RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Parmiter recounts coming to Ladner in 1874; his father's involvement in coal mining in the Queen Charlotte Islands; early Ladner; the family farm; other residents; early roads; transportation; early farming; Vancouver; cattle; growing oats and hay; Pemberton's farm; sloughs; canneries; Deas Cannery; Canoe Pass; recreation; floods; dykes; flood boxes; his work at the Standard Cannery on the Skeena River; fishing and farming in Ladner; winters; ice skating; roads; dances. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Swenson talks about his father [Paul Swenson] who came to Westham Island in 1881 from Sweden, and later managed the British American and Canoe Pass Canneries and bought a farm on Westham; Island in 1886. Mr. Swenson discuses the bridge to the island in 1909; early family history; local Indians; anecdotes about his father and family; Tamboline Slough on Westham Island; history of the Ladner/Delta area; the sturgeon banks; farming; development; Canoe Pass; early settlers of Westham Island and dyke construction. TRACK 2: Mr. Swenson continues discussing dyke construction on Westham Island; Chinese labour; farming; canneries; fishermen; ethnic groups in the area; Japanese; inducements for fishermen to join a cannery; Icelandic immigrants; Finnish immigrants; getting fish to the canneries; local characters; strikes; Count [Alvo von] Alvensleben; Tsawwassen Reserve; raising sugar beet seed.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevenson talks about coming to Elgin in 1888 from the Orkney Islands; clearing the farm; dyking and draining the land; early Elgin; logging camps; early settlers; early crops; Brackman and Ker; shipping produce; the hotel in Elgin and Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit. Mrs. Stevenson talks about her father, Isaac Johnston; early New Westminster; the New Westminster market; family life; farms; the family potato factory; early Elgin; W. Kaye Lamb; early residents; Peter Bain; Ladner; John Oliver. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell recounts the early history of the Ladner area: William H. Ladner; Thomas Ellis Ladner; first settlement in 1868; early residents; subdivision; the Sutherby family; C.F. Green, her ;grandfather; A.R. Green; a journey on the "Tynemouth" from England; the Green family in 1871 in the Ladner area; family history; family stories; floods; building of dykes circa 1895; other residents; ;the McNeely family; steamships; Chinatown in Ladner. TRACK 2: Mrs. Bell continues with her recollections about the Chinese community in the Ladner area; canneries; other ethnic groups; ship building; fishing; fish plants; mills; navigation in the area; farming; family history; Canoe Pass Cannery; Wellington Cannery; the Ladner family; social life; her parents; the Reverend Bell; the McNeely estate; establishment of the monastery; memorial park; community hall; transportation to Vancouver; the land boom of 1911 and 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell continues with her discussion about transportation to Vancouver; the Delta district; BC Packers; the Japanese community; social amusements; camping at Boundary Bay; history of Point; Roberts; the Icelandic settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0768:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Guy Richardson recounts his parents' early life in Iowa and Tacoma in 1881; his father-in-law, the Reverend Bell, coming to Ladner in 1881, and later Surrey Centre; his mother-in-law's arrival; his parents' friendship with the Bell family; the Richardson family settling in Surrey Centre in 1887; building of the church in 1884; logging; early family life; the family's teaming business; railways; the 1912 fire; the family's logging operation and mills. TRACK 2: Mr. Richardson continues with recollections about mills in the area; bear incidents; shingle bolts; Christmas celebrations; communities in Surrey; dances and childhood activities. Mrs. Lucy Richardson talks about her father, the Reverend Bell; the family; childhood activities; area residents; picnics; clothing; church; people; doctors; anecdotes about her mother and her father.

CALL NUMBER: T0768:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Richardson talks about her father, the Reverend Bell; his missionary work; his living in Sapperton and Central Park; Orangemen; his appearance; Johnny Wise. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leon Johnson Ladner : the Ladners of Ladner, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1858-1900 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-21 SUMMARY: Leon Johnson Ladner was born in 1884 and discusses his family's early history in BC beginning with 1858 and the arrival of the family in BC. The establishment of Ladner, BC and the role of his family in the salmon canning industry. He also tells of many of the early people in BC history, such as Judge Begbie, and Bishop Edward Cridge. He mentions some of the early Premiers of BC including John Oliver and Richard McBride. CALL NUMBER: T0176:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leon Johnson Ladner and his political career PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leon Ladner describes his childhood and education; interest in law; travel to Europe; marriage; ran for Parliament in 1921 and won. TRACK 2: Ladner's involvement with politics. Remembers Arthur Meighen. Ladner's interest in politics was in banking, and the need for a federal reserve bank. He relates a number of stories about famous people he came into contact with. In 1926 Mr. Ladner ran for the leadership of the Provincial Conservative party. He helped to secure it for Tolmie when there was a deadlock. Running for election against MacInnes and being defeated. His evaluation of R.B. Bennett. CALL NUMBER: T0176:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leon Johnson Ladner and his political career PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leon Ladner describes his attempt to bring H.H. Stevens and R.B. Bennett together. He relates some of his meetings with John Diefenbaker. His interest in women's suffrage. TRACK 2: Leon Ladner discusses his role during World War I and more on his interest in federal reserve banks. Establishing the Bank of Canada. Meeting with Sir Charles Tupper. CALL NUMBER: T0176:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Leon Johnson Ladner discusses his career as a lawyer and businessman PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Leon Ladner describes his years as a lawyer and some of his cases. His attempt to get freight rates lowered for the west. TRACK 2: Leon Ladner's business dealings over the years. Peat business. His involvement with making steel, Western Canada Steel.

