RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry (Henry G.) Mufford recounts his father's [Thomas Mufford] coming from Cornwall and settlement in Milner in 1885. He talks about the community of Milner; Langley Prairie School; wildlife; roads; shipping milk and hay; the Mufford Brothers Dairy Farm; weather; driving livestock into New Westminster; a farm disaster; neighbourhood quarrels; politics; saloons in Fort Langley; owning the first threshing machine in the area in 1898. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver recounts his parents' arrival in Vancouver from Cheshire; England in 1887; his grandfather [Woodward] was already living in BC; his family later moved to Delta in 1894. He discuss;es early life on the family farm; schooling; game; draining and preparation of the land; mud shoes for the horses; ploughing; soil conditions; drinking water; crops; Brackman and Ker; transportation; ;roads; schooling; other settlers; the McKee family; farm produce; West Delta settlement; flooding and dyking. TRACK 2 Mr. Weaver continues his discussion about the dredging operation; the Oliver Slough; the Great Northern Railway; Old Man Morgan; recollections of John Oliver; fish trapping; picnics at Blackie's Spit; Frank Burns; early settlers; Old Man Morgan; John Woodward; logging in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver talks about the roads in the area; weather conditions; mosquitoes; Butler's Corner; Tom Ladner's property; threshing work; [pause]; local incidents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Sevilla Island (B.C.), 1975-03-05 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Miller recalls his family's arrival and settlement on Nicomen Island in1887, and later move to Matsqui in 1919. The family farm on Nicomen Island; development and settlement; bridges, roads; clearing land, farming, dairy farming; life on Nicomen Island; the McBride government; island transportation. TRACK 2: Mr. Miller continues with a discussion about life on Nicomen Island; rail;roads on the island, other residents; Sam Macdonald; steamboats; lumbering; Colonel Jaggers, Dr. Stuart, Indians, local characters, the magistrate and Judge Begbie.

RECORDED: Matsqui (B.C.), 1981-08 SUMMARY: Mr. Walters was a cross cut saw logger and original Fraser Valley farmer. All work was done by hand.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis recounts the arrival of his father [Alexander Gillis] in BC from Prince Edward Island in 1881; settling at Mount Lehman; timber on the property; clearing land; other P.E.I. settlers; dairy farming; fishing; river incidents; fishermen; Mount Lehman Landing; building bees; neighbours; Sam Lehman; floods. Mrs. Hanna talks about her early memories, social life and school life. [T;RACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh Monahan talks about the origin, development and prospects of the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary. TRACK 2: Mr. Monahan continues with a description of the Reifel Sanctuary and the residents. He talks about his art and painting of water fowl.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Biggar recounts his father's coming from P.E.I. to the Langley area in 1887; homesteading in Biggar Prairie; other settlers from P.E.I.; settling the prairie; building; flooding; early settlers; Eric Anderson; schooling; comparison to P.E.I.; winter on the prairie; the railway; Blaine; pioneer life; improvements to the homestead; farming; taking produce to market; roads and trail; livestock. TRACK 2: Mr. Biggar discusses various jobs; the BC Electric; Fred Sinclair; working for the BC Electric; storms; Biggar homesteads; logging; churches; Alexander Tate; doctors; naming of the; community.

CALL NUMBER: T0447:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Nelson talks about his father [Nels Christian Nelson] coming from Norway to homestead and fish at Whonnock in 1885. He discusses his life working in the fishing industry; types of boats; building boats; canneries; early Whonnock; types of salmon; logging; steamships; Glen Valley; Bill Miner; other incidents; Probert family; fishing; the market for fish; scow houses; the fisherman's ;life; Collingwood and Steveston. TRACK 2: Mr. Nelson talks about the commercial fishing industry; sturgeon fishing; early canneries along the Fraser River; Chinese cannery workers; Steveston; the Nelson Brothers Cannery; the fish inspector; procedures involved in setting nets.;

