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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mabel Blake : a teacher of the deaf ; vice-principal of Jericho Hill school RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-17 SUMMARY: Mabel Blake was born in 1892 and discusses her childhood in England; teacher training; coming to Vancouver; rural teacher in Kootenays; job teaching the deaf in Vancouver; moving into Jericho Hill school; learning to teach the deaf; blind children at Jericho; becoming vice-principal; moved away during WWII; returning; retirement; looking after mother.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Leigh : a pioneer social worker in B.C. interested in public welfare PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-30 SUMMARY: Amy Leigh was born in 1897 and discusses her immigration to Canada from England in 1913; Girl Guides; childhood; recollections; early jobs as a secretary; probation work; training at the University of Toronto School of Social Work; various social work jobs. TRACK 2: Jobs: Director of Welfare, Vancouver. Discussion of the Depression and radicalism. Canadian National Institute for the Blind. Director of Welfare, Vancouver, 1937-1943: decentralization; South Vancouver Experiment; Japanese evacuation. Assistant Director of Welfare for the province. Comments on social work. Retirement in 1958. Other jobs: teaching public welfare, University of Washington; Welfare Department in the Yukon; CNIB, Winnipeg and Ottawa, 1960s. General comments on public welfare: role of government; limits of financial aid.

CALL NUMBER: T0170:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joseph Dougal : transition at Fraser Mills - early years at Fraser Mills, 1913-1920 PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1920 RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1973-03-16 SUMMARY: Joseph Dougal was born in 1902 and discusses coming to Canada as a boy straight to Fraser Mills. He describes his early recollections and impressions of the Mill, the townsite and his first years at work at Fraser Mills.

CALL NUMBER: T0170:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joseph Dougal : transition at Fraser Mills - the formation of the I.W.A. at Fraser Mills, 1927-1966 PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1966 RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1973-03-21 SUMMARY: Joseph Dougal discusses about the early years of the union at Fraser Mills; the strike of 1931; the "purge" of the "Communists" from the union circa WWII; and his own involvement in the union.

