SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Chinese community -- health care PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Leung discusses background: born 1916 in Canton; arrived 1922 with father (Methodist missionary); trained as doctor at University of Toronto (Chinese not allowed to enter law and pharmacy; but could enter medicine). Discusses: health problems in mid 1940s had to do with community being composed largely of elderly males, few families; some sanitation problems but communal living quarters were very clean; World War II in Toronto; then joined army as officer, served in Terrace, then at Shaughnessy Hospital; records fear of Japanese attack, details of war effort at Terrace. Getting franchise: Foon Sien's efforts; post-war Chinese population composed of families, many more people. Use of herbs in Chinese medicine, mainly to prevent illness; herbalists in stores well-trained but he is skeptical of benefits of herbs. (End of interview);

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Sankey describes her early life in Kamloops, where her father was a doctor. His name was Dr. Simon John Tunstall, and he later practised in Vancouver; his office on Cordova Street was near the fruit market. He was a general practitioner and worked out of St. Paul's Hospital. Her own education under Miss Gordon, a private tutor from England, who founded what is now Crofton House Girls School. Her health, her daily routine, her schooling in Paris. The family home on Robson Street was large and had a tennis court; it eventually became a hospital. Her father's practice; did no surgery, held office hours all day, on call at night; delivered many babies; worked a lot at St. Paul's. How she feels about living in a retirement lodge. [TRACK 2: blank?]

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];