RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Major George Sissman (88 years old) describes coming to Victoria in 1903 on transfer from Halifax while in the British Army, life in the Army, his first impressions of Esquimalt, social life, his duties as a clerk, more on social life among officers, how Esquimalt declined when the British ships left in 1906 leaving only one ship behind, changes in Victoria over time, and a story about a murdered officer. [TRACK 2: Blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0639:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Muir discusses how sailors would dock at Esquimalt in 1903 including the clothes they wore and dances they did, the music the sailors played on the streets of Victoria, more on the sailors, his father (Archie Muir) who was the first engineer at the dry dock, packing fish in the old days, what the old dry dock was like including activities there in 1887, the native boys while he was in school, the children of Naval officers, more on what life was like, his work in a machine shop in 1900, what the inside of a store in Esquimalt was like, and more on early Victoria. TRACK 2: Muir continues by describing what shops were like including the wooden floors and the card tables in the bars, how there were no civilians in the Navy yard, submarines in Esquimalt, using guns at the shooting range, Rev. Sharpe, and parties that the Germans gave, including the instruments used.

CALL NUMBER: T0639:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Muir RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Muir discusses how Englishmen always got work because they came so far, and several anecdotes about incidents with fishermen at the dock. [TRACK 2: Blank.]