The item is a thesis by Nicole Diane Boucher entitled "Prehistoric subsistence at the Helen Point site." 1976. ix, 145 leaves: maps, tables. Thesis (M.A.), Simon Fraser University, 1976. Bibliography: leaves 124-136. Canadian theses on microfiche, 30256.

The item consists of brief notes titled "Second public school in Cowichan district". The notes were made by Annie Monk on her experiences as a teacher on Mayne Island in the fall of 1883, and at Quamichan from January 1884 to 1886.

This series consists of land registers for various areas on Vancouver Island and some Gulf Islands. Records cover the following Land Districts: Bright, Cedar, Cranberry, Mountain, Nanoose, Nanaimo, Wellington, Comox, Douglas, Clayoquat, Nootka, Oyster and Chemainus. Records cover the following Islands: Valdes Island, Thetis Island, Kuper [Penelakut] Island, Mayne Island, Prevost Island and Gabriola Island. Earliest entries began in 1855 and all volumes were superseded by 1942 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1942).

The registers list the land in numerical order, usually by Range and Section, but occasionally by lot. There can be up to three methods of land description within one Land District. Information may include the name of purchaser, dates and number of certificate issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an index to districts by page number, and an alphabetical index to grantees.

This series consists of a Cowichan Land District land register for various lots on Vancouver Island and other islands, including: Galiano Island, Mayne Island and Pender Island. The entries are arranged numerically by lots within local areas, i.e. individual islands. Records date from 1891 onwards and the volume was superseded in 1929 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1929).

This volume is a continuation of an unknown previous register and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, pre-emption, lease etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

The item is a film reel containing a television commercial. Promotes the new ferry service to the Gulf Islands. The newly-built ferry "Queen of the Islands" will provide service from Tsawassen to Galiano, Mayne and Saltspring Islands.

The item is an hour-long sound program produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract, about pioneer days on the Gulf Islands. It includes the impressions and stories of early residents of Galiano, Saturna, North and Sound Pender, and Mayne Islands, emphasizing the arrival of new settlers, lighthouse life, and the joys and tribulations of island life.

CALL NUMBER: T0388:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Archie Phelps RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Archie Phelps describes how he was born in Barkerville, his grandparents (grandfather Edward R. Phelps -- died 1885) arrived in Victoria in 1849 after the California gold rush, other grandfather Robert Coultson was friend with Governor Seymour, his father William Henry Phelps was the first teacher at Mayne Island and eventually to Barkerville, a description of the school in 1884, the differences between the schools at Mayne Island and Barkerville, details on Barkerville, the family's move to Pender Island including what life was like there, the wharf at Port Washington, people at Pender Island including the school and teachers there, how he became a steward on the ferry at age 15, and then a ship builder in San Francisco, anecdotes about the ferries including one where Indians attacked a ferry and another where an Islander was lost coming back from Skagway, his work on a tugboat, and details on what tugs were like in those days. TRACK 2: Captain Phelps continues by describing working on a tow boat called the "Pilot" in 1911 when there were not many sailing ships, how he became a cook on a CPR ship called the "Princess Ina", Port Simpson, taking Indians to work at canneries, the influence of the Scots on place names, more on Port Simpson and the Indian village there, navigation and fog, an anecdote about a problem in a lighthouse, details about Porlier Pass and foghorns.

