RECORDED: [location unknown], [197-] SUMMARY: [No content summary available.];

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): S.R. Kirkland RECORDED: Sointula (B.C.), 1972-05-03 SUMMARY: S.R. Kirkland was born in 1904 in Ontario. Travelled as a construction worker from job to job across Canada throughout his life. Many years as a Wobblie (International Workers of the World) delegate. Description of working conditions as they were in the early part of the twentieth century and the 1930s. Talks about his activities as a Wobblie, about the organization in Canada and its objectives, etc. Also gives some of his personal political opinions.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cyril Charlton : a former office manager remembers Fraser Mills and its townsite PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1940 RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1973-02-19 SUMMARY: Cyril Charlton was born in 1901 and concentrates on the years 1920-1940 in this interview. He talks of the "Oriental townsite"; racial attitudes of the time; and differences between the "whiteman" and "Orientals" in the mill.

The item consists of an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in Kelowna in 1973.
Track 1: Pasquale "Cap" Capozzi was born in Italy in 1889 and he discusses his family background. Cap attended school in Italy before travelling to New York and then to Nelson, B.C. at age 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the C.P.R. He discusses various jobs held in the interior -- from rock quarries to sawmills, stables and stores. After travelling throughout the interior of B.C., Cap decided to settle in Kelowna where he established the town's second grocery store.
Track 2: Description of conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. Cap explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store, he opened another one. Discussion of how Cap entered the wine business. He was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. Impressions of W.A.C. Bennett. Discussion of various aspects of his business career.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1973?] SUMMARY: This tape edited from RRAS interviews consists of raw material for a sound montage about labour in the 1920s and 1930s. The excerpts are apparently from interviews with: (1) Tatsuro Suzuki (T0103:0001;-0003); (2) Clarence Taber (4 excerpts?, from T0142:0001-0005) ; and Frank Nishi (T0234:0001?).;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-08-20 SUMMARY: Al Parkin discusses the history of trade unions in the B.C. forest industry, and particularly the role of the so-called "loggers' navy" in union organization on the B.C. coast in the 1930s and 1940s.;