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CALL NUMBER: T0062:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa : a Japanese-Canadian businessman PERIOD COVERED: 1922-1949 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa was appointed to work in the Vancouver branch of the Tamura Shokai in 1926. He was a landed immigrant. He worked in the bank and trade department of the same firm until 1933. He got married and started his own business, a grocery store. He worked in a fruit packaging plant in Winfield during the Second World War. He is now President of the Trans-Pacific Trading Company.

CALL NUMBER: T0062:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A. Takeo Arakawa describes his life during World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1941-1972 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-21 SUMMARY: A. Takeo Arakawa describes his first opportunity to vote as a Canadian citizen. He also discusses his life during World War II and the evacuation.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Abdul G. Pirbhai : segregation of integration for the Ismaili community PERIOD COVERED: 1938-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Abdul G. Pirbhai was born in 1938 and discusses early childhood residence in England. Joining the Industrial Promotion Service in Uganda. Social life. TRACK 2: Immigration to Canada. Experiences in Canada, membership on the Ismaili Council in Vancouver. Future in orientation of the Ismaili community.

CALL NUMBER: T0161:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ada McGeer : first woman producer at the CBC RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-08 SUMMARY: Ada McGeer was born in 1890 in Victoria and discusses her early days there; moving to Vancouver; McGill University in Montreal; return to Vancouver; and her employment with the CBC.;

CALL NUMBER: T0161:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ada McGeer : first woman producer at the CBC RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-15 SUMMARY: Ada McGeer discusses her work at the Herald; travels; views on the status of women; and the music club.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Agnes Jane Power RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Agnes Jean Power was born in 1890 and discusses her early life in India; age 17-22, spent in England; and her move to Canada including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Attitudes, the Depression. Comparison between India, England and Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ahamedali Rahemtula Pirani : Ismaili elder RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-01-07 SUMMARY: Ahamedali Rahemtula Pirani was born in 1917 and discusses early life in Uganda, no schooling, early work. Starting a shop. Marriage. The Aga Khan's visit to East Africa.;

CALL NUMBER: T0104:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - Prince of Wales RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-10-30 SUMMARY: Albert Edward Goddard was born in 1897. Reminiscences of childhood in and around Burin, Newfoundland in the late 1890s and early twentieth century. Bert remembers his youth, life with family and relatives, education, and the importance of religion. He emphasizes the overpowering influence of the sea on the people of his coastal community. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - outpost living RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-01 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard adds to his recollections of day-to-day life in the outpost settlement of Burin, Newfoundland in the early part of the twentieth century. He talks about housing, food, furnishings, crafts, building methods, water supply, heating, etc. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - salt water neighbours RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-06 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard discusses life in the early twentieth century including family and community life, and both professional and amateur health care. Concludes with an interesting description of fishing methods. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - working on the move RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard traces his early working life, local and personal reactions to World War I, and his migration west as a railway and farm worker in the mid-1920s. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - from interior railways to Pacific shores RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-16 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard recalls his railway repair work in Alberta during the 1920s, his move to B.C., and impressions and job descriptions of cannery work. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - the shore workers in the west coast fishery RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-20 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard continues his description of processes in fish plants including cooking, cleaning, and canning. He discusses the effect of the Depression on workers. CALL NUMBER: T0104:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert Edward Goddard : life on the coasts of Canada - work and the union RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-11-24 SUMMARY: Bert Goddard discusses seasonal layoffs in the fish plants which forced men to go on welfare or head north to prospect in the 1930s. The formation of a shore worker's union provided some security.

CALL NUMBER: T0140:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert E. Richards : U.B.C. the Great Trek - part I RECORDED: Ottawa (Ont.), 1973-01-18 SUMMARY: Albert E. Richards was born in 1896 and answers personal questions concerning his childhood and teens. He discusses the Fairview campus. He goes into detail about The Great Trek.;

CALL NUMBER: T0140:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert E. Richards : U.B.C. the Great Trek - part II RECORDED: Ottawa (Ont.), 1973-01-18 SUMMARY: Albert E. Richard continues discussing The Great Trek. He describes the social functions and activities of U.B.C. and following his graduation.;

