SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Olaf Seaholm : life as a transient labourer ; history of Swedish Canadian rest home PERIOD COVERED: 1932-1950 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-03-09 SUMMARY: Olaf Seaholm's life, impressions of and experiences in Canada following his immigration in 1929. Complete information about the Swedish Canadian Rest Home.;

RECORDED: Sechelt (B.C.), 1982-03 SUMMARY: Mr. Hanson came to Canada from Sweden in 1929. He had a variety of jobs, including dairy farming, working in a sawmill, logging and fishing.

Item consists of one audio cassette containing two interviews with Robert Bruce Scott and Britta A. Wickham in which each interviewee discusses their experiences living in Bamfield, BC.

Side 1: Scott, a veteran of the Bamfield Cable Station, discusses the physical development and social and environmental changes he has seen during his time in Bamfield, as well as the mood of the community during WWII.

Side 2: Wickham discusses her origins in Sweden, her reasons for leaving and why she settled in Bamfield in the early 1920s. She discusses some of the changes in the community that she experienced during her 50 year residence there.

SUMMARY: This program tells the story of the Norwegian settlers of the Bella Coola Valley, and their leader, the Rev. Christian Saugstad. The voices of Annie Levelton, Ted Levelton and Milo Fougner are heard.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gerald Thulin discusses the arrival of his father, Fred Thulin, and his uncle, Charles Thulin, in 1889 from Sweden to Canada. He then discusses the founding of Lund in 1889; the first hotel and liquor licenses there in 1894; and the first post office in 1892. Mr. Thulin then discusses the founding of Campbell River in 1904 and the building of the hotel wharf. He then returns to his discussion of Lund as a centre for loggers and tourists and he discusses boating. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Annie Engebretson : Bella Coola colony and Anahim Lake PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1934 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Annie Engebretson (nee Lunos or Lunaas) discusses her father Jacob J. Lunaas' arrival in Bella Coola from Minnesota to the Saugstad colony in 1895. She then discusses their first three years in the colony, leaving for Victoria in 1900, moving to Anahim Lake for health reasons (1903-1916), the four different trails to Anahim Lake from Bella Coola, sellers and Indians and families at Anahim; Lake, and stories about Ben Franklin and Capoose. TRACK 2: Engebretson continues with more on settlers and inhabitants at Anahim Lake (1898-1913), Father Thomas, and the possible origin of the different physical appearance of Bella Coola Indians.

RECORDED: Anahim Lake (B.C.), [1970?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Harold Engebretson remembers his father and life in the Anahim Lake area. His father, Tom Engebretson, came to Anahim Lake in 1899. Trails between Bella Coola and Towdystan. Harold was born in Bella Coola in 1912; childhood recollections of Bella Coola; he came to Anahim Lake to take over his father's ranch in the 1930s; anecdotes. Then an unidentified voice discusses Rich Hobson and his book "Grass Beyond the Mountains". TRACK 2: The discussion of Rich Hobson continues, including anecdotes about Hobson and his friend Pan Phillips. Then Harold returns to relate an anecdote (as told by his father) about bachelors in the Atnarko Valley.

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas recalls arrival in Bella Coola in 1933 and tells some early history, 1862-1894 PERIOD COVERED: 1862-1933 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas recalls his arrival in Bella Coola in 1933 and discusses some early history of the region (1862-1894): his arrival in Bella Coola by following Alexander Mackenzie's route in 19;33, the trip from Quesnel to Algatcho, his arrival in Firvale, and his first impressions of the Bella Coola Valley. TRACK 2: Clifford Kopas discusses the Waddington massacre, the death of Governor Frederick Seymour in 1869, fishing, the arrival of Lieutenant H.S. Palmer of the Royal Engineers in 1862, "The Grease Trail" from 1862 to 1869, "overlanders" who came to Bella Coola in search of gold, 1;869 Hudson's Bay Co. established their post, a series of men who served at the fort from 1869-1882, the 1883 arrival of missionaries including William Henry Pierce and Thomas Crosby, how in 1885 B.F. Jacobsen visited Bella Coola and took 9 native people to Germany, and the Norwegian settlers who arrived in 1894.

