RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Adeline Genier came to BC from Ontario in 1892; she describes her trip out west; her husband was Gilbert Genier, an electrician who got work from Sturgeon Falls to Vancouver working for the CPR. She was married in Kamloops in 1892 after her bout with mountain fever. The power house was built in Kamloops at this time. She mentions several people who worked on the power house and what was involved in learning how it worked. Her husband ran the power house for seven years until the family moved to Heffley Creek to buy a ranch. When the Klondike rush began they opened a stopping house for the two pack trains which came through; eventually sold it and the ranch and built a school at Heffley Creek. She is the mother of nine and she talks about how successful her life was. She describes the people and ranches at Heffley Creek and her family's values. She discusses recreation such as baseball. They moved to Barriere and she tells the story of how the town was named. TRACK 2: She describes Louis Creek and how it was named; the reserve and the roads going to and from the town. The Indians and how good neighbours they are. Anecdotes about Indians; how the children grew up with music; more anecdotes.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mrs. Annie Wilkie, 97 years old, describes her father, who was an original '49er who eventually moved to North Kamloops. She describes the area, her life and several characters whom she remembers.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred Irwin was born in Lower Nicola; his mother's family was named Woodward, and they were from Ontario; Mr. Irwin's mother came out in 1874. His father taught at the first school in Lower Nicola; he describes his father's life and most of the early settlers; a description of the town and houses when he was a child; cattle farming; French Canadians in the area; farmers; Merritt; churches; Nicola Lake; and where the settlers came from. TRACK 2: Mr. Irwin offers several anecdotes about things that happened to him in his youth; the gold rush in the Klondike and its effect on the community; a few members of the community; and events in Kamloops.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred W. Pinchbeck describes his father, William Pinchbeck, who came from England and settled a ranch and roadhouse above Williams Lake in the 1880s; Indians and other local ranchers; his own life with his widowed mother at Victoria and Kamloops; and Bill Miner stories. TRACK 2: Mr. Pinchbeck continues with more Bill Miner stories; work at Wilcox Hardware in Kamloops; the first cars; in the area; blacksmith work; local characters; bars and sporting houses; the McLean brothers; more blacksmith work; and railway construction.

SUMMARY: Stories about the early days of Kamloops, the importance of the CPR and the stockyards, and the hunt for Bill Miner, the legendary train robber. The voices heard are: Colonel D.C. Vicars; F.W. Pinchbeck; Wentworth Wood; Bill Brennan; Alex Bulman; Fred Irwin; and Doug Palmer.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. F.V. Cornwall discusses her father, Robert Garnett Tatlow, who came to Canada from Ireland when he was seventeen; his work for a land syndicate in Vancouver in 1886; the Vancouver fire; real estate interests; her father as an M.L.A.; Joe Martin, Richard McBride, Dave Fulton; her father's political views; early Vancouver and high society; Lord and Lady Aberdeen. TRACK 2: Cornwall discusses her father's Cariboo property; more descriptions of people and places in early Vancouver; the Cornwalls; a train robbery story; more about the Cornwalls; dances at Kamloops; trips to Vancouver; brief comments on hunting, Indians, and clergymen in the Ashcroft area.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Fennell, nee Struthers, born in Ontario, tells about her early life; the death of her father and subsequent move to Kamloops. She describes 25 Mile House, below Louis Creek in Potter's Flat, where she lived with her uncle who was a carpenter. She describes the journey there by horse and wagon; how she met her husband. She tells anecdotes about her life at 25 Mile House, and her life since. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rhoda M. White discusses her father, W.W. Shaw, who came from Ontario to the west, settled at Salmon Arm, sold his farm after ten years, and moved to Heffley Creek; became a ranch manager at Tranquille; the ranch at Heffley Creek in 1914; the first Christmas on the ranch; automobiles; Bill and Jane Fortune; Kamloops as a health resort; ranch horses; her father's character; her mother's character; the appearance of the area in the early days. TRACK 2: Mrs. White tells the story about a man and his mother; she discusses isolation; early schools; social life; changes after WWI; settlers at Lewis Creek 1906 to 1908; how her father burned out about 1900; her father took over Circle Bar Ranch; her grandfather and the Iroquois; her fathers first experiences at Heffley Creek and Tranquille. Then Dr. W.F. Shaw describes his family's ranch at Shaw Springs; gold in the Thompson River; hardships of pioneers; early characters -- Stage Billy, Tommy Spence, Murray the Trader. Then she discusses marmots and snakes; apples and other produce; other settlers and early conditions; and a ghost story.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: Mr. Tommy Lick discusses the status of the Indian reservation; selling or trading salmon and furs in Kamloops; salmon in the river; French settlers in the Cariboo; the barn at Spences Bridge; Indian names and languages; status of the reservation Indians; chiefs and priests; broken promises to Indians.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wentworth Wood, born in Montreal, describes coming west in 1883; to Victoria until 1885; and then to Vancouver until the fall of 1887; then on to Kamloops. He describes his father, who was a sheriff; he describes boats of that time; Andrew Mara; his impressions of Kamloops when he arrived at the age of seven; what life was like; characters he remembers; anecdotes about men named Titus, Broughton, McNeil and the Reverend Stevenson; hotels in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Wood continues with a story about a hillbilly, more anecdotes about a man named Thompson and others; Bill Miner, the Haney brothers; more on the Bill Miner holdup; the McLeod brothers; copper mining in the 1890s; Dave Powers, MacIntosh.

CALL NUMBER: T0667:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. William Brennan discusses his early years; coming to Kamloops because of lung troubles; Kamloops described; cattle drives to the railroad; joined survey for CNR along the North Thompson; driving logs down river. TRACK 2: Brennan describes cattle drives from Nicola country; cows; horses; Sam Pau, who was an Indian cowboy; an incident with cattle on a bridge; pre-war Englishmen in BC; Fruitlands Company buying up ranches; Roper of Cherry Creek; Bill Miner trial and escape; Bill Miner's life as a prospector and church supporter; and Bill Fortune's comments.

CALL NUMBER: T0667:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Brennan continues with anecdotes about Bill Fortune and his wife; Bill Miner stories; Haney brothers train robbery; remittance men in Kamloops; Rideau school at Musian Flats; Father Morice and Father Le Jeune, who gave Indian names to CPR stations. TRACK 2: Talented priests; Indian quest in Red River rebellion; passion play; Indians then and now; Father Le Jeune's Chinook newspaper;, "Kamloops Wawa"; the Indian schools then and now; more on Bill Fortune and ranches.