Yukon Territory--Description and travel--1898-1945

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Between ourselves : Sternwheelers on the Yukon

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode is a documentary about sternwheelers on the Yukon River.

Charles Brookman interview

CALL NUMBER: T0386:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles Brookman RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charles Brookman describes his arrival in Canada in 1903 from Liverpool, and his move to BC in 1907. He recalls what Vancouver was like when he arrived including the Vancouver Opera House, the Empress Hotel in Victoria, stories about movie star Victor McLaglen, his experiences with cargo in Seattle, and the money crisis in America. He continues with a story about rescuing a man who fell overboard, his decision to move to the Yukon and recollections of experiences there including the Old Chief, the poet, Robert Service, and details of various adventurers. TRACK 2: Charles Brookman continues with more on his time in the Yukon, people who sailed ships, navigation, details about boats, stories of Captains of square-riggers and their boats, stories of incidents on his boat including one where a life was lost, a story of prospectors who were unaffected by mosquitoes because they never washed themselves, and a detailed description of the 1907 race riots in Vancouver.

CALL NUMBER: T0386:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Charles Brookman RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-06-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charles Brookman describes a story of an interaction with a native Fijian when he was in Fiji, more on his experience working for the Guggenheims in the Yukon on hydraulics, more experiences aboard boats at the time of WWI, his experience with Col. John McCrae who wrote 'In Flanders Fields' when he was injured in the war, Captain Cutler who was a sealing skipper, life in Victoria after the war including the saloons, experiences with sharks on sealing boats, hunting techniques at sea. Mr. Brookman sings two sea shanties. [TRACK 2: Blank.]

Charlie Shaw interview

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charlie Shaw talks about his experiences in the Okanagan and other recollections from 1886 to 1911. Mr. Shaw outlines several experiences: his father was the first Reeve of Burnaby; Sha;w was sent east as a boy; returned to Armstrong and became a printer; worked in Penticton; knew Robert Service in Dawson City; his father's background; childhood memories of the Vancouver area; his mother's family; details of his father's business; his move to Kamloops; returning to help his uncle print a paper in Armstrong; Armstrong and the area around 1900; stories about Cornelius O'Keefe; George Anderson; S.C. Smith and his lumber business; development in the Penticton area and Penticton social life. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw continues with more on the development of Penticton including the business and settlers; starting the newspaper there; a lengthy discussion of printing and printing techniques; work on the newspaper; anti-Chinese agitation in Penticton and elsewhere; the "Komagata Maru"; incident in Vancouver in [1914]; more about Penticton and its growth to 1906; alcohol; Price Ellison; social life in the Vernon area; social behavior and manners.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw discusses the anti-Chinese feeling in Armstrong; a story of an anti-Chinese prank; the moral character of Armstrong; Lord and Lady Aberdeen in Vernon and their effect on Vernon soci;ety; Kelowna in those days; J.M. Robinson and Naramata; a description of Robinson; real estate promoters "Breezy" Lee and "Windy" Young; an anecdote about Colonel Sam Hughes inspecting militia at Vern;on; and a remittance man and his wager. TRACK 2: Mr. Shaw recalls Dawson City in 1906 and 1907, including how he came to Dawson; a story about a newspaper serial; details of travel to and from Dawso;n City; gold dust as currency; the value of money; goods in Dawson City; sled dog teams; Adam Cruickshank; Smith and his gambling house; law and order; moral attitudes in Dawson; prostitutes; drinking; and Christmas.NOTE: The sound quality on this track is not up to par with the other tracks.

CALL NUMBER: T1118:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shaw continues by describing Dawson City from 1906 to 1910, including entertainment; Robert W. Service and his verse; and the people of Dawson. He discusses Grand Forks as a mining community in 1907; more on the people of Dawson; a wager on the Johnson/Burns fight in 1907; the Liberty gold mine near Grand Forks; various people in the Grand Forks area at the time; an Englishmen in the Okanagan and his wager; and remittance men. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Down the Yukon River from source to mouth

The item is a handwritten narrative by William Bolton, written on Vancouver Island in 1914. In it, Bolton describes the six week trip he made to Alaska via the Yukon, the places he visited and the people he met.

G. Stanley Harris interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. G. Stanley Harris describes circumstances of his birth in Ontario; came to BC in 1900; went to Atlin District in 1900; worked in the gold mines in the Atlin District; traveled to Dawson ;City in the Yukon; took a boat trip down the Yukon River; describes Dawson City and Bennett and the Atlin District as he remembers them at the turn of the century; the Reverend John Pringle is described; a description of Whitehorse. TRACK 2: Mr. Harris describes gambling incidents concerning his friend Harold Stone; adventures in the goldfields; moving to Pender Island in 1902; Pender Island pioneers and pioneers on Mayne Island.

Henry A. Larsen interview : [CBC, 196-?]

