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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Ada Dawe recalls her father Thomas John Cook; his arrival in Sechelt in 1893; Bert Whittaker and his store and hotel and steamships; more on steamships, the "Comox"; waiting for ships circa 1910 to 1914; and fishing. TRACK 2: Mrs. Dawe continues describing the arrival of nuns from France, Order of the Infant Jesus [Sisters of the Child Jesus], with Mother Superior Theresine in 190;3; the building of the Indian residential school in 1905; more on native Indians, including their appearance and their brass band; prominent Indians including Jack Isadore and Chief Julius and Chief A;lf August; the school for white children in 1912; Christmas festivities; roads to Porpoise Bay; Gibsons and Pender Harbour; and her impressions of loggers.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cyr, nee Lagace, recounts her father's arrival in Hatzic Prairie from Quebec; the family homestead; Mrs. Thompson; Italian settlers; her family traveling through the Rockies in a covered wagon; Captain Stanley Thompson; Mrs. Cyr's father; her mother; dances; picnics; schooling; local residents; Father Fouquier; Durier; Boucher; the Lagace family. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cyr continues with her recollections about her family; her mother; her husband, Zoel Cyr; his logging work at Stave Lake; the Matsqui Hotel; ranching in the Dewdney area; family incidents.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster tells of his family moving from Ontario initially to Vancouver, then Agassiz in 1902, where his father took over a general store and ran it for twenty years. He describes the varied products supplied by the general store and the main competition, Inkman's store, and that the busiest time of year was during arrival of migrant labour for the hop harvest. Comments on operation ;of the BC Hop Company; Hindus and Chinese grew and processed the hops; Indians did the picking. He describes Agassiz businesses and the character of the town; Agassiz and Bella Vista Hotels; he recalls the one-room school environment and teachers, Mrs. Herd and Mrs. McQueen; as well as another, very unsuccessful teacher. He gives an account of the attempted robbery of Bank of Montreal, formerly ;Bank of British North America, which was thwarted by Webster's father. TRACK 2: Mr. Webster discusses local transportation including the Agassiz-Rosedale ferry and the trains that serviced Agassiz. ; He describes the Harrison Hot Springs Hotel talley-ho that picked up guests from the railway station. He tells of the Inkman family, their musical talents, and contribution to social life; of Mrs. Agassiz and her daughters, including their exclusiveness and farming origins. He talks about Bert Horwell, town blacksmith, and how his shop was a gathering spot, along with Webster's store, where oft;en politics was discussed. He describes the political affiliation of local people, including Reeve McRae, and of visitors Richard McBride and John Oliver. He tells of the importance of churches as social centres. He mentions Agassiz's strong baseball tradition and the good teams it produced. Mr. Webster describes the Agassiz Valley and views of surrounding mountains; including Mount Cheam. He ;gives an account of the local election process and discusses the role of the Odd Fellows Society and its hall as the center of political and social activity.

SUMMARY: A program written [and produced?] by Imbert Orchard, with [actors?] David Jeffery and James Galway. No content information is available. Only the second half of the program is represented here.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is an interview with Jurgen Hesse, hosted by fellow radio documentarist Imbert Orchard. They talk about Hesse's life and; experiences.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. The first part of this episode [archived as T2463:0001] is "The Luck of La Chance" by Imbert Orchard, a special documentary presentati;on about the 1910 avalanche on Rogers Pass, which took an estimated sixty lives. It is a personal account of the disaster by Bill La Chance, the sole survivor. Other voices heard include: Mr. and Mrs;. Philip Parker, Andy Gray, Doug Abrahamson, and G.H. Williamson. The second part of the this episode, "Folk Songs", is a collection of folk songs, including some from B.C.. The vocalists include: Cla;ire Klein, Bud Spencer, and James L. Johnson, with conductor Bud Henderson.f@!NYKlein, Claire singer ;f@!NYSpencer, Bud

