RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kenzie: Moved to B.C. 1930. Went fishing at Stuart Island; then to Cortes Island and Malaspina Inlet. To Seaford on Cortes in 1937. Cooperative logging; first logging truck on Cortes. Vondona Creek, 1939-1956. Average of 5-7 men at camp. Schooling and teachers; school closed 1952. School at Mansons Landing. Community spirit; building roads. Stuart Island fishing. Mrs. McKenzie: Came to Cortes 1916 via Union Steamship. Grandparents were at Seaford. The school there; teacher, students. Moved to Squirrel Cove. Teachers. Went cooking in logging camp at age 18; met husband, who logged with her father. Her aunt, Mrs. Ed Wiley, had only hotel on Read Island. Grandparent came to Read Island in early 1800s. [?] Father was logger from horse logging to trucks. Logging camp at Redonda Bay. Entertainment; orchestras, dances. Her family came from South Africa, 1907. Moved to Campbell River, 1970. Her daughter. [TRACK 2: blank?]

Footage. The Columbia Coast Mission boat "John Antle" (the third CCM vessel of that name) on patrol with Canon Alan D. Greene. Shot in the early 1950s when the "John Antle" was based at Pender Harbour, patrolling the Jervis Inlet area and the northern part of the Strait of Georgia. Footage of scenery, settlements and people encountered, and services performed by Canon Greene at various stops. Identifiable locales include Ballenas Light Station, Surge Narrows on Read Island [Tipton's Store], and the Canadian Red Cross Society's Outpost Hospital on Stuart Island. Also includes hospital interiors (ward, first aid, operation in progress); logging camp cookhouse interior; logging operations (felling tree with axe and crosscut saw); children; village scenes. The mission boat "Rendezvous" and a CN steamship (possibly the "Prince Rupert") also appear.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1917; moved to the Sayward valley in 1919; blew whistles for his father in the logging camp at Sayward when he was twelve; moved to Helmcken Island around 1920;/21; in 1932 at the age of fifteen, his parents moved to Vancouver, but he went to a logging camp at Palmer Bay working for Parker and Palmer; describes Palmer's camp and the bunkhouse; laundry facilities in the early logging camps; food in the camps; wages and job conditions; entertainment; black man by the name of Mitchell, played the violin; Otto Petersen's family; Cliff Palmer's family; story about the cook winning the BC Electric sweepstake; logging equipment and methods; steam donkeys; topping trees; Gilford Island; accident while rigging a tree; topped trees on Cortes Island for Oscar Neemy; jumping spar trees; using hand fiddles; camp at Neemy's; fallers and their wages; the Depression; worked for Billy DeMills and Curly Miller at Miner's Bay on Thurlow Island; bought a fishing boat in 1936; Billygoat Hansen's daughter; boat sinking at Stuart Island wharf; John Oswald of Herriot Bay; Matt Gerard at the Stuart Bay store; Billy DeMills. TRACK 2: Beaver Cove, father and sons formed company; worked for Sidney Soderman; trapping at Bute, Southgate River; Angus Schnarr homestead at Bute; Merle Hadley; Call Inlet, own logging camp; sold to Bill Campbell; moved to Campbell River in 1958; working as a faller; gypo loggers; in 1957, 95% of the gypos disappeared; poker games and Union boats in the early '40s; Ma Scott ran a logging camp; Angus Schnarr and his daughters all did hand logging in Bute; Jack houses ashore; Jack Shabler; boring boomsticks.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1965]
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miscellaneous short interviews and sound effects recorded by Imbert Orchard while on a northern freightboat trip on the B.C. coast, ca. 1965. Conversation about cruising the waters around Vancouver Island, Princess Louisa Inlet, early days of yachting around the San Juan Islands, etc. Continued conversations on west coast boating with other boaters and their children, including Dr. Martin Nelson (of Redding, California). More conversations. Descriptive narration of the cruise, including trip to Stuart Island through Yuculta Rapids, and into Big Bay. Description of cargo being dropped off on dock at night, and sounds of same. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reg Chapman: Last of the first settlers of Stuart Island RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02? SUMMARY: Reg Chapman reads from his poems about the homesteaders' life on Stuart Island. The poems are: Immigrant boy; Arran Rapids, my home; the terrible '30s; fishing is not like it used to be; how to beautify your town; a song; churches; hippies; why I came to this country; free love; for a child of Lund; my wife; coming home from New Zealand; things to do; evolution; a tribute to a wonderful wife, a country girl; how he started his poems; rose garden; the wreath; homesteaders; mother of Mr. Chapman; coming from England; building the school; fishermen moving in; hand logging; prices for fish; type of fishing.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Slide at Allison's Camp. Ellingsen's camp at Phillips Arm, 1941. Stuart Island. Rock Bay. Blind Channel. His father was an independent logger. Acquiring a hand-logging claim. Logging partnerships. Steam donkey. Comparison of sky-line logging and tight-line logging. Elmer Ellingsen. Travel and amenities on Union Steamships boats. The "Chelhosin". Thurlow Island. The Depression. Cannery, shingle mill and store at Blind Channel. Cannery used as a saltery. Entertainment. People recalled. TRACK 2: Story about community outhouse. Settlement at Roy. Loughborough Inlet. Logging camp characters. Moonshine still at Blind Channel. Old-timers. Suicides common. Anecdotes about machinery. Other camps and characters.