Footage. According to Lew Parry, the uncompleted film TIDEWATER FREEWAY was to be a technical film on the dredging and compacting of underwater fill to create a highway grade on tidal flats near White Rock.

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Teskey recounts her family's history; her grandfather; her father's early life and work in Yale as a brick maker for the CPR in 1879; her mother's trip to BC with the family in 188;1; family life in Yale; the town of Yale; their trip and settlement in Clover Valley, as Cloverdale was known; Surrey; other settlers in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Teskey talks about establishing the first school in Cloverdale; her father's appointment as Reeve; the family move to Hazelmere; the family farm; school; Indian graves; Joe Semiahmoo; schools in the area; her father's work for the Yorkshire Guarantee Company in England as a settlement agent; sawmills; the Great Northern Railway; mail; stage coach routes; Halls Prairie.;

CALL NUMBER: T0779:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Teskey continues with stories about other settlers in Surrey; anecdotes; the naming of Hazelmere and Glenwood; childhood recollections; her work at age eleven in New Westminster and Gastown; English Bay in 1893; the family's hop farm; strawberries. [TRACK 2: blank.]

In 1957, Hugo Ray was appointed by the Minister of Municipal Affairs to chair the Metropolitan Joint Committee (MJC). This Committee was charged with investigating and reporting on the pros and cons of unifying administration and services of eleven municipalities (Burnaby, Coquitlam, Fraser Mills, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Vancouver, West Vancouver) in the Greater Vancouver area.

The records consist of Ray's files as Chairman of the MJC, a copy of the Committee's final report, correspondence, some minutes, briefs to the Minister and to the MJC, membership lists, speeches and source material for speeches. Also included are copies of reports and studies prepared for lower mainland municipalities which addressed topics of interest to the MJC.

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0013/1 - 0013/6 RECORDED: Rosedale (B.C.), [197-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Michael Kournossof discusses aspects of his life. Born a white Russian, he fought in the Russian Revolution in 1917, emigrated to China and then Canada in 1926. Kournossof's voice, though accented, is clear and distinctive. The speaker's unnamed male friend questions the speaker on occasion. TRACK 2: Begins with Gary Marcuse questioning the speaker about his parent's and his own spiritual beliefs. Jurgen Hesse, also present, is a freelance broadcaster/producer of CBC Radio's "Identities" program. Interview was recorded for use as a current affairs news item on the "Save the Farmland" issue and on "Identities".

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0013/2 - 0013/6 RECORDED: Rosedale (B.C.), [197-] SUMMARY: Continuation of the above interview. [No content summaries available.]

CALL NUMBER: T3882:0013/7 - 0013/8 RECORDED: Rosedale (B.C.), [197-] SUMMARY: Continuation of the above interview. [No content summaries available.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mike Whalen discusses coming to the Delta area in 1890; settling land in Point Roberts; the border controversy; early Point Roberts settlers; Icelandic settlers; life in the area; Ladner; Steveston; work in the area; trap-fishing in Juan de Fuca; local canneries like P.P. & N. TRACK 2: Mr. Whalen talks about John Oliver; effects of the Klondike gold rush; the depression of 1894; growth; of Vancouver in the 1890s; incidents at Blaine and Elgin; fishing on the Nikomen River; Charlie Hunt.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dorko recounts his family's coming to the Columbia Valley in 1896; logging; railways; the cement and lime plant; roads and trails; Maple Falls; schooling; clearing land; hunting; jobs; life in the area; social events; other settlers in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Dorko speaks about marketing dairy products; the border; childhood memories; bootleggers; school teachers; students; land ownership; border problems.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: [No content summaries available.];

Shows area from Vancouver north to Whistler. Main map shows relief; overlay shows watercourses, place names and NTS grid

CALL NUMBER: T0732:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Albert Cooper talks about her early life and schooling at Coqualeetza in the 1890s; describes conditions at the school; Mr. and Mrs. Tate; school experiences; the flood of 1894; life an;d religion at the school. She discusses legends and native people around Chilliwack Lake. TRACK 2: Mrs. Albert Cooper talks about native people and the first settlers; churches; Captain John; India;n houses; the Coqualeetza School; the incident about the Reverend Tate and the hidden masks; Methodist revival meetings; teachings and fear of hell-fire; changes in native people and loss of their language.;

