RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-04 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

Documentary. A made-for-television episode of "American Sportsman". An American from Portland, Oregon, goes on a sports fishing trip to Rivers Inlet on the Island Tug and Barge Ltd. tug Island "Monarch". Salmon in excess of 50 pounds are caught.

CALL NUMBER: T1189:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey's seafaring background and her trips to Alaska (1937 and 1963) PERIOD COVERED: 1937-1963 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey talks about her childhood on Fidalgo Island, her impressions of the Indians and their skill with their dug-out canoes. She describes her first dug-out canoe and its background, ad;ventures during her trip to Alaska (1937), places and people she met along the route including: Dr. Darby, Rivers Inlet, Alert Bay, Columbia Mission Ship, Alison Harbour, Kitimat, canneries and memories of her reverse trip in 1963. TRACK 2: Betty Carey continues with recollections about her trip to Alaska (1937), Hartley Bay, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, the Inside Passage, her family ;life and a later trip with her husband, Neil. She describes Haida sites and villages, evidence of habitation, equipment and supplies for her trips, the Kozy family at Kelsey Bay and her impressions of; Ketchikan.

CALL NUMBER: T1189:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Betty Carey : Alaska and the Queen Charlotte Islands (1939-1955) PERIOD COVERED: 1880-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Betty Carey continues with her recollections about her Alaska trip, subsequent trips to Alaska, a trip with her family (1955) to the Queen Charlotte Islands, Hecate Strait, Skidegate, Graham ;Island coast, and impressions of the Queen Charlotte Islands.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bob Smith RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01-22 SUMMARY: Bob Smith was born on Lulu Island at Steveston Hwy. Near the golf course in 1906. His father was a fisherman and also worked for Imperial Cannery in the net loft. He started fishing in the Rivers Inlet in 1926 with Wallace Fisheries, as wharfman, then to the Balmoral Cannery on the Skeena River in 1933. Lots of fish in those days. Worked in canneries all over Queen Charlottes, up the Skeena, Canadian Fish and B.C. Packers. Converted a sailboat on the Skeena into a gillnetter with a Chev engine. Took 16 days to come from the Skeena to the Fraser River. Fished with it for 4 or 5 years. Describes the conversion of the sailboat into a gillnetter. Returned to cannery work. Built another boat at Nelson ship yards, a bigger one (31 feet) at the time of the return of the Japanese. Nets these days are more efficient (tape become inaudible). Catches have become smaller, problem of conservation, not enough fish to catch. 12 mile limit is not enough. Long hours fishing in the old days, pulling the net by hand until drums were used. He stays mostly in the river now. Was a union member from the start. Talks of early union organizing difficulties. Talks of Japanese internment, too bad they had to; lose their nets, gradually they returned to the coast. There was not much discrimination between Indians and Japanese and whites. Housing conditions described. Housed were improved in 1926-1927 for Japanese, Indians, and whites. Safety measures improved with union. Bookkeepers were the first-aid men. American Can replaced canning by hand. There's more independence from the canneries now. Fraser River has changed a lot. Pollution affects the fingerlings, especially dog-salmon. Fishing regulations are a help but the fisheries department needs more money for its programs. Salmon enhancement programs have been worthwhile. Buy-back program has not been successful, too many seiners now. Future of fishing is ok if there is more money put into it and the 200 mile limit is enforced.

