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Academy of Canadian Writers : discussion with Barry Broadfoot, Sandy Duncan, Eric Whitehead and Jack Hodgins

The item is a video interview on two cassettes containing recordings of discussions with Canadian authors at the Academy of Canadian Writers. Tape 1. Barry Broadfoot: "Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame" (30 min.) Sandy Duncan: [Adventure for Children]. (30 min.) The Korean Girl? {"Kap-Sung Ferris"] Tape 2. Eric Whitehead: "Cyclone Taylor" (20 min.) Jack Hodgins: #1. Spit Delaney's Island, #2. Creation of the World, (15 min).

Alice Munro

SUMMARY: A one-sided interview with author Alice Munro about her work, her experience with "The New Yorker" magazine, and the effect it has had on her writing.;

Alice Munro reads and talks

SUMMARY: "Ideas" is a CBC Radio series that presents in-depth talks and discussion on a range of historical and contemporary subjects. The series evolved from an FM program entitled "The Best Ideas You'll Hea;r Tonight" that was first broadcast in the fall of 1965, in response to an interest in adult education. This episode, "Alice Munro Reads And Talks", is an interview with Alice Munro by Elizabeth Komi;sar for Westcoast Voices. Munro also reads from her novel "Lives Of Girls And Women".;

Arthur Mayse interview

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Birth at Peguis Reserve, Manitoba; early memories of Swampy Cree people at Peguis Reserve; memories of father, Reverend A.W. [Amos William] Mayse; father's tales of the Boer War; fraternizing with the enemy; father emigrated to Canada; worked as a carpenter, became minister; father was in WWI; war wounds; was in Boer prison camp; earlier release by Jan Smuts; YMCA rep in WWI; back to Winnipeg; refused commission in Black and Tans; rural ministry in Manitoba; took salary partly in trade and had first pick of charity clothes; Mr. Mayse hated school; his father was self-taught and had a good library; read everything, including religious material; moved to British Columbia. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Living in [Port] Hammond BC; first work experience; father's church in Nanaimo; primitive conditions in the coal mines; clothing and equipment of miners; many beer parlours in Nanaimo; father's popularity; favorite fishing spots; anecdote of hazardous fishing trip; Turner rowboats prized; commercial fishing; early commercial fishing methods and boats; memories of Sointula fishermen; Sointula pukka fighting; Nanaimo miners fished for trout, not salmon; early trout fishing equipment; social consciousness; father never was a union miner; lied to get into army; South Africa; Reverend Mayse went underground in Nanaimo mine accidents; panic in town; miners invited Reverend Mayse underground, managers didn't argue; dynamite misadventure. TRACK 2: Continuation of dynamite misadventure with Rev. Mayse; vegetable garden; powder bosses; Reverend Mayse destroyed cars; pit ponies on islands; Italian miners; soccer important in Nanaimo; library; Millstream Park; rugby versus soccer; holidays with father; Chinese persecuted in Nanaimo; Chinese accused of taking jobs; few Chinese women or children; fight between Chinese and Haida boys; Chinese cooks; idyllic but racist town; Mr. Mayse and friends made a water cannon to frighten Chinese; backfire; collecting cascara bark for money; cruel pranks; fights with air guns and crossbows made from umbrellas; good shot with slingshot; gangs racially mixed; miners lived in southern Nanaimo; some of the cottages still there [as of 1984].

