CALL NUMBER: T3860:0099 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Premier Bennett RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Premier Bennett on BCRIC, amendments to BCRIC Act, 1979 session.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0100 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rafe Mair RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Rafe Mair on Japanese ownership of fisheries.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0101 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Vander Zalm RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Vander Zalm on handicapped transit.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0102 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Vander Zalm RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Vander Zalm on conflict of interest legislation.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0103 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vander Zalm song ; Elwood Veitch RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Vander Zalm song at Kamloops mini-convention, April 1979. TRACK 2: [Elwood] Veitch.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0104 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Elwood Veitch ; Sam Bawlf ; Grace McCarthy RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Elwood] Veitch. TRACK 2: Bawlf; McCarthy; 1979 election.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0105 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Williams (etc.) on Vogel RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: Williams, etc., on Vogel.; CALL NUMBER: T3860:0106 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Williams ; Hewitt denies RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Williams on Catholic teacher appeal. TRACK 2: Hewitt denies split between BC Hydro and the government.;

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0132 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: On Jack Webster radio program (part 1) SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed in the last interview on Jack Webster's open line radio program on CJOR Vancouver, 29 June 1978. Subjects discussed include: the government's compulsory heroin treatment program, the new Forestry Act, plans to extend the BC Railway, government air travel services, federal/provincial relations, and lotteries. TRACK 2: Subjects include: electoral distribution in BC, education, increased pensions for the handicapped, constitutional change in Canada, health care in BC, the search for a new head of ICBC, social services, succession duties, property taxes, and senior citizens.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0133 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: On Jack Webster radio program (part 2) SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of the interview with Premier Bill Bennett by Jack Webster, CJOR Vancouver, 29 June 1978. Subjects discussed include: government pharmacare program, MLAs salaries, BCRIC (BC Resources and Investment Corporation), BC Ferries, social services for the mentally retarded and handicapped, labour/management relations, sale and lease of crown lands, urban transportation, and construction of a Vancouver convention centre. TRACK 2: Public service pension plans, government subsidies to private industry, federal/provincial relations, government boards and commissions, grants to senior citizens, fishing rights negotiations, alcohol and driving on BC highways, control of the size of the civil service, decriminalization of marijuana, and constitutional change in Canada.

SUMMARY: Topics discussed are: remand centre; floating homes; public delegations; transportation of the handicapped, Speakers; Mike Harcourt, alderman on remand centre; Stanley Burke, spokesman for floating home community; Mrs. Clyne on floating home community; Harry Rankin, alderman, on handicapped transportation; Warnett Kennedy, alderman, on public delegations.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Faciilities and services for the handicapped RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03-18 SUMMARY: Diane discusses the availability of health care facilities when she was born with arthrogryposis. She went down to Portland, Oregon for treatment and operation; funded by the Shriners. At that time, Montreal and Portland were the only two facilities available for the treatment she needed. The facilities available in Vancouver today for disabled people; her ideas on how they can be improved; and suggestions for the areas that should be extended. She discusses the attitudes of people in dealing with handicapped people and the attitudes of handicapped people dealing with the society that they are trying to live in. Integration of the normal society with handicapped people and vice versa.

News item. Interview with spokesman, who says the only other North American centre like this one is in San Francisco. Shots of nearly completed building, both interior and exterior. Financing has been a problem.

SUMMARY: "Testament" was a bi-weekly CBC Radio series that dealt with a wide range of spiritual ideas and values from cultures in Canada and around the world. It ran from January 1983 to November 1985 during ;the winter, summer and fall quarters. This episode is "L'Arche, An Ark for the Poor Ones of the Forest", by Jurgen Hesse. From to the L'Arche Greater Vancouver website: "Founded in France in 1964 by ;Jean Vanier, the son of Canadian Governor-General Georges Vanier, the ecumenical and interfaith communities of L'Arche began in response to the needs of people with developmental disabilities to find ;a valid place in society.";

CALL NUMBER: T2012:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1960 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2?: Personal background; came to Montreal in 1914, Toronto in 1920, Vancouver in 1927, Hamilton in 1932, Toronto again in 1934 and Vancouver again in 1942. Early education including business courses; working in the business world; working with war service committee from 1940 to 1944; set up first Red Cross unit in church setting; West Vancouver war service committee; encountered working with the handicapped for the first time; started war service committee 1944 to 1946; national employment service contacts; work with handicapped civilians; went to council for the guidance of handicapped from 1946; evolution of the Council for the Guidance of the Handicapped; Vancouver group formed about 1943; Guidance for the Handicapped Council chartered 1946; definition of handicapped person, rehabilitation, community councils and organisations; objectives of the Council for the Handicapped; structure of the council; involvement with the Community Chest and Councils 1952; move to social planning; move to consider whole province, not just Vancouver; objectives. CALL NUMBER: T2012:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Aid to the handicapped PERIOD COVERED: 1945-1976 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Change from city to provincial focus; problems that still needed to be solved; SPARC dealt mainly with health and the aged. Council projects: handicapped day at the PNE; scope and limitations; of agency services; registration of handicapped persons to identify their needs; retail outlet for home handicrafts; problems encountered by the handicapped; by-laws, etc.; public educational meetings; collecting material for workshop use; publicity; consulting services; newsletters; yearly boat trips; indoor sports club. The briefs and the studies conducted by the Council: architectural barriers; to the handicapped; vocational rehabilitation/service coordination; vocational training/placement of blind students; camping program; study for city centre for the handicapped; consulting committee on vocational rehabilitation; screening applicants (until C.E. Bradbury took over provincially, 1958); adult hearing centre; report on advancement for the deaf; study of disabled allowance; educational and vocational needs of the handicapped; employment of the handicapped; social and employment problems of epileptics. In 1956, dealt with the gasoline tax and motor vehicle taxes (law passed in 1959); report on health services, 1961; reviewed report on neurological facilities. 1965 was the 21st year of the Council. TRACK 2: Reference to the brief that Rhona has compiled over the last 30 years on the history of the Council; brief on handicapped housing ; guide for handicapped housing, resulting in facilities in public buildings; world conference in London, 1957; recreation, working closely with Parks Board; adult handicapped registry expanded in 1960; the basis of voluntary organizations. Projects that the council is still trying to solidify: film on architectural barriers; handicapped housing; brief on orthotics, prostheses, etc.; services directory; vocational needs study re: sheltered workshops and homecrafts. Elements of rehabilitation. Member of the Order of Canada. Closing.