Dead whale.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charlie Hogan RECORDED: Steveston (B.C.), 1976-02-26 SUMMARY: Charlie Hogan arrived on the west coast in 1923, and got off the steamboat at Bella Bella where the Gus Mallard Cannery was. Worked at the machine shop at Bella Bella, Rivers Inlet at 13 years of age in the summer time. Discusses engines, and how hard salt water is on them. Some canneries kept their boats up very well, others just kept their boats running. Did a lot of work for any cannery boats that were fishing in the area. Spent 33 years in Bella Bella in engine machinery repair. There were up to 3,000 boats at Rivers Inlet at one time. Believes a lot of canneries closed down because of overhead costs. Discusses old canning methods. Canneries used to have wooden floors, that you could see the beach through. Back in the 1920s and 1930s the seine boats were very old, but as long as they could float and hold a net, they went out. Discusses living quarters. Discusses linen nets and caring for them. Discusses different engines used. Discusses the 1920s and 1930s when there seemed to be a wealth of fish; at night you could hear them splashing all over the bay. Overhauled engines in the wintertime. Discusses fish prices. Names all the different canneries along the coast. Indian men worked on the fish boats, while Indian women worked mostly in the cannery washing fish and filling cans. Namu had two large bunkhouses for women at that time. Namu had bowling alley, shows, dance floor; was very nice. Started working at Imperial, mostly maintenance work, was shop-foreman. Believes the canneries would look after their fishermen; if the fisherman needed money in the winter, the company would advance it to them.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-09-08 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

Files kept by J.C. Goodfellow, secretary of the British Columbia Conference Historical Committee ca. 1930 containing correspondence, newspaper clippings and reports relating to the history of the United Church in the Prince Rupert Presbytery of British Columbia.

John C. Goodfellow was a United Church minister and a historian. He wrote many articles on the history of the Similkameen area and on other topics.

This microfilm is a copy of the files Goodfellow kept which relate to the history of the United Church in the Prince Rupert Presbytery. The files contain correspondence, clippings and reports relating to the history of the communities and the churches in the communities. The files are in alphabetical order by place name.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dominic Bussanich RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-19 SUMMARY: Dominic Bussanich was born in 1904 and started fishing when he was 13 years old with his father on a gillnetter. Used to fish 5 or 6 days a week in Canoe Pass and Rivers Inlet. Built his own boats. Fished up at Rivers Inlet for 10 or 12 years. River has changed, the channels are different and fishing on it is very difficult now (1976). No fishing at all in North Arm of Fraser any more because of too much traffic. Pollution in river is terrible. The catch has decreased in the river because the gear is so efficient but also the Americans are taking most of the fish: Canadians get only 12 hours a week to fish, Americans fish 4 and 5 days. He worked on seine boats and also built boats for a living. He prefers wood boats to fibreglass and aluminum. New equipment on boats makes fishing easier. Discusses gillnetters and seiners. Talks about Japanese fishermen and their treatment during the War. Indian fishermen. Herring fishing. He fished for B.C. Packers, Canadian Fish, Bell Irving, Nelson Bros. Formed a co-op, Canoe Pass. Co-op in 1941- 1942, gillnetters. Co-op is now (1976) about 70 members and still going. Lots of changes in Delta area. Sports fishermen also take more than their share. Need to have higher prices to pay for expensive boats. He used to drive a truck in the off-season to make ends meet and then he went into boat building. Discusses reasons for poor herring fishery of 1975: greed the main reason, trying to pack too many fish. There is a need for a 200 mile limit. Discusses fishing in the north out of Prince Rupert.

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Donald Peck discusses changes in Vancouver and its harbour. He begins in 1897 when his family lived at English Bay and his father built a boat for use on the Fraser River during the financial crisis, a description of the over fishing that year, a description of the boat as compared to others at that time, how some streets in Vancouver were made from logging roads, how sawmills helped to develop the demographics of the city, anecdote about a man at the Hastings Mill named Captain Bailey, details on Bailey and his life, a boat called the "Senator", what the harbour was like at that time including various boats and Captains, anecdotes about what life was like in 1897, the filling of False Creek in 1910, the navigational hazard of the Narrows, how his family came to Canada in 1742 to New Brunswick from the USA and how they were ship builders, details on his family lineage including boats they built, details on his father's life and boats he worked on, the first machines which revolutionized the cannery industry were partially developed by his father, how his father sold the first salmon cannery to Japan, internal combustion engines which ended up being a failure, how in 1898 the family moved to Rivers Inlet so his father could help build the machinery at the cannery there, then the family moved back to Vancouver in 1901 so the kids could go to the Mount Pleasant School, more details on his father's work at sawmills, his reminiscences of the Fort Simpson area including the tugboats he used and Captains there, an anecdote about liquor laws involving Indians. and the invention of the Davis raft.

