SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): F. Arthur Hankin : some memories of the Hazelton area before 1900 PERIOD COVERED: 1866-1900 RECORDED: Hazelton (B.C.), 1966 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Hankin describes an excursion from the Hazelton area to the Omineca on a Grand Trunk Pacific survey crew; an incident involving Indian mental telepathy; Fort McLeod; Billy Ware, a Hudson's Bay Company factor; R.E. Loring (Mr. Hankin's stepfather), the Indian agent at Hazelton and an ertist; Hazelton before 1900; the first steamboat to arrived in Hazelton, the "Caledonia" (1891); Indians in the area; his father, Thomas Hankin, who established Hazelton; the first packers; the packer Jean Caux, known as Cataline; the trail to Babine; fur trade; Thomas Hankin; John Dorsey; Gabriel; LeCroix; Hankin's mother, Margaret McCall (sp?) of Fort Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: An original radio experience by Norman Newton, expressing his ideas about British Columbia. Comprises poetry, music, and the sound effects of water, birds, etc. Also includes sounds of the Upper Skeena, Indigenous legends, etc.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Flora Martin remembers the Hazelton area before World War I PERIOD COVERED: 1890s-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], [1964-09?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Flora Martin, wife of George Franklin Martin, begins this interview speaking about the arrival of the steamboats at Hazelton, McIntosh's Landing, the purser -- Mr. Lockerby, steamboat noises,; freight canoes, more about the arrival of boats at Hazelton, news of the wreck of "The Mount Royal" (1907), the Hudson's Bay Company store, Cunningham's store, Sargent's store, Hazelton, the Rev. John Field, the Indian language, the legend of an abandoned Indian village -- Dimlhamet (sp?) and pronunciation and meaning of Indian place names in the Hazelton area. TRACK 2: Flora Martin recalls pack; trains and local characters at Hazelton: Cataline, Cayuse Jack Graham, Barney Mulvaney, Dick Sargent, Dr. H.C. Wrinch and changes in Hazelton.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Floyd Frank : Kitsumkalum Valley in the early 1900s PERIOD COVERED: 1892-1948 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1972] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Frank Floyd recounts his birth at Port Essington, his father as a fish warden 1904-1917, Eby's Landing (Terrace), his early life in the Kitsumkalum Valley (1908), Tom Thornhill (1892), pre-emptions, clearing the land, the settlement of Kitsumkalum, George Little, the Floyd family dairy farm, market gardening in the area, floods of 1936 and 1948, childhood memories, riverboats, canoes, dog; sledding along the Skeena and Kitimat Rivers, and more about Eby's Landing (Terrace). [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Francis Bell Chettleburgh : Hazelton and Telkwa regions PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1925 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-03-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Francis "Chet" Chettleburgh speaks about his trip up the Skeena to Hazelton 1909, travelling on the sternwheeler "Port Simpson" from Port Essington, impressions of Hazelton, the Rev. J. Field;, Sealyville (sp), Indian disturbances at Kispiox and Kitwancool, Hazelton residents, the Two Mile "red light district", Barney Mulvaney and George Birnes' mail route, Rev. Tomlinson and the mission at Minskinisht. He recalls Hazelton's hotels, stores, families, recreation, residents, regular visitors, Indians, social life, the Hazelton of 1911, "Cataline" and "Blackjack McDonald". TRACK 2: Francis Chettleburgh continues with recollections about Hazelton. He recalls Sarah Glassey, her "Rabbit Ranch" and her "dining room", the Hudson's Bay Company warehouse -- "Stonehouse" liquor dispensory, names of local packers, Groundhog Valley description and mines, Dick Sargent and Indian workers. He talks about his move to Telkwa, his stores, Rene Degville, Jack McNeil and his hotel, Mike Touhy, Joe Bourgon and Sarah Bourgon (nee Capewell), Charles Orchard, the feelings of brotherhood for men in the country, Eli Culbertson (sp) and a local incident.

