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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Killough remembers Castlegar and Kinnard. He came to Castlegar in 1913 with his family. He offers his first impressions; school; the importance of the CPR in Castlegar history; Castlegar as it was in 1913; more about the railroad to 1917; the Edgewood Lumber Mill; more about trains; Kinnard in 1913; his father Captain Joseph Arthur Killough; a logging camp at Kinnard; marketing meat; an incident while swimming as a child; the wheat harvest and Doukhobors at Brilliant. TRACK 2: Mr. Killough continues with more on the Doukhobors as seen by an outsider; school; the population increase in 1918; mining and milling economy; the arrival of traction engine for one of the mills; other families; Peter "Lordly" Verigin; the Doukhobor ferry at Waterloo; the route from Castlega;r to Nelson by road; Jimmy Davidson and the Castlegar ferry; Waterloo as a mining community; and the name "Castlegar".

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Railroading in B.C. : Reid Johnston RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-01-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Robert Turner, Reid Johnston discusses his memories of railroading: background -- born 1893 in Washington state; spent much of his early life in California; became office boy at Nakusp for the CPR at age 16; after a year, he became a station agent at Halcyon Hot Springs for 8 years; then worked in telegraph agency in Kelowna, then Penticton; becoming a brake man; returning to being dispatcher at a number of different stations; retiring in Summerland; becoming magistrate; became president of CPR pioneers association; describes operation at Nakusp, Hotsprings, Penticton braking experience, job at Nicola, night shift in Merritt; his love of telegraphing; living in a box car at Beaverdell; anecdote about mixed-up caskets in Summerland. TRACK 2: Mr. Johnston discusses: working at Coalmont; disaster at Coalmont after he left were 13 men were killed; working at Summerland -- Japanese community, large amounts of fruit being shipped, mostly handled passenger traffic; he had 1200 employees under his jurisdiction at one point; union politics; jobs in railroading dropped severely in later years; opinion of CPR as employer; later life; sale of property; story of a robbery of a safe in Summerland. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T1392:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Railroading in the early days RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-02-18 SUMMARY: Family background; early railroading and other jobs; comments and events; comments on the Connaught Tunnel and the Spiral Tunnels; change from coal to oil as fuel for engines; change from steam to diesel; women's suffrage movement; anecdotes and comments on Revelstoke life; prohibition years; Arrowhead branch line; river boats.

CALL NUMBER: T1392:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Railroading in the early days RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-02-18 SUMMARY: Information on Mrs. Middleton; miscellaneous information on snow removal; caribou in Revelstoke, mountaineering; royal trains; gold trains; comments on mining east of Revelstoke; farming in the south area; Kootenay development; Williamson's Lake; today's transportation.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: Harold "Monty" Moll came from London to Midway in 1910 after being a seaman. He worked for the CPR as a bookkeeper and water boy with a group of Italians laying steel near Castlegar. Mr. Moll describes his brothers' lives working for the CPR in Midway. Mr. Moll discusses how the CPR affected the town of Midway and provides detailed description and stories about the hotel and its owners. Then Mrs. Moll tells about her move to Rock Creek in 1918 as a school teacher. She describes her experience of putting on a Christmas play for the children. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moll discuss the area at that time.