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas : Bella Coola road, 1951-1955 and more history, 1922-1937 PERIOD COVERED: 1793-1955 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas discusses Bella Coola Road (1951-1955) and more history from the region (1922-1937). Kopas discusses the construction for the Bella Coola Road including problems, costs, a com;parison to previous trails, the canyon, the precipice, and Indian routes. Then he discusses other activities pertaining to the road including tourism, logging, mining, and fishing. TRACK 2: Clifford Kopas continues with more on the road including the need for a highway, the building of an airstrip, television, the differences between isolation and civilization, tourism and hotels. Kopas discusses; petroglyphs (rock carvings) which were unearthed in 1922 , the origins of Indians in the area including details about crossing the Bering Strait, a description of Alexander MacKenzie's trip in 1793, Kopas' own trip through the Interior (compared to MacKenzie's), "Grease Trail", Lord Tweedsmuir's visit, Bella Coola's move in 1937, and details about the typhoid epidemic.

CALL NUMBER: T1273:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Clifford Kopas : life in Bella Coola - the people PERIOD COVERED: 1966-1966 RECORDED: Bella Coola (B.C.), 1966-08-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Clifford Kopas describes relationships between whites and Indians, the Indian adaptation to white civilization, a breakdown of the male population in occupations, agriculture in the Bella Coo;la Valley, how milk is brought in from Vancouver, weather in the winter, his impressions of Anahim Lake, community spirit and Norwegians, and the advantages of Bella Coola as a port. [TRACK 2: blank.;]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Annie Levelton recalls early life in the Bella Coola Valley (1895) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Annie Levelton describes her arrival in Bella Coola when she was four years old from Norway. Then she discusses her mother and the challenge of moving to such a remote area and credit is given to Mr. Clayton who was the Hudson's Bay factor (1895) who made sure that no one starved. She discusses her father (Erasmus Levelton) and his coming to Minnesota, Rev. Christian Saugstad, her mother,; and relations with the Bella Coola Stikine. Then she tells a story of how her life was saved by the famous Indian Capoose, and two anecdotes about bears. She discusses working on Bella Coola's road building, fishing, Mrs. Clayton, her mother's nursing, and Hagensborg. TRACK 2: Annie Levelton recalls carrying stoves, other goods, and equipment over the creek. Then she relates Ole Saugstad's muscular exploits.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Edel Hammer : Bella Coola colony at Hagensborg, 1895-1896 PERIOD COVERED: 1895-1896 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-08-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Edel Hammer (nee Nordschow) describes her father and the arrival of her family in Bella Coola in 1895 including a description of the journey. She describes life in the colony, Rev. Christian Saugstad's death, Ole Saugtad stories, leadership after his death, relations with Indians, education and teachers, and cabin building. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T1282:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gaston Bazille : entrepreneur PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gaston "Buzz" Bazille begins his discussion with his arrival in Ocean Falls, B.C. in 1946 before moving to Bella Coola in 1947. He discusses his family and work life including a story about a; time when he quit his job and swam the river because he wouldn't wait for a boat. Then he offers anecdotes and details about his involvement with the B.C. Power Commission and electricity in Bella Coola in 1951. Then he describes an experience with a cougar, and his experiences with the building of the Bella Coola Road from 1951-1953. TRACK 2: Buzz Bazille continues by discussing the soda pop factory, the pulp mill and industrial pollution threat to the Bella Coola Valley, his attempts to bring industry to the valley, logging, his newspaper "Valley Echo", Bella Coola and Hagensborg.

CALL NUMBER: T1282:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gaston Bazille : comments on Norwegians and Indians PERIOD COVERED: 1936-1969 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Buzz Bazille comments on Norwegian settlers and Indian affairs in the valley.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-21 SUMMARY: Interview with elderly Finnish residents of Sointula, including Eino Ahola.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977] SUMMARY: Interview with Minda Katainen and her experiences in Sointula.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Finnish Canadian interviews RECORDED: [location unknown], [1977?] SUMMARY: Interviews with Ernie Dalskog, Scottie Neish and Ozmo Lottie.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Richard John Michelson : Finnish commune 1901-1906 PERIOD COVERED: 1901-1915 RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1972-05-04 SUMMARY: Richard John Michelson was born in 1894 and lived in a Finnish commune in Sointula from 1901-1906. He discusses the problems of communal life, as well as Sointula from 1909 to 1915.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972-02-03 SUMMARY: Mrs. J.B. Bothwell was a school teacher in Steveston, ca. 1920. Good details. School rules. Community life. Japanese. Finnish. Home remedies. [Very little documentation is available for this tape.];