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CALL NUMBER: T1379:0001 - 0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aural History in British Columbia Studies RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1974-10-18 SUMMARY: A panel discussion on oral history research as it relates to the study of British Columbia. The panelists are: Margaret Andrews, Imbert Orchard, Derek Reimer, Phil Thomas, and Barry Truax. CALL NUMBER: T1379:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Education Panel RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1974-10-18 SUMMARY: A panel discussion on the use of oral history materials in primary and secondary schools. The panelists are: Shirley Cox, Charlie Hou, Lilian McIntosh, and Allen Specht. CALL NUMBER: T1379:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Historians Panel RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1974-10-18 SUMMARY: A panel discussion by academic historians on the use of oral history. The panelists are: George Cook (SFU), Jack Granatstein (York), David Millar (York), and Gordon Wilson (Capilano College). Tape begins with the official welcome from Professor Dallas Smythe, Chairman of the Communications Studies Department, Simon Fraser University. CALL NUMBER: T1379:0005 - 0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): [Broadcasters Panel] RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1974-10-18 SUMMARY: No transcript is available for these three tapes. Presumably they include the Broadcasters Panel, a discussion of sound documentaries based on oral history materials. Robin Woods of the CBC Archives chaired this panel, which featured Elspeth Chisholm, Anita Gordon and Imbert Orchard. CALL NUMBER: T1379:0008 - 0009 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Authors Panel RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-10-19 SUMMARY: A panel discussion by Canadian authors on the use of oral history in their non-fiction books. The panelists are: Barry Broadfoot, James Gray, Imbert Orchard, and Peter Stursberg. CALL NUMBER: T1379:0010 - 0012 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): [Canadian Aural/Oral History : Regional Projects] RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1973-10-19 SUMMARY: No transcript is available for these three tapes. Presumably they include the panel discussions on aural history projects in Eastern Canada and Western Canada. The Eastern representatives included: Dr. Donald F. Campbell (College of Cape Breton); Gregg Finley (New Brunswick Museum); Bruno Jean (Universite Laval); Jean Morrison (McGill University); and Dr. John Widdowson (Memorial University of Newfoundland). The Western representatives included: Dr. James Boutilier (Royal Roads Military College); W.J. Langlois (Provincial Archives of British Columbia); Jane McCracken (Manitoba Museum of Man and; Nature); Jean Morrison (Thunder Bay Labour History Project); and Trevor Powell (Saskatchewan Archives).

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Danny Milo recounts the story of his family and his birth; his family lived near Sardis; the legend of the flood; the Chilliwack tribe; the legend of Cultus Lake; stories of the Chilliwack River; the Vedder River; origin and meaning of place names; Indian dialects; legend of the Fraser River; the continuation of the legend of the flood; the story of the creation of man and woman; Indian religious beliefs. TRACK 2: Danny Milo continues with Indian legends; the legend of the bear children and the man who got a wife made out of alder; the conclusion of the legend of the flood; his father's bad luck; the legend of Cheam, Popkum and Tamiki Mountains.