CALL NUMBER: T0170:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joseph Dougal : transition at Fraser Mills - summary of points highlighted from previous interviews RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1973-03-21 SUMMARY: This interview follows roughly an ethnic, technological, and sociological format of questioning, picking up additional information missing from the first two tapes and summarizing the interview series.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hedwig D.H. Bartling : discrimination vs. accepting as persons RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-12 SUMMARY: Hedwig D.H. Bartling was born in 1907 and immigrated to Canada in 1913 from Germany. She discusses discrimination during World War I. Growing up in Saskatchewan. Teaching in school for Ukrainian children. Mennonites in ungraded schools. United Church Training School and University of Toronto. Training in social work and working with non-Anglo-Saxons as a deaconess. Northern Saskatchewan boarding school for children of minority groups. Arts degree in B.C. Lethbridge and Japanese people. Victoria and Chinese people. Steveston. Theology. Being ordained as a Minister in New Westminster. Being a female minister.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Zoolfikaraly A. Meraly : teaching in Uganda PERIOD COVERED: 1941-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-06 SUMMARY: Zool Meraly discusses his early life in Uganda. Study in Metrana and Kampala. Move to Masaka. Marriage. Teaching in Masaka. Membership in Ismaili Provincial Council. Immigration to Canada and employment there.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna E. Rossiter : a tall nurse RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-02 SUMMARY: Edna E. Rossiter discusses her family and their immigration to Canada; the physical determinism of being a 6'2" woman; her nurse training; the army; head of veteran's nursing in Western Canada; community work; and her attitudes to modern topics.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Noorali G. Noormohamed : East African family - the Ismaili experience PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-02-08 SUMMARY: Noorali G. Noormohamed was born in 1936 and gives autobiographical notes. He discusses his first business enterprises; trip to England; restaurant and juke box business; Presidency of the Provincial Ismaili Association; becoming Mukhi; Territorial Council; Rotary International; Masons; sports clubs; immigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Zul Virani : Ugandan professional : an Ismaili experience PERIOD COVERED: 1947-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-02-08 SUMMARY: Dr. Zul Virani was born in 1947 and discusses his childhood and education in Uganda. Scholarship to attend the University of Kenya. Employment in the Ugandan Civil Service as a veterinarian. Veterinary profession in Uganda. Community involvement in the Ismaili Council Economic Committee. Marriage and immigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Noorjahan Pirani : difficulties of inter-community marriage - Hindu and Muslim PERIOD COVERED: 1948-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-01-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Noorjahan Pirani was born in 1948 and discusses her education in Uganda. Working in England. Courtship with a Hindu. TRACK 2: The difficulties involved in inter-community marriage. Return to Uganda and immigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ahamedali Rahemtula Pirani : Ismaili elder RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-01-07 SUMMARY: Ahamedali Rahemtula Pirani was born in 1917 and discusses early life in Uganda, no schooling, early work. Starting a shop. Marriage. The Aga Khan's visit to East Africa.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Abdul G. Pirbhai : segregation of integration for the Ismaili community PERIOD COVERED: 1938-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Abdul G. Pirbhai was born in 1938 and discusses early childhood residence in England. Joining the Industrial Promotion Service in Uganda. Social life. TRACK 2: Immigration to Canada. Experiences in Canada, membership on the Ismaili Council in Vancouver. Future in orientation of the Ismaili community.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Nargis Hassan Halani : ambiguity in the role of women in the Ugandan Asian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nargis Hassan Halani was born in 1949 and discusses early life and education in Masaka. Racial discrimination and departure for India. B.A. in India. TRACK 2: Return to Uganda and teaching at the Aga Khan Secondary School. Responsibility at Women's Hostel in Kampala. Emigration from Uganda.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Hassan Halani : successful businessman and prominent member of Ismaili community PERIOD COVERED: 1942-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-12-15 SUMMARY: John Hassan Halani (born 1942) discusses his early life in Masaka. Membership in the Education board. Member holding two offices in the Provincial Council. Presidency of the Provincial Council and membership in the Territorial Council. Immigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hassan Ali Abdul Rasool : a Ugandan-Asian's career in insurance PERIOD COVERED: 1926-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: Hassan Ali Abdul Rasool (born 1926) discusses early childhood involvement in the Ismaili community. The youth organization, the provincial council, the Aga Khan Club, the Territorial Tribunal. Job promotion in East Africa and immigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amir Gokal Ladha : starting anew once again PERIOD COVERED: 1929-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-29 SUMMARY: Amir Gokal Ladha discusses his early life in East Africa. Business interrupted by political circumstances. Ismaili commercial organizations. Immigration to Canada.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sukh Dev Khosla : family cooperation in business and social activities in Uganda PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1973 RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-11-07 SUMMARY: Sukh Dev Khosla was born in 1930 and discusses early life in Tororo, Uganda; education; business achievements; District Governorship of Lion's Club in East Africa. Immigration to Canada.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Maherunissa Jenulabdin Lakha : an Asian woman's career in Uganda PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-07 SUMMARY: Maherunissa Jenulabdin Lakha was born in 1937 and discusses her early life and schooling in Uganda. Teacher's certificate. Teaching career and mobility. Women's organization of the Ismaili community. Emigration to Canada.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rajnikant M. Dattani : interpersonal relationships among youth in Uganda PERIOD COVERED: 1949-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-12-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rajnikant M. Dattani was born in 1949 and discusses his early life and schooling in Uganda. Relationships and Hindu traditions. TRACK 2: Immigration to Canada and first impressions.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mohamed Akberally Virjee : membership in the Ismaili community and its effects on teaching career PERIOD COVERED: 1944-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-12-10 SUMMARY: Mohamed Akberally Virjee was born in 1944 and discusses early days in Tanzania and Uganda. Education in India. Teacher's certificate in Kampala. Teaching in the Aga Khan School and becoming headmaster of that school. Membership in the Territorial Tribunal. Immigration to Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0117:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): K. Khosla : social service organizations and their effect on business in Uganda PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1972 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-25 SUMMARY: K. Khosla was born in 1925 and discusses the early years in Tororo, Uganda; business achievements; District Governorship of the Lion's Club in East Africa; participation in different community and political organizations; member of the Central Legislative Assembly. Immigrating to Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0117:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1972-11-25?] SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hussein A. Pirbhai : Islmali businessman in Uganda and immigration to Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-11-23 SUMMARY: Hussein A. Pirbhai (Rasool) was born in 1924 in Uganda and discusses his early life in Kampala, Uganda; his business achievements and resort to the commercial organizations of the Ismali community in East Africa. The crisis in Uganda and his immigration to Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0114:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rokuhei Konishi tells of his coming to Canada and his life there fishing PERIOD COVERED: 1886-1936 RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-11-16 SUMMARY: Rokuhei Konishi was born in 1886 and discusses his immigration to Canada, including the discrimination against the Japanese in Vancouver. Discussion of Japanese culture here in Canada. He describes his life as a fisherman and the technology involved. Training in Ino therapy in Japan.

CALL NUMBER: T0114:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rokuhei Konishi discusses his early life in Canada and discrimination PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-11-16 SUMMARY: Rokuhei Konishi discusses Ino therapy and its applications. Discussion of discrimination in Canada. General discussion of his early life in Canada.

CALL NUMBER: T0114:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rokuhei Konishi gives a general description of life in Steveston PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1950 RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1972-11-16 SUMMARY: Rokuhei Konishi describes the Japanese Fisherman's Association Hospital in Steveston. Problems of flooding in Steveston. Life in fishing camps. Description of a Japanese bath house. Collecting driftwood for heating. General description of Steveston and cannery houses.

