CALL NUMBER: T0326:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Margaret Stewart, nee Brown, recounts her father's [David W. Brown] early life and her parent's arrival at Halls Prairie in 1878. She talks about early life at Halls Prairie; Archie Brown; ;the first settlers; setting up the homestead; clearing the land; her mother's life and homemaking skills; butter production; her father's request to Government to build a road to Cloverdale; the New Westminster Market; her father's role as justice of the peace and postmaster; fruit growing and the Semiahmoo Spit. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart continues with her discussion about early days on Halls Prairie; schooling in 1885; teachers; Chief Semiahmoo; George Kinley; Indians in the area; family homes; Blaine, Washington; the customs officers; smuggling; July 4 celebrations at Blaine; anti-British sentiment; the U.S. depression of 1893/94 and the consequences for BC; and St. Leonard's Hotel.;

CALL NUMBER: T0326:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Stewart continues with her recollections about local incidents; two eccentric Brown brothers, their horticultural interests and their property; the Henry T. Thrift family; the post office; Hazelmere; Christmas celebrations; churches; community life; the Hinch family; logging; incidents; early New Westminster; miner's supplies; the Cariboo Gold Rush. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart recounts ;family stories; first impressions of New Westminster; river transportation; incidents; reminiscences and poems.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: An oral history interview with Mrs. Marien Starnes, who emigrated from Norway to Canada in 1905. She talks about the journey to Canada, Arrowhead B.C. (1905-1911), New Westminster in 1911, May day celebrations, Haley's comet, 1907 depression, her father as a fisherman, Girl Guides, teaching experience, work at Coqualeetza Indian school, journey to Peace River 1919-1920, Rolla B.C., the trapping camp, gold panning, birth of first child at Red Cross outpost hospital.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First white woman in the Central Canadian Arctic PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Marjorie Robertson was born in New Brunswick in 1903, and moved to New Westminster as a child. She married C. Hugh Clarke, a partner in the Canalaska Trading Company, and returned with him to the western Arctic in 1927, remaining there for three years. She associated with native people, and travelled to Herschel Island once a year for supplies. She describes trading in the Arctic, and competition with the Hudson's Bay Company. She also recalls New Westminster in the 1910s and 1920s.

The series consists of letters written by Mary Susannah Moody to her mother and sister in England. The letters were written from New Westminster, Victoria, and Hope. Includes transcripts.

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.]