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Nanaimo childhood; Guy Fawkes day was celebrated as Bonfire night; Hallowe'en destructive; Nanaimo's tamale wagon; miners' children; fishing and writing at Cowichan Bay; Reverend Mayse sided with the workers; holidays at Cowichan Bay; acquiring a dugout canoe; shaman procured canoe by threats; Indian fishing methods; most gear was cedar; old style Cowichan sweaters described; Padre Cook of Cowichan; Queen Victoria medal; John Page and the medal; shaman had grape arbor and soul box; healing and hurting with soul box; rite of boys purification among Cowichans; Wolf Song was stolen from the Haida after the Battle of Sansum Narrows circa 1820 to 1840. Haida blamed for other raids; Haida slaughters and weapons used. Reverend Mayse left Mr. Mayse to his own way on holidays. TRACK 2: 38; pound salmon won prize; Bruce McKelvie; first sale of fiction; principal angry but kept on; Oyster River with Reverend Mayse; memories of old-timer James McIvor; washed ashore from sloop; McIvor ran cattle; threatened loggers; tea with McIvor; McIvor's customs; McIvor angry when offered help; McIvor's nephew visited briefly; tried to buy wife; McIvor fishing with haywire; hated cities; died in Comox in 1940's. Walter Woodiss, Oyster River old-timer, storyteller; tall tale of salmon; Woodiss's feud with a black bear and accidental killing of same; Woodiss's Inn; Percy Elsie "mayor of Oyster River"; fried chicken known as fried seagull; ghost at Comox; WWII airman at Comox rode his bicycle through "Dancing Annie".

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Indian rancherees; shaman Cultus Tommy; Chinook trade jargon terms; Padre Cook well loved; friend at Cumberland; stories of Ginger Goodwin; Cumberland memories of Ginger Goodwin and hostility to trial and government; Dominion police were hated, man hunters; no shame in evading the draft; met Cougar (Cecil) Smith; Mr. Mayse now lives in Cougar Smith's house; Cougar Smith's peculiarities; Roderick Haig-Brown, great Canadian writer; friendship with Haig-Brown; dam on the Campbell River broke his heart; last meeting with Haig-Brown; last impressions; better known outside Canada; Haig-Brown a fine and pioneering fisherman; fished steelhead. Mr. Mayse disliked high school; paid for clothing with poetry prize won at UBC three years in a row. TRACK 2: Mr. Mayse paid UBC tuition by logging in the summer under a false name; BC loggers and equipment; railroad logging; unions; woods accidents; logged Upper Vancouver Island; logging camp cooks; anecdote of 'foul feeder'; fight between logger and foul feeder; logging camp cook; flunkies, bed makers, logging camp pump tenders; eccentric and proud train men; high riggers; Harold Larson would post on a spar; woods near-misses; spark catchers jobs; bunkhouse moving accident; Paddy the straw boss; Paddy nearly caught in a blast; lemon extract mad man incident; bringing out man lost in the woods; gone mad, tried to escape his friends; wild Great Dane dogs abandoned in woods; harassed spark catchers; Mayse had to shoot one.

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Great Danes hunted in Pike's Peak area; shot one; partner Paddy Gorman; Paddy attacked by a cougar while snoozing; scraps of loggers songs; never wrote them down, always regretted it; logging; company owners were remote; unions starting camps; decision logging versus writing; went to the Vancouver Province; space writing for Province; offered staff job; clannish and proud reporters; story of ascent of Mount Waddington; two expeditions at once; Mr. Mayse carried homing pigeons in a basket to file the story; rough country; beauty and tragedy of the pigeons; walking out to tidewater hungry; a ghost story at Leefall Point, Mount Waddington, where a climber had fallen to his death. TRACK 2: Worked at the Vancouver Province as Torchy Anderson's junior man; they covered a huge forest fire that threatened Campbell River and Courtenay on Vancouver Island [Sayward fire, 1938]; Torchy was Mr. Mayse's mentor and friend; longshoremen riots; Torchy was fearless; Torchy squealed when angry; his grandfather saw a Sasquatch; the Rum Tum Club and the Sonofabitch Club; creating a story on injured trapper at Mission. Mr. Mayse wrote police constable's report while drunk; cop demoted; Torchy and his wife Marion; moved to Saltspring Island; memories of Province newspaper women in 1930's Vancouver; wild party on Grouse Mountain; Christmas cheer and story of upside down reindeer; camps for single unemployed men; joining the American Newspaper Guild; had BC union card number 3; union's failure; left holding the bag; not fired but put behind the eight ball; refused marrying raise.

