CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charles Renaud (cook, saw filer, musician, well-witcher, whistle-punk) was born on November 24, 1902 in Montreal. An orphan, he spent much of his youth as a farm labourer. Description of trip out west. Meets French people in New Westminster (1927). Came to Terrace by rail, was a flunky on the rails. Goat hunting. Married in 1938. Talks about his job as a cook on the train. Cooking for Little, Haugland and Kerr. Gold Liesser Mine and pack train. Learning the trade of saw filing in New Brunswick. Types of equipment used for filing. Employee of Skeenaview Hospital. Well-witching with a willow stick. Contracted T.B. Learns how to knit. Hazelton, squirrels bothering pudding. Kitwanga, speeder, flood of 1936. Doreen, twisted rails caused by flood. (blank gap). Description of experiences; as a whistle punk. Mishap. Talks about illness, retirement and wages. TRACK 2: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages. CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life and work in the lumber industry in Terrace, B.C., 1940-1977 PERIOD COVERED: 1943-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Greg M. Sieben (lumber industry production superintendent) was born in 1921. Saskatchewan background. Arrived in Terrace in 1943 with Army. Pohle Lumber. Major MacMillan. Salvus in 1948. Transportation. Honesty in the 1950s. Logging: falling with hand tools, late 1940s. Hand bucking. Early power saws. Handling large trees. Sawmilling, steam power. Mrs. Pohle's part in sawmill operation. Diesel machinery. TRACK 2: Second Pohle mill, 1950s: foundation, arrangement of steam-driven mill. Improvising parts. Steam engineers, atmosphere of old mill. Modern operators' booths. Electricity. Automation. Hiring practices in the 1950s. Employment of immigrants: language problems, Dutch immigrants, Portuguese immigrants, post-war and present work attitudes. Changes in life-values in past 20 years.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hank Dressler describes Takla Forest Products Limited, including what they are manufacturing; who they employ Indians; offers his impression of Fort St. James. Then Al Jarvis describes the company's logging techniques; transportation of wood; tree farms and business ventures. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. : raising a family in the 1930s and 1940s PERIOD COVERED: 1924-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hector Cote (timber cruiser, scaler, plumber, contractor, millworker) was born in Terrace on May 21, 1924. Medical services and mishaps. School days, description of Kitsumkalum School. Fire drill. Racial and cultural background. Bilingual. Haying for George Little. Career opportunities. TRACK 2: The Depression. Father snaring rabbits. Hobos on the C.N.R. to Prince Rupert. Effects of the Depression on the native people. Working in Prince Rupert in the construction business. Joining the Army, training in Nova Scotia. Overseas occupation. Falling cedar poles which were sent to New York. Hauling poles with a lead truck and a second truck. Loading poles on trucks and then onto railcars. Selective logging.

Stock shots. Bucking, limbing and burning wood and slash from affected trees. Felling, bucking, and piling trees, working in snow. Infected (red) trees. Sawmill.

Stock shots. A compilation of footage showing beetle infestations, beetle-killed trees, selectively logged areas, beetle larva, etc. Also shows (affected?) trees being cut and taken to mill, where they are either fed into a chipper, or debarked and milled into railway ties.

Stock shots. Aerial footage of beetle-killed forest, selectively logged areas and chipper mill site. Logging scenes, including shots of skidder, tree snippers, falling trees, front-end loader, loading of logging truck, etc. Shots of infested logs. Arriving at mills, some of the (affected logs) are chipped; other are debarked and milled into railway ties. More shots of infested logs and dead trees.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. : a faller's experiences PERIOD COVERED: 1946-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07-07 SUMMARY: Robert J. Gagnon (faller) was born in Rimouski, Quebec on December 4, 1920. Came to B.C. in 1946. Worked in the woods in Houston. Skidding with horse in Telkwa. In 1953 sawmilling in Smithers, Driftwood Camp. Spring of 1954 came to Terrace, and an earlier visit to Terrace by car during the winter of 1949. Learning English. Working on power line between Kemano and Kitimat in 1952, wages and working conditions. Falling on contract for Columbia Cellulose, "piece work" basis in the North Kalum area before Nass Camp opened up. Mishaps. Equipment used in the woods. Changing to "day rate" for falling. Upkeep of equipment, weather conditions. Attitude. Description of supervisory job (1977). Arrival of wife, living conditions at Blue Gables. Adjustment to Terrace. Purchase on new home on Scott Street (1961).

CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Steve J. Tomecek (prospector, logger, trapper, farmer) was born on August 20, 1904 in Czechoslovakia. He came to Quebec in 1928. Worked in Saskatchewan, white-fish fishing at Fort McMurray. Loss of supplies. Walking one hundred miles in three days. Rabbit dinner cooked by Indians. The call of the wilderness. Came to Rosswood in 1930. Washing gold in Douglas Creek. Working on the telegraph line. Logging for George Little. Trip up the Stikine River. Living on game and fish. Crossing river by cable. Extracting gold. High cost of supplies. Finding gold in Douglas Creek. Taking out poles with horses. Raft making. Earning one hundred dollars per day during the year 1937. Small logging camps. Confused prospector looking for Snow Mine. Hiking up Goat Mountain. Changes in staking claims. Accident in bush at age 65. TRACK 2: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood. CALL NUMBER: T3120:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Prospecting and logging near Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-07 SUMMARY: Finding platinum. Picking up gold. Sighting and shooting Kermode bear. Grizzly bears. Sighting of huge footprints up the mountain (Sasquatch?). Meeting bears on narrow ledge. Goat hunting. Building own home. Sending out mineral samples for evaluation. Farm animals. Selling eggs. Falling on the Copper River. Soldiers going hunting with Dud Little. A labour strike. Attempts to beaver farm near Rosswood.

Stock shots. Shows logging, logged area, snags, slash and slashburning in the vicinity of Kitimat River and Lakelse Lake. Also shows Crown Zellerbach fire hazard rating sign.

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: The Sunflower Crisis Shelter is losing government funding so Webster does on-site interviews. Astronaut James Irwin, who walked on the moon with Apollo 15, talks about his flight and other space-related topics. Skeena NDP MP Jim Fulton talks about issues affecting his riding.

CALL NUMBER: T3114:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sawmilling and logging in Terrace, B.C., 1919-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William Christy (cat operator, truck driver, mechanic) was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1910. Came to Terrace in 1919. Worked during school holidays in sawmill. Drove horse in winter, skidding. Description of a "go-devil". Cutting hemlock ties. Making boom sticks, use of "big wheels" and horse team to log, shipping logs to the Great Lakes. Falling spruce. Sleigh roads, working a grease-monkey greasing the logs. Loading logs using horses. Corduroy roads and cottonwood plank roads for trucks. First cat, a 30 Holt. Servicing machine. Use of "jammers". Method of transporting poles, using two trucks. Working for Giggey. Hours and wages. TRACK 2: Various jobs. In 1941 employed in Pohles shop. Strike, "black-listed". 1950 Shop Foreman. Types of machinery. Army incidents. "Zombies" (French Canadian objectors). Blackouts. Meeting soldiers on the road. Rationing of liquor. Describing the Skeena River. The flood of 1936, attempts to move Loen's house. Supplies brought in by boat. In 1964 sale of property. Move to Thornhill. The growth of Thornhill and its desire to remain separated from Terrace. CALL NUMBER: T3114:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Sawmilling and logging in Terrace, B.C., 1919-1964 PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1965 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-09 SUMMARY: Various jobs. In 1941 employed in Pohles shop. Strike, "black-listed". 1950 Shop Foreman. Types of machinery. Army incidents. "Zombies" (French Canadian objectors). Blackouts. Meeting soldiers on the road. Rationing of liquor. Describing the Skeena River. The flood of 1936, attempts to move Loen's house. Supplies brought in by boat. In 1964 sale of property. Move to Thornhill. The growth of Thornhill and its desire to remain separated from Terrace.