The file consists of 21 film reels of unedited footage shot by filmmakers working under an Opportunities For Youth (OFY) grant to document archaeological projects all over British Columbia. These 21 reels record archaeological excavation work during the summer of 1972, in the following areas: F1992:07/010-013: Williams Lake/Riske Creek -- camp scenes, botanical collecting, area scenery, and work at site(s). F1992:07/014-016: Kamloops -- North Kamloops flood scenes, OFY survey team, crew moving camp, OFY camp and activities, excavation site and flooding. More flood scenes, clearing river debris, etc. Labelling and recording artifacts in lab. Kamloops Museum: interview with curator; kids on school tour. F1992:07/017-018: Musqueam -- Salish Park Development, gravehouse, excavation in pit, artifacts, cataloguing, school tour at site, etc. F1992:07/019-022: Libby I -- Travelling to site, area scenery, surveying, digging, camp scenes. F1992:07/023-027: Libby II -- Tipi construction, surveying, areas flooded (by dam construction?), digging and screening, artifacts, travelling by track and canoe, etc. F1992:07/028: Williams Lake/Deep Creek. F1992:07/29-30: Unidentified.

CALL NUMBER: T1340:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-03-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ed Sparrow recounts the history of the Musqueam people including the Musqueam reserve; sites of occupation for the Musqueam people and the meaning of the Musqueam name. He continues about t;he Squamish and Capilano peoples; Indian bands in the area; intermarriage between the tribes; Kitsilano band; the arrival of Captain Vancouver; Tsimilaho; Simon Fraser; Hudson's Bay Company and missionaries. TRACK 2: Ed Sparrow recalls the first mass held in the area; early missionaries and the first church in 1902. He describes Indian religion and culture; ceremonies; dances in 1900 and potlatches. He continues with post-contact subjects: Indian life in the 1890s and 1900s; fishing; canneries in the area; farming; cattle; encroachment by the white man and the city.;

CALL NUMBER: T1340:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-03-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ed Sparrow comments on Indian-White relations; traditional hunting areas; Indian-Chinese relations; a dispute with Vancouver over taxation and services; the Shaughnessy Golf Course; education; for Indians and the Methodist Indian school at Sardis. He talks about public schools today; the Block Brothers real estate development; future development for the Musqueam reserve; real estate; relations with the city and taxation problems. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ed Sparrow RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-01-28 SUMMARY: Ed Sparrow was born on the Musqueam Reserve and started as a boat puller in 1911-1912 on a Columbia River sailboat. Fished and got his first sailboat in 1916. Very few gas boats then, very hard work without a gas engine. There were lots of fish those days, 5 days of fishing a week, up until the early 1940s. Palmer and Easthope engines were used first. Sailboat had only a little tent and everything was always wet. Gear improved over the years. Nets were pulled by hand until the early 1940s when drums came. Canoe Pass has changed, good fishing in old days, too shallow now, since the big flood of the 1940s. North Arm fishing died off in the early 1950s due to pollution by log booms, dead heads, and sewer outlets. Sockeyes came up only during the freshest time, now (1976) the numbers of spawners have gone down considerably. You now have to go further out to fish and the nets are nearly transparent. You fish harder because now there are only 1 to 2 days a week to make money. Its hard to get into fishing these days, it costs a lot of money. Many of the Indian fishermen went longshoring and logging and left the fishing industry. His people used to have different fish camps on the Fraser River, and they used to move with the season, many of them worked in the canneries up at Deas Island. In the early days it was mostly Indian and Japanese fishermen, very few whites. His wife worked at Imperial Cannery until 1969. He worked at the Vancouver Cannery in 1919 then went to logging camp. Indians and whites weren't organized in a union until 1915, Japanese were already well-organized. 1942 U.F.A.W.U. started to form. He was vice president of the Native Brotherhood for some time. Benefits of unions to fishermen. Eulachon was also fished by the Musqueam. Herring fishery of the 1920s. Describes his village. He is (1976) President of Musqueam Enterprises. His view on the future of the fishery. Discusses the Musqueam land claim. Recalls different canneries.

SUMMARY: A program about some of the First Nations of the Gulf of Georgia -- early days, encounters with white explorers, and contemporary experiences -- and particularly about the Sechelt, Cape Mudge and Musqueam people, including the latter's struggle with Vancouver City Council over the development of land on their reserve. Voices heard are: Chief Clarence Joe of Sechelt, Chief Councillor Moon of Cape Mudge, Ed Sparrow of Musqueam, and Roderick Haig-Brown.