RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The interview begins with Mrs. Georgeson; she was born in East Sooke, and her father was John Aitken, who farmed on Galiano Island and later ran a store at Miners Bay, Mayne Island. Mrs. Georgeson recalls some early neighbours on Mayne Island; the Maude family; Canon Paddon; social life; life at the East Point lighthouse, Saturna Island; fires; bootleggers and drug smuggling; events at t;he lighthouse; a cougar story. Mr. Georgeson continues the interview: his father, James Georgeson, came out from the Shetland Islands in 1889, to the East Point lighthouse. He recalls early years on the island; growing up and schooling on Mayne Island; bootleggers; building small boats; his life spent at Saturna and Albert Head lighthouses; recollections about Tumbo Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. George;son discusses her children and the lighthouse life; schooling; their childhood activities; the war years. Mr. Georgeson discusses his early life, fishing and being a boat poler on the Fraser River; a; cougar story; a "sea serpent" story; sea life; whales; the East Point light and their neighbours; the Ross brothers, who worked a stone quarry on Saturna Island.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Geraldine Hulbert of Saturna Island describes parties at Harold Payne's house; an English nurse; her teacher Dorothy W. Trickey; the Payne family, from which she comes; a story of her aunt Isabel Payne; Mayne Island celebrations on the 24th of May; how she dislikes visitors; her father Harold Payne was incompetent with engines; fishing at East Point; visiting East Point light; pets; summer boat trips; details about Billy Trueworthy; the Taylor family; rum running; a story of Murder Point; Mr. Gabriel of Tumbo Island; the winter of 1916; choosing a location for the Saturna Island ;school. [TRACK 2: blank.]