Showing 31 results

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1981-01-22 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Coal Tyee; Indians; baseball; chunker; protection; tallies; mules; scows; Yugoslavs; rats; food; children protection; safety; Granby; Hunt; motor; Chinese; night shift.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Stores; close of mines; beer; death of a miner; gas; 1887 explosion; dentistry; Finns; three babies; mine rescue teams; black lung; W.C.B.; amputations; life span; lodges; hospital Chinese; attitude toward amputation; hatchet man; pneumonia; burn cases; maggots and leeches; recreation; soccer; lacrosse.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), [1979 summer] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Log house; father hurt; winter and summer employment; blacksmith; coal delivery; the Chinese; horses; beer; wages; reserve mine; listening to shots; liked mines; lights go out; mine animals; cage; union organizing; sulphur; strike; Indians; May 24.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-23 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Tent in Departure Bay; Malpass/Princess Royal; Dunsmuirs; grandmother on stagecoach; Drake Family Band; Silver Cornet Band; concerts; schools; sailing vessels; Indian reservation; Germans before World War I; red light district; brothers in WWI; Oscar; Chinatown; English immigrants.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; blacklist; union; grievances; mine conditions; wages; hauling; mules; shifts; politics; Chinese; recreation; churches; soccer and baseball players; safety; beer; management; housing; ethnic; war.;

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-03-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Building bees; strike; school; Finnish recreation; boarding houses; wash houses; father to Nanaimo; Extension; horse and buggy; Sam Guthrie; hoist; Finn halls; Mount Bickerton; ethnic groups; motor; Chinese; money earned; the Depression; father's accident.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-05-09 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Terminology; camaraderie; lamps and dress; Chinese, other races; drinking; ambitions; hours; Sam Guthrie; strike; Dunsmuir; reasons for coming; lodges; WCB.;

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Family arrives; dentist; mining camp; widow; wages; hospital; strike; mules; Chinese; police; train tracks; fire; boat to Nanaimo; Japanese; ethnic groups; explosion; entertainment; nurse into the mine.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Young miner in Scotland; welfare retirement; Granby; wages, hours; Sam Guthrie; smells; the Depression; Elite Hall; UMWA; Chinese in the union; Northfield; mules; strike, James Knowles; Northfield flood; Beban flood; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-25 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Trip out; into mines; contract work; the old country; quit the mine; hunt; strike of 1948; the Depression; organising; union agreement; miners' picnics; risks; welfare; the Chinese; the Women's Auxiliary; rates; WeeToo; No. 10 explosion; mules; closing No. 1; May Day; accidents; differential.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-07-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Reasons for coming; trip; adjustments; mother; strike; home on Nicol Street; work for girls; Chinatown; helping father; red light district; dancing; strike; marriage; beer parlours; Indians; dogs.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Picking tables; slopes; Southfield flood; Granby; loading coal in harbour; rope riding; mine temperature; school; weather; drinking; Chinese; rope in mine.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-07-18 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father worked during strike; markets; Oscar; union; prostitutes; school; shopping; Chinese; going into the mines; medical; protection cage; transportation; No. 1; entertainment; blacksmith; church; politics; hostler; hardware store; railroad.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Picking; football; lacrosse; Jo Sutton; first day in mine; fourteen inch seam; fire boss; strike; payroll hold-up; tally union; CPR boats; shirts; the Depression; WeeToo; Spencer's store; hotels; Italians; Chinese; explosives; St. John's Ambulance; rescue; cave-ins; Nanaimo Free Press.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Lamps; sinking a shaft; scow; 5 Acres, Harewood; football, beer, mules, Chinese; Brechin mine.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Church organist; lived on Esplanade; school; harbour; Indians; No. 1: Robbins; down into the mine; explosion; mules; weather; swimming; churches; unions; Fraser Street; lunch bucket; stores; Chinese; bars; parades; curfew; sinking hole; strike; Dunsmuir.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-26 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Transportation; recruiting miners; starts in mine; picking tables; down shaft; mines; small explosions; protection; long wall; animals; class; safety; miner's ticket; contract diggers; timbers; Chinese; first aid; the Depression; eyes; company store; politics; union; soccer; lunch; sanitary facilities; fun; stores; wash houses; picnic.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-11 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; No. 1 tipple; kids and lunch buckets; no women; Chinese; miners as people; management; x-ray machine football; beer; stable boss.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. The Depression; Chinese population; Saturday night; food stuffs; distributing pay; jars; New Year; helping each other; graveyard traditions; single file; education; father's business; father's origins; Chinatown; head tax; factions; Chinese miners; Wells; organizing; living conditions; fire; philosophy.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-08-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; funds; housing; young man into mines; No. 10; Richardson mine; WWII; Northfield; recreation; tickets; transportation; wages; politics; union; the Chinese; safety; the Japanese; hospital; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; white powder; Bigg's mine; strike; Dunsmuir's boat; Brechin; leaving school; fatality; powder works explosion; powder works; Chinese at powder plant; dynamite; Oscar; nailing contest; whistles; shoes and overalls; sulphur house fire; damp; sulphur in eyes; Sloane family; Alvo von Alvensleben; Indian stories; Dunsmuir versus Robbins; chain gang; mine surveyors; Jingle Pot mines; Harewood mine; stories of new prospecting.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-06 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; choirs; Robbins; company farm; Oscar; Reserve; fire at Northfield; rescue teams; husband; Chinese; mules; picnic.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscence of Cumberland RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: Interviewee is anonymous by request. Story of the Chinese digging up their dead; Chinatown, and how many dams there were; Chinee Creek; "Japtown" haircuts; mine explosion; the Chinese moved out of Cumberland; where the Japanese worked; Japanese sawmill at Royston; Chinese gardens; Mr. White, the negro; collecting coal for your family; starting working in the mine at the age of 13; wages of a winch man in 1929 were $2.25 per day; dangers working in the mine; bringing the coal out of the mine; father was a stable boss; story about Queenie the mule; retired the mule and left the mines; mules were worth more money than men; the Union came to Cumberland, Shakey Robertson was the main man; around 1929, #4 and #5 working at one time; testing the air; height of the mines; mules were injured because of the height, and they became mean; horses were also used; accidents with animals; mine cave in took three or four days to dig it out; stable vet; #5 mine shut down during the hungry '30s; worked clearing land to be able to buy it; story about pigs coming in by rail; story about Chinese; story about the undertaker and his son.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Elkington recounts his father's [William Howard Elkington] coming to the Cowichan area in 1883; he bought a place on Quamichan Lake and established a farm, "Oak Park". He talks about the Cowichan Creamery; schooling; Miss Skinner; childhood adventures; Quamichan Lake School; South Cowichan Lawn Tennis Club; social life; amateur dramatic society; a childhood illness and being sent to Victoria to hospital in 1895; meeting the Dunsmuirs and Sir Henry Crease. He discusses his schooling and education at Victoria High School. TRACK 2: Dr. Elkington recounts traveling to Victoria; the train route; stage between Duncan and Cowichan Lake; his father's farm; Chinese labour; Cowichan's "gentleman farmers"; Robert Service; Maple Bay; Billy Beaumont; anecdotes; sailing in Cowichan Bay; "public school boys"; the Elkington family house and Indians.

