Item AAAB0009 - John D. Buhr interview

CALL NUMBER: T0008:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John Buhr RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Buhr describes his life in Kiev, Russia, before, during and after World War One and the Revolution. Officer in Tzar's Army, education, persecution of family (Mennonite) as bourgeois -- loss of farm. How he emigrated from Russia, 1925. Jobs in Manitoba: window dresser at Eaton's, Winnipeg. Retirement and move to B.C. in 1961. Interpreter at Doukhobor preliminary hearing trials, New Westminster, 1962. TRACK 2: Discussion of his work as Russian interpreter at Doukhobor trials and comments on Doukhobors in B.C. [continued on T0008:0002] CALL NUMBER: T0008:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of the Doukhobors as interpreted by John Buhr RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Buhr talks about the Doukhobors of B.C. for whom he was a translator in court during the 1960s. His book on the Doukhobors. Mennonites and Doukhobors in Russia. TRACK 2: More on the Doukhobors in Russia from his research. His unfavourable opinion of sympathetic books on the Doukhobors. CALL NUMBER: T0008:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): History of the Doukhobors as interpreted by John Buhr PERIOD COVERED: 1700-1970 RECORDED: New Westminster (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of discussion of his research on Doukhobors, and the trials of "Sons of Freedom" sect members in the 1960s. TRACK 2: Teachings of the Doukhobors from Buhr's research.