more on racing, a description of '"tacking ship", more on life aboard ship, details on shark fishing;, more anecdotes about being a child growing up aboard a ship including a story about going to land to get fitted for shoes in Australia, and poems she realtes about the sailor's lament. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: The sub-series consists of episodes from the fourth series of "Living Memory", a CBC Vancouver radio program about people and places in British Columbia history, based on oral history interviews recorded by Imbert Orchard. Four series aired from 1961 to 1964. The fourth series, broadcast from April 9 to June 25, 1964, dealt primarily with settlement of the Fraser Valley.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McMillan talks about his family's history; grandfather James Elliot Faulkner came to Canada around 1880; his father Donald McMillan and mother lived on Iona Island from 1885 to 1905; father's work for the J.H. Todd cannery; early delta settlers; the Henry Mole family; Fitzgerald and Sam Mcleary; Hugh McGee; Garabee; Hugh MacDonald; other residents of Sea Island; farming on Sea Island; transportation to New Westminster; recollections about the Hastings Mill Store. TRACK 2: Mr. McMillan talks about boat and freight transportation on the Fraser River; stores in the area; Harry Eburne; Churchill and McKay; Musqueam Indians; Indian ceremonies at the long-houses; childhood memories; school days and teachers; H.V. Barton; entertainment; Steves' Stage and Billy Mallis's stage; bridges on Sea Island and Lulu Island; area industries; canneries; lumber mills; settlement; gold scare; naming of Lulu Island; his father's background.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thames recounts his family coming from Nanaimo to Bowser in 1893. He discusses fishing; Qualicum Tom; schooling at Alert Bay; early settlers; farming; fishing; logging; and settlement prior to World War I. Mrs. Thames recalls her arrival as a war bride in Bowser in 1917; her first impressions; fishing; her first year; settlement that started after 1922; hunting; boating; the government road; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "Theatre of War" is a radio play by J. Micahel Yates containing a series of images of modern war. It was directed by Imbert Orchard and produced at CBC Vancouver. The three narrators are John Wright, Michael Irwin and Lillian Carlson. Terrence Kelly, John Sparks, and Carl Wyllie are the voices of the three soldiers. Also heard were: Sam Payne, Wally Marsh, Roland Hunter, and Joe Golland.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dennis Walker recalls the journey from England to Vancouver with his parents in 1892, and their eventual move to the head of Bute Inlet; his father's name was William George Walker. He ;then describes building a homestead; the slow influx of other settlers; the growth of the community around Mr. Walker's original home site; social events in the community of Bute Inlet; various attempts by his father to sell farm produce in Vancouver; the problems which arise from being so far from the market; and stories of other families in the town. TRACK 2: Mr. Walker continues by describing; a trip with other youths up the Southgate River to the Chilcotin; a description of the salmon spawning season; comments on wildlife in the area; the death and burial of three Walker children; the destruction of the township by fire; an anecdote about original settler Tony Bernhardt; the death of Shorty Hibbs at the hands of the Indians; comments on coast and interior Indians; the unused Mallard Company Tannery; the climate and physical setting of the township; his father's departure for work in Vancouver; the gradual departure of the other settlers when the railroad failed to materialize; and; his travels through BC, especially Barkerville, as a machinist.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Ada Dawe recalls her father Thomas John Cook; his arrival in Sechelt in 1893; Bert Whittaker and his store and hotel and steamships; more on steamships, the "Comox"; waiting for ships circa 1910 to 1914; and fishing. TRACK 2: Mrs. Dawe continues describing the arrival of nuns from France, Order of the Infant Jesus [Sisters of the Child Jesus], with Mother Superior Theresine in 190;3; the building of the Indian residential school in 1905; more on native Indians, including their appearance and their brass band; prominent Indians including Jack Isadore and Chief Julius and Chief A;lf August; the school for white children in 1912; Christmas festivities; roads to Porpoise Bay; Gibsons and Pender Harbour; and her impressions of loggers.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-04-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John Wilson talks about life and people in the Peachland area, 1910 to 1920. He begins with stories about the Miller brothers including hunting and fishing; a description of the two you;ng Englishmen coming to the Okanagan in 1910; fruit farming; Fred and Lionel Akins; impressions of what life was like then, including 'toughness'; odd jobs; the real estate boom; logging; J.M. Robinso;n and the beginning of Peachland; real estate dealings; more on Robinson; settlement in the Westbank area; stories about the Gellatly family; drinking; various people; life in Peachland and travel in ;the Okanagan. TRACK 2: Mr. Wilson tells the story of the shooting of a policeman on a sternwheeler; Bob Angus, who was the village cop; antics in Peachland; a brawl in Kelowna; rough characters; an ;attempt to exchange land with Indians; stories about "Big Tex" and the McDougall family; more on the McDougalls; Jim Silver; Harry Hardy and his cabin; the Granite Creek trail; Jacques of Jacques Cree;k; Paddy Acland; the Silver King Mine and Alec Miller.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. The first part of this episode [archived as T2463:0001] is "The Luck of La Chance" by Imbert Orchard, a special documentary presentati;on about the 1910 avalanche on Rogers Pass, which took an estimated sixty lives. It is a personal account of the disaster by Bill La Chance, the sole survivor. Other voices heard include: Mr. and Mrs;. Philip Parker, Andy Gray, Doug Abrahamson, and G.H. Williamson. The second part of the this episode, "Folk Songs", is a collection of folk songs, including some from B.C.. The vocalists include: Cla;ire Klein, Bud Spencer, and James L. Johnson, with conductor Bud Henderson.f@!NYKlein, Claire singer ;f@!NYSpencer, Bud