CALL NUMBER: T0845:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sir Philip Livingston recalls how his father [Clement Livingston] came to the Cowichan Valley in 1890; the family's home; game in the Cowichan Valley; Mount Sicker Copper Mine; Cowichan Valley Tennis Club; sports; doctors; schooling; childhood adventures; Tyee Copper Company; his career in medicine; the Livingston farm, Clevelands; transportation; their Chinese servant; weather; community life; "mud pups", remittance men; Maitland-Dougall; and Corfield family. TRACK 2: Sir Livingston continues with his recollections of the Corfield family; Robert Service; "mud pups"; social life; East Indians; Indians; Father Rondeault and the Stone Church; Mariner family; Indian living conditions; Quamichan Lake Private School.;

CALL NUMBER: T0845:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sir Livingston talks about his school life; World War I; P.T. Scrimshaw; life in Duncan; "long stocking period"; settlement at Cowichan Bay; the "Clallam" disaster; Maple Bay; Mount Sicker Mine; Tyee Copper Company.; Sir Livingston's father, Clement Livingston; Crofton; Quamichan Lake; Somenos Lake; Shawnigan Lake; and Cobble Hill. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Norris discusses his grandfather's arrival in Victoria and his involvement with the Victoria Colonist newspaper. His grandfather later founded the Nanaimo Free Press Newspaper in 1874, which his family owned and operated it until 1919; he imported printing equipment and had a large printing firm, producing printed materials for the west coast. Mr.Norris talks about the coal mining industry, miners, ethnic groups, social life, the Chinese community, and the settlement of miners and their families. TRACK 2: Mr. Norris discusses the age and working conditions of the miners; schooling; Nanaimo; underwater mining; Protection Island; mining incidents; mines in the Nanaimo area; American involvement in the mining industry; United Mine Workers Union and the coal miners strike of 1913. He recalls disagreements and lawsuits between his grandfather and Robert Dunsmuir regarding newspaper editorials. Mr. Norris also recounts incidents from the strike of 1913 and the arrival of military forces.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edgar D. Thwaites describes life in Comox, Cumberland and Parksville in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mrs. Thwaites describes her father's [Mr.Willemar] early life; in BC ; his religious involvement and his building of churches in Comox in the 1870s; settlers in the Comox region; Hornby and Denman Islands; rivers; the Duncan family; other early settlers; more on Willemar. TRACK 2: More information on early settlers; anecdotes; Comox and the navy; Cumberland; Robert Service; lack of Anglican/English social life in Comox; religion; Indians and Chinese; lack of antiques in Comox; life in Parksville.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-05-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Winifred Fahey talks about her impressions of Victoria at the turn of the century; her father, Charles Lugrin; James Bay; buildings; the mudflats; bride ships; Bill Nye; Chinese peddlers; Breakers Theatrical Company; May 24 celebrations; 5th Regiment Band; the death of Queen Victoria; the Chinese Theatre in Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The series consists of records of the 1916 British Columbia Commission to Inquire into the Vancouver Island Riots. Records include an alphabetical index to the claims and a numerical list of claimants (1916); the claims submitted to the commission arranged in numerical order (1916); additional documents and Commissioner Gregory's notes relating to specific claims (1916); transcripts of the commission hearings (1916); reports, statements and translations relating to the claims for damage to Chinese property (1913-1916); documents and proceedings relating to court cases that took place prior to the commission (1913-1916); correspondence (1913-1916); commissioner's report (1916).