CALL NUMBER: T0089:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - a maritimer in B.C. RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-11 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson was born in 1903, and lived in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He recalls life in Nova Scotia and the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Life in Vancouver. Discusses early jobs and early union associations. Describes life of a migratory worker in the prairies, B.C., and the U.S. Pacific northwest during the early 1920s. Mentions the One Big Union and the Industrial Workers of the World and their activities at the time. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Wobblies PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-13 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses his odd jobs on the west coast from B.C. to California. The spread of the Industrial Workers of the World among migratory workers. The tactics used to organize and the resistance put up by the employers. Factions in the movement, the Communist influence and the split in the I.W.W. Conditions and pay on the job and improvements due to Union activity. Primarily concerning 1920-1925, but some talk of the 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - adjusting to disability PERIOD COVERED: 1920s-1930s RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson discusses the changes in his life from a 1924 or 1925 shingle mill accident in which he lost an arm. Difficulty in changing, return to school and job as an executive for the Industrial Workers of the World Union. Return to mill work, the change from physical labour to sales work. Labour and socialist activities in the 1920s and 1930s. CALL NUMBER: T0089:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alex Fergusson : living on the left - the Depression and after RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-18 SUMMARY: Alex Fergusson continues recounting activities in the 1930s including the early years of the C.C.F. Activities of the Communists. C.C.F. Quebec convention regarding conscription and the polarity in the C.C.F. Communist philosophy, reasons for participating in a socialist movement.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alexander Fraser Mabbett RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-12 SUMMARY: Alexander Fraser Mabbett was born in 1894. He apprenticed as a glove cutter in Saratoga, N.Y. Member of the United Textile Workers' Union. Discusses factory conditions, starting factory in Sherbrooke, Quebec. In Sherbrooke from 1917-1930, England from 1930-1931, and back in Sherbrooke from 1931-1948. Moved to B.C. in 1950.

CALL NUMBER: T0033:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's military service in India PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1918 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray came from a military family and was born in India in 1889. He came to Canada after WWI. His recollections of WWI include descriptions of horse cavalry and artillery activities, equipment used, and deprivations incurred. He was primarily in France. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray's experience farming in Canada during the Depression PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1939 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-17 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray describes his immigration to Canada, his expectations of the country, his impressions on arrival, his journey on the "Colonial Train", the government plan for farmers, his career as a farmer through the Depression years: his livestock, his crops, his farming methods, the selling of produce, and collective efforts of community. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray and enlistment in the Veteran's Guards, World War II PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray discusses the techniques of farming till 1940, when he moved to Vancouver. His brief employment on "the green chain" in King's Sawmill, before enlisting in the "Veteran's Guards" for WWII. CALL NUMBER: T0033:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred George Gray through the Second World War and after PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1960 RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-04-24 SUMMARY: Alfred George Gray continues discussing war experiences as a private in the RCOC in England, doing vehicle recovery. He returns to Canada afterwards and talks about his subsequent jobs until age 70.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Alfred Sauve describes early days in Maillardville PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1915 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-15 SUMMARY: Alfred Sauve was born in 1897, describes growing up in Quebec and coming to Maillardville, B.C. in 1910. Early days and description of Maillardville. Work and wages at Fraser Mills. Discussion of recreation and social life in the community. Description of houses in the early days.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Algot Swanson : leader in Swedish community activities RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Algot Swanson was born in 1890 in Sweden, and immigrated to Canada in 1909. He held various labouring jobs and settled in Vancouver during the First World War. He discusses his involvement as a leader in all Swedish Community activities. He recounts the various Swedish cultural and community organizations that have existed and still exist (1972) in Vancouver.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amir Gokal Ladha : starting anew once again PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-29 SUMMARY: Amir Gokal Ladha discusses his early life in East Africa. Business interrupted by political circumstances. Ismaili commercial organizations. Immigration to Canada.;

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish was born in 1905 and she discusses her childhood in Scotland. Immigration to Canada and life in Ontario. Attitudes towards religion and being a girl. Farming in Alberta. Commercial education course and working in a bank. Mountain climbing. Sex education and marriage. Keeping maiden name after marriage. C.C.F./N.D.P. in Saskatchewan. Court hearing regarding her right to keep her maiden name. Involvement with the N.D.P. Running for election, municipally and provincially.

