CALL NUMBER: T0445:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Iverson recalls his work on the Sumas Lake dredging project and the King Edward Dredge. He talks about his family; his Norwegian father; his early life; his father's work as a fisherman; arriving at Sunbury in 1901; riverboats; living in scow houses; Collingwood; Tronjeim (Little Norway); Norwegian fishermen. TRACK 2: Mr. Iverson continues discussing the community of Norwegian fishermen; Mr. George Mackie; other ethnic groups in the area; Chinese workers in the canneries; canneries along the lower Fraser River; methods of fishing; Easthope brothers engines; setting nets.

CALL NUMBER: T0445:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Iverson discusses gillnetting and seining methods; Steveston; canneries; Annieville; selling fish; contracts with canneries; fish runs of 1913; salmon prices; nets. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eva Vaselenek : organizing cannery workers for the UFAWU RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-06-18 SUMMARY: Mrs. Vaselenek was born in Hardwick, Vermont, her father a granite cutter. She moved to Richmond in 1943 and got a job at the cannery to support her ill daughter. She first washed fish and then packed it into the cans. The conditions were very bad: the canneries were cold, with the wind coming in the cracks in the floor, and the work was both hourly and piecework. Many different nationalities worked in the canneries: Natives, Japanese, Chinese and Whites. The different races and nationalities worked on different aspects of the canning operation at BC Packers. She was asked by the workers to help them organize, as she was vocal in protesting conditions. She contacted the Fishermen's union; it took from 1944 to 1946 to completely sign the plant up. The forelady and management harassed the union militants. She was elected as a steward, put onto the bylaw committee, and then elected as a paid organizer. She was an effective organizer and signed up both fishermen and cannery workers, brought the membership out to meetings, spoke to workers on their lunch hours, and signed up all different ethnic and religious groups. She worked in the plants to start organizing campaigns, moving from the canneries into fresh fish. The union fought for equal pay for women and for the various nationalities; fought against harassment by the supervisors; fought for seniority by job category, and for uniform wages and working conditions across the province.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Hall recounts her family history; her early life in Britain and the family's immigration to BC. She recalls the family settling at Terra Nova; Lulu Island in 1888; the journey to the family farm; family life; the family farm; other residents; farm produce; her father's [Gordon Robert] work as a carpenter; a description of the area in 1900; dyking; drinking water; bridges; a description of Sea Island; river traffic; supplies; the stage route; Mr. Steves; Mr. Mellis; roads. TRACK 2: Mrs. Hall continues with her discussion about road conditions; early Vancouver; William Gray; clearing flood boxes; Bridgeport; the Mellis family; Mr. Yewdall; canneries; the Terra Nova Cannery; Indian and Chinese labour; the flood of 1894; entertainment.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. McMillan talks about his family's history; grandfather James Elliot Faulkner came to Canada around 1880; his father Donald McMillan and mother lived on Iona Island from 1885 to 1905; father's work for the J.H. Todd cannery; early delta settlers; the Henry Mole family; Fitzgerald and Sam Mcleary; Hugh McGee; Garabee; Hugh MacDonald; other residents of Sea Island; farming on Sea Island; transportation to New Westminster; recollections about the Hastings Mill Store. TRACK 2: Mr. McMillan talks about boat and freight transportation on the Fraser River; stores in the area; Harry Eburne; Churchill and McKay; Musqueam Indians; Indian ceremonies at the long-houses; childhood memories; school days and teachers; H.V. Barton; entertainment; Steves' Stage and Billy Mallis's stage; bridges on Sea Island and Lulu Island; area industries; canneries; lumber mills; settlement; gold scare; naming of Lulu Island; his father's background.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Grauer recounts his father, John Grauer; coming from Seattle to Vancouver in 1886 and starting in the meat business. His father bought a farm on Sea Island in 1892 to raise, butcher and; sell beef; he later built up a meat business in Vancouver, which he sold to Burns Meat Packing and then went into the dairy business and general merchandizing. Mr. Grauer describes Sea Island; road names; early Steveston; William Steve's stages; plank roads; Vancouver; childhood; schooling; games. TRACK 2: Mr. Grauer continues with recollections about childhood games; the CPR; canneries along ;the Fraser River; living conditions of fishermen along the Fraser River; Steveston; introduction of gasoline engines; London's Landing; naming of Marpole; sources of drinking water; early settlers; Brighouse Estate; Bridgeport; lumber mills; the fishing industry; farming; roads to New Westminster.