CALL NUMBER: T0719:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Milo speaks about Indians and the first white man; killings in the canyon; a childhood visit to Yale; the meaning of "Siwash"; Indian lands; the first pioneers; the Whatcom Trail; school days at Coqualeetza Home School; Captain John; the Indian preacher. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dennis Walker recalls the journey from England to Vancouver with his parents in 1892, and their eventual move to the head of Bute Inlet; his father's name was William George Walker. He ;then describes building a homestead; the slow influx of other settlers; the growth of the community around Mr. Walker's original home site; social events in the community of Bute Inlet; various attempts by his father to sell farm produce in Vancouver; the problems which arise from being so far from the market; and stories of other families in the town. TRACK 2: Mr. Walker continues by describing; a trip with other youths up the Southgate River to the Chilcotin; a description of the salmon spawning season; comments on wildlife in the area; the death and burial of three Walker children; the destruction of the township by fire; an anecdote about original settler Tony Bernhardt; the death of Shorty Hibbs at the hands of the Indians; comments on coast and interior Indians; the unused Mallard Company Tannery; the climate and physical setting of the township; his father's departure for work in Vancouver; the gradual departure of the other settlers when the railroad failed to materialize; and; his travels through BC, especially Barkerville, as a machinist.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Edith Rowe discusses her father, Oscar Henderson, including how he ran away from Norway at 13 to go to sea, and details about his character; anecdotes about his character and her experie;nces growing up with a father who was a Captain; how he met her mother (Maude Muir) in Halifax, and how they went to sea on the ship "John Johnson", how he sister Inga was born in Nova Scotia, how Edith was born in Hong Kong aboard her father's ship the "John McLeod", anecdotes about her parents around the time of her birth, and details about ships and crews. TRACK 2: Edith Rowe discusses life ab;oard sailing ships, what it was like being a child at that time including the clothes that they wore and games they played, schooling in England, more anecdotes about life on the ship, an experience o;n the Sargasso Sea, getting to know your ships, and anecdotes about various ports, clothes the seamen would wear, what clothes she and her siblings would wear, life in the tropics, and swimming.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rowe discusses her parents' view of education, how she was schooled on the ship by her parents, the meals they would have aboard ships, how lime juice was supplied to avoid scurvy, dogs ;on the boat and more details about life, memories of the sea including phosphorous and the sounds of the sails, her memories of storms, more anecdotes including one about a race, and she relates a shanty. TRACK 2: Mrs. Rowe discusses communication with other vessels, the use of tugboats, a story about the coast of Peru, more anecdotes about life an adventures aboard ships, her memories of BC in 1;901, what the family was doing in Esquimalt, and a ship they came across that hit them in the fog and sank.

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-26 & 1964-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Mrs. Rowe discusses other shipwrecks, stories about their interactions with survivors and their families, the inquiries, how living on land was boring, the next boat they lived on, more sea incidences including experiences from Chile, her feelings about other girls (they were "sissies"), she reads a poem called "Ships" by Robert N. Rose, the smell of the land, a discussion of the poem "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad, a story about catching a shark, the sport of catching sharks, how sharks are enemies of sailors, stories about albatross sightings, how dolphins and porpoises follow the boats;, and sailing strategies. TRACK 2: [Interview resumes on April 22, 1964.] Mrs.Rowe offers an anecdote about an old sea custom called the working up of a dead horse which consists of the sailors getting a months advance pay before leaving on a voyage and they make a horse, Rowe sets of a bell to exemplify signals, more on the horse, the meaning behind the horse, stories about crossing the equator,; more on superstitions, a story of a sailing from Tacoma to South Africa in 1902, a dramatic incident in which her sister was almost thrown into the sea, and another which shows her sister's courage.;