CALL NUMBER: T0388:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Archie Phelps RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Phelps discusses several wrecks and ships, how pioneers were the only ones who traveled and Indians had to travel second class, Indian potlatches, how sheep were transported by boat, a massacre which resulted in two Indians being hanged, rough seas at Jervis Inlet, how the "Princess Irene" ferry was built for the Nanaimo run, how he became a CPR Captain in 1925 including several boats he worked on, and deep sea sailing versus coastal. TRACK 2: Blank.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-09-30 SUMMARY: Miss Ida New compares the types of settlers on North and South Pender Island; Saturna Island and Galiano Island; the Payne family of Saturna Island; social life and customs; Scoones family of Galiano Island; the arrival of Miss New and her brother Donald on Galiano Island in 1913; education on the islands. At the end of T0781:0002 track 1, Freda New discusses Mayne Island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: George and Ruth Maude discusses how Captain Maude's father, Eustace Downman Maude, arrived in BC via Oregon in 1897; the story of E.D. Maude's trip to Mayne Island in 1900, and how he bought; the Point Comfort Hotel there; details about Oregon; school; father's operation of a store at Miners Bay; the Higgs and Payne families; details about the Point Comfort Hotel; stories about Miners Bay; and the social life there; how her father sold the hotel to Colonel And Lady Fawkes in 1923; and the story of E.D. Maude's abortive trip to Britain in 1925. TRACK 2: The story continues; a description of E.D. Maude; the end of the Point Comfort Hotel building in 1958; Captain Maude's early experiences on ships. Then Mrs. Maude describes how she met Captain Maude in San Francisco; a description of English younger sons and remittance men; social life at the Point Comfort Hotel; a description of the hotel; Mayne Island people.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Donald New describes how his family moved to BC from England in about 1913; worked on a Mayne Island farm; his sister taught at a school on Mayne; worked for the Heck family; description; of the hotel at Miners Bay; Point Comfort Hotel; adaptation to BC life; how he worked in Victoria and was in the military in Nanaimo; did not go overseas in WWI; labour programs in Nanaimo; worked for a short time at Stave Falls; family moved to Galiano in 1915; selection of property on Galiano; agricultural possibilities described and pioneer families. TRACK 2: Three humorous anecdotes; Galiano postmasters; Mr. New as a postmaster until 1960; Englishness and "false Englishness" of early settlers; life of women and the relative lack of isolation.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Mary Backlund recalls her family background; her great-grandfather, Henry "Scotty" Georgeson, arrived in BC during the gold rush and eventually became a light keeper at Georgina Point on Mayne Island. Her father; Albert Hawthorne, came to BC in 1912. She discusses life on Mayne and Galiano Islands; and the barter of produce between the residents, the Robson family and Mr. Deacon. She relates the story of John Cook, who was kidnapped when young by the Haida Indians, and later returned to settle in Cook's Bay. Recollections of the Burrill brothers, Joe and Fred; social life on th;e islands; music; means of transportation. TRACK 2: Mrs. Backlund recalls events surrounding the hotel on Mayne Island; stories about Active Pass. She relates her memories of John Shaw [Voss?], his work on the "Tillicum" ["Tilikum"?] and his later life on the islands; the fig tree on Valdes; the salteries; Mount Sutill; the Bell-Irvings and Irving Sinclair.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Archie Georgeson recalls his grandfather, Henry Georgeson, who was the light keeper at Georgina Point, Mayne Island. His great uncle was light keeper at East Point light, Saturna Island;. He recalls the history of the Georgeson family in British Columbia; the Shaw family; the maritime background of the family; the family farm near Montague Harbour; the Gray family; fruit growing; schools; the family's move to join uncle at Active Pass light in 1909; a detailed description of the operation of that lighthouse. TRACK 2: Mr. Georgeson continues with his recollections including the grounding of the SS "Princess Adelaide" at Georgina Point in 1918; the grounding of the "Kenkon Maru" on Mayne Island, and the "Sea Lion". He discusses his grandfather and grandmother; more details; about the living accommodation at the lighthouse; farming on Mayne Island; the Robinson and Bennett families; descriptions of Galiano, North and South Pender Islands; "English" society; recollections; about the types of people and living conditions on the islands.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The interview begins with Mrs. Georgeson; she was born in East Sooke, and her father was John Aitken, who farmed on Galiano Island and later ran a store at Miners Bay, Mayne Island. Mrs. Georgeson recalls some early neighbours on Mayne Island; the Maude family; Canon Paddon; social life; life at the East Point lighthouse, Saturna Island; fires; bootleggers and drug smuggling; events at t;he lighthouse; a cougar story. Mr. Georgeson continues the interview: his father, James Georgeson, came out from the Shetland Islands in 1889, to the East Point lighthouse. He recalls early years on the island; growing up and schooling on Mayne Island; bootleggers; building small boats; his life spent at Saturna and Albert Head lighthouses; recollections about Tumbo Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. George;son discusses her children and the lighthouse life; schooling; their childhood activities; the war years. Mr. Georgeson discusses his early life, fishing and being a boat poler on the Fraser River; a; cougar story; a "sea serpent" story; sea life; whales; the East Point light and their neighbours; the Ross brothers, who worked a stone quarry on Saturna Island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Payne discusses her father, Harold Payne, and how he came to BC in 1893; moved to Saturna Island near his brother Gerald Payne and his friend Warburton Pike; had a store and post office; took trips north with Warburton Pike in the 1890s; pre-empted land at Winter Cove on Saturna Island; the Boer War; had a house built on Saturna in two weeks by a Victoria contractor; details on gentleman farming on Saturna; a carefree life; her mother's family and how they moved to Cowichan Valley via Oregon; her maternal grandfather, Captain Eustace Maude, moved to Mayne Island; bought the Point; Comfort Hotel that was used as a family residence; life with the Maude family at Point Comfort; more on agriculture; Indians; details of a free and isolated childhood. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. G. Stanley Harris describes circumstances of his birth in Ontario; came to BC in 1900; went to Atlin District in 1900; worked in the gold mines in the Atlin District; traveled to Dawson ;City in the Yukon; took a boat trip down the Yukon River; describes Dawson City and Bennett and the Atlin District as he remembers them at the turn of the century; the Reverend John Pringle is described; a description of Whitehorse. TRACK 2: Mr. Harris describes gambling incidents concerning his friend Harold Stone; adventures in the goldfields; moving to Pender Island in 1902; Pender Island pioneers and pioneers on Mayne Island.

SUMMARY: A description of life in the early days of white settlement on Mayne and Galiano Island. Voices heard are: Mary Backland, Mrs. Crawford Twiss, Dora Payne, Ida New, Donald New, Archie Georgeson and Captain George Maude.

Amateur film. Coastal people, places and scenery between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Includes footage of pictographs, marine life, logging operations, other vessels, etc.

The series consists of three family photograph albums with handwritten notes and captions (A00705). It also includes photocopies of a collection of notes, clippings and narratives of the history of the family by J.R. Borradaile, formerly a resident of Mayne Island with the Fawkes family of Mayne Island (A00702).

Public affairs. Jack Webster's popular weekday morning talk show. Guests and topics for this episode are: End of Season One review. Review of Season One is the theme of the last Webster episode of the season. No guests on this show; instead Webster talks to his staff, shows some of the news clips from this season, and takes calls from viewers.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Japanese community RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-01-26 SUMMARY: Mr. Nitta discusses life as a Japanese-Canadian in the Strathcona neighbourhood of Vancouver. In particular, he describes his family's background in Canada; racism before the war; living on Mayne Island; Powell Street before the war; and the Japanese evacuation during World War II.