CALL NUMBER: T4265:0126 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Roy Willis RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-04 SUMMARY: Roy Willis was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, in 1915. Joined Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting. Became aircraft engineer in RCAF during World War II. Rejoined Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting post w;ar and went to Hudson Air Transport until 1972. TRACK 1: Wartime flying in EFTS [Elementary Flight Training Schools?]. TRACK 2: Post war mining flying and transition to helicopters.;

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0127 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Roy Willis RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-06-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Describes helicopter operations. TRACK 2: Blank.;

SUMMARY: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and officia;ls of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. This episode includes an interview with patient Merv Carleton, who served with the Canadian Scottish in World War II. ; He discusses the Dieppe Raid and his life in Vancouver. Speakers from Branch 177 discuss the upcoming civl defence program offered there, and the facilities at Branch's community co-op centre, founde;d in 1950.;

SUMMARY: SIDE 1: Highlights of a Saturday afternoon radio show recorded at Shaughnessy Hospital for evening broadcast on CKWX. Format consists of recorded interviews with veteran patients, hospital staff, and; officials of the Mount Pleasant Legion (Branch 177), interspersed with musical requests. This episode includes an interview with patient Ginger Coote, a veteran aviator of World War I and World War I;I, who talks about his experiences as a bush pilot in the Fort Nelson area. Royal Canadian Navy veteran Stanley Carr talks about convoy duty in World War Two. [SIDE 2: blank.];

CALL NUMBER: T3529:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1939 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-06-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Colleen Bostwick, Syd Thompson discusses his personal background. Recollections of first working experiences. Life in a relief camp in Ontario during the Depression. Coming to Vancouver in the 1930s. Experiences with the relief camp workers' union. Comments on the relief system in Vancouver. TRACK 2: Comments on the differences between the CCF and the Communist Party of Canada. Attitudes and political ideas of single unemployed men in Vancouver during the Depression of the 1930s. Organized labour and political action. Anecdotes about life in various relief camps in western Canada. Comments on the effects of the relief camp system. (Cont'd on T3529:0002) CALL NUMBER: T3529:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 2 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: (Continues interview of 1978-06-12) Syd Thompson comments on the effect of the Depression of the 1930s on the labour movement in Canada. The inadequacies of the capitalist system. Organizing in the relief camps in Alberta. Anecdotes and stories related to experiences in prison. TRACK 2: (Continuation of interview, 1978-08-21) Further comments on organizing in relief camps. Description of conditions in relief camps in B.C. Social life and conditions during the Depression. Leaving the Communist party. Other experiences during the Depression. CALL NUMBER: T3529:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Syd Thompson : recollections of years as a labour organizer : part 3 PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1940 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Syd Thompson describes his experiences in the army during the Second World War. Memories of movies he went to during the 1930s. General comments on class divisions in society and the lack of a proper division of wealth. The effect of the Depression of the 1930s on Thompson's later life. Recollection of the On-To-Ottawa Trek. TRACK 2: Recollections of experiences while organizing in a relief camp at Banff. Other memories of organizing on the prairies. Hobo jungles in B.C. during the Depression. Comments on his children and expectations for their lives. (End of interview)

CALL NUMBER: T0103:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki discusses his family background and role of Japanese-Canadians PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Tatsuro "Buck" Suzuki was born in 1916, after his father had come from Japan in 1905. Worked for a Japanese man in a salted-salmon plant on Dorn Island. 47 families lived in the area. Description of Japanese rituals and festivals. Member of the Japanese Fisherman's Union. Organized the Japanese-Canadian Citizen's Association. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki tells of the social conditions of Japanese-Canadians 1920-1945 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1950 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki discusses the problems Japanese-Canadian's faced upon arrival in Canada. He continues to describe race relations during the period 1920-1945. He mentions how the Japanese-Canadians handled discrimination in this period. He tells of the impact of the Depression upon the Japanese. The reactions of British Columbians to World War II. The struggle to get enfranchisement for Japanese-Canadians. CALL NUMBER: T0103:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tatsuro Suzuki describes internment and military service during WWII. PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1945 RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1972-11-09 SUMMARY: Buck Suzuki relates the reaction of the Japanese-Canadians to internment camps. He joined the Canadian armed forces and was eventually sent overseas on loan to military intelligence in the British Army during World War II.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. (1) A remembrance by Will Alliste;r of a Christmas spent in a Japanese concentration camp. [T4303:0019] (2) A story by Catharine Leggett, set on a farm in a furious blizzard. [T4303:0095] (3) A poem by Ann Walsh. [T4303:0114];

The item consists of an audio interview with Valerie MacDermot recorded in Metchosin, B.C. on June 25, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Valerie MacDermot was born in Vancouver in 1919 and grew up in the Kitsilano and Shaughnessy area. Describes the home she grew up in. Reveals some of household chores her mother carried out -- canning, baking, laundry, etc. Also talks about childhood duties. Attended General Gordon School, Prince of Wales School, and Point Grey Junior High School in Vancouver. Talks about her domestic science class and what the students made in her cooking class.

Track 2: Continues discussion of her domestic science class. Went to UBC after high school and took a degree in Economics. Then took a business course and worked in an office. Talks about sexual discrimination experienced in different jobs. Worked in Seattle during the Japanese evacuation and for Boeing on Sea Island in Vancouver. Also joined the U.S. Marines and was trained in Meteorology Later moved back to Vancouver and raised her two children as a single parent living in her parents' home.

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0028 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Walter Bacon Coates RECORDED: [location unknown], 1986-08-02 SUMMARY: Walter Bacon Coates was born in Vancouver in 1911. Joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1927 as aircraftsman at Jericho Beach. Was aircraft inspector at Boeing Aircraft of Canada for RCAF on Shark c;ontract and Coates Aircraft during war. TRACK 1: Discusses joining RCAF and Jericho Beach Air Station. Reassignment to Alberta and his work there. TRACK 2: Further discussion of RCAF activity in 1930;s. Return to Jericho Beach.;

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0029 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Walter Bacon Coates RECORDED: [location unknown], 1986-08-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Description of aircraft construction activity in Vancouver before and during World War II. TRACK 2: Description of wartime RCAF activity.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : William McLeod RECORDED: Surrey (B.C.), 1985-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: William McLeod was raised in Ladysmith, always interested in aviation. 1936 correspondence course. Flying instruction with Foggin Air Service at Sea Island, 1938. Joined RCAF as mechanic. Transition to pilot. Bombing and gunnery school. 4 squadron at Ucluelet. Post war work at Sea Island, 1945. Joins Bill Sylvester's B.C. Airlines. Queen Charlotte Airlines, 1946. Flew Stranraers. Flying on the B.C. coast. TRACK 2: Marriage breakup. First student at Okanagan Helicopters. The first helicopters. First job at Kispiox. Getting helicopter license. Mountain flying techniques. Took first Sikorsky S-55 to Kemano in 1952. The Kemano/Alcan project. Original pilots. Instructors. Influx of American pilots. Shell oil. Training RCAF pilots. Manager at Pacific Western Airlines Helicopters. Left PWA in 1959 and worked as a contract pilot. Returned to commercial flying. Other helicopters flown.