CALL NUMBER: T0773:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dick Whiteside recalls his parents, Helen and Guy Whiteside, and their arrival in BC in 1888; they homesteaded in Surrey, [at?] Pike and Yale Roads. He talks about the school at Tynehead in; 1900; subdivision of the homestead, today known as Fleetwood; his father's work as a fisherman in the Sunbury district; Port Mann; the land boom of 1913; Surrey Centre; the family homestead; clearing; land; logging; McNair and King Shingle Mill; other mills in Surrey; Jimmy Robson; South Westminster; Murphy's Dairy; Kennedy; Indian reserve; Johnny Wise. TRACK 2: Mr. Whiteside continues with recollections of Johnny Wise and his hotel, the Clarendon; Brownsville Hill; the Green Timbers area; the New Westminster Market; Murrayville; peddlers, Kidd & Israel; stoves; roads; Surrey Centre; John Churchland; settlers in Surrey Centre; Reverend Bell.;

CALL NUMBER: T0773:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Whiteside talks about Cloverdale; the Boothroyd family; Alec Matheson, a constable and blacksmith; Joe Drinkwater; Harry Bose; Tynehead; Port Kells; recreation; Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit; farming; roads and trails; D.M. Robertson; Tynehead Nurseries; the Boothwell family. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Clark recounts his father's [Robert Clark] arrival in BC in the 1860s with the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria. Mr. Clark was left an orphan at the age of three; as a child, he lived at Port Kells; as a boy, he later traveled and worked in Spences Bridge, New Westminster, and Seattle, and hunted and trapped in Lillooet and Stave Lake. Around 1895, he moved into the Surrey are;a; hunted, trapped, traveled; worked on the New Westminster bridge; and built boats. He talks about his early life at Port Kells; Barnston Island; early settlers; Shannon; Kells; Lewis Dodson; Joe Bossi; early adventures; Yale; the Reverend Tait; Fort Langley. TRACK 2: Mr. Clark continues with recollections about travel in the area; Yale Road; Scott Road; Semiahmoo trail; early Sumas; Chilliwack; river boats; Mission; the first cannery; sawmills; Brownsville; hotels; Johnny Wise; Fort Langley; cranberries; Port Mann; other memories.

SUMMARY: "North Surrey", the third episode, features settlers at Tynehead, Port Kells, and Barnston Island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Blackstock recounts her father's [John Gillis] arrival in BC in 1883 from P.E.I. to Tynehead; the homestead on Hjorth Road; clearing land; family life; church; school; the family house; incidents; World War I; Port Mann land boom in 1913; a train derailment in New Westminster; incidents in Surrey; cranberries; anecdotes about residents in the area; a trip to Barnston Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. Blackstock continues with the Barnston Island incident; other residents in the area; the Charnley family; Bobby Gordon; school days; school teachers; Tynehead community; local incidents; other characters in the area; D.M. Robertson family; naming Tynehead; a description of the area; Port Kells; roads to New Westminster.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bob Yeomans talks about early Langley; his father's coming in 1882 to homestead; the origins of Derby; first settlers in the area, Smith, Muench, Campbell; trails and roads; Port Kells; the landslide at Haney in 1881; the Yeomans family; farming and logging; schooling; dyking the area and the land boom. TRACK 2: Bob Yeomans continues with incidents that occurred during the land boom; h;is father's early years; Indians; childhood memories; teachers; mosquitoes; other settlers; roads; flood of 1894; land deals; logging; shingle mills; community life; Tynehead; school memories.

CALL NUMBER: T0731:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rosalie Innes recalls the arrival of her family [the Skillingfords] in Maple Ridge from Saskatchewan in 1909. She recalls her schooling; Normal School; her first teaching position at Cultus; Lake School in 1914; her impressions and experiences; students; the school board; families in the area; incidents; social events. TRACK 2: Mrs. Innes continues with her recollections about the danc;es that occurred during her time at Cultus Lake; experiences that changed her life; living on the US/Canadian border; the Columbia Valley; settlers and squatters in the area; the Dorko family and the Kosiker family.

CALL NUMBER: T0731:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Innes talks about pioneer families, mostly of Swedish, Slavonian, American or German origin. She describes the school buildings; her teaching career; teaching techniques; smuggling incidents; leaving Cultus Lake School. She went on to teach at Port Kells and describes her experiences; the railway; social events; settlers; the Kells family; the community; the Reverend Cunningham. ;She continued her career and taught at a school with discipline problems in South Westminster. TRACK 2: Mrs. Innes continues with her recollections of her time teaching in South Westminster; differences in schooling then and now; school inspectors; clothing styles.

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about his parents, John Murdoch Gillis and Sammie Ann Gillis, who came from P.E.I. in 1888; they homesteaded in Tynehead. He talks about the family farm; family members; William and Donald Gillis; early life in the area; settlers in the area; travel on the Fraser River; roads in the area; Hjorth Road; his father's work as a logger; his mother's work on the farm; the New; Westminster Market; winter incidents and anecdotes. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis talks about his father's work on the Great Northern Railway; Liverpool Station; Bonnacord Station; Port Kells; Johnny Wise's ;hotel; Brownsville; bridges over the Fraser; Great Northern Railway; incidents; school; derailment of a circus train; childhood; school activities; Annadale School; childhood; recreation; church.;

CALL NUMBER: T0777:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gillis talks about fishing and hunting; chores and work for children; Barnston Island settlers and description; Port Kells; Port Mann; land boom; Surrey; incidents during road work; caterpillar plague in 1909; mosquitoes; D.M. Robertson. TRACK 2: Mr. Gillis continues with reminiscences about the Tynehead Church; D.M. Robertson; William Bothwell; lost in the woods in 1902; Green Timbers area; incidents involving the local policeman; Alec Mathieson.

CALL NUMBER: T0755:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan relates some amusing early incidents from Langley; family history about his father, Samuel McClughan, who came from Ireland to Ontario, then Fort Langley in 1877; life of earl;y settlers; clearing land; the log cabin; homesteading; hunting; fishing; crops; fruit; steamboat travel. TRACK 2: Bill McClughan continues with recollections about steamboat travel; childhood memories; schooling; chores; driving oxen; clothing; churches and preachers; Reverend Bell; Reverend Dunn; peddlers and stores; description of Port Kells; Barnston Island; interesting characters.;

CALL NUMBER: T0755:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bill McClughan continues with stories about interesting characters; MacLartey; the Chinese labourer on the farm; the BC Electric Railway and surveying for the line; agricultural land and soil; conditions in Langley. [TRACK 2: blank.]