SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Interview with Mrs. Joan Gambioli PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1982 RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-07-28 SUMMARY: Mrs. Joan Gambioli discusses her early life in West Vancouver and her family background; her education at public schools (physics teacher was James Sinclair, father of Margaret Trudeau); her four years at the Vancouver School of Art; her employment for two years by Vancouver Motion Pictures (Leon Shelly); the development and construction of Diamond Head Chalet by the Brandvold brothers, Ottar (later her husband) and Emil (see interview with Susan Leslie, T3726:0001-0004), and herself; their relationship with the Garibaldi Park Board, 1945-53; the operation of the Queen Charlotte Airline hostel at Garibaldi Lake; the relationship with the Parks Branch of the Dept. of Lands & Forests, 1948-58; the purchase of the chalet by the government in 1958; her sculpture career, and the effect of the Vancouver International Stone Sculpture Symposium on her personal life. (End of interview)