SUMMARY: Interviews with newcomers to B.C.'s west coast.;

CALL NUMBER: T4216:0001 track 1 item 01
SUMMARY: Radio program including an interview by unidentified commentator with Miss Katie O'Neil, farm mother, about: Fairbridge Farm School, backgrounds of various students, student duties. <10 minutes 30 seconds>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0001 track 1 item 02
SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with students and farm manager John Brown about: Fairbridge farm School, duties; dairy farming, horses, growing crops. <14 minutes>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0001 track 2
SUMMARY: Radio program including interview by an unidentified commentator with principal of Fairbridge Farm School, Colonel H.T. Logan, about: creation of farm school; child immigration from Britain; students enlisting in war; followed by Colonel Logan reading letters from various students fighting in war; followed by interviews by unidentified commentator with various female students, about: school, favourite subjects. <11 minutes>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0002 track 1
SUMMARY: Radio program (broadcast 1942-05-22) including a documentary with an unidentified speaker about the principal's Bible class, morning prayers; including sounds of school bell, children's voices, children saying Grace before dinner; assistant principal W.J. Garnett reads "daily orders" about upcoming basketball games, horseshoes, morning prayers, birthday greetings; talks by Mr. Tamkin [?], school janitor, and Kenny Ryan [?], Ronny Alton [?], Bob Bennet [?], students, and principal, about a fire brigade, cleaning furnaces, hospital furnaces, student cottages, duties in dairy barn; interview with female students about their hometowns in England, duties, favourite subjects, hobbies. <28 minutes>
CALL NUMBER: T4216:0002 track 2: [blank].

SUMMARY: Report by Jim Nesbitt about: agriculture, British Columbia encouraging settlement and farming; immigration from Great Britain for farming.;

CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve J. Tomecek (prospector, logger, trapper, farmer) was born on August 20, 1904 in Czechoslovakia. He came to Quebec in 1928. Worked in Saskatchewan, white-fish fishing at Fort McMurray. Loss of supplies. Walking one hundred miles in three days. Rabbit dinner cooked by Indians. The call of the wilderness. Came to Rosswood in 1930. Washing gold in Douglas Creek. Working on the telegraph line. Logging for George Little. Trip up the Stikine River. Living on game and fish. Crossing river by cable. Extracting gold. High cost of supplies. Finding gold in Douglas Creek. Taking out poles with horses. Raft making. Earning one hundred dollars per day during the year 1937. Small logging camps. Confused prospector looking for Snow Mine. Hiking up Goat Mountain. Changes in staking claims. Accident in bush at age 65. TRACK 2: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood. CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a smelter worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Germano Carrita, as a new immigrant from the Azores, had difficulty getting a railway job: hunger and bribery. Railroad work. Description of San Miguel, Azores. Immigration, problems of not knowing French or English. Alcan smelter: how pot room work has changed. Kitimat in 1955: a place to stay in the bunkhouse. Visiting Terrace, moving to Terrace. Description of house and garden.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a logger and mill worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Camilo de Medeiros (logger, pole-mill worker) was born in 1927. Azores, farming village. Making charcoal. Learning of Canada. Cedar silviculture and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration to farm in Quebec. Railroad work. Coming to Terrace. Changes in methods of making cedar poles. Building house on Cramer Street. Terrace in 1957. Description of house on Straume Street. Easier for immigrants now. Keeping busy. Sponsoring relatives.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a D.P.W. workman recalls his immigration, jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Arthur (Artur) Soares (D.P.W. labourer) was born in 1930. St. Jorge, Azores, farm work. Immigration to farm in Newfoundland. C.N.R. extra gang. Learning English. C.N.R. section work, Telegraph Point. First house in Terrace. Work for Alcan, Kitimat; for Department of Public Works, Terrace. Construction: renovating small house, building large house. Description of house and garden. Easier for new immigrants now. Standard of living on Azores, emigration, getting ahead. Terrace in the late 1950s. D.P.W. work.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace : a smelter worker recalls the Azores, immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Carreiro (smelter worker) was born in 1931. Childhood work, farms on Azores, description of village. Logging and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration in 1955, railway work. Learning of work at Alcan. (blank gap). Treatment, as a newcomer. (blank gap). Not knowing English, confusion at work. A friend who mistook "cabbage" for "cabrito", other confusion. Learning English. Food. His brother's story of immigration, work at Kitimat, return to Portugal. Work and housing at Kitimat. TRACK 2: Description of Kitimat in 1956. Work in Kitimat: Alcan and C.N.R. Moving to Terrace. Garden. Comparing present with past immigration. (blank gap). Help from people. Working with Italians, Canadians.