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Peck discusses and describes the chances he took in his youth, Captain Alf Lewis who towed a boat called "The Progressive", his experiences towing in 1918, buying the "Topaz" and moving back to Vancouver when the mill closed, a story about Haida canoes in Port Simpson and Metlakatla, his impressions of and details about the Haida people. TRACK 2: Captain Peck describes the transport of coal from B.C. to California around the turn of the century by the use of tugboats, what it was like at Hastings Harbour at that time, cargo ships that were lost including one in 1906 and a Russian ship called the "Volentia", more on the Narrows, an explosion on a small boat in 1902 at Port Simpson, Father Hogan who was the minister at Port Simpson at that time who gave his skin to those who were burned, a story about a stone mason named Mr. Rudge who dumped a tombstone overboard where a Haida man had drowned, the activity in salmon fishing on the Skeena River in the days before Prince Rupert was established in 1907, including details on the canneries near Port Essington, and the 186 mile journey along the Skeena from Prince Rupert to Hazelton aboard sternwheelers.

CALL NUMBER: T0398:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Donald Wesley Peck RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Peck discusses how boys in those days had to be self-dependant and had to learn to hunt and take care of the home, his friend Walter Wick's father who was the first foreigner he met while he lived at Inverness, a description of the Wick boys, he then describes his early memories of life at Metlakatla including details about people there. [Note: there is a splice in the tape so track 2 on this CD is a continuation of T0389:0003.] TRACK 2: Captain Peck offers a description of a woman named Miss West whom he met in 1904 in Georgetown, he discusses the history of Georgetown and the sawmill there including its establishment before Confederation, Mr. Morrow of Metlakatla who was a butcher at Metlakatla and was a former Indian agent, a description of the landscape at Metlakatla, the Rudge family, the origins of Port Essington including the type of place it was and people there. TRACK 3: Captain Peck discusses boats constructed for the Stikine and for the Yukon gold rush, the limitations of sternwheelers, experiences on the Nelson River, the people and geography of the Queen Charlotte Islands, the settlement of Sointula, and the elk on Graham Island, QCI.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. D.W. Hodgson talks about his experiences in the Cariboo, coast, and southern Okanagan regions of BC, 1904 to 1946. He describes how he came to BC in 1904 and offers his impressions of Vancouver and Victoria at that time; various early jobs; encounters with Indians; automobiles in the Cariboo in 1910; looking for a railway pass in the Chilco area; impressions of Lillooet; stories abo;ut working with a survey crew for the BC Electric Railway; a discussion of early railway surveying; stories about survey crews; a discussion of work on the BC coast; examining inlets for hydro electric power possibilities in the early 1920s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hodgson continues with more stories about work on the coast in Rivers Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound, and Knight Inlet, including details on the ;coastal landscape; looking for irrigation water for the south Okanagan before World War I; irrigation in the area; details of the soldier settlement scheme; irrigation; and orchard development in the Oliver/Osoyoos area after World War I.

CALL NUMBER: T1271:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna Darby recalls life as doctor's wife in Rivers Inlet and Bella Bella, 1914-1955 PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1955 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edna Darby recalls life as a doctor's wife (married to George Darby, 1889-1962) in Rivers Inlet and Bella Bella, 1914-1955: Edna describes her arrival in Rivers Inlet in 1914, the four childr;en she raised, the hospital at Rivers Inlet, more on her children including details about George Jr. at age 3 in a near drowning experience, fishing canneries at Rivers Inlet, other doctors, and the move to Bella Bella in 1914 including the reasons why. TRACK 2: Edna Darby continues with a description of the Bella Bella region, the hospital there, William Henry Pierce, relationships with Indians,; the granting of the Indian name 'Woyala' to Dr. Darby, more on Indians, how Dr. Darby happened to arrive at Rivers Inlet, other duties Dr. Darby performed, and a book written by Dr. George Darby.

