CALL NUMBER: T0706:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Fadden recalls the store at Whonnock owned by her father [L.C. York]; Bill Miner; the settlement at Whonnock. Mr. Fadden recounts his father's arrival in Sumas in 1885; family history; floods of 1894; the lynching of "Indian Louie" [i.e., Louie Sam]; the family farm; Sumas Lake; first settlers; Fraser York; mosquitoes; early memories. TRACK 2: Mr. Fadden continues with childhood ;memories and pranks. Mrs. Rita Starr [Winford's sister, Mary Marguerite Fadden] reads from her mother's diary relating to the flood of 1894, household entries, and day-to-day events. Mrs. Starr recounts her own memories of the flood; saving the farm animals; life during the flood; swimming; picnics; Sumas Lake; school days; social activities; Tommy York; early settlers.;
CALL NUMBER: T0706:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Starr continues with stories about local characters; Sumas Indians; farm life. Mr. Fadden talks about BC Electric; shipping farm produce; dyking Sumas Lake; land tax; shipping milk; Nooksack, Lyden and Sumas [rivers?]. Mrs. Starr reads from her mother's diary on the subject of Abbotsford; the old man in the stump; Freeman; the naming of Abbotsford. [TRACK 2: blank.]