SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. In this episode, "The Big Score", Don Grey uncovers the mastermind behind a crime committed by a juvenile delinquint.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. In this episode, Don Grey heads to the tropical island of Danbiang to track down the murderer of a former Vancouver woman.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. In this episode, "The Century Note", Don Grey investigates the murder of a gangster aboard a yacht in Vancouver Harbour.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. In this episode, "The Big Switch", Don Grey is coerced into making a false report that will allow gangsters to free a criminal from the B.C. Penitentiary.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. "Death Dance at Dawn": episode summary not available, due to extremely poor sound quality of the recording.;

SUMMARY: In this series, which ran from 1953 to 1958, Doug Haskins plays marine investigator Don Grey, whose job is tracking down criminals along Vancouver's waterfront. The author of the series was Captain Th;omas Gilchrist, a deep sea mariner. In this episode, "Act of Mercy", Don Grey deals with a man of Peruvian origin who is an escapee from San Quentin hiding in Vancouver.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Chin;ese Riot" by Tom Cone, depicts the time of labour conflicts in 1887 and the large Chinese population that was willing to work for less.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest times. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "In 1931 There Were Jungles In Vancouver" by Brenda White, is a story of the Depression.

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were a co-operation of CBC Vancouver and the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This epis;ode, "L.D.'s Eighty-Eighth" by Tom Cone, commemorates the birthday of Vancouver's Mayor Taylor in the year 1945.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The; Battle Of The Bridge - 1933" by Cherie Thiessen, re-creates a heated city council meeting discussing the proposal for the Lions Gate Bridge.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The ;Janet Smith Case" by Joe Wiesenfeld, recalls the famous murder case dating back to 1924.;

SUMMARY: This episode, from Vancouver, is a play by Sherman Snukal in which an Italian-Canadian man who is a boarder goes looking for a job. There is a talk about Canadian jobs and the competition from foreigners. The protagonist, Tony, tells the housekeeper his story.;

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Avison discusses: radio stations he performed at in the 1920s, including CKMO; CFYC -- downtown location, manager, Burnaby location; people connected with CFYC -- Victor W. Odlum and Professor Odlum; CKCD and CHLS; advertisers; relationship of CKCD and CHLS; W.J. 'Billy' Hassell; entertainers on CHLS; new equipment, ca. 1933; performers; "Marston of the Mounties"; background details on the; popular entertainers, the Calangis family; Avison's duties as CHLS music director. TRACK 2: Mr. Avison discusses: the Calangis family (cont'd); CJOR and the Chandler family; CKWX studio on Seymour Street; Harold Paulson; story about a new car; performers; other musicians on Vancouver radio; W.J. Hassell; Mercer McLeod, drama director; the program "Chains of Circumstance"; drama at CRCV in the late 1930s; Vancouver actors; other CBC drama directors of the late 1930s and 1940s; CNRV and CRCV staff members; Dick Claringbull; attitudes to local programming at CNRV and CRCV.

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Avison discusses: CBC talent audition panel; CBC station in the Hotel Vancouver; Avison on CBC orchestra; organ broadcasts; broadcasts and recordings at Ryerson Church; Andrew Allan and his broadcast of a medieval Christmas play; Allan's religion and personality; his approach to drama; Fletcher Markle as a radio drama writer in Vancouver; "artistic climate" and influences in Vancouver, 1930s and '40s -- Dr. Ira Dilworth, musicians, English influence, isolation from the east; Toronto musical community; decline of intellectual content in entertainment programming. TRACK 2: [blank? ; end of interview];

SUMMARY: "Canadian School Broadcasts" was a series of educational radio programs designed to supplement existing school curriculum. The majority of broadcasts were organized and administered at the provincial ;level by the Departments of Education and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. However, many programs were produced by national organizations. The series went on the air in March 1938 as a twice-w;eekly broadcast; then it was expanded to daily broadcasts. "Other Times, Other Places" was a six-part series featuring Canadian families in different provinces throughout time. This episode is a play; about a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver. A grandmother explains to her granddaughter how her great-grandmother came to Canada. With Rae Brown and Shannon Shepherd.;

SUMMARY: Radio program with Marce Munro presenting a drama written by James Beard.;

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "Following the Rainbow" by freelance writer Vera Rosenbluth, recreates the events of the summer of 1914 surrounding the decision to refuse the "Komagata Maru" permission to dock in the port of Vancouver. This account includes first-hand recollections from Fred Taylor, Amanat Ali Khan, Harry Bird, and Arthur C. Cummings. The actors include Don Francks, Barney O'Sullivan, Peter Mowatt, Lillian Carlson, Ted Stidder, Joseph Golland, and Walter Marsh. Research ;materials were gathered with the help of the Vancouver City Archives, Ted Ferguson and Ujjal Dosanjh.

SUMMARY: A radio play by Vera Rosenbluth, based on events that took place in Vancouver in 1914, before before the First World War. The characters depicted in the play include Mayor Baxter, Conservative MP H.H. Stevens, lawyer J. Edward Bird, Dominion Immigration Inspector Malcolm R.J. Reid, and Amanat Ali Khan, who in 1914 was a sawmill worker living in Vancouver's East Indian community.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "Idylls of the Church" fea;tures Sam Roddans's stories about his father, the Rev. Andrew Roddan of Vancouver. [T4303:0046] Part 2: "Region of Icebergs" is a play by Christopher Dafoe, in which a man on a ship entertains himsel;f with masks and false credentials. [T4303:0088];

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, together with adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. This episode, "The Dark Invaders", is a play by Captain Thomas Gilchrist, based on a true story that took place on the Vancouver waterfront in the summer of 1914. It recounts the events surrounding the arrival of a chartered Japanese ship, the S.S. "Komagata Maru", carrying 400 East Indian immigrants. The play speculates about possible German involvement in this story.;