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish discusses campaigns; city politics; N.D.P. policy; women's ministry; opportunities for women; women in the N.D.P.; daycare; present capacity of N.D.P. for self-criticism; childbirth and birth control; Vancouver Council of Women; United Nations; Unitarian Service Committee; working in a debt collection agency and in accounting; Automobile Association; teaching children who don't want to learn; food co-op.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Leigh : a pioneer social worker in B.C. interested in public welfare PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-30 SUMMARY: Amy Leigh was born in 1897 and discusses her immigration to Canada from England in 1913; Girl Guides; childhood; recollections; early jobs as a secretary; probation work; training at the University of Toronto School of Social Work; various social work jobs. TRACK 2: Jobs: Director of Welfare, Vancouver. Discussion of the Depression and radicalism. Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Director of Welfare, Vancouver, 1937-1943: decentralization; South Vancouver Experiment; Japanese evacuation. Assistant Director of Welfare for the province. Comments on social work. Retirement in 1958. Other jobs: teaching public welfare, University of Washington; Welfare Department in the Yukon; CNIB, Winnipeg and Ottawa, 1960s. General comments on public welfare: role of government; limits of financial aid.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Andrew Juvelien : Swedish-Canadian carpenter in British Columbia RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-23 SUMMARY: Andrew Juvelien describes his life in Canada after he came from Sweden in 1913. Work as a carpenter in Saskatchewan and B.C. Homesteading in Saskatchewan. Socialism and his involvement in the beginnings of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Political opinions as well as biography.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arne Johnson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1972-05-04 SUMMARY: Arne Johnson was born in Norway in 1893, and immigrated to Canada in the early twentieth century. He worked as a logger on the B.C. coast until he became a full time secretary for Lumber Workers Industrial Union in 1929. He helped to keep the union alive until it joined the I.W.A. in 1936. Organized loggers on the B.C. coast and led the first big logger strike in B.C. in 1934.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arni Arntzen discusses life in Sweden before 1905 when he came to New Orleans. Life in America, and coming to Canada about 1913. Worked on Grand Trunk Railway in Rockies. Taking rafts down Upper Fraser. Homestead near Prince George, and later in Saskatchewan. Prairie life in Depression. Finally came to B.C. during WWII. TRACK 2: Arni Arntzen's ideas about Canada then and now.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: Arni Arntzen's life and his political ideas.

CALL NUMBER: T0196:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur and Rosa Dicaire : French-Canadians in Fraser Mills, B.C. - memories, dreams and reflections PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1973-04-28 SUMMARY: Arthur and Rosa Dicaire take part in a non-linear interview discussing the early days at Fraser Mills; union-management crisis; and town planning.;

CALL NUMBER: T0196:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur and Rosa Dicaire : French-Canadians in Fraser Mills - architecture and 'oriental townsite' PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1973-04-28 SUMMARY: Arthur and Rosa Dicaire discuss social life; French-Canadian identity; history of the Catholic Church in Maillardville and Fraser Mills.;

CALL NUMBER: T0065:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Coutu RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-05-09 SUMMARY: Arthur Coutu was born in 1893 in Manitoba. He farmed in St. Laurent, Manitoba, and describes working conditions. He moved to Maillardville in 1910, and worked at Fraser Mills. Arthur gives a detailed description of jobs (especially as crane operator), of working conditions, wages, bosses, etc., and of early Maillardville, primarily buildings and streets.

CALL NUMBER: T0065:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Coutu RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-05-09 SUMMARY: Arthur Coutu discusses Fraser Mills, wages, union (the beginning of the I.W.A.), first strike at Fraser Mills in 1931, the attitudes of the millworkers toward the strike, and the condition of Oriental workers. Arthur gives his own personal attitudes towards work, the union, and Maillardville.

CALL NUMBER: T0251:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur J. Turner : trade unionism and social democracy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973 SUMMARY: Arthur J. Turner was born in 1888 and discusses his childhood in England. Development of a political awareness. Joining the Social Democratic party in England. Running for civic elections. Coming to Canada in 1913. Early job experiences in Canada and Victoria. Unions around 1919. Class struggle during WWI and post-WWI. OBU. Wanting to join socialists and being turned down. CALL NUMBER: T0251:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur J. Turner : trade unionism and social democracy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-11-29 SUMMARY: Arthur J. Turner discusses the labour situation in Canada at the end of the First World War. Atmosphere. Socialist party (old and new). The C.C.F. League of Social Reconstruction and Socialists -- C.C.F. clubs, bands, sports teams, plays. [Tape ends around the middle of track 2.] CALL NUMBER: T0251:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur J. Turner : trade unionism and social democracy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-12-02 SUMMARY: Arthur J. Turner discusses organizing in the Yukon; unions; politics. The Communist Party and the C.C.F. during the Depression. Extremes among C.C.F. members. 1940s elections and his personal political career. CALL NUMBER: T0251:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur J. Turner : trade unionism and social democracy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-12-10 SUMMARY: Arthur J. Turner discusses legislature; co-operative socialism; the creation of the N.D.P.; Socialist International; women in politics; women's ministry; Lieutenant Governor's Ball; friendships and politics; Webber; factory in England. CALL NUMBER: T0251:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur J. Turner : trade unionism and social democracy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-12-10 SUMMARY: Arthur J. Turner discusses anarchist tailor and first speech; politics absorbing all of one's activities; honorary life member of the N.D.P.; retrospective (discussing issues he wanted to talk about).