CALL NUMBER: T0447:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Nelson talks about the Japanese working in the fishing industry; the Norwegians; other ethnic groups along the Fraser River; Nass River fishing; the Reverend Collison; Indians working in ;the fishing industry; types of salmon and nets; fishing equipment; changes in fishing methods; differences between gillnetting and seining; fishing locations; weather. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hall recounts her family history; her early life in Britain and the family's immigration to BC. She recalls the family settling at Terra Nova; Lulu Island in 1888; the journey to the family farm; family life; the family farm; other residents; farm produce; her father's [Gordon Robert] work as a carpenter; a description of the area in 1900; dyking; drinking water; bridges; a description of Sea Island; river traffic; supplies; the stage route; Mr. Steves; Mr. Mellis; roads. TRACK 2: Mrs. Hall continues with her discussion about road conditions; early Vancouver; William Gray; clearing flood boxes; Bridgeport; the Mellis family; Mr. Yewdall; canneries; the Terra Nova Cannery; Indian and Chinese labour; the flood of 1894; entertainment.;

CALL NUMBER: T1939:0001 track 1 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses families in Hatzic during the early 1900s; coming to Hatzic; and the old Henry house.;

CALL NUMBER: T1939:0001 track 2 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses people, families and places in Hatzic, Mission, and vicinity during the early 1900.;

CALL NUMBER: T1939:0002 track 1 RECORDED: Mission (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Ivy Watkins of Vancouver discusses people, families and places in Hatzic, Mission, and vicinity during the early 1900.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Brannick recounts the arrival of his father [Joseph Brannick] in 1882 in East Chilliwack; homesteading in the area; drainage; land clearing; trails; roads; wildlife; farming; dairy cattle; butter shipments; transportation; their log house; a description of East Chilliwack land conditions; flood of 1894; mills at Elk Creek and Popkum; horse trading; farm produce; Chinese labour; horses; crops; farm life. TRACK 2: Mr. Brannick talks about his schooling; dredges; BC Electric improving transportation; Chilliwack Creamery; Fraser Valley Milk Producers in 1913; Captain Sam Gardiner; the Jack Parker family; the Ford family; early settlers; young people's social life; churches.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Churchland talks about his family history; their arrival in Surrey Centre in 1890 and his father's [John Churchland] general store. Mr. Churchland discusses the journey from England; first impressions; his family; the stage to Surrey centre; impressions of the community; building the store; store contents; wholesalers; the railway; store interior; incidents; childhood at Surrey Centre; family farm; the post office. TRACK 2: Mr. Churchland continues with his discussion of early settlers in the area; the Reverend Bell; the Richardson family; the Boothroyd family; Chris Brown; John Oliver; other residents; Thomas Hookway; his father's position as justice of the peace; changes in Surrey centre; his father's photography; various positions.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Henderson recounts his father's [John Calvin Henderson] and grandfather's settlement at Popkum and their later move to Chilliwack. He describes Popkum's Landing; his father's store; boa;t traffic; freight; settlers; childhood memories; schooling; his father's undertaking business; playing in a band; May 24th boat excursion to Harrison Hot Springs; New Year's celebrations; arrival of ;BC Electric in 1910; Brackman and Ker Milling. TRACK 2: Mr.Harrison talks about the ferry to Minto Landing; the Agassiz ferry; Mr. MacDonald's canoes at Camp Slough; Harrison Hotel; the Ryder family; the 1894 flood; fire brigade; Bill Miner; politics.

RECORDED: Sechelt (B.C.), 1982-03-15 SUMMARY: Mr. Derby lived on the Sunshine Coast, where he raised his family by taking on a variety of jobs, including logging, chicken farming and barbering. He also took an interest in the boys of the community, and taught boxing, baseball and other sports.

CALL NUMBER: T0308:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kipp recounts that his father, Henry Kipp, settled in Chilliwack in 1862; he talks about the land and streams of the area; the Indians and the naming of Centreville by Henry Kipp and Jon;athan Reece; the first settlers. He recounts his father's journey to BC from Ontario via Panama; settlement in the Chilliwack area; early homesteaders. TRACK 2: Mr. Kipp continues by describing ear;ly settlement and formation of a land company; the Kipp family; an incident with the Indians; Indian labourers; schooling; churches; winters; changes in the geography.