CALL NUMBER: T0732:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Albert Cooper recalls Chief Captain John, a preacher; Billy Supass, a translator for the minister; visitors to Coqualeetza; Chilliwack roads and canals; Vedder River; her grandmother, a Sto:lo Indian; place names. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church women's groups, 1925-70 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Alex Jamieson: The beginning of Dunbar Heights United Church. The Women's Auxiliary. Organization of the W.A. Presbytery. Role as President of the Conference, 1949-51. Ordination of the United Church women from the W.M.S. and W.A. [Recorded in Vancouver, B.C.] Edna Fotheringham: The United Church at Sardis, B.C. Work in the W.A. and W.M.S. President of the Westminster Presbytery. Formation of the United Church Women. Changes in missionary work. Coqualeetza Indian School. Changes in women's church work. [Recorded in Sardis, B.C., 1975-05-14.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: [No content summaries or documentation available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Growing up in Vancouver from ca. 1908 PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1920 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Parents came from England to Vancouver in 1908 aboard the "Mauretania". (Family name was Howe.) Hornby Street and 55th Street areas circa 1910. Excursions to the Fraser River, beaches, and Bowen Island. Job experiences. Schools. Leisure activities; theatre, picnics, concerts.

CALL NUMBER: T2349:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of South Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: The False Creek area and Laura Secord School; sounds of early Vancouver; flowers and berries around Vancouver; backyard animals; records and vaudeville; politics and ward system; streetcars and settlers' tickets; South Vancouver a neglected area until the Second World War; Gordon Wismer as provincial attorney general; corruption in Vancouver; brief childhood recollections; Chinese community on the Fraser River; attitudes of people to each other.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Janette Lawes discusses her father, who was a conductor on the CPR; he came from St. Thomas to Port Moody to Vancouver. She offers several anecdotes about her father. Then her sister, Mrs. Guy Beasom, discusses what Hope was like when they arrived there in their youth. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: Interview with an unidentified male speaker about Murrayville.

CALL NUMBER: T0438:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nell Patriquin recounts her father coming to Chilliwack to join his brother, John Ryder. She describes her aunt, Mrs. Harrison, who owned the Harrison House Hotel; the hotel accommodation; notable guests; grounds; meals. She talks about local settlers in the area, "Sheep MacDonald" and Bob Menton; Minto; Mrs. Harrison's relations with the Indians; Volkert Vedder; Adam Vedder; Five Corners; Henderson's Store; bartering; Centreville; and St. Thomas Anglican Church. TRACK 2: Mrs. Patriquin recounts the story of her uncle, John Ryder, coming to the area with the Hudson's Bay Company and his initial settlement in Cheam, ca. 1862; the Ryder Lake District. She describes her uncle John Ryder; her father, Corry Spencer Ryder, settlng in the Cheam District in 1873; the family log cabin; cougars; the 1894 flood; childhood memories; schooling; Mrs. Jean Templar.

CALL NUMBER: T0438:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Patriquin talks about the move of St. Thomas Anglican Church from Port Douglas to the Chilliwack location in the 1870s; Dr. J.C. Henderson, his life and practice; the Indians' performance of passion plays; the seven stations of the Cross; the community of Popkum; fire in the family home; politics. TRACK 2: On this short tape (ca. 3 min), Mrs. Patriquin relates a childhood experience riding to school on "Old Nellie".

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Shingler recounts the arrival of her father [Mike Dorko] in the Columbia Valley in 1897; the family home; her mother's life on the family farm; the community; early settlers; schooling; social events; the US/Canada border; Columbia Station; trails and roads; homesteading; clearing land; farming; the Campbell River Logging Co.; logging; hardships of the pioneers. TRACK 2: Mrs. Shingler talks about incidents at the border; bootlegging; ethnic groups in the area; churches; schooling; picnics; her mother's hardships on the farm; fellow students; sewing a new dress for the school picnic.

The sub-series consists of two interviews about the history of New Westminster. Dsepite the sub-series title, there is no material about Burnaby or Port Moody.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nick Stevens recalls his early years on Salt Spring Island; his early life as a fisherman in the Gulf of Georgia; anecdotes about his childhood; fishing on the Fraser River; types of boats; living in a scow house; anecdotes; the Greek community on Deas Island; the Austrian community; the Spanish community; other ethnic groups in the Lulu Island area; community life and provisions. TRACK; 2: Mr. Stevens continues discussing various groups along the Fraser River; the Japanese community at Steveston; Spaniards on Duck Island; Portuguese; Kanakas from Salt Spring Island; Indian cannery ;workers; Austrians in Ladner; Chinese on Deas Island; cannery work; cannery equipment; the "Iron Chink"; the "Iron Squaw"; Deas Island; his work as a pirate fish buyer; land taxes on Lulu Island; life; on Lulu Island; fishing seasons; Chinese/Indian relations; Japanese/white relations; unloading German tin plate in Steveston; growing up in Steveston.