CALL NUMBER: T0978:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-04-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rowe discusses how as children they were always more comfortable at sea then on land, more on racing, a description of '"tacking ship", more on life aboard ship, details on shark fishing;, more anecdotes about being a child growing up aboard a ship including a story about going to land to get fitted for shoes in Australia, and poems she realtes about the sailor's lament. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of all 13 episodes of "From the Mountains to the Sea", a series of hour-long radio programs about the history and people of British Columbia's regions, based on oral history interviews recorded by Robert (later Imbert) Orchard. The series was produced in 1967 to mark Canada's Centennial year, and mainly focuses on the period 1885-1914. The series was written and produced by Robert Orchard, with original music composed by Elliot Weisgarber.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh Monahan talks about the origin, development and prospects of the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. TRACK 2: Mr. Monahan continues with a description of the Reifel Sanctuary and the residents. He talks about his art and painting of water fowl.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Introduction to aural history
PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1961
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Orchard's background in the study of history and English. Orchard's developing interest in local history in Ontario, ca. 1931. The strong first impression of B.C. on Orchard. The "compression" of B.C. history. The "epic" quality of pioneer life in B.C. "Variety" in B.C. Orchard's war work in the field of camouflage. Spent nine years in Alberta in the field of drama. Began as a script editor for CBC radio and TV. Orchard's first recordings with Constance Cox, 1960. Comments on CBC bureaucracy. TRACK 2: Orchard's first radio series on the Skeena with John Edwards as producer. Orchard's first interviewing trip to the Skeena, 1961. The selection of subjects. Recording techniques. Ian Stephen as Orchard's technician. More on the first Skeena River trip. Recording with Wiggs O'Neill, Sara Bourgon.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recording the "Living Memory" of British Columbia
PERIOD COVERED: 1961-1967
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the story of Orchard's first Skeena trip, 1961. The second Skeena trip, 1962. Anecdotes about recording in the Skeena country. "River of the Clouds", Orchard's first big documentary program. Meeting Agnes Russ. Recording techniques and the routine of recording. Little preliminary research. More on Ian Stephen as Orchard's technician. Making the programs. The artist's eye and ear. "River of the Clouds" won awards. "Living Memory" a series of 15 minute sound programs. Recording the Victoria series of interviews in the spring of 1962. Recording in the Fraser Valley area, 1963. Meeting Martin Starret, 1963. Starret was Orchard's outstanding subject. TRACK 2: Continuation of the discussion of Martin Starret. Trip with Martin Starret to Babine Lake. Other outstanding interviews: Paddy Acland, Phyllis Bryant, Cornelius Kelleher. Major gathering trips in 1964 and 1965: Nicola, Cariboo, Boundary, Okanagan, Kootenays, Vancouver Island, Lower coast, Gulf Islands, etc. Orchard now able to do his own recordings. Anecdotes about Orchard's travels while recording. Orchard's new series, "People in Landscape".

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0005
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aural history in British Columbia
PERIOD COVERED: 1964-1971
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1978
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Canadian Centennial, 1967, a landmark in Orchard's broadcasting career. Discussion of new artist techniques used in the series of 1 hour programs, "From the Mountains to the Sea", 1967. Anecdotes about making the programs. Problems of separating "truth" from "myth" in the recordings. After about 1967, Orchard begins to do his own editing. Major journeys: the Chilcotin with Phyllis Bryant Kellis; the Parsnip River with the Boy Scouts, following David Thompson's route. About 2/3 of Orchard's recordings not yet made into programs. About 1/4 to 1/5 of the total material would go into programs. More on recording sessions. General reflections on aural history. [TRACK 2: blank. End of interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0008
RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1978-11-06
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In a lecture to a Communication Studies class at Simon Fraser University, Imbert Orchard discusses aspects of aural history. The history of sound recording. Distinction between "oral" and "aural". Orchard's early interest in aural history while working for the CBC. Orchard demonstrates aural history techniques by playing a portion of an interview with a pioneer woman of British Columbia. TRACK 2: Aural history a a method of bringing the past to life. Orchard plays a portion of a taped interview with B.C. artist Jack Shadbolt. Aural history as a form of presentation. The differences between aural and visual media. Orchard plays a portion of a radio documentary he made about Dutch prisoners-of-war in Europe during the Second World War.

CALL NUMBER: T0990:0009
RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1978-11-06
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continued from T0990:0008. Continuation of excerpt from radio documentary about Dutch prisoners-of-war. Aural history and history. Aural documentation. Orchard plays a portion of a recording made of a scouting expedition that he took part in, tracing the exploration routes of Simon Fraser and Alexander Mackenzie. Description of the process and techniques of recording interviews and editing sound programs. Orchard answers questions from the student audience. Problems encountered in recording the sound program "In the House of the Old Doctor". TRACK 2: Conclusion (about 5 minutes).

