The item is an audio recording of an interview with Peter Webster.

CALL NUMBER: T2392:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Peter Webster on sports days and his work as a fisherman PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster discusses the importance of sports days on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Special mention is made of Makah Days in the state of Washington. He describes the range of activities at these sports days. TRACK 2: More on sports days. Discussion of his childhood and his becoming a fisherman. He relates his beginnings as a seal hunter and the traditional ritual involved in seal hunting. CALL NUMBER: T2392:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Stories of the contact period and discussion of Native Indian music PERIOD COVERED: 1700-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster continues his discussion of the ritual of seal hunting and his career as a fisherman. He talks of the different types of canoes. Mr. Webster discusses the Native tradition relating to the origin of the word Nootka and a story about the enslavement of Jewitt and Thompson by Chief Maquinna. Also a story on the Spanish contact with the Natives. TRACK 2: Discussion of contact period and another story about it. Mr. Webster describes his involvement in Indian music, types of songs, and their importance in Native culture. CALL NUMBER: T2392:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mr. Webster discusses Native Indian music PERIOD COVERED: 1907-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Webster discusses the importance of music in the past and today. He discusses composing Native Indian songs. The use of dancing and music in Indian culture. Costumes used. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. John Martin tells of her father, Carl Binns, coming to Ucluelet for the first time in 1895, with William Thompson. She recounts how her father rowed to Ucluelet; he found gold in 1899; worked at placer mining and eventually sold his claim returning to Ireland; he later ran boats along the Alberni Canal; and ran the Big Boy Mine at Herbert Arm. Mrs. Martin recalls her early life; growing up in New York and later moving to Ucluelet in 1914. She describes her impressions of Ucluelet; her family life; her mother; social life; politics; early settlers; pre-emptions; funerals; Frenchy's Cove or Spring Cove; the lifeboat station and the telephone system. TRACK 2: Mrs. Martin continues her recollections of early Ucluelet; Long Beach; roads; road work; settlers; beaches; tidal wave; "Carelmapu" wreck in 1915; Gibson family from Ahousat; transportation; CPR boats; HMCS "Givenchy"; dances; and rum-running.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Grant talks about Qualicum Tom; his father, Robert Grant, establishing the mill in Cumberland for Dunsmuir; mine explosions at Cumberland; his father, Robert Grant; the Cumberland mill. ; Mr. Grant moved to Clayoquot, Stubbs Island in 1927 and operated a store. He describes life in the area; the telegraph line; sea lions; transportation; W.T. Dawley's general stores; fur trading; Dawley's Hotel and George Nicholson. TRACK 2: Mr. Grant describes the changes in Clayoquot from 1930 to 1960; Betty Farmer; the Gibson family from Ahousat-Matilda Creek; local characters; Zeballos; prospectors; a local murder; 24th of May celebrations; Grant and pelt trading incidents.

The item is a video copy of a travelogue. Depicts some highlights to be seen during a steamship cruise along the west coast of Vancouver Island, from Barkley Sound to Quatsino Sound. Footage includes: a tourist information office; mountain and shoreline scenery; First Nations man carving a dugout canoe from a cedar log at "Ahooset" [i.e, Ahousat]; Friendly Cove lighthouse; Tulpana [i.e., Tlupana?] Canyon; exploring the shores of Nootka Island [?] by small boat; the "quaint Indian village" of Friendly Cove; totem pole honouring Captain Cook; Women making and selling baskets at Quatsino; Port Alice; a nearby whaling station [probably Coal Harbour]; seal colony on Salander Rock [i.e., Solander Island]; injured eagle, and hunters posing with dead eagles.