The item is a reel of nature film footage shot on St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands, and donated to the BC Provincial Museum by the Fouke Fur Co., St. Louis.

The item consists of a film print showing life of the Pribilof Islands fur seal colony on the Bering Sea.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1967] SUMMARY: Former sealers Max Lohbrunner and James Goudie recall their experiences in British Columbia's sealing industry. [No detailed content documentation available.];

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner describes how sealing began in Victoria in 1869, how he fished out of Victoria when he was a small child, hunting seals in 1903 on a vessel called "Enterprise", sealing experiences aboard the "Diana", a description of a White Schooner and an Indian Schooner, a very detailed description of a sealing boat at that time, what life is like aboard a sealing boat, what happens when you see a seal, using smokeless powder, and what to do after a seal has been shot. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner describes more experiences about life aboard a sealing ship, signals between sealers, sealing techniques, keeping a boat steady in rough waters, using compasses, and a story about getting back to a schooner in the fog.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner offers anecdotes about boats and people who got lost at sea around 1906 including George Peddie from Newfoundland whom they actually found and Alec MacKenzie whom they buried, more on life aboard sealing ships, the history of sealing on the coast from the first ship in the 1869 built in Sooke by Charles Spring, all the places that he sealed, schooners anchored in Victoria, and an anecdote about being bitten by a seal. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner continues by offering an anecdote about an experience when his boat was attacked by a killer whale, details on killer whales, and more anecdotes about experiences on whaling ships.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Max Lohbrunner continues with experiences aboard ships including how he heard about the San Francisco earthquake, anecdotes about a man named Alex McLean, and sealing in the Bering Sea. TRACK 2: Max Lohbrunner continues with more anecdotes about life aboard sealing ships, when Alex McLean died and more details on him, pay for skins, his last adventures aboard sealing ships, what life was like in Victoria at that time, where he was born and how he came to move to Victoria including details about his family, and the history of the yacht "Vera" which was used as an opium smuggling ship before being used as a sealing ship up until 1911.

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0004 track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Reminiscences of B.C. sealing industry RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Lohbrunner offers anecdotes about interactions and competition with Japanese schooners in the Bering Sea around 1907, more anecdotes about sealing around the Alaskan coast, different islands and area where he trapped, what happened when the sealing industry closed in Victoria, more on competition with the Japanese, and the market for seal skins today. [End of the Imbert Orchard interview.]

CALL NUMBER: T1650:0004 track 2 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-?] SUMMARY: TRACK 2: [NOTE: This is NOT part of the Imbert Orchard interview with Max Lohbrunner. It is a separate recording, made on another occasion, by two unidentified interviewers -- a man and a woman. It may be the soundtrack from a film interview, possibly shot for CBC television.] Max Lohbrunner describes how he came to Victoria from New York in 1887 with his father who was a carpenter; the 122 sealing schooners that used to be docked in Victoria; an experience sailing to Cape Horn in 1903 to go sealing; the specific wharfs in Victoria that were built by sealers and anecdotes about what life was like when the industry was thriving; why he is allowed to live at the wharf when no one else is what happened to his life after the sealing industry closed; the otter he has as a pet; and various anecdotes about his life and sealing.