RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-02-20 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins; Alexander mine; E & N; Fiddick's job; father's death; prostitutes; Hawthornethwaite; murder of Stark; sailing ships; surveying; education; strike; South Wellington; Scotchtown; Mark Bate; other nationalities; Finns; timbers; racial mix; Dunsmuir; land grants; Chinese.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-11-22 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Finns; Konstantine Maki; Finnish immigration; Wellington; Nanaimo, 1890s; Ch;ase River; family size; diphtheria epidemic 1912; Milton Street; Finnish language; father's death; farming; Maki Road; air shaft; Alexandra; South Wellington; bridal wear; 1912-14 strike; funeral; mot;her; widow; home; Stark's Crossing; Finnish cigar factory. TRACK 2: Milton Street; home; Chase River; obtaining firewood; Christmas; church; Ladysmith; Extension; Finns; father; family bible; weddin;g certificate; naming of children.;

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-03-15 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Finns; Extension; Richardson mine; pillars; broken leg; move to Ladysmith; parents come; 1909 explosions; wash houses; timbers; saunas; old South Wellington mine; safety; hotels; gas; Sam Guthrie; buried in a cave-in; kids meet dad; mules; horses; Dunsmuir; bosses; strike; watching cows.

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-10-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: No. 1 shaft at Wellington; No. 5 mine at Wellington; Wellington; East Wellington mines; Robert Chandler; Robert Dunsmuir; wagons; rope riders; switchers; candles; fish oil lamps; chewing toba;cco; dip of the slope; small coal companies; Alexandra mine; football field; South Wellington; Chase River; Finns; Southfield; The Black Road; Douglas mine. [TRACK 2: blank.];