Ahousat (B.C.)

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Phyllis Martin 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.

Stanley Grant interview

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.

John L. Gibson interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : John L. Gibson RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-10-04 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, John L. Gibson discusses: his family background -- father came out of the Yukon in 1906 to cruise timber, father born in 1872 in Ontario, participated in gold rush, mother also from Ontario, married father in 1901-2 (?); John born in 1905; first memory is of the Clayoquot Hotel in 1910; marijuana discovery anecdote; Walter Dolly; father lived in Ahousat Village, mother and kids lived in Vancouver; father bought an old sawmill after WW I; no money until after his father's brother died; got into the fishing business; relations with the Japanese community; opinions on Japanese military strategy in World War II; difficulty with Japanese returning to the west coast after the war; wishes he had become more tolerant sooner, but does not regret his attitude.

Traveltour of the west coast of Vancouver Island

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.

Evelyn Sullivan interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Tofino-Clayoquot : Evelyn Sullivan RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979 SUMMARY: In an interview with Bob Bossin, Evelyn Sullivan discusses early days in the Tofino-Clayoquot area. Mrs. Sullivan talks about: her grandmother being the first white woman in Tofino, 1881; her family went to Tofino to trade furs with the Natives; memories of her grandfather; warring Native tribes in the 1880s in Tofino; Native cemetery -- her grandfather burned it to keep his children from playing in it; grandfather "rescued sailors from being eaten by the Natives"; her father was apprenticed as a millwright; her parents married in 1904; relations between Norwegians and English in Tofino in early 20th century; she liked the Norwegians but found the Scots to be perpetual drunks; anecdote about Joe Bryce; Fred Tibbs -- odd but harmless; bad luck at Dream Island (Tibbs' Island); anecdote about desecrating an Indian grave; Dr. Dixson, his daughter Winnie; Brinkman, an artist, teaching her and her girlfriends the art of flirtation; smuggling of rum and opium; Chinese immigration to Canada; Tom Stone and his boat; Ahousat became dangerous; only beer parlour was at Clayoquot; anecdote about a chambermaid being forced into prostitution; comments about George Nicholson; the Leach murder; she believes the Japanese families in area were most likely spies; Japanese internment was for the best; anecdote about a wise Native man; Natives did not mix with the whites; Mr. Guthrie's life.

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