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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Matthew J. Mackie describes how his parents, Nestor and Susan Maki, came from Lapua, Finland in 1891 or 1892, after hearing about the gold rush; the family homestead at Gleneden; how he had t;o walk five miles each way in to school at Tappen in 1901; what his parents were doing near Revelstoke when he was born in 1893; his earliest memories including the family move to Salmon Arm as his father was promoted on the railway to a foreman; what Gleneden was like; how the town got its name; his earliest memories of Salmon Arm; dairy farming; various jobs; memories of railroading; orange celebrations in Salmon Arm on July 12; Seventh Day Adventists baptizing people; Sam McGuire, an early Salmon Arm settler who had a general store; when they first saw East Indians; and other early memories; of childhood in Salmon Arm, including a few characters. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1971?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willard (Bill) Peters, 75 years of age, describes his siblings and his father (who is 104 years old); the story of his father, who came to Salmon Arm in 1904; December 7, 1866, was the day his father was born; his mother's and father's lives, including details about their lives and jobs and characters; mail workers along the CPR in 1911; details about his father's experience upon coming to Salmon Arm in 1904; his father's job as a police officer in Salmon Arm, with a reputation of being able to get handcuffs on anyone regardless of their size; more on what life was like. Then Mrs.; Peters joins the conversation, and discusses how her family came to Salmon Arm from Carmen, Manitoba, when she was six years old; more on age and family history, including family members who fought in the war of 1812; what family gatherings are like; and what life is like now as compared to then. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Bankruptcy minute books of meetings of creditors held in Vernon, Kelowna, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, Merritt and Penticton, 1923-1956.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: In a taped video segment, Webster interviews "Luke" who knows little about his background. Luke, developmentally challenged, was cared for by his brother and sister but was abandoned by them and left at Vancouver's Seabus with a note pinned to him requesting that someone call the police. Note: In a follow-up on the video segment, Webster announces that Luke's real name is Lucas Kuhlmann. Solange Chaput-Rolland, a French-Canadian author and broadcaster, talks about Prime Minister Trudeau's background and political views. Lorne Nystrom, Yorkton-Melville Saskatchewan MP and NDP trade critic, shares his political views and opinions of the party in power.

Guests:
Chaput-Rolland, Solange
Luke, [FNU]
Nystrom, Lorne
Nystrom, Renee

Topics:
Salmon Arm (B.C.)--Description and travel

Files from National Archives of Canada, RG 9 (Dept. of Militia and Defence) relating to defence policy in British Columbia. Files contain information on militia organization and equipment, defence plans (including defences against submarines), and uniforms, badges, honours, etc., for the 31st Regiment, British Columbia Horse, the 5th Regiment, British Columbia Light Horse, and the British Columbia Hussars. There is also a file on the transfer of the B.C. Horse from Salmon Arm to Eburne.

The fonds consists of benchbooks created by Judge George Stephen Denroche who sat as Magistrate in Armstrong, Enderby and occasionally in Salmon Arm and Penticton from 1959 until 1990.

The volumes are notes of cases heard by Dencroche and are in his handwriting.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Edgar Fortier discusses his life after his father drowned when he was seven years old. He discusses schooling; working; his siblings; several characters around Salmon Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harry A. Ferguson describes his father's life as a gold miner who came over in 1862 from Belfast via San Francisco; he went to Barkerville; he built a hotel in Clinton and then bought a hotel on the south side of the lake in 1885; in 1874 his father took the first horses to Alberta with 300 head for the Mounted Police; a description of his father's journey is given; and he describes growing up in Salmon Arm. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1974 SUMMARY: J. Roger Elgood, who immigrated to Salmon Arm, B.C. from Leicester, England in 1907, tells about his early experiences farming in BC; the first winter; hardships after his father's death; pacifism in World War I, and the decision to join up with the medical corps; farming in the twenties and thirties; outside jobs and the sale of the farm; political attitudes in the thirties.

RECORDED: Salmon Arm (B.C.), 1974-01 SUMMARY: J. Roger Elgood, who immigrated to Salmon Arm, B.C. from Leicester, England in 1907, tells about his early experiences farming in BC; the first winter; hardships after his father's death; pacifism in ;World War I, and the decision to join up with the medical corps; farming in the twenties and thirties; outside jobs and the sale of the farm; political attitudes in the thirties.;

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Constance Johnson. Constance Johnson's family came from New Brunswick in 1911. Her father ranched at Silver Creek and later moved to Salmon Arm. Discusses childhood in Salmon Arm, ca. 1920; Indigenous people around Salmon Arm; household features of the early days; dairy farming, orchards, service jobs; youthful activities like lectures, dancing, drama, and visits of Governors-General, and Zane Grey.