CALL NUMBER: T1271:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edna Darby : doctor's wife PERIOD COVERED: 1914-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edna Darby recalls a story of the first 'skin graft', witch doctors, a story of a patient with tuberculosis, the Indians' attitudes toward Edna, more on Dr. Darby and the children she raised,; and more again on Dr. Darby. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Eino Ahola RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-03-05 SUMMARY: Eino Ahola fished the central area all this life. Was 11 years old when he first fished in a skiff. Fished alone at age 17 in 1915. He was born in Finland in 1897, and came to B.C. at an early age. His parents settled at Sointula, Malcolm Island. Low fish prices then. When the Fins came to Canada, they weren't used to fish, and didn't consider cod as food. They did eat some shellfish. He started out with a flat-bottomed skiff in Rivers Inlet. They did most of their fishing at night, pulling their nets in at the morning. They used a square chunk of wood with license number to mark their nets, and at night they had a lantern. He was part of the founding convention of a union in 1925-26. Discusses union development and the strike of 1936. Had his first gas boat in 1925 with a 5 HP Vivian engine. Discusses engines, new equipment and changes in fishing. Each cannery had their own colour of boat to help the packers identify them: Kildala was white, Wadham was red, Brunswick was blue, Beaver was yellow, and Provincial was green. He was a camp man for 3 or 4 seasons at Storm Bay and Johnson Straits. A camp man repairs the nets for the fishermen, and manages the camp. (Tape becomes garbled due to low battery while recordings -- reduce to 1 7/8 ips). Sointula has changed from a Finnish community to one with all kinds of nationalities. He used to build boats at Sointula for 50 years in the wintertime and fished in the summer. Pilchards were fished by seiners, for the reduction plant, but one year they just disappeared, probably because of the change in water temperatures. Eino was recently made an honourary member for life of the U.F.A.W.U. for his part in union organizing. Story of the Kingcome Indians who got boats from the government but never paid for them. Tells the story about Skookum Charlie and the tourist who took his picture.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-09-01 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Medical missionary work RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1976-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reading from autobiographical piece, "One Foggy Morning", prepared by Mrs. Joy Duncan, medical historian in Alberta; arriving at the Bella Bella hospital on 22 October 1944; Dr. George Darby; R.W. Large; Matron Marjorie McDowell; Dr. Darby was a "ten talent man"; native Indians; night duty; anecdote of Beatrice, a patient; staff; holiday; first radio-telephone in 1947; births; burns anecdote; 1948 government takeover of hospital finances; antibiotics; the Kitimat flu epidemic; ear infection anecdote; donations; rare diseases; fragile bones; Vince Ton Van Coni syndrome; Von Reckle Heim's disease; cysts; summer hospital at Rivers Inlet; five babies delivered in five nights; immunization; summer hospital closed in 1957; first aid post at Wadhams Inlet [Landing?]; cold snap; Dr. Darby's work; Dr. Ruth Allison was the first full time assistant to Dr. Darby; Dr. David Chisholm; Dr. Page, now Dr. Henderson; little Nellie from Takoosh; skin condition; Adenbrook lighthouse; premature baby; shin abscess; food poisoning of three sisters and the analysis and discovery of the toxin by Dr. Dolman at the provincial lab; trip to Vancouver with a boy with a club foot; storm in Queen Charlotte Sound; statistics for the Bella Bella hospital in 1958; burial of dead patients; off duty activities; social life at Bella Bella. TRACK 2: Social life of Bella Bella; Indian lifestyle; anecdote about a grounded boat; medical student at Bella Bella; Dr. Clarence Coho and his poem celebrating a birth on the high seas; farewell party for Dr. Darby in 1959 when he left Bella Bella; Dr. Peter Kelly's words for Dr. Darby; her birth in Ontario; Detroit hospital nurses training; why Bella Bella?; Dr. Bob Henderson; various other doctors; Dr. Darby's illness and funeral.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-25 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Harry Thompson RECORDED: Richmond (B.C.), 1976-04-07 SUMMARY: Harry Thompson was born and raised in Steveston at No. One Road and Steveston Highway. His father worked on the original Steves' Farm, for Harold Steves' grandfather. Later, his father acquired his own farm between Georgia St. and 6th Avenue. They had about 15-18 cows and a milk delivery route. Harry delivered the unprocessed, raw milk on the route, which was about 15 deliveries. They stayed in the milk business until sanitation regulations during the War forced them out of the business, so they began shipping all the milk to be processed in Vancouver. Harry started fishing at age 12 in 1936 with his older brother in a skiff. Their father made a deal with a Japanese farmer and they got a fish net for the good run in 1936, it was a linen net. Their father had a license which allowed them to fish. In 1938 he went to Rivers Inlet with an old fellow to fish. He fished for Goose Bay Cannery. In the daytime they fished along the shore, at night they moved into the middle of the inlet and turned on their lamps; it was like a little city, they were kind of lost. There were many Native fishermen and cannery workers, and a few Chinese and Scandinavian people. Their first boat was the "S.S. Box", an old square thing, with a Model T Ford engine sawn in half and one cylinder running. They never went out of sight of Steveston, and did most of their fishing in the mouth of the river. Recalls fishing stories. His family never lacked food or clothing during the Depression, but his parents worked hard. Discusses different boats owned and profits. The Japanese internment during WWII. Changes that resulted in fishing and Steveston after the Japanese were evacuated. His wife worked in the cannery for Canadian Fish when he met her. Discusses new nylon nets and equipment. Fishing for halibut. Joining the Union, 1944-45. Changes in the fishery over the years. Discusses the reasons for the many accidents in the recent herring fishery.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-10-26 SUMMARY: [No content documentation file available for this interview; however, general topics included life histories, band history, and history of social and economic conditions.];

