RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert "Bertie" Roe reminisces about Pender Island. He describes his father, who came from Scotland as a marine engineer, and settled on Pender Island in 1896. He describes Port Washington; the Hope Bay rivalry; clearing land and building up a farm; in 1918 he started a resort; a visit of Premier McBride and a Conservative party picnic; a political speech; sea serpents; the Shingle; Bay fish plant; rum running; Cannonball Baker. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Margaret Smith discusses early agriculture and settlement on Pender Island, 1885 to 1925. Her father, Alexander Hamilton, purchased land on Browning Harbour in 1885; he was a stone mason and had a business in New Westminster. The family moved permanently to Pender in 1898. Mrs. Smith discusses various aspects of island life: agriculture; sheep farming; her childhood on the island; dredging the Pender Island canal; domestic chores; fruit farming; land clearing; shipping cream; chickens; herding sheep; sheep thieves; smuggling and "Old Burke"; the Brackett family; schools; social and political life; Mr. Pollard; rum running; subdivisions; recollections of other Gulf Islands. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beatrice "Bea" Freeman discusses her father Arthur Reed Spalding; her father purchased property from John Tod; her mother [McKay] was from Saturna Island; her home life; visiting by row;boat; childhood activities; visitors; her father was well-educated and cultured; her mother was a very competent person; met many young wealthy Englishmen; story of Lord Loughborough; more on Pender Island settlers and landowners. TRACK 2: Mrs. Freeman discusses sheep rustling; "Old Burke" the smuggler; interaction with the American islands; visitors and strangers; more social contact with Saturna Islanders than those on North Pender; life too easy for young men; rum-running; building of the Pender Island canal in 1903; mail delivery; boat travel; comments about Sidney, BC.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Hamilton recalls early years on North Pender Island. Her father, Alexander Hamilton, who was trained as a stone mason, settled on North Pender Island permanently around 1902, when Mary; was eleven; she had previously spent summers on the island. She describes her family settling on the island; methods of clearing land; early families; Bracketts; Taits; Pollards; wildlife; food supplies; Indians; domestic chores; entertainment; schools; 24th of May; neighbours; social life; ministers and missionaries. TRACK 2: Miss Hamilton continues with a description of ministers and missionaries; her father's character; residents on the other Gulf Islands; stone quarries on the islands; Saltspring Island Dairy; Rutherford Hope; David Hope; the propagation of the "Hope Apple"; Mr. Buckley; the Grimmer family; Menzies; politics; schools; island settlement and population growth; Corbett's store at Hope Bay; Browning Harbour; Percy and George Garrett; hand-logging; rum runners.