CALL NUMBER: T3186:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Early radio in Western Canada PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1955 RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-03 SUMMARY: James Laurie began work for CNR Radio in 1925. Description of the operation of CNR Radio. First worked in Winnipeg. Stories about work for CNR Radio, 1925-37. Joined CBC in Vancouver, 1937. Laurie helped open the new CBC facilities in the Vancouver Hotel, 1938. The Royal Visit, 1939. Anecdotes about early outside broadcasts. Editing techniques and recording techniques. Technological limitations prior to the advent of tape recorders. Control room anecdotes. Description of Bill Herbert. Clashes between Ira Dilworth and Bill Herbert. Early portable tape recorders. Changes in radio: power supply, microphones. Start of anecdote about damaged mike cord on live broadcast, ca. 1936.

CALL NUMBER: T3186:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): CBC Vancouver, the early years, 1937-1955 PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1955 RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1978-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Conclusion of anecdote about damaged mike cable on a live outdoors broadcast from Victoria Golf Course, ca. 1936. Description of Ira Dilworth, Director of Radio. Anecdote about "The Carson Family", a farm broadcast, being recorded at the Armstrong Fair. Moving into new CBC headquarters in Hotel Vancouver, 1937. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Boston recounts her parents arrival in Milner; they later homesteaded in Aldergrove in 1887; early settlers; pioneer life; the farm; mail service; mills; the Home Improvement Company; churches; Reverend Dunn; the first school; Aldergrove; logging; the Great Northern Railway; the BC Electric Railway; dairy farming; schooling; family life; bus service to New Westminster; Goodman Hamray; peddlers; Richmond A. Payne. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-04-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John Wilson talks about life and people in the Peachland area, 1910 to 1920. He begins with stories about the Miller brothers including hunting and fishing; a description of the two you;ng Englishmen coming to the Okanagan in 1910; fruit farming; Fred and Lionel Akins; impressions of what life was like then, including 'toughness'; odd jobs; the real estate boom; logging; J.M. Robinso;n and the beginning of Peachland; real estate dealings; more on Robinson; settlement in the Westbank area; stories about the Gellatly family; drinking; various people; life in Peachland and travel in ;the Okanagan. TRACK 2: Mr. Wilson tells the story of the shooting of a policeman on a sternwheeler; Bob Angus, who was the village cop; antics in Peachland; a brawl in Kelowna; rough characters; an ;attempt to exchange land with Indians; stories about "Big Tex" and the McDougall family; more on the McDougalls; Jim Silver; Harry Hardy and his cabin; the Granite Creek trail; Jacques of Jacques Cree;k; Paddy Acland; the Silver King Mine and Alec Miller.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McMillan talks about his family's history; grandfather James Elliot Faulkner came to Canada around 1880; his father Donald McMillan and mother lived on Iona Island from 1885 to 1905; father's work for the J.H. Todd cannery; early delta settlers; the Henry Mole family; Fitzgerald and Sam Mcleary; Hugh McGee; Garabee; Hugh MacDonald; other residents of Sea Island; farming on Sea Island; transportation to New Westminster; recollections about the Hastings Mill Store. TRACK 2: Mr. McMillan talks about boat and freight transportation on the Fraser River; stores in the area; Harry Eburne; Churchill and McKay; Musqueam Indians; Indian ceremonies at the long-houses; childhood memories; school days and teachers; H.V. Barton; entertainment; Steves' Stage and Billy Mallis's stage; bridges on Sea Island and Lulu Island; area industries; canneries; lumber mills; settlement; gold scare; naming of Lulu Island; his father's background.

SUMMARY: The sub-series consists of episodes from the fourth series of "Living Memory", a CBC Vancouver radio program about people and places in British Columbia history, based on oral history interviews recorded by Imbert Orchard. Four series aired from 1961 to 1964. The fourth series, broadcast from April 9 to June 25, 1964, dealt primarily with settlement of the Fraser Valley.