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-05 SUMMARY: Hugh Montgomery was born in Ireland and came to Steveston in June 1913, the year of the good salmon run in the Fraser River. He started work in the cannery at age 7. The fish were so plentiful and the canneries were so short of help that they hired at any age. Put empty cans on trays and ten took them to the women so they could can the salmon. That paid two and a half cents an hour. Became a journeyman, worked up along the coast. Namu was one of the major plants of the coast where he became chief machinist and can maker for nine seasons. Got married and went to the Queen Charlottes as foreman of the plant. Went to Canadian Fish Cannery at Skeena River as assistant-foreman for five years. The accommodations were rough: just wooden shacks, but the cookhouse always had lots to eat, and good food. Worked long hours 6 am - 12 am because there was no refrigeration at cannery or on boats so fish had to be processed right away. Straight labour was paid by the hour but filling cans was paid by piecework. The key men in the plant such as mechanics, tallyman, and net supervisors were paid monthly. There was no overtime but if it was a good season sometimes received a bonus around $100.00. In those days the average wage of the key men was around $150-200 a month, and that included board and your fare up and down the coast. During the War worked from 6 am to 12 midnight with two half-hour breaks 6 days a week until the union came in. Believes the union was badly needed. Japanese evacuation during the War, and their poor treatment. Talks about changes in the cannery brought on by the health department, which he says was a lot tougher than the unions. Struggle to get union started. In Steveston before the big fire there were 23 canneries. Recalls the big fire in Steveston, 1928. Believes machinery put a lot of canneries out of business. Strike in Rivers Inlet in 1930. Remarks on fishing department. Processed herring during the War. Superintendent at Gulf of Georgia plant.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Inez and Kaarlo Huovinen RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-05 SUMMARY: Both Inez and Kaarlo Huovinen have their own gillnetters. They began living in the Vancouver area in 1928, fished on the Skeena River and came to Finn Slough area in 1930. Bought $125.00 boat and put a model-T Ford engine in the boat. Came from Finland in 1924. Worked at logging in Ontario, then on the railway, then on the prairies harvesting, then logged when he first came to B.C. The Depression conditions. 1932 River was too low and lots of fish died at Hell's Gate. Fished 5 days a week. Modern gear is too efficient. Inez started fishing all on her own. Kaarlo owned 2 boats, and he wanted to sell one so she took it over with her son. So he put a high-speed motor in her boat and she caught as much as the men "Fish, you know, don't know who's in the boat, you see, as long as your net is right in the water". Discusses the strikes at Rivers Inlet 1930s. 1945 union included the cannery workers. He fished for the Phoenix Cannery on the Fraser. Names other canneries. There was a co-op cannery in Ladner. Lived in a fishermen's shack for 16 years at the present (1976) Crown Zellerback site. Moved to their present (1976) house in 1947. Japanese treatment during WWII as opposed to treatment of the Finns (Finland fought against the Allies), no government discrimination. Kaarlo tried to learn to speak Japanese but didn't. Discusses B.C.'s Finnish populations. Discusses nets. Inez fishes mostly in the river to "make ends meet" and operates the boat mostly by herself. Discusses the river. Discusses different unions. Discusses fishing seasons and sports fishing. Oscar Niemi lived on the Crown Zellerback site, and it was said that Oscar knows all the stumps and snags in the river from New Westminster to the mouth of the river. Discusses wildlife in Richmond, and its replacement with development. Discuss big changes in cannery work, used to be lots of people, now few people and lots of machines. The buy-back program is discussed and criticized.