CALL NUMBER: T0944:0005 track 2
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 2: [Original tape #1, Box 30.]
Canon Alan Green discusses his personal background, including his birth in Orillia; Ontario; his father, who was the vicar at the parish there; and his siblings. He describes coming to BC in 1911 at the request of Christ Church Cathedral to work with John Antle as a student missionary on a steamship up to Van Anda. He gives his first impressions of BC; how he eased into boating; and details about the Van Anda Hospital. He then tells anecdotes about "gettin' in" with people at the logging camps and settlers on the coast. He outlines what he offered as a representative of the Anglican church, and how he would adapt his approach based on what worked in a specific community. Finally; he discusses John Antle's character.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0006
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #2, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues by describing his career with the Columbia Coast Mission, and how he came to know John Antle through a man named Cecil Owen. He discusses Antle's belief that "the Church was not there to hold services, but to render service", and anecdotes that reveal Antle's character. Then he discusses hospitals; his hospital rescue ship the "Rendezvous"; and he compares loggers and fishermen. TRACK 2: [Original tape #3, Box 30.] Reverend Greene discusses lighthouses in Bute Inlet and their keepers, including a man named Smith; anecdotes about navigation in Bute Inlet; Skookumchuck Rapids; more on adventures on Bute Inlet; and stories about settlers, including some from the Orkney Islands.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0007
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #4, Box 30.]
Reverend Green continues with his story about the settlers from the Orkney Islands before discussing floating logging camps in detail. The story of a rescue involving the "Columbia" hospital ship; how the "Columbia" had the first radiotelephone in the area; and more on Bute Inlet, including logging and settling attempts and various old timers. TRACK 2: [Original; tape #5, Box 30.] Reverend Greene tells about various adventures around Read Island and Surge Narrows; the burial of Father Lambert of the Seventh Day Adventists; weddings aboard the "Rendezvous"; a large women that he had carry on his back to get ashore for Christmas parties; details about old-fashioned Christmas parties; various ministers on the islands; earthquakes; various characters, including Bill Frost and John Jones.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0008
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #6, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues with more on the characters of Read Island; Bob Tipton, a justice of the peace, who threatened a man with a shotgun for trespassing; and others, including George Stafford. Reverend Greene also discusses the community at Quathiaski Cove on Quadra Island; the Columbia Coast Mission; and the role of the church at Bute Inlet today. TRACK 2: [Original tape #7, Box 30.] Reverend Greene comments on the role of the church in 1969; details on the history of Quathiaski Cove, circa 1905; Reverend R.J. Walker and Chief Billy Assu. [end of interview]

CALL NUMBER: T2102:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-11 SUMMARY: Charles Robson was born in 1901 on Cape Breton Island. Worked on the CPR steamer "Princess Mary". Discusses working conditions, division of coast among steamboat companies, canneries, "Charmer", construction of Pier B-C, Triangle Run, wireless radio, navigation by the whistle, examination of masters and mates, winter tie-up, lighthouses, pilchard fishery.

CALL NUMBER: T2102:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-29 SUMMARY: Bad weather at sea. Lighthouses in the Inside Passage. New CPR ships in the 1920s. Picking a crew. Various runs. Accident: "Princess Louise" and "Princess Marguerite". Triangle run. Special features of boat. Conditions during World War II. Changes in CPR shipping from the 1920s to the 1950s. Accident: "Charmer" and "Princess Royal", 1920. Clo-oose. A birth on ship. Fraser River boats. The Merchant Service Guild. Other sailors from the Maritimes.

Footage. "Probably members of the Columbia Coast Mission visiting the mission boat ['Columbia'] in Vancouver harbour during the Royal Visit. Includes ladies and two nurses. Scenes up the coast taken from the Mission boat: blue sky and sea, islands, and an unidentified [floating] settlement and its residents. Lion's Gate Bridge [long shot], looking out Vancouver Harbour. Lighthouse up the coast. Scenery through the islands, [fishing] boats & settlements. [Logging sequence.] Flowers in an unidentified garden and a little stone fountain in a pond with swans. Two women on deck of Mission boat look out over small village up the coast. Fishing boats, settlements. Man painting hull of Mission boat. Nurses. Boat at dock with other boats nearby, probably in Inner Harbour, Victoria. Empress Hotel. Ladies [disembarking]. Fishermen picking fish out of hold, Mission boat nearby. Scenery and settlement with fish-boats up the coast. At a Lighthouse (Pachena?), a small boat is transported across the top of the water by a cable, then lowered into the water when out of danger. The boat is then rowed out to the Mission boat. More scenery, settlements and islands. Scenery up the coast, islands, settlements, tugboat passing, destroyer passing. Point-No-Point Lodge and beach. [Logging scene.] [The yacht 'Taconite'] in Vancouver Harbour for King and Queen's visit. Many flags and pennants. Lion's Gate Bridge in background. Hundreds of boats in Harbour: fishboats with flags, cabin cruisers, motorboats, and RCN destroyer H48, 'HMCS Fraser'. Biplanes fly over bridge very close to cables. 'Princess Marguerite' hoves into view then sails away under bridge to Vancouver Island, carrying the King and Queen. Village church with wedding party emerging. Settlements, scenery and people up the coast." (Colin Browne)

