RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-05-24 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. First impressions; Granby; air shafts; strike; WWI; South Wellington flood; Reserve; Senini; Extension mine; Chinese; 1883 explosion No 1; mine smells; mules; into mine; lamps sulphur; Fiddicks; Morden; fun; the Depression; Cumberland; beer; bosses; Lewis dies.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-18 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Into mine; soccer; origins; protection cage; mules; wages; blasting; water in No. 1; mining; the Depression; strike.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), [1979 summer] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Log house; father hurt; winter and summer employment; blacksmith; coal delivery; the Chinese; horses; beer; wages; reserve mine; listening to shots; liked mines; lights go out; mine animals; cage; union organizing; sulphur; strike; Indians; May 24.

RECORDED: Lake Cowichan (B.C.), 1979-12-08 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Family; strike; co-op; houses; companies; family history; Extension; Morden; South Wellington; widows; house burns; education; food; community feeling; explosion No. 1; Extension explosion; Southfield flood; mine conditions; scabs; unions; WeeToo.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-07-06 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Strike; goes into mine; mules and horses; South Wellington seams; rats; Protection; working conditions; first aid; inspections; jitneys; transportation; washing clothes; class; shopping; bootleggers; Fraser Street; Chinatown.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1983-05-17 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Early Nanaimo ancestors; Joshua Martell; Barbara Campbell Hoy Martell; loss ;of diaries; Martell children; Captain John Freeman; Freeman family travels to Nanaimo; manager Bowen; Harry Neville Freeman; Jingle Pot Mine; 1912-1914 strike; Suquash; Fort Rupert problems; Vancouver;-Nanaimo Coal Company; Von Alvensleben. TRACK 2: Jingle Pot Mine; Suquash; Harry Neville Freeman; Von Alvensleben; Nanoose breakwater; historical society; pioneer society; birth; schooling; WWII; nur;se's training; museum artifacts (coal); fish oil lamps; Chinese.;

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0001 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Childhood at Jingle Pot Mine. Chinese workers. Hostile tongs. Shifts. Mine horses and mules. Good treatment of mine animals. Nanaimo Harbour. Balls and concerts in Nanaimo. Miner's picnics on Newcastle Island. Protection Island -- dances, picnics, Chinese settlement near pithead. Tugboat whistles. CPR boats. Coal fossils. Undersea mine adits. Swamping of Kanaka Bay adit. No. 1 mine. Fossils at Protection island. No. 1 tunnel. Beauty of coal. Spontaneous combustion in coal dust. Use of carbide lamps and candles. Open oil lamps in early mines; later, carbide or battery lamps.

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0002 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Various homes after Nanaimo. Estevan; mine strike. Ann Buller's hypnotic effect. Estevan strikers' march and shooting, 1931; RCMP blamed for deaths. Mobs dreadful. Buller and her brother persuasive. Ann Buller's rhetorical technique. People "poor and helpless". Mrs. Stannard always a rebel; unusual parents and childhood. Her mother [musician Elizabeth Inez Martell] still alive and playing piano. Mother's youth. Return to Nanaimo. Father (Harry Freeman) was a civil engineer. Island projects during World War II. Injured in Suquash Mine; led to blindness. Father's father's background. Grandparents reached Nanaimo in 1880s by CPR train and stagecoach. Harry Freeman's education and work as an engineer and manager.