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen describes a job as a navigator in the Arctic in the 1920s aboard "The Old Maid", getting stuck out at sea in 1926, establishing a post at Wilmont Island, his time in Vancouver after his voyages in the Arctic in 1928, getting a job as a Constable for the RCMP aboard a ship, an experience at Herschel Island and the influenza epidemic there, a description of his boat, police work in the Arctic around Herschel Island, how they tried to cater to the Eskimo administration, his twenty year stint working in the Arctic, how he had no power to be an administrator so all he could do was report, experiences in the Arctic, bad ice seasons, how 1940 and 1941 were bad seasons and stories about them, and his voyage on the "St. Roch" from the Pacific to the Atlantic and the trouble getting through.

TRACK 2: Henry Larsen continues by describing his journey including places they stopped and an anecdote about when they thought they would overturn in the ice, experiences between Eskimos and white men, the stable population in the Arctic, a man named Father Henry, freezing fish in the ground, more anecdotes, including one about Canon Turner and more on Eskimos.

SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Henry Larsen continues by discussing his trip from the Arctic to Halifax, his time in the King William Island area and his opinions on the John Franklin expedition, including where Franklin was buried, an experience in 1946 sailing in Siberia, the first oil well being drilled in the MacKenzie in 1921, change in 1946 in the Western Arctic, his last voyage into the Arctic in 1947, and the possibility of industry in the Arctic. TRACK 2: Henry Larsen discusses long distance navigation by submarines in the Arctic, a projection that oil in the MacKenzie Valley will be transported under the ice by pipelines and will be transported by submarines so that weather will no longer be a factor, the trouble getting young Canadians interested in science in the north in contrast with how it is in Russia, doctors in the Arctic. including several anecdotes concerning helping Eskimos, Dr. Borden of the "Neptune" who found that Eskimo health was exemplary with no cancer but after 1925 they have become increasingly less healthy and now they need doctors, oceanographers venturing up north and more scientific research, and an anecdote about a 1944 trip to Washington to meet J. Edgar Hoover. [End of interview?]

RECORDED: [lOttawa], [1962] Vilhjalmar Stefansson also takes part in interview [referred to as “Stef”].

James Kingsley interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jimmy Kingsley describes how his family settled in Parksville in 1899; later his family traveled to the Yukon in 1901 and stayed for four years at Grand Forks, Yukon; they returned to Parksville in 1905. He describes early years in the Parksville area; early settlers; transportation; the stage; the railway; early settlers; schooling; logging; settlement in 1890; early Parksville; churches; Qualicum Beach; Coombs; Errington; farming; and logging. TRACK 2: Mr. Kingsley describes the social life of the area; Indians; "Nanoose Bob"; "Qualicum Tom"; Englishman River; local employment ;building bridges; public property; anecdotes; Whisky Creek; stagecoaches; and resort development in Parksville.

Joseph Lightheart interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Response to readings from J.L. Near's diary PERIOD COVERED: 1877-1962? RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962 SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.]

Malcolm Dawe interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Malcolm Dawe RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Malcolm Dawe of Williams Lake discusses stagecoaches and the north coast. Dawe begins by relating a story of a stagecoach which was robbed of its gold near Ashcroft and how the man who robbed; it was apprehended, how he came to Williams Lake and the nature of the community there, his father who came to BC from Newfoundland in the late 1880s and the story of how his family came to BC, growing up in Vancouver, his father's adventures aboard the "Capilano" during the Klondike gold rush, his father's jobs as a cannery manager on the mouth of the Skeena and his job as a captain on the Yukon River, and his visits to many places along the Skeena. [TRACK 2: Blank.]

Marjorie Robertson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First white woman in the Central Canadian Arctic PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Marjorie Robertson was born in New Brunswick in 1903, and moved to New Westminster as a child. She married C. Hugh Clarke, a partner in the Canalaska Trading Company, and returned with him to the western Arctic in 1927, remaining there for three years. She associated with native people, and travelled to Herschel Island once a year for supplies. She describes trading in the Arctic, and competition with the Hudson's Bay Company. She also recalls New Westminster in the 1910s and 1920s.

Robert W. Service reads five poems, 1946

CALL NUMBER: T1656:0002
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The spell of the Yukon
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1946
SUMMARY: A short introduction by Robert W. Service, followed by his reading of "The Spell of the Yukon."

CALL NUMBER: T1656:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The shooting of Dan McGrew
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1946
SUMMARY: Robert W. Service reads his poem.

CALL NUMBER: T1656:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The cremation of Sam McGee
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1946
SUMMARY: Robert W. Service reads his poem.

CALL NUMBER: T1656:0005
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The gramophone at Fond Du Lac
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1946
SUMMARY: Robert W. Service reads his poem.

CALL NUMBER: T1656:0006
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The quitter
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1946
SUMMARY: Robert W. Service reads his poem.

Trans-Canada matinee : Sourdough interviews

CALL NUMBER: T4255:0044 SUMMARY: Interviews with Paul Mazzoni, dogsled racer Leonhard Seppala, and dance hall enetertainer Kathleen "Klondike Kate" Rockwell.

CALL NUMBER: T4255:0045 SUMMARY: This is apparently a copy [or a packaged broadcast version?] of T4255:0044.