Loggers--British Columbia--Anecdotes

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10:15 talks : Canon Alan Greene : [talk no. 8]

SUMMARY: One of nine original tapes from a series of talks for the CBC Radio program "10:15 Talks". The programs, also known as "All That I Have Seen and Met", feature Canon Alan Greene recalling his experiences as a seafaring parson in the Strait of Georgia from 1911 to the 1940s. TRACK 1: Original tape #8. This talk consists of: (1) a story called "Will I Put Her Around Again, Old Sport", about how Greene; as a student missionary at Lund in 1911, managed to get a group of loggers to attend an impromptu service; and (2) a story called; "The Reincarnation of Colonel Lindbergh", about a Read Island ma;n, Charlie Rosen, who ended up eating his prize horse, Lindy.

Canon Alan Greene interview, 1961

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.