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A feature by Don Mowatt and Jurgen; Hesse, recorded among the Scandinavian communities in the Pacific Northwest. The program profiles their music, their national holidays, their customs, and their memories of the homeland. Includes mat;erial read by Esse W. Ljungh [former head of CBC Radio drama].;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Alfred Williams and Olavi Anderson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: Alfred Williams and Olavi Anderson discuss: Suquash mine; Rough Bay; Kaleva; Toivo Aro; Pulteney Point; Keisler; Hylton brothers; Mandie.;

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: arriving in Holberg in November 1911, age 7 years old; uncle already in Cape Scott- he was marriage commissioner, Justice of Peace; work was hard to get at this time; father bought out local store; hard life in Cape Scott at this time; logged for 2-3 years, starting at age 15; worked in cannery; then went to sea as a cook; fishing; looking for work in Quatsino, Port Alice; life at the canneries; going to dances; more on fishing.; CALL NUMBER:

T4031:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: fishing (cont'd); competition in hard times amongst fishermen in the area; wolf stories; anecdotes about cougars; geese, ducks and deer; going to school in Holberg, Cape Scott; Mr. Christensen; uncle, Knud Hansen was early settler. Mrs. Nancy Hansen discusses: arriving in San Josef Bay in 1915; father cleared land and created farm; few neighbours- once a month there was a get-together at Lake Erie; celebrations at Christmas, New Year's; a lonely life, especially for young people; managed to make own amusement; married in 1922 on beach at San Josef; people had to leave because there were no opportunities; parents.;

CALL NUMBER: T4031:0008 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dreams of freedom : Niels Hansen RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-03-04 SUMMARY: Niels Hansen discusses: politics not discussed much in Cape Scott; dreams of early Scandinavian settlers of creating a long-lasting community at Cape Scott; more about logging. Mrs. Nancy Hansen discusses: going to San Josef.;

CALL NUMBER: T3339:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Walmis Newman : a lifetime on the coast, part 1 RECORDED: Duncan (B.C.), 1978-07-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Walmis Newman describes his early life on the Saanich Peninsula; his long association with ships and boats, including the "Princess Sophia" disaster; boat building; the Genoa Bay sawmill. TRACK 2: His life at Musgraves Landing; Brother XII and DeCourcy island; his present farm near Duncan; more on boat building; his attitudes towards conscription and pacifism.

CALL NUMBER: T3339:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Walmis Newman : a lifetime on the coast, part 2 RECORDED: Duncan (B.C.), 1978-07-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Walmis Newman describes clam digging and deer hunting during the 1930s; his Finnish background; prohibition; tugboats and their crews. TRACK 2: More on tugboats; types of BC coal and their uses; the Island Highway in the 1920s; the very poor working conditions of sailors.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A feature by Don Mowatt and Jurgen; Hesse, recorded among the Scandinavian communities in the Pacific Northwest. The program profiles their music, their national holidays, their customs, and their memories of the homeland. Includes readings by Esse W. Ljungh.

CALL NUMBER: T0542:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Production Superintendent for Canadian Forest Products PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1975 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Art Newman discusses: techniques and skills in hand falling, 1930; predominance of Scandinavians in falling, 1930s; importance of Scandinavians in organizing the IWA; responsibility of the bull buckers in setting prices and contract rates, 1930-1964; the process of setting contract rates and production priorities; becomes a bull bucker, 1946. Talks about problems of the bull bucker: quality, accident prevention, costs and production. Dealing with men. Qualities of a good faller. Differences in falling small and large timber. The faller's "mistake book". Type and frequency of accidents. Coming to Nimpkish, 1946. Accepting responsibilities in the logging industry. The making of a supervisor. TRACK 2: Art Newman discusses: his move to Woss camp, 1946; logging sites surrounding Woss camp 1946-47; life in Nimpkish camp, 1946-60; getting assistance to the camps in emergencies; family life in Nimpkish; recreation and community activities; problems with alcohol; logging methods during late 1940s; sizes of settings, 1940-70s; transition from hand falling to power saw falling, 1935-50; changes in amounts of timber cut per man per day, 1930-75. Talks about his acquisition of logging knowledge. CALL NUMBER: T0542:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Production Superintendent for Canadian Forest Products PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1974 RECORDED: Beaver Cove (B.C.), 1974-07-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reasons for changeover to railway/truck logging from strictly railway logging. Description of Russell Mills. Membership in the IWA, 1942-46. Changes in the IWA union, 1946-74. Communist influence of IWA, 1945-50. [TRACK 2: blank.; end of interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T3982:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Interview with Phyllis Hill RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-07-28 SUMMARY: Interview with Phyllis Hill on the subject of Cape Scott and her childhood there. Discussion of photographs of Cape Scott subjects.