SUMMARY: Interview with an unidentified male speaker about Murrayville.

SUMMARY: Radio program following a flight of two CF-104 Starfighter jets along the route of the C.P.R. from the Alberta border to Patricia Bay Airport on Vancouver Island. The pilots report in-flight progress via radio. Dan Gallacher, Curator of Modern History, Provincial Museum, and Imbert Orchard, CBC broadcaster and oral historian, provide commentary. The aircraft are code-named "Century One" and "Century Two".

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nick Stevens recalls his early years on Salt Spring Island; his early life as a fisherman in the Gulf of Georgia; anecdotes about his childhood; fishing on the Fraser River; types of boats; living in a scow house; anecdotes; the Greek community on Deas Island; the Austrian community; the Spanish community; other ethnic groups in the Lulu Island area; community life and provisions. TRACK; 2: Mr. Stevens continues discussing various groups along the Fraser River; the Japanese community at Steveston; Spaniards on Duck Island; Portuguese; Kanakas from Salt Spring Island; Indian cannery ;workers; Austrians in Ladner; Chinese on Deas Island; cannery work; cannery equipment; the "Iron Chink"; the "Iron Squaw"; Deas Island; his work as a pirate fish buyer; land taxes on Lulu Island; life; on Lulu Island; fishing seasons; Chinese/Indian relations; Japanese/white relations; unloading German tin plate in Steveston; growing up in Steveston.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevens talks about survival in the forest; canoe trips with his mother, Emma King; characters from the Ladner area; Steveston; Ladner; travel to New Westminster; steamboats on the Fraser; in 1905; fishing procedures, circa 1900, on the Fraser and the Gulf of Georgia; sealing; sturgeon fishing; Canoe Pass; Port Guichon; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thames recounts his family coming from Nanaimo to Bowser in 1893. He discusses fishing; Qualicum Tom; schooling at Alert Bay; early settlers; farming; fishing; logging; and settlement prior to World War I. Mrs. Thames recalls her arrival as a war bride in Bowser in 1917; her first impressions; fishing; her first year; settlement that started after 1922; hunting; boating; the government road; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: Topley Landing ; Bear Lake Charlie.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pfister talks about living on Lulu Island in 1899; he arrived from Switzerland and lived in Port Angeles for five years. He worked on Sea Island during the 1893 depression and later moved to Lulu Island; his wife's family, Udy, owned a brickyard in Vancouver. He discusses clearing land; wooden horse shoes; drainage ditches; drinking water; dykes; floods; the Terra Nova Cannery; local stores; Steveston; Steves Stage Coach; Terra Nova Stage; the railway; present day [1963] conditions; land ownership. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: This program features recollections of the joys and tribulations of deep sea fishermen of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Voices heard include: Eric Ross, Burt Roberts, Mrs. Ed [Lila] Regnery, Grace Stevens, John Williams, Arthur Husband, and Tom Moran.

SUMMARY: Sarah Bourgon recalls her adventures as a young English immigrant: arriving in Canada in 1912, working in Vancouver and Prince Rupert, and travelling to Aldermere in the Bulkley Valley in 1914.

SUMMARY: The history of the Haida people in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Includes: stories and legends from their ancestors; visits to Masset, and to Moresby and Anthony Islands; and descriptions of the old viillage sites with their remaining artifacts. Voices heard include Knut Fladmark, Dr. Peter Kelly, Betty Carey, Neil Carey, Gray Stephens and John Williams.

SUMMARY: This program recounts two journeys into Bella Coola: Alexander Mackenzie's journey in 1793, and that made by Cliff Kopas in 1933.

The series consists of seven audio programs on aspects of B.C. history, produced for the Provincial Archives of British Columbia as a planned educational series. Adapted by Imbert Orchard from oral-history-based radio documentaries he had produced for CBC Vancouver, the audio programs were augmented with visual material (not extant) compiled by Ray McAllister to create a set of slide-tape programs.