CALL NUMBER: T4133:0006 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1984-03-28 & 30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Mayse quit the Vancouver Province and joined the Vancouver Sun. The Sun was tougher and wilder; front page exclusives as revenge; union succeeded later; hostility to union. Mr. Mayse drafted and discharged for TB scars; army lost files; returned to the Sun as military writer; Mr. Gallagher, an alleged spy; moved to Toronto with no job, $100, a wife and a dog. Selective service twits said there were no jobs; walked into a job at Maclean's. Toronto run of luck; sold short stories to the Saturday Evening Post; break fiction editor of Maclean's; a few good Canadian writers; editor bought fiction; Calvinist, liked gloomy tales, had to trick him; Canadian writers were "cry-babies"; Americans were pros. TRACK 2: Canadian writers resented criticism; Mayse emulated American writers; today's market poor for short stories; in the 1940s and 1950s the stories were not literary but a good product; wrote serials for Saturday Evening Post; later published as novels; approached by an agent; returned to the coast; end of fiction markets; never seen as a serious writer; writing is lonely work; Jack Scott criticized Mr. Mayse's success in the U.S.; considered a move to the U.S.; writer's; work should speak for itself; but book tours are necessary; dislikes writer's grants except for poets; many writers are poseurs; major literary figures in Canada; dislikes commercial versus literary distinction; Mr. Mayse now writes a newspaper column; wrote for "The Beachcombers"; column is a good platform; a lucky and happy man; importance of luck.

Audrey Thomas interview

SUMMARY: "CBC Monday Evening" was a multi-part series that included documentaries and interviews on the arts, along with drama and serious music. This item is an interview by Elizabeth Komisar for Westcoast Voices with the author Audrey Thomas. Audrey Thomas reads from "Mrs. Blood", a novel set in a hospital in Africa and concerning a woman who is preparing to give birth.

B.C. folio : Christie Harris

SUMMARY: "B.C. Folio" is a weekly program that features items of interest to B.C. listeners, including interviews with British Columbians of diverse backgrounds. "BC Folio" was broadcast from 1971 to 1976 on the Pacific Region network -- first on AM, and later on FM. In this program, B.C. writer Christie Harris discusses her books and her writing career with Leanne Orchard, Jane Ross, Susan Ross and Imbert Orchard, who also produced the program at CBC Vancouver.

BC Archives holds two versions of the recording on two reels (0001 and 0002).

Between ourselves : Emily Carr

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. The first part of this fifty-minute program is devoted to reminiscences of Emily Carr by three of her long-time friends: Flora Hamilto;n Burns, who helped Carr with her writing; Kate Mather, who was a buyer for the CPR at Banff and commissioned Carr to make pottery; and Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, whose book "M.E." recalls the elderl;y Emily Carr. The second part of the program features "The Pines of Emily Carr", a work for narrator, mezzo-soprano, piano, string quartet and tympani, which was composed by Jean Coulthard for the 196;9 CBC Vancouver Festival of Music. The performers involved include: Dorothy Davies, narrator; Derek Bampton, piano; Phyllis Mailing, mezzo-soprano; and Don Adams, tympani.;

Between ourselves : Emily Carr

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. The first part of this fifty-minute program is devoted to reminiscences of Emily Carr by three of her long-time friends: Flora Hamilto;n Burns, who helped Carr with her writing; Kate Mather, who was a buyer for the CPR at Banff and commissioned Carr to make pottery; and Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, whose book "M.E." recalls the elderl;y Emily Carr. The second part of the program features "The Pines of Emily Carr", a work for narrator, mezzo-soprano, piano, string quartet and tympani, which was composed by Jean Coulthard for the 196;9 CBC Vancouver Festival of Music. The performers involved include: Dorothy Davies, narrator; Derek Bampton, piano; Phyllis Mailing, mezzo-soprano; and Don Adams, tympani.;

Between ourselves : Pacific door

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 from different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode, "Pacific Door", explores a "west coast" point of view in the arts. Musicians, writers, artists, and filmmakers discuss the impact of the landscape, and how the west coast impacts their art. The voices heard include playwright George Ryga.;

Blown figures

SUMMARY: "Anthology" is a series planned as a literary magazine for radio featuring short stories, poetry, literary talks, discussions, and reports on the arts from various world centres. In this episode, "Blown Figures", author Audrey Thomas reads from the manuscript of her new novel. After the reading, Ms. Thomas discusses this manuscript, her characters, and their relationship to her other literary works.

