CALL NUMBER: T0772:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater recounts his parents' arrival in Langley Prairie, and later Surrey, in the 1890s. He describes schooling; early life; childhood experiences; incident with a bear; New Westminster fire of [1898]; potlatches at Semiahmoo; Indian encampments; family life; farm chores; fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with a discussion about fishing; winter; logging in Surrey; sawmills; Ross McLaren Mill; Yale Road; traveling store, Kidds and Isaac; sounds common at the turn of the century; a cougar incident; railways.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; logging methods; equipment; working horses; teamsters; oxen teams; selection of timber; loggers; the scaler; skid roads; transportation of logs. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his discussion about logging; life in the logging camps; skid roads and donkey engines. He talks about Surrey Centre; early residents; Reverend; Bell.

CALL NUMBER: T0772:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Drinkwater continues with his recollections of early residents of Tynehead; the Bell family; Halls Prairie settlers; the MacKenzie family; the Robertson family; incidents; the Brown family; Johnny Wise and the Clarendon Hotel; riverboats. TRACK 2: Mr. Drinkwater talks about the Yale Road; dredging and dyking, methods, procedures and equipment; Sumas Prairie dyking; constructing the; route for BC Electric; logging.

The item is an industrial film on bear awareness.

The item is a reel of film footage about the bear garbage dump problem in Terrace and Kitimat.

The item is a reel of film footage showing a bear trapped at a dump and relocated.

CALL NUMBER: T1151:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Roberts recalls his first impressions of Vancouver in 1906; the Depression of 1907; his attempts at employment, and adventures in British Columbia and Dawson; the "Undesirables of Dawson;"; his thoughts about Darwin and religion and his coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands (1911). TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts continues with a description of the Stave Falls work camp including: characters, living conditions and topics of discussion. He speaks about his reasons for coming to the Queen Charlotte Islands, transportation to the islands, first impressions, Miller Creek, the Lawn Hill settlement, the difficulty in acquiring land, staking land claims, Dr.Tomlinson and the Farmer's Association at Lawn Hill, social life, a story about a tree, settling at Tlell, Tom Hearn, Jimmy White, Oeanda; River, and black sand beaches.

CALL NUMBER: T1151:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-09-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert Roberts continues speaking about Jimmy White and gold mining on the black sand beaches; his fishing career in 1919; fishing equipment; fishing at Hippo Island; local fishing co-operatives; the fishing season of 1931; fishing in the 1960s; conditions for spawning salmon; his salmon spawning ladder and recollections. TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts recounts a story about Victor Vigelous; a bear story; fishing stories; his philosophy of life; credit unions; roads and logging roads; local characters; "Mexican Tom"; Haida residents; local activities; impressions of the islands and the west coast.

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Bert Williams recounts his father's arrival in Ontario, and the family's later move to Langley to homestead in 1889. He relates early incidents; other families; the trip to Langley; early homesteaders; remittance men; building their first home; Bovel's Mill; cougar stories; life on the homestead; the family's garden; livestock; the Salmon River. TRACK 2: Bert Williams continues, discussing grouse hunting; clearing land; an anecdotes about life on the homestead; his mother's life on the farm; preachers; entertainment; boyhood antics; bear stories; a description of Fort Langley in 1895.

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Williams talks about the Telegraph Trail and roads in the area; names of roads; the township system; the Salmon River Bridge; peddlers; entertainment; different types of transportation, carts and buggies; local incidents. TRACK 2: Mr. Williams continues with his discussion about farm incidents; horses and teams; the Langley Country Fair; summer picnics; Blackie's Spit; winters and changing weather conditions; effects of a 1911 or 1912 Alaskan volcanic eruption and earthquake; fencing; the New Westminster Market; ferry at Brownsville; the railroad bridge; work on the telephone line.

CALL NUMBER: T0451:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02 or 1963-03-20-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Williams continues with recollections about peddlers; Christmastime; social occasions; bear incidents. TRACK 2: Mr. Williams talks about farming and milk production; local feuds; anecdotes about pioneer life; Jim Melrose; hog killing; church; the Seeley brothers; prosperity in the 1910s; drilling for artesian wells.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-10-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview for the CBC television program "This Land Of Ours", Mrs. Betty Phillips, wife of rancher Pan Phillips, discusses her life and experiences on the family ranch. These include anecdotes about travel in the bush; encounters with bears; her background; coming to the ranch; her first days there; life on cattle drives; accidents; general comments on life in the bush; and an anecdote about cold weather. [TRACK 2: blank.];