CALL NUMBER: T0645:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred Foster begins with some anecdotes about the Foster family near Clinton. Then he goes back to his school days in 1881 in Victoria, and discusses Judge Matthew Begbie, including descr;iptions of the man and his character; a description of Begbie's house; the school on Belcher Avenue; his impressions of Victoria in those days, including the schools; an anecdote about a drunk man who; drove an ox team; a procedure for breaking camp at night while traveling on a pack train; his recollections of the packer Jean Caux (known as Cataline); a packer named Tate near Clinton; a story abou;t how Foster's father used to buy gold from the Chinese around the Fraser River, and the process of extracting the quicksilver from the gold; and the differences in gold between various creeks in the Cariboo. TRACK 2: Mr. Foster continues with details about his time in Atlin around 1902, and an anecdote about a dead body in a cabin; more anecdotes about his time in Atlin; running a farm in Clint;on, and eventually coming to Barkerville in 1906; a description of Barkerville at that time; an anecdote about spending New Years eve at Clinton around 1900; his time working on a steamship near Prince George; his experiences in Hazelton as a prospector just before WWI; what Hazelton was like at that time, including the Boyd family; the story of how his mother came to Canada in 1881 [?]; and the l;oss of the Skeena River steamer "Mount Royal".

CALL NUMBER: T0645:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Foster continues with details on how water for use the ships came from a spring at Royal Roads; a discussion of Hatley Park; his memories of Victoria as he first knew it; and characters a;round Victoria. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02-27 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.];

CALL NUMBER: T0316:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh McLean : reminiscences - the Klondike (1898-1901) and the Bulkley Valley (1907-1914) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 & 1961-07-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh McLean begins this interview with recollections about a pack train to the Klondike, 1898, the story of an ill-fated homesteader -- Kispiox (1908), George Birnes, Mike Touhy, Barney Mulva;ney, stories about the mail delivery c.1910 and the Tomlinsons of Minskinisht. TRACK 2: Hugh McLean speaks about coming to B.C. (1896), smelter work at Trail, railway and telegraph work, prospecting,; the Klondike (1898), the journey to the Klondike via the Stikine, the ice ladder at Skagway, pack outfit over White Pass, dog sleigh freighting (1898-1901), mining at Atlin, prospecting at Big Bend and Fort McPherson, and Telkwa (1912). He continues with recollections about the Yukon Telegraph Company line, pioneers in the Telkwa area: Archie and Neal McInnes, Bill and Bob Clark, the telegraph l;ine along the Skeena, Smithers, Hubert, the Hanson Tie and Timber Company, Hazelton, Cataline described, Gabe LaCroix, French Canadians, Ed LeBlaux and Jack McNeil.

CALL NUMBER: T0316:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh McLean : the storyteller I RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 & 1961-07-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh McLean relates a story about the movie "Ben Hur" with Len Broughton, one of the chariot drivers and a local character. TRACK 2: Hugh McLean tells anecdotes to a group of children: the cattle and salt in 1931, Indian women and the plank bridge, a small boy and his grandmother, the sage hen -- 1894, the bear story, a story about an trapper at Takla Lake -- Daniel Teegee, the wreck of the "Distributor" and a story about stopping there on a mail run.

CALL NUMBER: T0316:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hugh McLean : the storyteller II RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-07-09 & 1961-07-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hugh McLean continues the story about an incident along the mail run, a story about wolf dogs at Aklavik on the mouth of the McKenzie River, the police patrol when Hugh McLean was ill during ;the flu of 1918, his collie pup, and a story of Wiggs O'Neill -- "Klootch and Clutch" about a spare boat clutch at Port Simpson. TRACK 2: Hugh McLean continues with stories told to a group of children, "Old Fort Isaac", the bear cub story, the bank robbery at Hazelton (1913) and tall tales: a trapper at Loon Lake, a tabby cat and a Joe Hanson tale. Names of the children in the group: Robin Hood,; Joan Phillips, Alan Phillips, Barbara Small, Pat Mahood, Ann Troback [sp], Tom Stall [sp], Art Hale [sp], Paul Dail [sp], Franklin Hood and Kelda Giddins.

Fonds consists of photographic prints, negatives and textual material created or received by Jack B. Scott with predominant date range from 1923 to 1960.

The photographs primarily depict logging and whaling, settlements, landscapes and wildlife of northern coastal BC, Queen Charlotte Islands and Skeena River areas. Textual records include press clippings pertaining to area wildlife, the Monongahela vessel and Chief Mungo Martin's lying in state at Thunderbird Park in addition to a memo of photographs conveyance to the Provincial Museum and to the Maritime Museum.