Bruce Hutchison interview : [1 of 2]

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: William Bruce Hutchison: First newspaper job under Benny Nicholas. Editor of Victoria High School Paper. High school teachers: Dilworth, Wood, Smith. Debating Society. Approach to writing: debaters st;ance in his various books. Influences: Chesterton, Stevenson, Emerson, Thoreau, Conrad. Politics and wilderness. Wordsworth. Romantics. Favourite book: "The Incredible Canadian". Public favourite: "Th;e Unknown Country", written in 6 weeks. Victoria Times. Western Windows. Newspaper idols: Nicholas, Dafoe, Deter, Brown, Rawlings. Writing awards. Fifty years in press. Favourite jobs: 1963, Editorial; Director of The Sun; 1950, Editor of Times -- busiest period. Victoria High School: Dilworth, Kermode, Knapton, Clyde Hall, Gilligan, WW I, influenza, S.J. Willis, 3 Smiths, school editorials, centra;lized activities in schools. Statement by Time Magazine: 'Grand Old Man', P.M. Pearson's statement. Journalism as a career. 'Just a newspaper man'.;

Bruce Hutchison interview : [2 of 2]

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1975-06-17 SUMMARY: William Bruce Hutchison: First newspaper job under Benny Nicholas. Editor of Victoria High School Paper. High school teachers: Dilworth, Wood, Smith. Debating Society. Approach to writing: debaters st;ance in his various books. Influences: Chesterton, Stevenson, Emerson, Thoreau, Conrad. Politics and wilderness. Wordsworth. Romantics. Favourite book: "The Incredible Canadian". Public favourite: "Th;e Unknown Country", written in 6 weeks. Victoria Times. Western Windows. Newspaper idols: Nicholas, Dafoe, Deter, Brown, Rawlings. Writing awards. Fifty years in press. Favourite jobs: 1963, Editorial; Director of The Sun; 1950, Editor of Times -- busiest period. Victoria High School: Dilworth, Kermode, Knapton, Clyde Hall, Gilligan, WW I, influenza, S.J. Willis, 3 Smiths, school editorials, centra;lized activities in schools. Statement by Time Magazine: 'Grand Old Man', P.M. Pearson's statement. Journalism as a career. 'Just a newspaper man'.;

Capilano Review collection

  • PR-2252
  • Collection
  • 1973-1975

Capilano Review was a serial publication devoted to poetry. The collection consists of recordings of readings by Canadian poets and writers at Capilano College in North Vancouver, 1973-1975.

Christie Harris interview

CALL NUMBER: T1971:0001 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Children's author Christie Harris discusses her series for the CBC called "Westward to Gold", which she then turned into a book called "Cariboo Trail". She recounts how she began to write stories when she teaching grade one students, and her passion for writing stories; how a woman named Fraser York in Abbotsford got her interested in stories. She discusses Mrs. Fraser York, who came to BC in 1861; how she began working for the CBC in the 1950s; her first book "Cariboo Trail" including what she hoped to convey in the story; how she came to writing a book a year for the past several years and her method. She discusses several books she had written including "Once Upon A Totem" which came out in 1963; her focus on Indian legends; the book "Confessions of a Toe Hanger"; how she ;immerses herself in her subject while she writes; the age groups she writes for; other books that deal with Canadian and BC historical subjects; and a book she wrote with her husband. TRACK 2: Mrs. ;Harris discusses how her book "Raven's Cry" is based on Haida art; Charles Edenshaw's daughter, Florence Davidson, who gave her a lot of information as background for her book; it was after "Raven's Cry" that she wrote "Confessions of a Toe Hanger" and she discusses this book; a discussion of her children; her book "Forbidden Frontier", which is set at Fort Kamloops in early British Columbia; how ;British Columbia serves as an excellent backdrop for a writer if you immerse yourself in it; how people in other places such as New York, write to her to tell her that they love her work; the fascinating character of BC; the three books she has written about her children, and one specifically about skiing at Garibaldi; and how she chooses the names of her protagonists. CALL NUMBER: T1971:0002 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Harris discusses her latest book, "A Secret In The Stlalakum Wild", which she had been wanting to write for thirty years about all sorts of legends; the validity of Indian legends; Cultus Lake near Hope; the people from whom she got her stories from for this work; kids' impressions of the book; exploring valleys; various "devil" lakes. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Evelyn Lau : runaway poems

