Welsh--British Columbia

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Correspondence

Seven letters from John Evans to his children, 1872-1879, written from Cariboo and from Victoria, describing his personal life, mining activities, and activities as MLA. Fragment of one letter written John Evans' son, Taliesin, to his sister, dated San Francisco, 1880, describing his own health, his father's remarriage, and the cause of his father's death. Two letters from Nellie Humphrey Jones (John Evans' daughter) to the Victoria City Council and to the Provincial Archivist containing information on her father and his family and forwarding these letters.

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"British Columbia mining adventure": letter-book copies of the letters Evans wrote to H.B. Jackson, who financed the group of Welsh miners Evans brought to British Columbia, to keep him informed of the group's activities, progress, expenses, etc. The first letter is dated April 15, 1863 and describes events from December, 22, 1862; the last letter is dated November 6, 1864.

Glyn Lewis interview

RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1979-01-03 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Bicycle; Dickinson; small mines; travel to Cumberland; coal explosions; Welsh chorus; ventilation; Jordan Mine; conditions; origins; miner's ticket; father dies; trip to Canada; Superintendent of Canadian Collieries; end of coal; arriving in Cumberland; the Depression; salt water cure; learn from father; Dunsmuir; strike; Christmas Eve fire; Mr. Grant; Canadian Collieries; shovelling snow; houses; coal promotion; retirement; Hawthornthwaite; Alvo von Alvensleben; Chinese; marriage; Jingle Pot mines; fire boss; Wald.

Mabel Williams interview

RECORDED: Courtenay (B.C.), 1979-08-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Origins of family in Wales; union; safety; mine closes; housing; Cumberland area; entertainment; mules; strikes; Cumberland; working conditions; food; washing; medical clothing; WWII; pay; compensation; church; Chinese; heating; Japanese; No. 8 Courtenay; Tsable River mine; danger of mining; unions; tickets.

Seiriol Llewelyn Williams interview

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0012 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. TRACK 1: Attitude of mining families; George Simmonds; 1887 inquest; mother's story; ;transportation in the 1880s; widow; Fanny and William Bray; Protection mine; father injured in mine; William Griffith; contract mining; bathing; wash house; lamp house; immigration; father; Wales; tea;chers; telephones; Welsh choir; parent's marriage; David Evans. TRACK 2: Schooling; Hunt family; Sunday school; sea cadet; merchants; Fraser Street; podiatry school; pays mother's mortgage; Harvard m;edical school; hitchhiking.;

CALL NUMBER: T4343:0013 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1984-01-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Internship; Nanaimo doctors; Norman Bethune; Courts wife; marriage; first child; transporting Chinese across Canada; travel from Vancouver to Nanaimo; medical practice in Nanaimo; Indians bui;ld sailing canoe; Indians sell blackberries; Indian helper; Indian feast; Indian longhouse; Indian mourning; mine doctor; enlists; army doctor; builds log house; Vancouver doctor; lives in Hotel Vanco;uver; Pest House; patients pay in kind; sailor; buys Hammond Bay Road house; sells Harmac property; Nanaimo booster. [TRACK 2: blank.];