RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-12-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape "Canon Greene dub", Box 29, recorded December 18, 1961; recorder not identified.] This tape consists of reminiscences by Reverend Greene including: (1) his experiences as a student missionary in 1911 aboard the boat "Irene"; (2) an anecdote about an impromptu service he gave at a logging camp at Lund [similar to the story he recounts on T0944:0004; (3) his efforts to get ;a collection together from a group of poker-playing loggers; (4) a story about some men who knew how to "take life easy"; (5) an old-fashioned Christmas party at Refuge Cove involving a little girl of; a English family recently emigrated from India who was very excited about Christmas; her father, who froze to death in the water a month after arriving; and the wife, who re-married aboard Reverend Greene's boat; (6) an interesting interpretation of religion by a man named Harry; (7) Scandinavian setters, and specifically a man he calls Charlie, who ate his horse named Lindy [similar to the story; he tells on T0944:0004]; (8) the ability of people on the coast to face any challenge, including one man who had to build a graveyard; (9) the funeral of a man named Tompkins, who capsized and drowned at Campbell River; (10) a lunch he had with a man named Bill, whose broken flush toilet blew him out of the outhouse; and (11) another story about Bill who designed a mausoleum for himself.

SUMMARY: "People in Landscape" was a series about people and places in British Columbia history, based on oral history interviews by Imbert Orchard. The series aired from 1968 to 1972. This episode is from th;e first series (1968-69), which dealt with life on B.C.'s lower coast and the Strait of Georgia. Ben Ployart talks about some of his adventures as a young logger and rancher.;

SUMMARY: Stories and descriptions of the early days of logging among the islands and inlets of the northern Gulf of Georgia. Voices heard include: Allen Robertson, Duncan Robertson, Ben Ployart, and Albert Drinkwater.