SUMMARY: A program about Evelyn Lau, author of "Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid." Includes dramatic readings by Tamsin Kelsey.;

Father Halford ; Jane Rule

SUMMARY: "Saturday Evening" was a series that aired from 8:30 to 10:00 PM. Usually in two parts, it consisted of plays, classical concerts, documentaries and talks. The first part of this episode is an interview with Father Halford, who is the chaplain for BC prisons [dated 1968-04-02]. The second part is an interview with Canadian novelist Jane Rule [dated 1970-08-10].;

Francis and Suzanne Dickie interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dickie recounts his early years on Quadra Island and his career as a writer. He recalls the fire of 1925; island characters including: "Old Bull", Hosea Bull; "Skookum Tom", Tom Leask; island life. Mrs. Dickie continues with her recollection of their early settlement; purchase of property and building and establishing a home. In 1926 the couple went to France and worked as journalists; returning to Quadra in 1932. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Galiano

SUMMARY: Documentary featuring resident writers and artists of Galiano Island, and their views about island life. Interviewees include: Marian Engel, Margaret Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Hopkins, Jane Rule, Sylvia Spring, Ian R. Hooey and Audrey Thomas.

George Jonas interview

CALL NUMBER: T2809:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-08 SUMMARY: In a interview with Linda Sandler, poet George Jonas discusses his Hungarian background; inspirations for his poetry; religion and the city poems; analysis of contemporary poetry; Jonas' style and com;ments on his poems.

CALL NUMBER: T2809:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: More comments on his poetry; political views; ideas about causation; poetry reading; discussion of the arts.;

CALL NUMBER: T2809:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: Discussion of the arts; the role of the poet; markets; attitudes of writers and poets to the arts; his personal characteristics.;

CALL NUMBER: T2809:0004 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: His own personal characteristics; love, and the need for novelty; (noisy restaurent) comments on television personalities; influences and early writing; early political views.;

CALL NUMBER: T2809:0005 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-01 SUMMARY: Hungary and political views; experience and personality; fairness; arts and artists; writing processes; national character.;

Gladys Hindmarch : reading

RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973 [fall] SUMMARY: At Capilano College, Gladys Hindmarch reads and discusses some of her prose pieces, including "Peter Pumpkin Eater" and "Sketches from Birth Account".;

Howard O'Hagan interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-04 SUMMARY: In an interview with Ken Mitchell, author Howard O'Hagan talks about his experiences in the Canadian Rockies, where he spent a great part of his life, and where much of his fiction is set. Includes stories about grizzly bear hunting.

Hugh Hood interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975-10 SUMMARY: In a interview with Linda Sandler, poet and author Hugh Hood discusses literary criticism; inspiration; details in his books; the role of the poet; anima and form; politics; roots; teaching jobs; discussion of characters and themes.

Jack Hodgins interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982 SUMMARY: In an interview with Peter Ladner of Monday Magazine, author Jack Hodgins discusses his work, the development of his writing, characters, etc., and the role of Vancouver Island as a milieu for his fic;tion.;

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