CALL NUMBER: T4132:0003 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-03-22 SUMMARY: Suquash coal. Return to Nanaimo. Origin of name "Jingle Pot". Baron Alvo von Alvensleben, owned Vancouver Nanaimo Coal Company, but left mine management to Harry Freeman; disappeared in World War I [sic]. Mrs. Stannard doesn't believe he was a German spy. Harry Freeman mediated during 1912 coal strike -- prevented bloodshed. Frank Farrington and Ginger Goodwin -- two different types of UMWA organizers. Suffering during strike -- Thomas Stockett caught between miners and had courage of convictions. Nanaimo miners slow to strike. Hatred of Chinese from 1880s. Goodwin a nice person, joked, danced well. Her father was upset when Goodwin was shot. Some scabs arrived for job and found they were strikebreakers. Rehired strikers. Jingle Pot miners had good relations with her father. Dangers of mines; too gassy to reopen today. Nanaimo's core population and long memory. Actor Mr. Stevens from Nanaimo. Only one murderer hanged. Fraser Street brothels well organized, useful service, interesting madames.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Grant, nee Coundley, recalls early family memories of Nanaimo and Cumberland, including the mines and mills. TRACK 2: Charlie Grant recalls early family memories of his father [Robert; Grant, M.P.] and his grandfather in the Nanaimo and Cumberland area. His family ran sawmills and had a business relationship with Robert Dunsmuir, known to them as "Bobby Dunsmuir". He describes th;e early days of Cumberland; the establishment of his father's mill and Dunsmuir's mines; and his recollections of Robert Dunsmuir. He recounts mining incidents including explosions; miners; strikes; strike breakers; racial disturbances; and the lack of police.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Christmas turkeys; young man into mines; origins; strike; riot; Chinese; union; blacklisting; No. 6 Cumberland explosion; football; bosses; wages; ticket; Tsable River; pension; "Cellar Gang"; tipple; police; telephone shifts; No. 4 Cumberland; later strike; the Depression; doctor; funds; No. 5 Cumberland; No. 8 Cumberland; Japanese; picking coal.

The series consists of records of the 1916 British Columbia Commission to Inquire into the Vancouver Island Riots. Records include an alphabetical index to the claims and a numerical list of claimants (1916); the claims submitted to the commission arranged in numerical order (1916); additional documents and Commissioner Gregory's notes relating to specific claims (1916); transcripts of the commission hearings (1916); reports, statements and translations relating to the claims for damage to Chinese property (1913-1916); documents and proceedings relating to court cases that took place prior to the commission (1913-1916); correspondence (1913-1916); commissioner's report (1916).

RECORDED: South Wellington (B.C.), 1979-02-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Mules; Brethren church; Negroes; scabs; Extension; Johnny Senini; wash house; church; education; meets wife; delivers milk; 1909 explosion; Fraser Street; South Wellington flood; strike.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-16 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. South Wellington; CCF Sam Guthrie; living on relief; clearing stumps; father's views; strike; union; medical coverage; tried to start in mines; effect of WWII.;

RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-04-23 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Strike; funeral; Extension explosion; 1939 explosion; Draeger team; summer unemployment; move house; job; the Depression; relief; shoes; marches; uncle arrested for setting a fire; origins; Yugoslavs and the union; houses; leading families in union organising; excerpt of agreement between the company and the union, 1938; WeeToo; skilled workers; exams; scabs; Chinese and Indians; lodges; W.U.L.; Socialist party split.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1984-02-02 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Italian immigration; Scavarda family; Cumberland fire; Bono family; family s;ize; Graham family; widows; Italian community; Marocchi family; domestic coal; union camp; travel; bootleggers; brewery; bakery; doctors; roads; Union Bay; Tom Ripley; Union Coal Company; Robert Dunsm;uir. TRACK 2: Walker family; Robert Dunsmuir; Fort Rupert; Minto; Royston; 1912-14 strike; riot act; union camp; old miner; attempted suicide; Italian community; Chinatown; bakery; widows; Waverly Ho;tel; Union Bay; Graham family; Scots; McGarrigles; midwifery; dirty town; Pigeon Lake dump; subsidence; No. 6 explosion.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Hugh M. Rae : A United Church minister in BC PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1970 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975-11-06 SUMMARY: END OF BUNT INTERVIEW (continued from T1991:0005): visits to Indian missions. REV. DR. HUGH M. RAE: Childhood in Scotland. Recruitment to fields in Canada, near Kamloops. Further education: McGill, B.C., Westminster Hall. First United Church B.D. Rosedale charge in 1917. Knox Church, New Westminster, and church union. Dunbar Heights, First Church in Ottawa. Retired supply in Vancouver. Anecdotes about experiences as a minister, including the coal miners' strike at Extension; Depression conditions; Japanese relocation; work on Evangelism And Social Service Committee, and others. Church music.