Amateur film. Japan: sea voyage, shore scenery, other ships (destroyers), gardens and temples, ship leaving harbour. Miscellaneous: big house and dogs (Victoria?); bridge of ship; sports fishing; punting. Skeena footage: Skeena River; fishing; Indian villages and totem poles; Premier Hotel; sailors; dignitary receiving a gun salute and being driven in a Rolls Royce to a house.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Chief Jeffery Johnson : the Skeena River Indians (Gitksan) RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Chief Jeffrey H. Johnson discusses the Skeena River and his people. He speaks about the meaning of K'san (Skeena), the smallpox epidemic, pre-contact, the introduction of potatoes, pre-contac;t trapping, the arrival of the Hudson's Bay, churches and missionaries, Indian workers at the canneries, Indian fishermen, Indian women knitting the fishing nets and working in the canneries, fishing ;methods and pay, the cannery companies, introduction of the sternwheelers, competition on the Skeena, the wreck of the "Mount Royal" and the freight canoe crews and navigation. TRACK 2: Chief Johnson; continues speaking about the freight canoes, the diet of the crew, diet pre-contact, canoe travel pre-contact, Indian songs for the freight canoes and origins of the songs. Chief Johnson explains and; sings two songs used by the freighting crews, legends of the origin of the Skeena River, a war between the Haida and the people of Kitwanga, and a story about Kitselas Canyon.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Jemima Dobbie : Kitselas, 1895-1910 PERIOD COVERED: 1890s-1910 RECORDED: Copper City (B.C.), [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jemima Dobbie (nee Stewart), wife of Simeon W. Dobbie, remembers her father, David Stewart, and his coming from the United States to the Skeena region in the 1890's. He worked in the Inverness Cannery and moved with his family to Kitselas in 1895, he was the first to farm in the area and supplied the riverboats with produce. Jemima Dobbie speaks about changes in the Skeena, the Kitselas t;ownsite, construction of the telegraph line and the railway, Kalum Indian Villages, totem poles and the river canyon. (pause in the tape) Jemima Dobbie speaks about the origins of Copper City, the Kitselas townsite, the wreck of the "Mount Royal", and Port Essington c.1894. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Joe Allan and Louis Mero : reminiscences of Houston, ca.1911 and the Hazelton area, 1903-1914 PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1914 RECORDED: Hazelton (B.C.), 1961-07-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Joe Allan begins this tape by reciting a poem, "Early Days of Ootsa Lake" by Mike Touhy, and a poem by Florence Allan. He speaks about the beginning of the town of Houston and early memories (1911-1914). Lou Mero recalls coming from Calgary (1903), prospecting in the Ingenika River area (1903-1908), the Hazelton area (1908), freighting, steamboats, the 1909 Indian "uprising", stories of George Birnes, the Groundhog coal mine, the packer Cataline (Jean Caux / John Cox) and Cayuse Jack (Jack Graham). TRACK 2: Lou Mero continues with recollections about Wiggs O'Neill.

CALL NUMBER: T1795:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: John Muir brought steam trawler "Orantas" from Great Britain to Kildonan Cannery on Vancouver Island. Cannery was owned by Wallace Brothers. Collected fish on the west coast 1912-1913. Loaded coal for; bunkers in the "Empress of India". Was hired off the dock to work on the Union Steamship Company boat "Cowichan". Aboard "Coquitlam" in 1918 when it struck rock in Drumlommon Inlet. Rescued longshoreman from the River Clyde. Describes navigating in the fog. "Chelosin" wrecked on Siwash Rock. Describes stops along the Skeena River.;

CALL NUMBER: T1795:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: John Muir describes calling at canneries up and down the coast, Nass River and Skeena River. Describes making landings, freight handling, navigation in the fog. Union steamship runs aground near Powell River. Entering Vancouver harbour in the fog. People on the coast helped in finding docks and floats by putting their own "navigation lights" out. Seymour Narrows was a difficult spot. Settlers at Cape Scott.;

CALL NUMBER: T1795:0003 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: John Muir describes difficult places to navigate such as the Skeena River flats and the Seymour Narrows. Capt. C.B. Smith runs the "Chilliwack" aground to balance a cargo of ore from Surf Inlet. Problems of avoiding fish boats and fishing nets during salmon season. Crossing Hecate Strait for Moresby Island in foul weather. Was founding member of Canadian Merchant Service Guild. CMSG strikes in 1917. Later went ashore as Union Steamship Company shore superintendent. Japanese firemen were not re-hired after 1935 strike. Brought machinery from Surf Inlet mine to site of proposed mine at Khutze Inlet.;

CALL NUMBER: T1795:0004 PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: John Muir describes the "Cassiar", an ex-sailing ship, logging camps and the changes which took place with the formation of large forestry companies, seeing whales on the north coast, difficulties of maneuvering with single screw vessels, problems of navigation during fishing season, especially when there were shadows at night thrown by the moon.