CALL NUMBER: T0308:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kipp continues by discussing the steamboat landing in Chilliwack; Ashwell's store; Five Corners; hotels; Bummers Roost; the route to Cariboo; Women's Christian Temperance Union; the Commercial Hotel; barn raising/quilting bees; social life; Cultus Lake; "Sheepy MacDonald"; mail carriers; entertainment; the Harrison Hotel; churches. TRACK 2: Mr. Kipp continues with his discussion a;bout churches in the community; the first white burial; the cemetery; Chinatown; Sunday observance; childhood adventures and experiences; doctors; dentists; fires; subdivision; drainage.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Boston recounts her parents arrival in Milner; they later homesteaded in Aldergrove in 1887; early settlers; pioneer life; the farm; mail service; mills; the Home Improvement Company; churches; Reverend Dunn; the first school; Aldergrove; logging; the Great Northern Railway; the BC Electric Railway; dairy farming; schooling; family life; bus service to New Westminster; Goodman Hamray; peddlers; Richmond A. Payne. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0437:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Louie speaks about Indian languages of the Fraser Valley; legends about drought and Cultus Lake; Indian religions and values; Indian boundaries respecting land, hunting, and fishing, and; the preservation and respect of natural resources. TRACK 2: Mr. Louie continues to speak about respect for life and beliefs associated with hunting; the Indians' quality of respect that was the sam;e as prayer; respect for elders; elders teaching of skills; Indian life; skills; longhouses; trails in the Abbotsford area; Indian names in the area; and the treatment of Indians by white men.

CALL NUMBER: T0437:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1967-01-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Louie discusses Indian-white relations; chiefs in his family; the Matsqui settlers' relationships with Indians; education; Coqualeetza School; Indians in the work force; Mount Baker; BC Electric; East Indian workers; conditions of Indians in Washington State; and his father, Chief Joe Kelly. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0767:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Brown recounts his parent's journey to BC from Ireland and settlement in Surrey in 1879. He talks about roads and their names; his father's farm, Colebrook; railways; clearing and draining land; logging; mills; flooding; tide gates; soil conditions. TRACK 2: Mr. Brown continues with a discussion of land conditions and settlement; early settlers; development of Surrey; types of farming; marketing produce; BC Electric railway; truck transportation; settlement; clearing land; contract workers; Chinese labour; East Indian labour; community life; social life; interesting characters; R.H.L. Morgan; John Oliver.

CALL NUMBER: T0767:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Brown talks about wildlife in the Surrey area; incidents; the Drinkwater bear incident; John Oliver; "English recruits"; climate; farm crops; school; childhood in Surrey. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Kosikar recounts his father's coming to homestead in the Columbia Valley in 1889; US/Canada border and land registration; clearing the homestead; farming; pioneer life; roads; working; Sumas; early settlers; logging; railways; the border; social events; schooling; smugglers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0159:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John T. Mitchell & William George Mitchell-Dwelly : Depression in B.C. - recollections of Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-01 SUMMARY: John T. Mitchell and William George Mitchell-Dwelly were both born in 1908 and they discuss early Vancouver and the Lower Mainland from 1914-1930.; CALL NUMBER: T0159:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John T. Mitchell & William George Mitchell-Dwelly : Depression in B.C. - the Depression in Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1930s RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-01 SUMMARY: John T. Mitchell and William George Mitchell-Dwelly share recollections of Vancouver and the Depression years from 1914-1930s.; CALL NUMBER: T0159:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John T. Mitchell & William George Mitchell-Dwelly : Depression in B.C. - the Depression in Vancouver RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-12 SUMMARY: John T. Mitchell and William George Mitchell-Dwelly discuss vacationing during the Great Depression and their memories of the Depression years in Vancouver.; CALL NUMBER: T0159:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John T. Mitchell & William George Mitchell-Dwelly : Depression in B.C. - early roads and ranches RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-13 SUMMARY: John T. Mitchell and William George Mitchell-Dwelly share memories of Joe Fortes and Interior roads and cattle ranches.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the arrival of his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in Vancouver from Ontario in 1877; the family farm at Delta; Morgan's farm; dyking the family property; his father's political career as an M.L.A. and Premier. Mr. Oliver discusses his own schooling and farming. TRACK 2: Mr. Oliver continues with his discussion about farming methods in Delta; "tooley shoes" for; horses; haying; fresh water supply; early draining methods; other incidents.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jonathan Kelly Fraser recalls his father [Dan Fraser], who worked with the CPR; homesteading; his work as customs officer in Huntingdon; clearing land; other settlers; mills; Abbotsford; the man who lived in the stump; remittance men; incidents at Abbotsford; clay mines; Italians; the Yale Road; weather; Sumas Lake; mosquitoes. TRACK 2: Mr. Fraser talks about the floods at Sumas; trails; traveling salesman; other anecdotes; childhood memories; "Lord Davie"; remittance men; "Silver Tip"; the Commercial Hotel; dances; school days; Clayburn miners.

