SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Itono Hamamoto : a Japanese-Canadian school teacher PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1972 RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1972 SUMMARY: Itono Hamamoto came to Canada when she was 33 years old with her daughter to join her parents, sister and husband. She was a school teacher in Japan and in Steveston for 15 years. The Hamamoto family went to Grand Forks to do farming during and after WWII for about 10 years. Mr. Hamamoto, a strawberry farmer and fisherman, died in 1969. Mrs. Hamamoto has a daughter and a son.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mildred Roylance begins this interview by singing "Home on the Range" and she tells the story of Colin Scott McRae, a young man from Ontario who wrote the song and came to Boundary in 1887 or 1888. He was a taxidermist and became partners with Mrs. Roylance's father and opened a ranch called "McLaren and McRae" in Deadwood. She outlines her father's life as a surveyor including his life in the South Pacific, San Francisco, and Vancouver Island, and finally to a ranch where she was born. Mrs. Roylance describes the location of Carson where her father lived for one year before coming to Deadwood. Her father and McRae were the first people to settle Greenwood, incorporated as a city in 1897. Mrs. Roylance talks about her father's relationship with the Indians and the "crazy" Volcanic Brown and recounts many stories about their celebrations and friendships together.

TRACK 2: Mrs. Roylance discusses a dance that Brown did at an Indian party. Mrs. Roylance's mother was the postmistress in Deadwood and she describes life in Deadwood before the mines closed and the town was deserted. The BC Security Commission moved the Japanese from the coast in 1942; 1,200 came into Greenwood and were accepted and assimilated into the town. Many names of pioneers are mentioned, including: Jack Lucie, Johnny Meyers, who was a butcher, Jim Pogie, an Italian from the Cantalito family who came to mine in 1850 in Rock Creek, and Bob Johnson, a teacher. Then she discusses the earliest days of Grand Forks, Deadwood and Greenwood. Dr. McLean, who lived in the area from 1912 to 1920, became the Premier of B.C. She then tells the story of Boundary Falls and the discovery of gold below Norwegian Creek.

RECORDED: Greenwood (B.C.), 1982-05-31 SUMMARY: Mrs. Roylance's husband was the postmaster at Greenwood for many years; later Mildred herself became postmistress. She also tells stories of the Japanese during the second world war.;