Alexander Caulfield Anderson was born near Calcutta, India in 1814 and died at Saanich in 1884. He was educated in England and joined the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1831 as an apprentice clerk. After a year of service at Lachine, he was ...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Alf Jensen RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Andrew Robertson RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
CALL NUMBER: T0859:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Paul Hayes discusses Indian praying spiritual songs and singing; ritual purification; religious ritual before whaling trips; a family story about the thunderb...
CALL NUMBER: T4397:0001 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1992-03-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Brief description of Holmes' family background, including clerical career of father, the Reverend George Hedley Holmes (later Archdeacon), who served in Alberta a...
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Norah Thompson recounts her father, William Karn, arrival in Ucluelet in 1910; his pre-emption; the homestead; trails; other settlers; failure of the pre-emptions and life in Ucluelet...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Herbert and Peter Hillier RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : William and Nina Sharp RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Bill and Nina Sharp discuss early memories of the Tofino-Clayoquot area. Mr. Sharp: Mr. Dolly's ...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Bjarne and Bonnie Arnet RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
SUMMARY: A documentary about the coastal supply ship "Princess of Alberni", her crew, her duties, and the places and people she serves of the west coast of Vancouver Island. The program segments include storie;s from "Alberni" ...
SUMMARY: 1. "Canadian Signposts" is a series of ten-minute quizzes that feature Canadian geographical and historical clues. Prepared for Social Studies - Grades 4 - 6. 2. In this season of "Western Gateways",; Canadian writers...
SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. This tape is an interview recorded; for the two-part documenta...
The item is an audio recording describing Captain James Cook's 1778 arrival at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island as related from both the European and First Nations perspectives. Stories from Nootka oral tradition are told by Peter Webster and...
The item is an audio recording and is the second of two documentaries examining Captain James Cook's 1778 arrival at Nootka Sound, and the significance of that first contact between Europeans and the First Nations of the Northwest Coast.
CALL NUMBER: T1861:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles O. Marston : the early B.C. forest branch, 1913-1916 PERIOD COVERED: 1891-1919 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1958-12-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Family background in New England from 1638. Marsto...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The search for Fred Tibbs PERIOD COVERED: 1970-1972 RECORDED: Sidney (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Chris Doman of Sidney, B.C. interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978, about Fred Tibbs, the Tibbs family, and Doman's search for Fred...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Clara, Roland and Walter Arnet RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Constance Tibbs RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Daphne Gibson RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Daphne Gibson discusses: background -- born in England, to India in 1914, back to England after the war, move ...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Research on Fred Tibbs PERIOD COVERED: 1970-1972 RECORDED: Courtenay (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Doris Farmer Tonkin of Courtenay, B.C., interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978. Subject: her research on Fred Tibbs.;
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life on Tibbs Island, 1944-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1944-1950 RECORDED: Nanaimo (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Mr. & Mrs. Robby McKeand of Nanaimo, B.C., interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978. Subject of the interview: life on Tibbs Is...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscence of Tofino and area PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1978 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: Dorothy and Ted Abraham interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978. Subjects include Tofino, Fred Tibbs, settling on Vargas Islan...
The item is an audio recording produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract. Clayoquot Sound is a place of extraordinary beauty and harsh reality where time is kept by the tide, and where life is determined by th...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Edith Symons RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cox recounts his family coming to Alberni; his grandfather worked at the Cape Beale Lighthouse in 1879; his father was the first Provincial Policeman in Alberni; his mother's fat...
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Elizabeth Farmer RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: [No content summary is available for this interview.];
The item consists of an audio interview with Ethel Wisehart recorded in Victoria on June 7, 1983.Tape summary:Track 1: Ethel Wisehart describes home she lived in, her jobs around the house and her diet. Married in 1929. She and husband moved to an...
