The item is an audio recording of an interview with Dora Kloss in 1974.
T0539:0001 track 1: Dora Kloss describes Vancouver Island logging camp life and conditions, 1934-1974. She discusses: Nahmint Bay logging camp, ca. 1934; strike at Nahmint Bay, 1934; union activity of loggers, and the company's reaction, 1930s; life in the Salmon River logging camp; unemployed loggers, 1930s; logger transience and its effect on family life; the problem of schooling.
T0539:0001 track 2: Mrs. Kloss discusses B.C. coastal transportation and travel (Union Steamships), 1930s and 1940s; medical problems and illness in isolated logging camps, 1934-1945; loggers' vacations and recreation; moving to Englewood, 1946-1947; housing facilities in Englewood, 1947. Englewood camp life (continued): installation of electrical power, 1948; ordering groceries and mail order shopping, 1940s; steamship arrivals and freight rates; health care in Alert Bay, 1946. Social life for women: the Women's Institute.

T0539:0002 track 1: Mrs. Kloss discusses women's lives in logging camps, 1940s; homemaking and gardening in Sayward and Englewood, 1939-1948; move to Nimpkish, 1957; activities of the Women's Institute at Nimpkish, 1940s. Life in the Englewood area, 1946-1974.

Diaries. From 1896-1900, Henry was in the Royal Marine Artillery on board H.M.S. Victorious on the China Station; he emigrated to B.C. in 1911, and from November 1913 to February 1914 worked as a carpenter at South Wellington mine; in May 1914 he pre-empted Lot 8, Sayward district; he served in the army from 1915-1917, partly in England; in April 1920 the family returned to Sayward. A typescript of the diaries for 1897-1900 is filmed after the 1935-1936 diary, and contains photographs, programmes, etc. Photos transferred to Visual Records.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Harding, nee Howe, describes her family's move to Victoria and their involvement in World War I. She recalls their move to Sayward in 1920; their home; social life; colourful characters; fairs; farming; family feuds; early Sayward. Early settlers are described, including the Sacht family; the Indian reserve; the Armishaw family; trading companies; roads; railroads and logging. TRACK 2: Mrs. Harding continues with descriptions of local characters; events in Sayward's and Kelsey Bay's history; early residents; French-Canadian settlers; Hastings Sawmill Company; pre-emptions; the Soldiers Settlement Scheme; the Depression; schooling; cougars; her family's early years in Sayward; church services; Columbia Coast Mission; logging.

Series consists of minute books, 1922-1925, 1940-1943, 1947-1982; cash book, 1946-1949.

CALL NUMBER: T1928:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: Ole and Marguerite Skogan were early settlers of the Sayward Valley. She was the daughter of pioneers; he logged there ca. 1908 and returned to pre-empt land in 1914. TRACK 1: Sayward -- Hastings logging camp, 1908. Glen Duncan. Camp at White River. Transportation. Otto Sacht's store. Supplies brought in by Union Steamships. No roads. Logging company moved away from Sayward, 1912; most families left. Land was opened for homesteading in 1914; 40-acre lots. Duncan family, farm. Sacht's store, 1923. Port Kusam had original post office, liquor store. [Port Kusam was renamed "Hkusam" in 1952.] Sayward School. Entertainment. Neighbours. Hunting and trapping, White River. Mr. Skogan returned to Sayward 1914; logged for gyppos and self. Logged with oxen, then horses. Worked on steam donkey in USA. Had worked in Yukon on sternwheeler and in mine, 1906-1908. Travel on Union Steamships. Logging camps at Rock Bay, Granite Bay, and Thurlow. TRACK 2: Also worked at Kingcome and Blind Channel. Cannery at Green Point Rapids. Conditions at logging camps named above. Medical care. Columbia Coast Mission. Story about dance at Rock Bay. Anecdotes about logging camp characters, shootings. Ed Stowe, his timber and cattle. Home remedies. District nurse. Hotel in Sayward. CALL NUMBER: T1928:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Son still living at Sayward. Difference in logging then and now. The Depression. Land at Sayward. Politics in Sayward very important in early days. Voting at Port Kusam. Politicians all promised a road to Sayward. Got road in 1946; 19 bridges between Sayward and Campbell River. Trip to Cumberland. First trip on new road. Trips on terrible roads. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a reel of film footage showing a salmonid enhancement program at Sayward.

This series consists of a Sayward Land District lot register for lots 1-612 on Vancouver Island. Earliest entries date from 1882 and the volume was superseded in 1945 (i.e. no further entries were made after 1945).

The register lists lots in numerical order and records the alienation of land from the Crown (by purchase, pre-emption, lease, etc.). Information may include the name of the purchaser, dates and numbers of certificates issued (including Crown Grants), dates and amounts of payments, and reference numbers to correspondence files and field books. The volume contains an alphabetical name index.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with community and pioneer history in the area between Sayward and Hornby Island on eastern Vancouver Island. The modern (1960s) way of life on Denman Island, Hornby Island and Quadra Island is also highlighted.