Thompson Region (B.C.)

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Wentworth Wood interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-01-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Wentworth Wood, born in Montreal, describes coming west in 1883; to Victoria until 1885; and then to Vancouver until the fall of 1887; then on to Kamloops. He describes his father, who was a sheriff; he describes boats of that time; Andrew Mara; his impressions of Kamloops when he arrived at the age of seven; what life was like; characters he remembers; anecdotes about men named Titus, Broughton, McNeil and the Reverend Stevenson; hotels in the area. TRACK 2: Mr. Wood continues with a story about a hillbilly, more anecdotes about a man named Thompson and others; Bill Miner, the Haney brothers; more on the Bill Miner holdup; the McLeod brothers; copper mining in the 1890s; Dave Powers, MacIntosh.

Vince Gresty interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Vince Gresty describes the highways around Hope, Lytton, and Cache Creek from the 1930s to the 1950s. TRACK 2: Mr. Gresty describes Cache Creek in 1949, and recent changes; people passing through Cache Creek and early Ashcroft.

Tom Elliott interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tom Elliott : Interior lumberman, 1904-1957 PERIOD COVERED: 1904-1957 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1957 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Tom Elliott to B.C. in 1904. Sawmills in the Central Interior. Log drives on the Thompson River system. Wages and working conditions. Elliott started his own logging camp in 1914. Moving logs by chutes and flumes. TRACK 2: Elliott's early work history. River and lake paddlewheelers. More on the Interior lumber industry.

Thompson River Basin pre-planning study records

  • GR-3993
  • Series
  • 1975-1981

This series consists of reports, correspondence and other records related to the Thompson River Basin pre-planning study from 1975-1981. Most records were created or used by the Water Management Branch and Water Investigations Branch.

The records relate to a federal-provincial agreement to conduct a pre-planning study of water in the Thompson River Basin. The study was intended to describe the basin’s water resources, and identify existing and potential water resource problems related to water quality and quantity. The study was to begin looking at solutions to these problems and the value of a longer-term planning study. Records document the creation and implementation of the study which involved multiple ministries from both the provincial and federal governments. The study involved scientific studies and public consultation to gain an understanding of water management issues in the area, and their associated land use and economic activity.

Records include correspondence, draft studies, reports used as reference material, minutes, maps, photographs and newspaper clippings.

Records were selected for permanent retention under one time schedule number 890487.

British Columbia. Water Management Branch

[This is Canada]

Travelogue. Impressions of Canada as seen by an American couple travelling from Newfoundland to BC, a sports fisherman, an American schoolboy and a landscape painter. BC footage includes views of Mt. Robson, Vancouver and Victoria; fishing at Amethyst Lake in the Thompson Valley; logging for pulpwood (including falling, trucking of logs, log jam being cleared with explosives); totem poles at Kitwanga.

The trees are brown

Promotional film. A positive look at chemical spray programs, documenting the successful 1976 control program directed against Douglas Fir Tussock Moth caterpillars in the Kamloops/North Thompson area.

The trees are brown

Promotional film. A positive look at chemical spray programs, documenting the successful 1976 control program directed against Douglas Fir Tussock Moth caterpillars in the Kamloops/North Thompson area.

Sophia Steffens interview

CALL NUMBER: T0401:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Sophia Steffens discusses how her father came from Germany to England and then to Canada, and landed in BC in 1884. Sophia and her mother came in 1887 to settle at Ashcroft, then moved to Lytton, where her father started a store. She discusses mining efforts of local whites and Indians; other settlers in and around Lytton; and visiting aristocrats, such as Thomas Steward. TRACK 2:; Miss Steffens offers anecdotes about people and events at Lytton around 1900.

CALL NUMBER: T0401:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Steffens discusses other towns in the region, such as Lower Nicola and Coutlee; more anecdotes; Maisy Campbell-Johnson and Jack Chapman. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Sister Norma Jeffs interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of Indian residential schools in B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-07-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Sister Norma Jeffs' recollections of her experiences as a teacher: background -- born in Vancouver, serious illnesses as a youth, decision to enter convent; why she chose the Sisters of St. Ann; first missionary experience on Kuper [Island] -- getting to know the Natives, teaching school, staff at Kuper, isolation from the mainland, dreary winters, runaway children; question of whether it was wrong to force own culture and religion on to Natives; experiences in Mission and Kamloops; positive and negative responses from Natives who went to residential schools; teaching the Native children English; some very bright students -- many success stories; differences between Kuper and Mission -- she set up a home-economics class in Mission, Oblates in Mission (missionary men from France); initially many Native parents did not want to send their children to school; canning fruit at St. Mary's Mission; beginning the mixing of boys and girls at school social events. TRACK 2: Sister Norma Jeffs remembers her time in residential schools: complaints Natives have about the schools -- they lost their culture through the church; boys mean to some of the girls; mistreatment of some Native children once they left the residential schools and were integrated into the main system; residential schools sheltered Natives from discriminatory world; language -- Nanaimo Natives now trying to teach their language to youth; many children from residential schools married each other; T.B. was very prevalent among Natives at Mission; difficulties getting money from the government; Indian Agents -- some very helpful; parents did not have much to do with the residential schools; supervising the dormitory at Kamloops residential school -- few problems, the girls listened to her; integration of different Native groups. (End of interview)

[Scenery (North Vancouver, Fraser Valley, etc) ; railway shots]

Stock shots. Sternwheeler arriving at dock. Views from Stamp lookout, and from the Grouse Mountain gondola lift. Lumber trucks on freeway. Fraser River and rapids. CPR and CNR freight trains travelling along the Thompson River. Aerials views of islands, coastline, beaches, etc., near Tofino.

