CALL NUMBER: T0903:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lorna Lytle discusses how her father; Thomas Lytle, came to Crawford Bay from Saskatchewan in 1912 to become a fruit farmer. She offers reasons why he came and discusses the Kootenay l;and boom in 1912; how early fruit farming was not profitable; the journey from Saskatchewan; steamboats on Kootenay Lake; early transportation; stone boat trails; optimism of the region; the mining boom from 1898 to 1906; farming by 1912; George Zimmer; Ted Wakefield; an anecdote about a cougar; Prospector Bill's "bear story"; knives and more on the bear story. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle continues with; more on Prospector Bill's story in which two miners encounter a grizzly bear and a trapper gets killed. She discusses grizzly and black bears; hunting for food; caribou; an anecdote about a deer hun;t; more of her father Thomas Lytle and his birth in Ontario on 1873; his family moving to Norquay, Manitoba in 1879; pioneering at Norquay; moving to Winnipeg in 1898; homesteading in Quill Lake Saskatchewan from 1906 to 1911 and buying land at Crawford Bay in 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle explains how her father; Thomas Lytle, acquired land at Crawford Bay in 1912. She discusses the fire of 1883; reforestation; building up the land; small fruit farming in 1912; agriculture including dairy and poultry and fruit in the Kootenay Lake region; the Bluebell Mine; first pre-emptions in 1894; the growth of Crawford Bay from 1898 to 1918; an anecdote about "greenhorn Englishmen"; raw hiding ore is explained; the Pilot Bay smelter; floatation process for separating zinc and lead; a story of Mike Johnson, who was a prospector; and the stores of Crawford Bay. TRACK 2: Miss Lytle offers memories of childhood sounds; childhood memories of the mountains; a discussion of smelter life; how food was plentiful; mountain surroundings versus the open prairies; trees; bir;ds; wildflowers; Professor Murray; effects of the mountains; nationalities of the settlers; British immigrants; present population of Crawford Bay as fluctuating; steamboats including the "Kokanee" whistle; a boiler blow up on the "Kokanee"; "Nasookin"; "Moyie", the work horse of the lake; schedules; impressions of Kootenay Lake; social life and recreation.

CALL NUMBER: T0903:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Lytle continues with more on Crawford Bay; British immigrants; Kootenay Indians; place names; education; Crawford Bay life; and the Women's Institute. [TRACK 2: blank.]