CALL NUMBER: T1225:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Herrling : working on the steamers, 1900-1914 : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1885-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Herrling was born in Agassiz on November 7, 1885, and moved to New Westminster in 1899. He recalls the family homestead in Agassiz, his father -- Charles August Herrling a 49'er from California, Herrling Island and the 1894 flood on the Fraser. He started work on the riverboats -- 1900. He speaks about his first years on the boats: quartermaster on the "R.P. Rithet", mate o;n the "Ramona" and "Transfer". Recollections are heard about the Fraser River boats, incidents, freight, schedules, navigation, wrecks, "Ramona", "Strathcona", "Skeena", way landings, wharves, fog whistles and the Chilliwack landing. TRACK 2: Captain Herrling continues with Fraser River memories including: Joe Morrison, river bank scenery, homesteading on Herrling Island, the river from New Westminster to Steveston, the canneries and other stops on the run, an incident on the "Transfer", fishing communities and canneries on the Fraser, fish boats and problems with their nets, the ferries on t;he Ladner to Steveston route, the Woodwards Ferry (1914), MacLachlin steamers, Ladner (1900), incidents on the Ladner Ferry and service after the arrival of the B.C. Electric. Captain Herrling speaks about his work on the upper Fraser-Nechako run, Soda Creek to Fraser Lake 1910, Captain Bonser and the "Inlander".

CALL NUMBER: T1225:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Herrling : working on the steamers, 1900-1914 : part 2 PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Herrling continues to relate his experiences working on the steamboats: trips to Fort Fraser, Soda Creek-Fort George, Tete Jaune Cache, navigational problems, the Skeena River,; Captain Bonser, "reading the water", the Skeena run on the "Inlander", "drifting", Kitselas Canyon, "lining", incidents, the Kispiox trip, the "Pheasant" (1905) -- trip from New Westminster to Skeena, Wiggs O'Neill, duties as mate on the "Inlander", the crew, Walter Wright -- pilot, Hazelton (1911) and types of passengers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Joseph Morrison talks about the early years of Fort Langley from 1860 to 1890. Born at Fort Yale in 1861 [sic]. His father, Kenneth Morrison, came west via Edmonton. Buildings at Fort Langley. His grandfather, Ovid Allard, was Chief Factor. The steamboat "Fort Yale" blows up in 1861. Miners bound for Cariboo. Job on CPR construction. Indians living near Fort Langley. Visits of Judge Begbie and Sir James Douglas. Farms; school at the fort; more on the "Fort Yale". Arrival of fur brigades in the spring; celebrations. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kate Mellard recalls coming to Chilliwack with her family in 1887; family members in the area; transportation; George Ashwell; the Old Yale Road; Centreville; her husband's work in the post office; hotels; the telegraph trail; anecdotes of life in Chilliwack. TRACK 2: She continues with her recollections about the community of Chilliwack; stores; childhood pranks; entertainment; interesting characters; her husband's work as justice of the peace; schooling; 24 May 1897; Five Corners; hotels; early residents.

The fonds consists of Kenneth A. Hodgson's amateur films created around 1950, showing B.C. Electric's Fraser Valley passenger and interurban rail service, and the special streetcar used for sightseeing tours in Vancouver. An accompanying videotape made in 1990 includes both these and other films of rail transportation in the Lower Mainland, supplemented with voice-over narration.

The item is a video copy of a promotional film from 1949. It shows the annual Mission Strawberry Festival, including its celebrated parade (with visiting girls' drill teams) and soap box derby.

The series consists of registers of land sales in the districts of Cariboo, Cayoosh, Douglas, Hope, Langley, Lillooet, Lytton, New Westminster, Osooyos, Queensborough, Yale. The series includes records of lands sold or auctioned. The lot and section number, name of grantee, number of acres, payee, and dates of payment are recorded. The series also includes an index to land sales in Langley (1859).