Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Premier's office audio series
General material designation
- sound recording
- textual record
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the series.
Level of description
Series
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1973-1980 (Creation)
- Creator
- British Columbia. Office of the Premier
Physical description area
Physical description
292 audio cassettes, 1 audio reel, assorted transcripts
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Office of the Premier includes the Premier, the Deputy Minister to the Premier, the Chief of Staff, Cabinet Operations and other administrative branches.
The name has had slight changes through its history:
1871-1988 Office of the Premier
1988-1993 Office of the Premier and Executive Council
1993-2000 Office of the Premier and Cabinet Office
2000-2001 Office of the Premier
2001- Office of the Premier and Cabinet Office
Custodial history
Scope and content
The series comprises audio recordings of two British Columbia Premiers, David Barrett and W.R. Bennett (as well as some of their cabinet ministers), heard at news conferences, press events, election campaign stops, speeches, announcements, and media interviews, 1973-1980.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Received from the Premier's Office, 1976-1981.
Arrangement
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the BC Archives assigned accession or call numbers to oral history interviews according to the interviewee, rather than the source of the material. In this system, all recordings with a given person were filed under a single call number. For this reason, interviews in this series are interfiled with other interviews of the same individual -- most notably, material created by BC Radio News. Care must be taken to ensure the correct atrribution of individual recordings.
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
- Transcripts are available for several of the recordings; for details, see the item-level descriptions.
- 24 of the items in this series exist only as paper transcripts or summaries; no tapes are available.
Restrictions on access
No access restrictions apply.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
- Copyright in most items is assumed to be held by the Government of British Columbia.
- Copyright in the recordings of broadcast or print interviews may be held by the respective broadcasters, news organizations, or journalists.
Finding aids
Item-level descriptions are available on-line.
Associated materials
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
General note
Accession number(s): T0995; T1209; T1250; T1703; T1704; T1705; T1706; T1707; T1708; T1709; T1710; T1711; T1712; T3208; T3859
Conservation
Sound recording originals are in cool storage.
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Barrett, David, 1930-2018 (Subject)
- Bennett, William Richards, 1932-2015 (Subject)
- New Democratic Party (British Columbia) (Subject)
- Social Credit Party (British Columbia) (Subject)
- British Columbia. Office of the Premier (Subject)