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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. William C. Riley talks about the settlement of the Lillooet Area from 1860 to 1910. Riley discusses his grandfather's background and how his father Bill Riley brought a cattle herd up from the US in 1861. He tells a story about a saloon in Omineca, more on his grandfather who was a tobacco grower, his father's background, Lillooet as a wide-open town, Indians in the area, a story of two Indians hung for murder, more on his father and mother, the old mining town of Parsonville and his own early life. TRACK 2: Mr. Riley discusses his role on the first crew at the Bralorne Mine, community feeling among miners, working and living conditions, a story about the first gold mine at Bridge River, an altercation between and Indian Chief and a white prospector, and a story about a local desperado.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert Henry Carson remembers the Carson Ranch at Pavilion. He discusses his grandfather, Hugh Magee, who settled on the Fraser River; his father Robert Carson, born 1841, died 1911, came from Scotland and settled in Pavilion in 1864; a cattle drive to Vancouver in 1887 with Robert Carson, Richard Hoey and Pecullah Kosta; the dispute over water rights; his father taking up land on the lower benches; a new style of ranching; school; the family home; stories about Richard McBride, Pauline Johnson and John Oliver; anecdotes; and water rights legislation.

TRACK 2: The story of water rights is continued as well as Indian ranch hands; selling surplus hay in Clinton; childhood memories of the stage between Clinton and Lillooet; parents; how he left the ranch in 1909; worked on a survey crew; worked in real estate in Vancouver from 1910 to 1914; colourful characters back at the ranch, such as Dave Williams and Cataline.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: Mrs. Maud Haylmore describes the Lillooet area from 1862 to 1900. She tells the story of her grandfather, Captain Arthur John Martley, who established the farm 'The Grange' in 1862. Her mother, Alice Maude Manson, was born in Lillooet in 1862, and her father was W.G.C. Manson. She describes growing up on the Grange; her grandfather would ship supplies to Barkerville in the 1860s. She describes the Klondike miners of 1898, Indians near Lillooet, a flood, Chinese miners, mining on Cayoosh Creek, her Uncle Arthur Martley's freight teams which freighted between Ashcroft and Lillooet, Chinese coffins and jade exports, camels during the gold rush of 1858, and adobe houses in Lillooet, circa 1860.

RECORDED: Lillooet (B.C.), 1981-09 SUMMARY: Mrs. Hilda Haylmore, nee Mason, tells of her grandparents, who came to the coast in 1861. Her grandfather travelled by horseback from the Fraser Valley to Vernon. Mr. Haylmore travelled over much of the United States and Canada on foot, before marrying and settling in the Lillooet area.