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner discusses the Nugent Report on Sir James Douglas to American President Buchanan in 1858; his personal; political and educational philosophy; history of the Ladner family in Cornwall; Leon Ladner's political career, circa 1926; history of the Ladner family settlement in Ladner and the family's canneries. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner continues with his discussion about the family's cannery business; anecdotes about his uncle William Ladner; All Saints Church in 1881; his mother, and his education.;

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner begins with readings from William Ladner's diary. He talks about his father's adventures after leaving Cornwall; his father and uncle arrived in Victoria and Delta in 1858; their; business ventures in the Cariboo and New Westminster; the family land purchase in 1868 in the Delta area; drainage problems in Delta; his father's cannery business; the naming of Ladner; the Victoria; Cannery Company; the mosquito problem; anecdotes about Sir James Douglas, John Oliver, Sir Richard McBride, the Guichon family, William McBride, and the first school in 1882. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner talks about his father's adventures in California; his uncle William Ladner's appointments; early Ladner; wooden horse shoes; drinking water; roads; floods; the family farm; beekeeping; Delta Manor; sub;division of his father's farm; anecdote about Lord Byng's visit; old Ladner homes and his father's experiences.

Letterbook, 1903-1914 signed Harry Burr and diaries, 1901-1910 describing farming activities at Ladner.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mike Whalen discusses coming to the Delta area in 1890; settling land in Point Roberts; the border controversy; early Point Roberts settlers; Icelandic settlers; life in the area; Ladner; Steveston; work in the area; trap-fishing in Juan de Fuca; local canneries like P.P. & N. TRACK 2: Mr. Whalen talks about John Oliver; effects of the Klondike gold rush; the depression of 1894; growth; of Vancouver in the 1890s; incidents at Blaine and Elgin; fishing on the Nikomen River; Charlie Hunt.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nick Stevens recalls his early years on Salt Spring Island; his early life as a fisherman in the Gulf of Georgia; anecdotes about his childhood; fishing on the Fraser River; types of boats; living in a scow house; anecdotes; the Greek community on Deas Island; the Austrian community; the Spanish community; other ethnic groups in the Lulu Island area; community life and provisions. TRACK; 2: Mr. Stevens continues discussing various groups along the Fraser River; the Japanese community at Steveston; Spaniards on Duck Island; Portuguese; Kanakas from Salt Spring Island; Indian cannery ;workers; Austrians in Ladner; Chinese on Deas Island; cannery work; cannery equipment; the "Iron Chink"; the "Iron Squaw"; Deas Island; his work as a pirate fish buyer; land taxes on Lulu Island; life; on Lulu Island; fishing seasons; Chinese/Indian relations; Japanese/white relations; unloading German tin plate in Steveston; growing up in Steveston.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevens talks about survival in the forest; canoe trips with his mother, Emma King; characters from the Ladner area; Steveston; Ladner; travel to New Westminster; steamboats on the Fraser; in 1905; fishing procedures, circa 1900, on the Fraser and the Gulf of Georgia; sealing; sturgeon fishing; Canoe Pass; Port Guichon; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of Vancouver and region PERIOD COVERED: 1892-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Born on a farm in Ladner in 1892; growing up and attending school on Lulu Island; Chinese residents; move to Eburne; discovery of Indian relics; moved to Granville Street and 60th; father's background; father's work building the BC Electric Railway; Granville Street and trips to downtown Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Comments about Anderson Island and fishing on the Fraser River; English Bay; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; ships and shipping; summers at Bowen Island; anecdotes about life around Vancouver; marriage in the 1920s; work in hotels and the hotel strike in the 1930s; modelling; the Cordova Street shopping area.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of early Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: More about Marpole excavation; West Vancouver; end of the Second World War; early strikes; visiting circus; safe streets; tea parties; calling children; wild life; family worries; Harrison Hot Springs; comments on First Narrows Bridge; Mayor McGeer; Grouse Mountain. [Note: BC Archives does not hold a copy of T2350:0003 and the contents of this recording are not available]

Sound recording is on track 1 of each recording only; track 2 is blank.