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The sub-series consists of all 13 episodes of "From the Mountains to the Sea", a series of hour-long radio programs about the history and people of British Columbia's regions, based on oral history interviews recorded by Robert (later Imbert) Orchard. The series was produced in 1967 to mark Canada's Centennial year, and mainly focuses on the period 1885-1914. The series was written and produced by Robert Orchard, with original music composed by Elliot Weisgarber.

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "The Broadcaster", a radio play by J.; Michael Yates, is about a radio disc-jockey who isolates himself from everything but his work -- and the resulting consequences. The actors include Red Robinson (as the disc jockey), Peter Brockington, John Sparks, Bill Buck and Lillian Carlson.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh Monahan talks about the origin, development and prospects of the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. TRACK 2: Mr. Monahan continues with a description of the Reifel Sanctuary and the residents. He talks about his art and painting of water fowl.

SUMMARY: Sarah Bourgon recalls her adventures as a young English immigrant: arriving in Canada in 1912, working in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, and travelling to Aldermere in the Bulkley Valley in 1914.

SUMMARY: This program recounts two journeys into Bella Coola: Alexander Mackenzie's journey in 1793, and that made by Cliff Kopas in 1933.

SUMMARY: The history of the Haida people in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Includes: stories and legends from their ancestors; visits to Masset, and to Moresby and Anthony Islands; and descriptions of the old viillage sites with their remaining artifacts. Voices heard include Knut Fladmark, Dr. Peter Kelly, Betty Carey, Neil Carey, Gray Stephens and John Williams.

SUMMARY: "The Bush and Salon" was a series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries, and other sources. In this program, a journey in the summer of 1970 retraces the travels and experiences of Phyllis Bryant as a young mother, homesteading in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region with her husband and four children during the 1920s. Based on oral history interviews and other recordings from the 1970 journey, it presents the trials and joys of a pioneer family. The voices heard include: Phyllis Bryant Kellis, Peggy Keefe, Jim Keefe, Harry McGhee, Dean Holt, Bill Broughton, Elmer Purdue, and Dan Lee.

SUMMARY: "Poet in an Arctic Landscape" is a play by J. Michael Yates, based on his experiences sport fishing in the Northwest Territories. It combines poetry and dramatic episodes having complementary themes. Voices heard include: Robert Clothier, James Johnston, Ted Stidder, Jim McQueen, Merv Campone, Lillian Carlson, Derek Ralston, Michael Irwin, Roger Dressler, Barnie O'Sullivan, Joe Golland, and Bob Graham.