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Anderson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1976-02-16 SUMMARY: Jack Anderson was born in Iowa and came to B.C. in 1919. Went to the Peace River County with his brother to farm, at about 15 years old. Tried logging and trapping, and moved to Rivers Inlet. Became a fisherman and cannery worker, started at Brunswick Cannery. Discusses canneries and Canada Fish Co. Very difficult during the Depression, discusses fish prices. Sailboats were used in the 1920s. Over 100 boats were based out of Brunswick Cannery. Licenses issued for each district, with Japanese confined to specific districts. Bought a converted boat in 1925 with at Easthope engine, used it for 12 years. $1000.00 a year at that time was considered good money. Trapping was a tough and lonely business. Started logging as a hand logger, and used a Gilchrist Jack to get the logs in the water. Quit logging in 1950 and gillnetted until 1970. Stayed at Rivers Inlet. Heart attacks are common for fishermen, with many dying in the 50s. Net loft boss got paid the most. Logging, canneries and fished are now mechanized. Fish are stored in brine and shipped to Vancouver or Prince Rupert. Fishing used to employ thousands of people, but not now (1976). The licensing of boats, to limit their numbers, resulted in basically eliminating Indian fishermen. Catches have gone down, as the gear is more efficient. Discusses strikes at Rivers Inlet. Discusses the switch from pay per piece to pay per pound and the need for a union, to improve prices. Recommends two Ministers of Fisheries, one for each coast. Fishing has become more competitive. Talks about different people and shares anecdotes about them.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1976-05?] SUMMARY: [No content summaries available for this interview.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jack Chisnall RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1976-02-12 SUMMARY: Jack Chisnall was born in Ontario in 1893 and came to B.C. in 1916; his wife came from Edinburgh, Scotland in 1911. Started logging in B.C., and fished and logged in Rivers Inlet. Fished 5 or 6 days a week in the old days. There were 13 canneries in Rivers Inlet at the time. Boats caught about 500 salmon, at 17 cents a piece for sockeye in 1916. You couldn't make a living at fishing alone, you had to go logging or trapping in the winter. Only made $2.50 a day for 10 hours of logging. Many Indian and Japanese fishermen. Japanese weren't allowed to log, and after WWII they weren't allowed to fish where they wanted. Fishermen at the time were organized into a union called The Fishermen and Cannery Workers' Industrial Union. The price of fish picked up in the 1950s. Steveston fishermen used to go up the coast for sockeye then return to San Juan Straits. Canned spring salmon for tourists. Cans were soldered by hand by Chinese workers. Dr. Darby. Paid by the fish until about 1949 when they started paying by the pound: ie. Dog salmon 3 cents a pound when it used to be 3 cents a fish. Comments on the return of Japanese fishermen. During the war they had more trouble with the Canadian Navy than with any enemy. Used to work at Celtic shipyards in the winter time. Discusses the American taking most of the fish up in the Alaska panhandle and their lack of conservation measures. Foreign fleets and pollution are also taking their toll. Steamships. Lots of drinking and bootlegging.