The item is an audio recording of an interview with Victor Nancollas. Nancollas was involved in local Salmon Arm politics for 27 years. He traces the history of incorporation from the separate city and municipality to the amalgamation of the present day district. The topics of public works, emphasizing water and treatment of sewage are discussed, as are the community services such as the library and old age and youth centres. Mill rate with relation to industry is discussed, as is the development of the industries themselves. The one time fruit industry and the present (1977), sawmill and machine shops are all mentioned. He also gives personal views on the value of Regional Districts with special relation to city planning and agricultural land use. The size of the school district, the number of schools and special education facilities (such as schools for the mentally handicapped) are mentioned. He describes the B.C. and Confederation Centennial celebrations that took place in his district.

The item is a film print of unedited footage from 1957. Salmon Arm area scenery. Large crowd of local people, dignitaries, Brownies, etc., gathered on a road for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Afterwards, they enjoy a big outdoor buffet. Farm scenes; stacking hay. Cattle show or auction; carnival rides in background. Parade of bulls. Kids buy ticket, board a ferris wheel; view of event from camera aboard the moving ferris wheel. Sheep. View of lake (Shuswap, presumably). Power boats. Water skiing. Volleyball game on beach.

Stock shots

The item is a video copy of film consisting of unedited footage of the Kenney Dam construction and related activities of the Aluminum Company of Canada in the area of Tweedsmuir Park as well as May Day celebrations at Salmon Arm.

This series consist of probate/estate files from Salmon Arm County and Supreme Courts.

The series consists of "Down Memory Lane" and "The Experiences of a Little Girl" autobiographical accounts by E.M. Leonard (Mrs. E.M. Fulmer) describing her early childhood in Salmon Arm, nurses' training at the Queen Victoria Hospital in Revelstoke and work at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver. It also includes "The Story of John F. Leonard" by M. Fulmer, an account of her brother's life, a composer of operettas for Vancouver schools. Letters patent and items advertising E.M. Leonard's Peristaltic Therapeutic Apparatus.

The fonds consists of records created or acquired by Wallace in the course of his life as a teacher, public servant and retired member of the community.

The records reflect events held across the province in celebrations of the 4 centennials in British Columbia in 1958, 1966, 1967, and 1971.

The records are primarily photograph albums or scrapbooks and were arranged by Wallace as volumes in chronological order.

A small number of records contain correspondence and personal records related to Wallace’s family history in addition to collected ephemera related to centennial celebrations.

Published material included in the donation has been transferred to the archives’ library.

The series consists of civil court orders issued by the Salmon Arm Supreme Court and the County Court of Yale holden at Salmon Arm between 1980 and 1995. Orders are a formal expression of the court’s will, and orders in this series cover a variety of civil issues, including adoptions, foreclosures, family maintenance, divorce, letters of administration, consent orders, and will disputes.

When the records arrived at the Archives, some were loose and others were housed in Shannon folders. The records in the first box and most of the second had no discernible order. Archives staff arranged the orders by the order number in the upper right corner. Once records began to be arranged by volume and folio number, a sense of original order became apparent for the remainder of the records. The date provided in the file list is based on the date of filing.

The series also consists of two orders from the County and Supreme Courts of Vancouver. At least one was ordered transferred to Salmon Arm, but as the Vancouver records were loose, it was impossible to create any linkage between existing Salmon Arm records and the Vancouver transfers. These Vancouver records can be found at the end of box 830539-0004.

This series consists of three volumes of probate cause books from the Salmon Arm County Court and Salmon Arm Supreme Court, 1931-1979. After September 1952, all estates were probated under the Salmon Arm Supreme Court. Volume one is the only volume from the County Court, 1931-1952, and includes file numbers 1-4/52. Volume 2 includes file numbers 1/67-60/76. Volume 3 includes file numbers 1/77-37/79. Only volume 1 is indexed.

Letters of administration with wills annexed from County Court (Form 157), 1933-1943 and from Supreme Court (Form B), 1953-1974.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Percy Gorse relates how he came from London to British Columbia after working for the foreign service to finalize the accounts of the British Colonies; a failed land deal with a man name;d Freeman; how he came to Fort Qu'apelle, and his first impressions of the area; then how he came to British Columbia, and landed at Revelstoke in 1904. He describes Revelstoke when he arrived and hi;s first job. He describes his first winter in BC living with his brother, Frank, on a bank of the Columbia River. He tells various anecdotes about his life, as well as jobs working for a butcher, picking and selling strawberries, including a discussion of salaries; and detailed accounts of fighting bush fires for a man named Charlie Lindmark. TRACK 2: Mr. Gorse continues with more on firefighting; work tracking out to Salmon Arm, and life on the land he and his brother bought near Salmon Arm. He gives his impressions of Salmon Arm and the surrounding area. He recalls characters in the are;a including Bob Fortune and Pat Owens; fruit growing; the lumber industry and dairying around Salmon Arm; building a house for his parents; and describes some characters who came from India.