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1930 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Laverdure was born in 1900 and came to B.C. in 1909, first contingent. Descriptions of train trip from the east to British Columbia and of early Maillardville. Millworker for Fraser Mills, problems, wages, etc. Description of housing provided by Fraser Mills for workers. Religious education and schooling. TRACK 2: Ethnic groups in Maillardville and working at Fraser Mills. Description of social life in Maillardville. The observance of religious holidays in the Roman Catholic Church. Language problems.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses Maillardville, WWI, work at mills and as a truck driver, the Depression, the head of unemployed association, relief, attitudes towards WWII, and child raising.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses Fraser Mills: wages, work, safety, compensation, unions, Chinese, blacklisting. Other jobs outside Fraser Mills including threshing on the prairies, work at a box factory (B.C. Manufacturing), and the Depression.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-04-25 SUMMARY: Arthur Laverdure discusses different nationalities in Fraser Mills, employers and employees, differences made between the races, the strike of 1931, food supply, attitudes toward religion, unions, and his personal philosophy on life.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-07-21 SUMMARY: Interviewed in French, Arthur Laverdure discusses early days in Maillardville, the arrival of the "Columbiens", and the development of Maillardville. The train trip from Montreal to Fraser Mills. The mill at Fraser Mills in 1909. Problems encountered on arrival in B.C. Building a house in Maillardville.

CALL NUMBER: T0030:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arthur Laverdure RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-07-21 SUMMARY: Interviewed in French, Arthur Laverdure discusses early days in Maillardville and the development of Maillardville. The building of the house by his father. Stidies. The first church. Religious holidays. Recreation and amusements. Remedies and superstitions.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arvo Tynjala : Sointula, B.C. RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-13 & 16 & 25 SUMMARY: Arvo Tynjala was born in 1897 in North Dakota and moved to Sointula, B.C., with his family in 1901. He discusses the Finnish community at Sointula, providing an account of what it was and what happened to it. Memories of logging on B.C. coast. Union activities of loggers before 1934. The salmon fishing industry: first strikes and attempts to organize. The formation of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union (UFAWU). The lives of fishermen and cannery workers, and how things have changed.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Asamatsu Murakami RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-03-09 & 15 SUMMARY: Asamatsu Murakami was born in 1885 in Japan. Came to Steveston in 1898 with his older brother. Went to school for half a year, then engaged in fishing all his life except during the war, when he and his family when to Alberta to work for a sugarbeet farm. His oldest son is a fisherman.

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-06-02 SUMMARY: Proceedings of the Aural History Convention held at the Woodward Instructional Resource Centre, University of British Columbia, on 02-Jun-1973. The conference was sponsored by the Committee for an Aural History Association of British Columbia. The proceedings were also published in printed form by Reynoldston Research and Studies, 1973.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Badru Abdul Rasool Jeraj : business in Uganda and public relations in Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-04 SUMMARY: Badru Abdul Rasool Jeraj was born in 1936, and discusses his early life in Uganda; business career; being a "Mukhi" (leader of the Ismaili community in Fort Portle). Immigration to Canada.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Beaudoin Proulx : French-Canadians in Maillardville, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1944 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1972-03-28 SUMMARY: Beaudoin Proulx came to Maillardville, B.C. in 1910. Worked as a logger. Early road building, construction, first post office. Depression years in Quebec. Farming in Laurentians. Comparison of Maillardville in 1926 and 1944.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cherry : experimental interview #4 - perceptions of the natural landscape, Pemberton Valley RECORDED: Pemberton (B.C.), 1972-04-06 SUMMARY: Bernard (Ben) and Sara Cherry discuss life in the Pemberton Valley 1919-1972, its natural beauties, and the changes caused by progress.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Blanche Isabel Goodman RECORDED: Saltspring Island (B.C.), 1972-08-09 SUMMARY: Blanche Isabel Goodman was born in 1913 and details her life and family; her life on Saltspring Island; her marriage; her various community involvements; her children and their careers; descriptions o;f her homes; and social life and changes on Saltspring Island.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Carl Ericson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-04-27 SUMMARY: Carl Ericson was born in 1908 in a Manitoban Swedish community, and moved to B.C. in 1942. Description of Swedish community in Manitoba, some discussion of Swedish community activities in Vancouver. Discussion of Trade Union movement in Vancouver since 1942.