CALL NUMBER: T1223:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner : recollections of a riverboat man, 1895-1950 : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1910 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner leaves Dewdney in 1894 to go to Hazelton with his aunt, he describes the trip by steamer to Port Essington and then by Indian canoe on the Skeena to Hazelton,; on the return trip to Port Essington he meets up with his father who was mate for Captain Bonser and he takes a position as a waiter on the "Caledonia" (1895). He recalls the "Old and New Caledonia",; adventures on the "Caledonia", hunting on Finlayson Island, incidents with pack dogs, freight, crew and passengers on the "Caledonia", "Boston Bill" and his deck hand work (1898). TRACK 2: Captain Gardner continues speaking about his work aboard the "Caledonia", "lining", Kitselas Canyon -- hazards and navigation, the Skeena and Stikine Rivers, impressions of Hazelton (1894), Yukon gold and it's; impact: swindlers and mental illness, "drifting" downstream on the Skeena, wreck of the "Mount Royal", the 30 Mile River in the Yukon, river incidents and memories of Captain Bonser.

CALL NUMBER: T1223:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Captain Joseph Alphonsus Gardner : recollections of a riverboat man, 1895-1950 : part 2 PERIOD COVERED: 1894-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Joseph Gardner continues with recollections of his life on a riverboat, an incident between a captain and an engineer, crews on the Skeena and Yukon boats, the Copper River explosion ;-- 1908, wreck of the steamer "Sophia", navigating the Copper River, "reading the water", sounding the water, the Skeena River -- Port Essington to Kitselas vs. Kitselas to Hazelton, "jumping the bars;" and his early memories of Dewdney and Hatzic area farmers. TRACK 2: Captain Joseph Gardner speaks about his father, Captain Gardner who was born in Mission, his grandfather George Clinton Gardner an international surveyor and continues with a summary of his father's career. He ends this interview speaking about incidents in the Yukon.

The series contains diaries, 1879-1927; notes and correspondence on the Anderson family; the manuscript of his memoirs with notes and correspondence and the typescript entitled "Notes and comments on early days and events in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon..."; the manuscript of his Trees and shrubs: food/medicinal, and poisonous plants of British Columbia; botanical notes; MS. articles on history, natural history, place names, First Nations legends; and accounts of trips to the Queen Charlotte Islands and to Prince Rupert and up the Skeena in 1909.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Katie O'Neill : the Veasy, O'Neill and Alexander families PERIOD COVERED: 1860s-1944 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Katie O'Neill speaks about her mother, Marianne Veasy coming out from New York with her family who pre-empted the Bonaparte Ranch outside of Ashcroft (1860's). After her mother and father, Charles Patrick O'Neill, were married they went to Barkerville (1879), there were 3 children in the family and her father worked as a blacksmith. Following her father's death, her mother married James M;orrison Lindsey Alexander and the family moved to the Queen Charlotte Islands to take up cattle ranching, later moving to Port Simpson. She relates childhood memories of the cattle ranch in the Queen ;Charlotte Islands near Masset and growing up in Port Simpson c.1900. She talks about the Minskinisht village, Rev. Robert Tomlinson and her position as telegraph operator at Minskinisht (1906-1909), and the wreck of the "Mount Royal". She later trained as a nurse (1909) and worked in Victoria. Katie O'Neill nursed Emily Carr in 1944 during her old age and she relates some memories and impressions.

CALL NUMBER: T4255:0108 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kitselas : [tape #2] SUMMARY: [No content information available.] Probably a component used in the production of Imbert Orchard's radio documentary "Kitselas".

CALL NUMBER: T4255:0109 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kitselas : sternwheeler SUMMARY: Interview segment.