Series consists of an account book.

SUMMARY: "El Clavadista", a short play by Colleen Curran, directed by Pamela Hawthorne, will be presented in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 86.;

SUMMARY: An interview with Vancouver actress Nicola Cavendish, currently playing a small part in a Broadway play.;

CALL NUMBER: T1330:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Noel Robinson; a newspaper reporter; recalls some early personalities of Vancouver including: Captain Alex MacLean, the inspiration for the characater of Wolf Larsen in Jack London's "Sea; Wolf"; sailors; captains and others associated with the sea; Hastings Mill; the Empress boats; E. Pauline Johnson; and Mary Capilano. TRACK 2: Mr. Robinson continues with recollections of Mary Capilano; the funeral of E. Pauline Johnson; the Little Theatre company; J. Francis Bursill, including the Vagabond's Club, pageants, and creating the Bursill Institute; B.C. Hilliam and "The Belle of Bur;rard"; and more about Captain Alex MacLean.

CALL NUMBER: T1330:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robinson recalls coming to Victoria and his work on the organ in the wooden cathedral; writing and producing his play the "Cat's Paw" in Victoria. He reminiscences about newspaper person;alities; his work and travels in the Boundary area, including Rock Creek and Midway; playing cricket; hunting in the Chilcotin area; Dog Creek Hill; Bob Piper; Williams Lake; George Murray and early newspapers in Lillooet; the Alaska Highway News; and early journalists Roy Brown, Ronald Kenvyn, and Bruce McKelvie. TRACK 2: This is a very short tape; Mr. Robinson talks about Captain Alex MacLean.

CALL NUMBER: T1330:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-04-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robinson recalls J. Francis Bursill, and reacts to comments made about him by his granddaughter, Thekla Bursill-Hall, in a interview. [See T1331:0001.] Robinson talks about Bursill's personality; the Collingwood Institute; the Bursill Library; aspects of why Bursill came to B.C.; the Bursill family; literary life in Vancouver; anecdotes; his pen name (Felix Penne); eccentricities; Hugh Savage; and the death of J.Francis Bursill. Mr. Robinson continues with recollections about his interview with the Bengali writer and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Vernon (B.C.), 1952-05 SUMMARY: The North Okanagan Drama Festival took place from 1952-05-07 to 1952-05-10 at the Scout Hall in Vernon. John Emerson presents his adjudication of the productions, followed by the awards presentation.;

RECORDED: Vernon (B.C.), 1953-05-15 SUMMARY: At the Okanagan Drama Festival (which ran from 1953-05-14 to 1953-05-16 in Vernon), John Emerson presents his adjudication of the adult division.;

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-10-20 SUMMARY: An interview with actor-director Peter Mannering. [No content summary available.];

The collection consists of the records of Qualicum College, an independent boys' school on Vancouver Island. Included are letters between R.I. Knight and his family in England re: the founding and funding of the school; applications for admission, correspondence from students' parents, and academic records of pupils; notes and sketches for college buildings, school crest, and school song; correspondence re: Old Boys and college staff; ledgers, account books, and payroll journals, along with dormitory lists, athletic programmes, prospectuses, headmasters' speeches and newsletters. Collection also includes scripts and casting notes for school drama festival productions, as well as correspondence pertinent to Private (afterwards Independent) Schools Association of British Columbia. Qualicum College was the most westerly private school in Canada. Founded in 1935, it was established "in the conviction that with the background of a good home, the comradeship of a boarding school enables boys to enjoy the happiest kind of childhood and youth, and provides them with the finest preparation for life." The school overlooking Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island was modelled on the prestigious public schools of England. Its philosophy was "mens sano in corpore sano", and its aim was to inculcate in boys the virtues of Godliness and good-learning. Though never as large as some of the other independent schools in British Columbia, Qualicum College was widely-known and respected nonetheless, as evidenced by the number of students it attracted from Western Canada, the North Western United Sates, and the Orient. The papers were donated in 1982 by Robert Ivan Knight, the founder and headmaster of the college. Mr. Knight was born in 1901 in Calcutta where his father was Director of Public Instruction for Bengal. As was the custom among the Anglo-Indian community, he was sent to England at an early age and raised in his family home at Camberly. He then attended Oundle, a small but distinguished public school in Northamptonshire. The headmaster of Oundle was the celebrated educationalist and reformer, F.W. Sanderson. Mr. Knight was greatly impressed and influenced by Sanderson's teachings, and the latter's theories on education (especially with regard to the study of science in the public schools) were later incorporated in the Qualicum College curriculum. Mr. Knight continued his education at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in Sciences. Because of weak eyesight, however, he was unable to pursue a career in scientific research; in fact, on coming down from Cambridge, he was advised to refrain from intensive reading for at least a year. Accordingly, in 1925 he decided to join a cousin who had a chicken ranch at Errington, near Parksville, on Vancouver Island. He stayed there until 1927, when he joined C.W. Lonsdale's staff at Shawnigan Lake boys' school. Two years later he enrolled at the University of British Columbia, where he completed an Honours B.A. and a Diploma course in Education. Despite the onset of the depression, Mr. Knight resolved to open an independent, fee-paying boarding school in the village resort of Qualicum Beach. With the assistance of Mr. A.D. Muskett (former headmaster of the Collegiate School in Victoria), the school was duly opened in September 1935. The Qualicum Beach School, as the academy was first know, had nine students and was located in a rented house during its inaugural year. However, with the help of generous financial support from his family in England, Mr. Knight was able to expand his programme, and in 1937 the school was relocated in a handsome, specially-designed building amid 17 acres of seaside property. The headmaster also received assistance from his younger brother, George Henry Knight, who came to the college to teach history, languages, and music. The two brothers formed a partnership and the school (renamed Qualicum College in 1949) was incorporated as a limited liability company. The college grew steadily and by 1966 it had an enrollment of almost seventy students. Thereafter, for a variety of social and economic reasons, numbers declined, and in 1970 the headmaster decided to close the college and sell the college property. The playing fields were subsequently subdivided for a housing estate, while the Tudor-style main building was purchased by a group of financiers, who transformed the generation-old boarding school into the Qualicum College Inn.