SUMMARY: The history of Nanaimo and the local coal mining industry (including the bitter coal miners' strike of 1913), followed by stories about childhood on the Gulf Islands. The voices heard are: Ida New; Freda New; Constance Swartz; Beatrice Freeman; Dorothy Richardson; Geraldine Hulbert; Joe Kneen; Ronald Norris; and Donald New.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Family arrives; dentist; mining camp; widow; wages; hospital; strike; mules; Chinese; police; train tracks; fire; boat to Nanaimo; Japanese; ethnic groups; explosion; entertainment; nurse into the mine.;

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-03-04 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Building bees; strike; school; Finnish recreation; boarding houses; wash houses; father to Nanaimo; Extension; horse and buggy; Sam Guthrie; hoist; Finn halls; Mount Bickerton; ethnic groups; motor; Chinese; money earned; the Depression; father's accident.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-05-28 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Church organist; lived on Esplanade; school; harbour; Indians; No. 1: Robbins; down into the mine; explosion; mules; weather; swimming; churches; unions; Fraser Street; lunch bucket; stores; Chinese; bars; parades; curfew; sinking hole; strike; Dunsmuir.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-07-18 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Father worked during strike; markets; Oscar; union; prostitutes; school; shopping; Chinese; going into the mines; medical; protection cage; transportation; No. 1; entertainment; blacksmith; church; politics; hostler; hardware store; railroad.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [early 1979] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Young miner in Scotland; welfare retirement; Granby; wages, hours; Sam Guthrie; smells; the Depression; Elite Hall; UMWA; Chinese in the union; Northfield; mules; strike, James Knowles; Northfield flood; Beban flood; No. 10 explosion.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-01-30 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Union pension; George Edwards; boarding houses; 1877 strike; education; Extension explosion; blow-out at Granby; Brechin mine; temperature in mine; lamps; gas; ventilation; check numbers; hard work; 1912 strike; powder works explosion; miners' ticket; Jingle Pot; cave-ins; grievances; injury; scabs; protection cage; No. 1 whistle; dancing; deer hunting; coal ships; church; the Depression.

RECORDED: Ladysmith (B.C.), 1979-04-07 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Describes coal mine; Joseph Mair; lamps; Extension mines; goes into mines; bars; strike; maps; fights; sailing ships; South Wellington; smelter at Mount Sicker; the Depression; driving mules; No. 10 blow out; reservoir; band; 1090 explosion; soccer.

RECORDED: Lantzville (B.C.), [1979-02 & 03] SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Thirteen years old, into the mines; trapper; train to Extension; wages; explosion; strike; Lantz mine; Grant mine; bus.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-01-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Bicycle; Dickinson; small mines; travel to Cumberland; coal explosions; Welsh chorus; ventilation; Jordan Mine; conditions; origins; miner's ticket; father dies; trip to Canada; Superintendent of Canadian Collieries; end of coal; arriving in Cumberland; the Depression; salt water cure; learn from father; Dunsmuir; strike; Christmas Eve fire; Mr. Grant; Canadian Collieries; shovelling snow; houses; coal promotion; retirement; Hawthornthwaite; Alvo von Alvensleben; Chinese; marriage; Jingle Pot mines; fire boss; Wald.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-06-29 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; strike; Beban town; scabs; militia; grievances; getting a job; unions; move to Nanaimo; blacklist; mules; rope riding; hoisting; transportation; wages; sounds; into the mine; compensation; fossils; father injured; Lantzville mine; the Chinese; Timberland.

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-13 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Born in Northfield; blacklisting; school in Cumberland; wages; 1909 explosion; open No. 1; powder works explosion; living conditions; Jingle Pot with Joe Mair; working conditions; strike; medical coverage; scabs; union; Japanese, Chinese; militia; entertainment; Cumberland; Extension riot; red light district; 1919 No. 1.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-02-11 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Militant unionists; Dunsmuirs; strike; union; Spain.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-03-17 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Coal mining family; 11 year old boy; 1912 strike; money; into mine; May 24; Guy Fawke's; childhood; picking tables; hoist; mules; mine jobs; ways of paying; weighing; contract; families related; Cape Breton; Draeger; mules.