CALL NUMBER: T3982:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Interview with Phyllis Hill RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1982-07-28 SUMMARY: Recollections of school days, church, people (including teacher, minister), first and only marriage at Cape Scott, various other people, general store, post office at Fisherman's Bay, Sucharti, Scandinavian influence at Cape Scott. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Andrew Juvelien : Swedish-Canadian carpenter in British Columbia RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-23 SUMMARY: Andrew Juvelien describes his life in Canada after he came from Sweden in 1913. Work as a carpenter in Saskatchewan and B.C. Homesteading in Saskatchewan. Socialism and his involvement in the beginnings of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Political opinions as well as biography.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arni Arntzen discusses life in Sweden before 1905 when he came to New Orleans. Life in America, and coming to Canada about 1913. Worked on Grand Trunk Railway in Rockies. Taking rafts down Upper Fraser. Homestead near Prince George, and later in Saskatchewan. Prairie life in Depression. Finally came to B.C. during WWII. TRACK 2: Arni Arntzen's ideas about Canada then and now.

CALL NUMBER: T0009:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arni Arntzen RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-22 SUMMARY: Arni Arntzen's life and his political ideas.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jacob Torgerson : retired hard rock miner and Peace River homesteader RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-04-05 SUMMARY: Jacob Torgerson was born in Norway in 1891. Life as a hard rock miner in B.C. at Britannia Beach. Pioneer miner in Northern B.C. and others. Also information about his life in the Peace River country, and about silicosis. How he got silicosis and how the Compensation Board refused to pay him a pension for 17 years.

CALL NUMBER: T0019:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Olof F. Lindquist : retired electrician RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-27 SUMMARY: Olof Lindquist was born in 1900 in Sweden and worked as an electrician for Cominco, at the North Star Mine in Kimberley. Description of Kimberley as a company town. The practices of Cominco management; before the union organized the men.

CALL NUMBER: T0019:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Olof F. Lindquist : retired electrician RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-29 SUMMARY: Olof Lindquist gives a detailed account of the early days of the Mine Mill and Smelter Union in Kimberley. Explanation of how this union came to be expelled from Canadian Congress of Labour, as a result of the leadership of Mr. Murphy.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Olaf Johanson RECORDED: Burnaby (B.C.), 1972-03-27 SUMMARY: Olaf Johanson was born ca.1895 and immigrated as a young man. In B.C. he worked as a logger (faller) on the coast until the Depression. He then became a gold miner in Northern B.C near the Yukon border. Finally he moved to Whitehorse as a boiler maintenance man.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Arne Johnson RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1972-05-04 SUMMARY: Arne Johnson was born in Norway in 1893, and immigrated to Canada in the early twentieth century. He worked as a logger on the B.C. coast until he became a full time secretary for Lumber Workers Industrial Union in 1929. He helped to keep the union alive until it joined the I.W.A. in 1936. Organized loggers on the B.C. coast and led the first big logger strike in B.C. in 1934.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Algot Swanson : leader in Swedish community activities RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-05-11 SUMMARY: Algot Swanson was born in 1890 in Sweden, and immigrated to Canada in 1909. He held various labouring jobs and settled in Vancouver during the First World War. He discusses his involvement as a leader in all Swedish Community activities. He recounts the various Swedish cultural and community organizations that have existed and still exist (1972) in Vancouver.