CALL NUMBER: T0735:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevens talks about survival in the forest; canoe trips with his mother, Emma King; characters from the Ladner area; Steveston; Ladner; travel to New Westminster; steamboats on the Fraser; in 1905; fishing procedures, circa 1900, on the Fraser and the Gulf of Georgia; sealing; sturgeon fishing; Canoe Pass; Port Guichon; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Norah (Mrs. Alec) Mercer, nee Reece, recounts her father's arrival in Chilliwack in 1858; his settlement; the Corners; Harrison House Hotel; Bummers Roost; old characters; Jeff Harrison; "Sheep" MacDonald; Minto; the changeable Fraser River; the community of Chilliwack; Centreville; telegraph office; schooling. TRACK 2: Mrs. Mercer recalls memories of the flood of 1894; BC Electric trains; remittance men; Indians; community members; changes in the landscape; pioneer life.

The item is a travelogue from 1942. It is a film on the attractions of vacationing in British Columbia, intended for American audiences. Footage includes: Peace Arch Park; Vancouver (skyline, city hall, waterfront, activities in Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge); Capilano Golf Club; Victoria (Empress Hotel, Parliament Buildings, homes and gardens, golf course); summer cruising up the coast; Princess Louisa Inlet; the Fraser Canyon; Cariboo Highway; the Okanagan Valley (scenery and orchards); the Big Bend Highway in the Rocky Mountains; Boat Encampment at the confluence of Wood River and Canoe River with the Columbia River; Kinbasket Lake; mountains and glaciers; Fraser Valley (fishing for steelhead in the Vedder River).

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of Vancouver and region PERIOD COVERED: 1892-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Born on a farm in Ladner in 1892; growing up and attending school on Lulu Island; Chinese residents; move to Eburne; discovery of Indian relics; moved to Granville Street and 60th; father's background; father's work building the BC Electric Railway; Granville Street and trips to downtown Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1900 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: Comments about Anderson Island and fishing on the Fraser River; English Bay; Old Black Joe [i.e., Joe Fortes?]; ships and shipping; summers at Bowen Island; anecdotes about life around Vancouver; marriage in the 1920s; work in hotels and the hotel strike in the 1930s; modelling; the Cordova Street shopping area.

CALL NUMBER: T2350:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Impressions of early Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-27 SUMMARY: More about Marpole excavation; West Vancouver; end of the Second World War; early strikes; visiting circus; safe streets; tea parties; calling children; wild life; family worries; Harrison Hot Springs; comments on First Narrows Bridge; Mayor McGeer; Grouse Mountain. [Note: BC Archives does not hold a copy of T2350:0003 and the contents of this recording are not available]

Sound recording is on track 1 of each recording only; track 2 is blank.

CALL NUMBER: T0733:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Wells discusses Indian oral testimony and legends; Dan Milo; Bob Joe; Chilliwack Indian origins and history; missionaries; reserves; changes in native life; church schools; Indian traditions; place names including Chilliwack and Cheam; Atchelatz River and Mount Baker. TRACK 2: Mr. Wells talks about the first white settlers in the Chilliwack area; the arrival of his grandfather,; A.C. Wells, in 1867; the family farm; A.C. Wells; Edenbank Creamery; transporting farm produce; Chief Supass; Cultus Lake Harry; Liumchen Park; Cultus Lake Park; the Reverend Crosby; the course of the Chilliwack and Vedder River.;

CALL NUMBER: T0733:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wells continues by discussing flooding and drainage problems of the Sardis and Sumas areas. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade, nee Yeomans, recounts her family's coming to Deroche in 1890; their arrival in New Westminster; construction of the family home; the murder of Mr. O'Shea in 1891; floods; church; ;Reverend Lovering; Nicomen Island; Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche. TRACK 2: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Deroche; entertainment; settlement; incidents from her childhood; other settlers; Felix Parent; the Deroche family; childhood at Nicomen; Indians; Sam MacDonald.

CALL NUMBER: T0761:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Cade continues with recollections of Sam MacDonald; Joe Deroche; Indians; Mission circa 1900; Italians; Silverdale; the Cade family; the first telephone at Mission; Japanese farmers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a composite print of a documentary film made in 1948. It depicts the Fraser River flood of 1948 and includes aerial and general views of flooded farmland and communities, as well as relief efforts and dyke construction.

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging operations, other vessels, etc.

Amateur film. Cruise on Toketie. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of Indian villages, pictographs, birds and wildlife, logging, other vessels, etc. Notably, there are good shots of the abandoned villages of Gwayasdums, Karlukwees, and Mamalilaculla, as well as the burial ground on Klaoitsis Island.