CALL NUMBER: T0675:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Angela McDairmid was born in Princeton before it was known as Princeton; she discusses her earliest memories; where the house was; several anecdotes about her mother and her youth; her father; floods; her family history; her father's arrival in Victoria in 1858; the gold rush on the Fraser River; the pack trains; the area around Princeton as she remembers it; more stories. Susan Louise Moir was her mother, and she discusses her life; her parents' early married life; the first settlers in Princeton; gold mining in Granite Creek; John Chance and other prospectors; how Princeton got its name. TRACK 2: Mrs. McDairmid continues by describing the first mines in the area; the Hope Trail; some characters; Chinese workers who worked for her father; stories; some characters whom she remembers.

CALL NUMBER: T0675:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. McDairmid continues with stories about the land around Princeton, some bodies that were found, building a bridge, a shooting among Indians, the Allison town site, Judge Haynes, Indian boat races at the river, potlatches, a shooting, the killing of a Nicola Indian, Merritt as a coal mining town, Dr. Tuttle's hanging, superstition among the Indians. Finally, she discusses her father giving the copyright to his stories to her sister. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Garnet E. Willis talks about his father and the people of the Chilliwack and the Similkameen region, 1894 to 1916. He describes how his family farmed near Sardis; what Chilliwack was like in his youth; steamboats on the Fraser; Harrison House; hard work on farms; school days; stories about Bill Miner; stories about John Ryder and his family; the Nelson brothers; how his father hauled freight; his father's background with the fur brigade; a discussion of the brigade route; details of his father's travels in Fort Garry, California and BC; his father's claims in the Cariboo; how his father logged on the present site of Vancouver; and John Beatty. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis continues with a story about an old man; the circumstances by which he came to the Similkameen area with his father in 1914; an anecdote about his father and the farm at Sumas; a comparison of Chilliwack and Similkameen areas; cattle and cattle drives over the Dewdney Trail; several stories about travels on the Hope Trail; a discussion of Herman Grell, known as "Shorty" Dunn; Jack Budd; and train robber Bill Miner.

CALL NUMBER: T1096:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Willis continues with more on Shorty Dunn of Bill Miner's gang; a story about Pat Kennedy of Princeton; Jim Slater; a story about Charlie Rheinhardt; Price Chandler; the beginning of Keremeos; Keremeos centre; the town of Loomis, Washington; a description of Princeton in 1913; Bill Allison; Mr. Willis' own place near Princeton; several stories about August Carlson; a story about Steve Mangat; the Olalla Mine; other mines and drilling. TRACK 2: Mr. Willis offers a story about Duncan Woods of the Hedley Mascot Mine; a discussion of his wife's uncle, a packer named John Worth; Bill Bristol and his stopping house east of Hope; a discussion of "Colonel" Robert Stevenson and his tall stories; a story about tracking lost cattle; more about Stevenson; more about Jack Budd and Bill Miner; and a story about a foot race in Montana.

CALL NUMBER: T0890:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-12-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: Mr. Robert Alstead describes twenty years in the mines at Coal Creek; he outlines the history of the mine and how the coal fields opened up Crowsnest Pass in 1898; Coal Creek mines were very gaseous; one east is the most gaseous mines in the world; a huge fan operated all the time to keep air conditioned; small earthquakes underground are referred to as 'bumps'; Coal Creek is the most; dangerous mine in Canada; Fernie was more prosperous in the early days; there were large blowouts in 1902 and 1917; Fernie mines were first run by the CPR then taken over by James J. Hill's Great Nor;thern; the output is commercial steam coal, lignite. Because of gasoline and oil, coal must be regarded as a raw product; its derivatives are more important now; improvements in mining equipment and methods; as many as one hundred and seventy five horses were used in the mine in the early days.; CALL NUMBER: T0890:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-12-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alstead continues by describing how he came from England in 1903; the boat lost a propeller and drifted for three weeks; his father thought they were drowned and so he sold their house an;d furniture; father was crippled in the mine and Robert started in the mine when he was ten; his father signed a paper saying he was fourteen; youngest miner in Canada; he worked in the mines for twenty-seven years; he got fired for trying to organize the KKK in 1929; he went to Merritt then to Princeton; describes his first day at the mines; his many different jobs at the mine; he educated himself to get mine manager's certificate; a description of Fernie fire of 1908. [TRACK 2: blank.]