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SUMMARY: This broadcast consist of an interview with Sidney Risk, a Vancouver-born actor, who speaks of his life and experiences with acting and the Vancouver Theatre. Note: The broadcast date is unknown.;

The item consists of copies of an interview by Michael Meiklejohn with Sydney Risk. In them, Risk talks about: theatre; theatre in Vancouver; Andrew Allan and drama and radio drama; Sam Payne; Phoebe Smith; Dorothy Somerset.

SUMMARY: A documentary on Vancouver's Tamanhous Theatre collective, which was founded in in 1971 with six people from UBC. Recorded at a rehearsal of "Deep Thought" and "Nijinsky", two plays being prepared for performance in Toronto. The speakers include five members of the twelve-person collective; two audience members; and a piano. They are Susan Ashley, Larry Lillo, Jeremy Long, Susie Payne, and Bruce Riddell of Tamahnous; audience comments by David Caley. Steve Miller and Tom Braidwood play piano and bass. The program was prepared with the assistance of the BC Cultural Fund.

The item is a microfiche copy of a thesis by Peter Frederick Guildford titled "The development of professional theatre in Vancouver." vi, 198 leaves. Thesis (M.A.), University of British Columbia, 1981. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 109-110. Canadian theses on microfiche, 55021.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "Betrayal" is a Christma;s story by Hubert Evans, set on the west coast [T4303:0008]. Part 2: An interview with Eric Green, who is a Vancouver playwright and artistic director of the Westminster Canadian Theatre Company [T4;303:0038].;

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 documentary about the Caravan P;layers, a theatre company that travels around BC in horse-drawn wagons.;

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 documentary about the Caravan Players, a theatre company that travels around BC in horse-drawn wagons.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. An interview with playwright John Lazarus. This interview is linked to the two plays "Half an Inch Closer" [T4303:0040] and "Dollar on the Sidewalk" [missing] which were broadcast on 13 May 1978. However, the interview was most likely broadcast on another date.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Christian Bernard interviews Pam ;Hawthorne, director of the New Play Centre, about Tom Grainger, a Vancouver playwright.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "A Crew of Five", an experimental play for a cast of fifteen, tracing the birth through old age of five human beings. [MISSING] Part 2: George Woodcock comments on the state of radio theatre as written and produced in Vancouver. [T4303:0110]

SUMMARY: Radio program with unidentified announcer, including talk by Rita Greer, playwright, and comments by Ernest V. Young, actor, about: Vancouver theatre and the origins of the Vancouver Theatre Under the Stars; including comments by James Johnston, director of Vancouver Theatre Under the Stars, about outdoor performances.

SUMMARY: Piano music and commentary by John Emerson, who discusses: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; the Theatre Under the Stars 1958 season; the Vancouver Symphony; Dodie Archer.;

SUMMARY: A radio program about early 20th-century Vancouver entertainer-entrepreneur B.C. Hilliam. The program is similar (but not identical) to "B.C. Hilliam and the Belle of Burrard" (T3282:0001).

SUMMARY: "The Whispering Time" appears to be a recording of live stage play set in Vancouver in the 1970s. A play with that title, written by Sherman Snukal, was performed in Vancouver in 1976.;

The series consists of copies of audio Interviews with members of British Columbia's theatrical community during the 1930s and later.

The collection consists of oral history interviews pertaining to the history of the theatre and its development in Vancouver and Victoria.

The item consists of 3 audio copies containing an interview with an unidentified group of people associated with the theatre in Vancouver. They discuss theatre; drama; the stimulus provided to theatre in British Columbia and Canada by the Dominion Drama Festival; the Dominion Drama Festival in the 1930s; the prominent players; etc.

RECORDED: Qualicum Beach (B.C.), 1982-05-10 SUMMARY: Tom Mayne discusses the history of drama education in British Columbia.;