SUMMARY: Stories from the Fraser River delta: early explorers; land pre-emption; farming; the Ladner brothers; the 1911 plan to develop a harbour at Sturgeon Bank. The voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Isabella Hall, Arthur Swenson, and Leon Ladner.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Doherty recounts his family's trip to Vancouver from New Brunswick in 1887, and his memories of growing up in Mount Pleasant; schooling and playing lacrosse. He recalls the Gastown area; his livery business; horse teams; hauling and excavation for the city; his stable on 8th Avenue; and construction of early buildings from the 1910s -- the Vancouver block and the Birks building. He talks about farming with Charlie Oldfield on Lulu Island, 1913-1915; the trucking business; his home and dairy on Sea Island; his Ladner farm; roads and trails; the New Westminster fire [1898?]; bicycle registration; weather; political life; Jimmy and Gerry McGeer; False Creek; slaughter houses; recollections of his wife; and his property on Sea Island. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tony Capadouca RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-09 SUMMARY: Tony Capadouca was born in 1918 in a boat on Deas Island. 40 families living there on float houses. Less hectic living, travel by water only. Government pumped sand, built causeway. Island sold, and houses floated to Crescent Island, later to Tillbury Island, and later relocated to land at Westminster. Once had option to buy Deas Island for $3,000, advised not to by old man. Land now (1976) worth $2 1/2 million. Rowed across river and walked two and a half miles to school. Houses fenced for children's' safety. His father lived on Deas Island for 40 years. Fished Deas Island slough up to Fort Langley. Brother drowned at 17. Started fishing at 7 years, licensed, in skiff around Woodward's Landing. Worked with Canadian Fishing for 35 years, and still fishing. Indians fished around Fort Langley. Didn't like forced evacuation of Japanese, thinks Japanese did well after war from old boats to finest, cleanest fleet. Hard-working Japanese women help clean boats, mend, etc. Story of friend's boat hit by freighter going too fast. Lights from Steveston deceiving, people make mistakes going over jetty. Comments on old standards of cleanliness in handling fish in canneries, store, etc. Until age 21 all his income went to his parents. Fishing gear from Japan. Best not to owe money to canneries or canneries could control prices. Need for 200 mile limit. Discusses present fishery regulation and American regulations. Frank Fisher once owned Deas Island, later called Paradise Island by locals. Canadian Fishing Company paid small fee to Fisher for using island. When island sold, Greek colony moved into Ladner. Cannery on Deas Island sold, nothing there now (1976).Tried to get all Greeks to buy island. Used to hunt around Ladner islands. Superstition: "Don't cut fingernails on a boat, it's bad luck". Story of fishery officer's daughter drowning. Japanese used rooster on boat to find drowned bodies. When rooster crowed, body could be located. Family anecdotes.

CALL NUMBER: T4029:0003 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Warren Cameron comments and reflects on his experiences as an infantryman in France in WWI. Military training very inadequate. Conditions in trenches. Equipment. Food. Killing. TRACK 2: Game Commission staff were political appointments. Recollections of bootlegging and bootleggers in Fraser Valley. Use of ships to transport liquor. Tunnel at Boundary Bay for liquor smuggling. Comments about two notorious hijackers -- Sowash and Baker. Anecdotes and comments about prostitute Pansy May -- "I'm a good woman", befriended by Mr. Cameron. Recollections of Commissioner Bryan Williams -- a "game hog", when he was re-appointed as commissioner he was tempted to fire entire staff as political appointees. A "good old guy". Comments about A.P. Cummings, the first game warden of Chilliwack. Names different wildlife in Chilliwack Valley.;

CALL NUMBER: T4029:0004 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-21 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.];

CALL NUMBER: T4029:0001 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Warren "Slim" Cameron discusses game law enforcement under the Provincial Police, 1919-1929. Game Department was a "political organization". Bryan Williams. Comments on A.P. Cummings, warden for Fraser Valley and early commissioners Gary Bolton, Jim Cunningham, Frank Butler. Indian trappers a problem in the interior. TRACK 2: Slim Cameron recalls his policy of enforcement during the 1930s. Recollections of bootleggers and their methods, graft, in Fraser Valley, Columbia Valley, and Ladner. Use of Provincial police to quell disturbances in relief camps and in Anyox miners' strike. Cameron's involvement in Bagley and Fawcett bank robbery. Tact in law enforcement. Story of pheasant poacher. Shooting "for market" pre-1913.

CALL NUMBER: T4029:0002 RECORDED: Ladner (B.C.), 1982-12-02 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this tape.]