Route of telegraph line constructed and working, Jany. 1st 1866 / drawn by J.F. Lewis

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.C. White (CM/A375). The title is in a cartouche, and place names differ.

Route of telegraph line constructed & working. Jany. 1st 1866 / drawn by J.C. White

Shows line from New Westminster to beyond Quesnel, B.C. Photographic copy of sheet 4 or 5 of a 6-sheet set showing the telegraph line from Monterey, Calif. to Fort Stager, B.C. The original is a coloured manuscript map in the Bancroft Library (Map/12(W)/C7T/1866). This map differs slightly from one of the same title drawn by J.F. Lewis (CM/A376). The title is not in a cartouche, and place names differ.

Rose Baker interview

PERIOD COVERED: 1860-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rose Baker discusses her grandfather, Lorenzo Loring, who came from the eastern states to BC to become a rancher and packer in the Botanie Valley (north of Lytton) anecdotes about her grandparents (i.e., the Lorings); packing adventures; relations with native people; Christmas celebrations; her grandmother's family; camping trips with her grandmother. TRACK 2: Mrs. Baker discusses her father James Pudney; childhood recollections of Lytton; British society; July 1 celebrations; first stores; anecdotes about British immigrants.

Rhoda White and Dr. W.F. Shaw interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Rhoda M. White discusses her father, W.W. Shaw, who came from Ontario to the west, settled at Salmon Arm, sold his farm after ten years, and moved to Heffley Creek; became a ranch manager at Tranquille; the ranch at Heffley Creek in 1914; the first Christmas on the ranch; automobiles; Bill and Jane Fortune; Kamloops as a health resort; ranch horses; her father's character; her mother's character; the appearance of the area in the early days. TRACK 2: Mrs. White tells the story about a man and his mother; she discusses isolation; early schools; social life; changes after WWI; settlers at Lewis Creek 1906 to 1908; how her father burned out about 1900; her father took over Circle Bar Ranch; her grandfather and the Iroquois; her fathers first experiences at Heffley Creek and Tranquille. Then Dr. W.F. Shaw describes his family's ranch at Shaw Springs; gold in the Thompson River; hardships of pioneers; early characters -- Stage Billy, Tommy Spence, Murray the Trader. Then she discusses marmots and snakes; apples and other produce; other settlers and early conditions; and a ghost story.

People in landscape : series 3 : Fraser River country

The sub-series consists of episodes from the third series of "People in Landscape", a radio program about people and places in British Columbia history that aired from 1968 to 1972. It was based on oral history interviews by Imbert Orchard, who also wrote, produced and narrated the programs. The third series (1970-1971), sub-titled "Fraser River Country," dealt with life along the Fraser River and its tributaries from the gold rush years to the present day.

People in landscape : Ashcroft country

SUMMARY: The program includes the history and description of Cache Creek; the origins of Ashcroft; and brief description of early Ashcroft. The story of the journey of the Clippendale family from England to Ashcroft. Impressions of Ashcroft in 1910; attitudes toward English immigrants; growing up on a ranch near Ashcroft. The voices heard includes: Dorothy Goldrick, Nellie Baker, Mary Baker, and Vince Gresty.

[Noble Fire and Pip Fire, near Kamloops]

Stock shots. Footage of forest fire fighting activities at the Noble Fire and Pip Fire, near Kamloops, including ground crews, their equipment and trucks, and lighting unburned material with a flare; A-26 airtanker dropping fire retardent on Pip Fire; ground crew and pumper truck.

Nellie Baker interview : [Orchard, 1964]

CALL NUMBER: T0376:0001 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1964-07-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Nellie Baker talks about her experiences in the Cache Creek, Ashcroft and Quesnel area, 1890 to 1910. Mrs. Baker speaks about her father coming to BC in 1864 and the story of her father and mother coming to Chilcotin in 1884 before buying Bonaparte Ranch near Cache Creek, where Nelly was born. She describes activity along the Cariboo Road; wagons, stages, stopping places and drivers. She speaks about life at the Cache Creek boarding school and her relations with the native children.

TRACK 2: She moved to a ranch between Spences Bridge and Ashcroft where she used to capture wild horses. She discusses the Little Mountain slide at Spences Bridge as well as the sheep and cattle on her father's ranch. She discusses her life after she was married in Ashcroft, as well as pack trains, memories of the famous packer Jean Caux ("Cataline"), Quesnel in 1910, and activity in the area. She mentions that her husband was a doctor.

CALL NUMBER: T0376:0002 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), 1964-07-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Baker discusses her traveling and her experiences working with her husband in the area west of Quesnel. She describes the social life and recreation of Wells and Barkerville; working outdoors, a story about eating wild parsnips, and rattlesnakes. She comments on bars and liquor and her upbringing and adventures on her father's ranch near Ashcroft. She talks about her marriage in 1907, the Mormons in Salt Lake City, more experiences with her husband, and horse racing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Nellie Baker interview : [Bjornson, 196-]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of Mrs. Nellie Baker PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1920 RECORDED: Quesnel (B.C.), [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Nellie Baker of Quesnel talks with Bjorn Bjornson about some of her experiences. Childhood on father's ranch near Ashcroft. Married 1907 [sic]. Comments on Mormons of Salt Lake City. Experiences with husband, a doctor in the Quesnel area. Horse racing. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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