- AAAB0570
- Item
- 1974-07 & 10 [date recorded]
Part of Provincial Archives of British Columbia audio interviews, 1974-1992
CALL NUMBER: T0500:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Horace Hinton : life in the Nimpkish Valley, 1919-1962 PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1962 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1974-07-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hinton discusses early logging experience: move to Nimpkish Valley from Washington State, 1919; description of English Logging Company Camp #1; railroad personnel; aspects of railway logging; problems of isolation; logging camp life; life in Englewood, ca. 1926. TRACK 2: Mr. Hinton comments on: Shay and Climax engines; Japanese mill workers at Englewood; life in the logging camps during the 1930s; railway logging in Nimpkish Valley, 1930-70; railway maintenance and accidents, 1930-70. CALL NUMBER: T0500:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Horace Hinton : life in the Nimpkish Valley, 1919-1962 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1956 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hinton discusses: Japanese mill workers at Englewood, 1920-40; Chinese mill workers at Nimpkish Lake; floating camps (description and conditions); repairing logging equipment particularly steam locomotives. TRACK 2: Mr. Hinton discusses: repairing locomotives (cont'd); working hours of locomotive engineers, 1920-40; the change from steam to diesel locomotives, 1951-52; registration of locomotives at Nimpkish; farms in the Nimpkish River area, 1920s; recreation and holidays from the camp, 1920s; travel on the union steamship line along the B.C. coast, 1930-40; description of company personnel, Frank Coleman and Russell Mills. CALL NUMBER: T0500:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Horace Hinton : life in the Nimpkish Valley, 1919-1962 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1974 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1974-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hinton discusses: company personnel (cont'd); Eli Tibiff, 1920s; mechanical training of Hinton, 1930s; description of William "Bill" McMahon. (End of interview)