This series contains an index and correspondence registers for the Department of Marine and Fisheries. The records are arranged alphabetically by correspondent's ma,e. The correspondence to which these indexes refer is available at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

The item is an hour-long sound program produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract, about pioneer days on the Gulf Islands. It includes the impressions and stories of early residents of Galiano, Saturna, North and Sound Pender, and Mayne Islands, emphasizing the arrival of new settlers, lighthouse life, and the joys and tribulations of island life.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gordon C. Odlum : recollections of a lighthouse keeper in B.C. RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-10 SUMMARY: Gordon C. Odlum was born in 1914 and discusses his life spent at remote lighthouses along the B.C. coast. He recounts unusual memories of the early Vancouver waterfront. He discusses the foundation of Point Atkinson Light.

SUMMARY: This program is about "discovering the spaces around us", as illustrated through childhood memories of life on the Strait of Georgia: guiding ships with a hand-operated foghorn, looking out from a lighthouse, travel by boat and canoe, etc. Voices heard include Frances Brown, Devina Baines, Geraldine Hulbert, Beatrice Freeman, Dorothy Richardson, Constance Swartz, Rose McKay, Martha Warnock, and Nick Stevens. The Indian lullaby is sung by Annie Hayes.

SUMMARY: A word and sound picture of the Port of Vancouver as it is today. The program opens with a panoramic description of the Port of Vancouver from minesweeper HMCS Cordova as it steams through First Narrows. The program includes visits to Point Atkinson Lighthouse; the Department of Transport lookout tower on Lions Gate Bridge; HMCS Discovery, the naval reserve training base on Deadman's Island; shipyards; the yachts and fishing vessels moored in Coal Harbour; a coastal tanker; grain elevators; the Harbor Master's office; fire boats and police boats.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-03-12 SUMMARY: Ralph and Rita Roberts discuss lighthouse keeping on the west coast; Sisters Island[s]; Pine Island. Operation of lighthouses; character anecdotes; lighthouse operators; tender ships, and anecdotes about captains. Travelling on the Union Steamships vessel "Cardena".

CALL NUMBER: T1793:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Robert Naughty immigrated to Vancouver after the First World War. His father came out before the war and was an officer with the Union Steamship Company. Daily service ran to Powell River. Junior officers were "set back" during the Depression. Describes crews' quarters aboard ship, methods of navigation. U.S. Army Transport Service ran up the coast to Alaska during the Second World War, attracting many Canadian officers. Union Steamship Company purchased the Canadian National Steamships' "Prince John" and "Prince Rupert" in 1940. Eric Suffield, chief officer, swam in to Egg Island lighthouse to turn on light after both the keeper and assistant keeper had been killed in a fishing accident.

CALL NUMBER: T1793:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Robert Naughty describes moonlight cruises to Bowen Island, the collision of the "Lady Cynthia" and the "Cowichan", navigating by time and compass, also navigating by the whistle. Worked with Capt. Andy Johnstone. Was a rum runner on the "Malahat", going to Tahiti and California. Describes practical jokes played aboard ship, navigating techniques, 1935 waterfront strike, going through Gunboat Pass near Bella Bella and location of the Union Steamship dock.

Television drama. Episode from a syndicated television series about the adventures of a German shepherd named "London" who wanders from place to place and in and out of the lives of his human co-stars. "No Escape" was shot at Hollyburn Film Studios (West Vancouver), on Vancouver's Granville Street, and at Point Atkinson Lighthouse and a West Vancouver marina. It concerns a nightclub singer (Taylor), the witness to a murder, who eludes gangsters and police by hiding out at a lighthouse.