Tent camp for returned soldiers on Kirkland property.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell recounts the early history of the Ladner area: William H. Ladner; Thomas Ellis Ladner; first settlement in 1868; early residents; subdivision; the Sutherby family; C.F. Green, her ;grandfather; A.R. Green; a journey on the "Tynemouth" from England; the Green family in 1871 in the Ladner area; family history; family stories; floods; building of dykes circa 1895; other residents; ;the McNeely family; steamships; Chinatown in Ladner. TRACK 2: Mrs. Bell continues with her recollections about the Chinese community in the Ladner area; canneries; other ethnic groups; ship building; fishing; fish plants; mills; navigation in the area; farming; family history; Canoe Pass Cannery; Wellington Cannery; the Ladner family; social life; her parents; the Reverend Bell; the McNeely estate; establishment of the monastery; memorial park; community hall; transportation to Vancouver; the land boom of 1911 and 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell continues with her discussion about transportation to Vancouver; the Delta district; BC Packers; the Japanese community; social amusements; camping at Boundary Bay; history of Point; Roberts; the Icelandic settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: The dyking and draining of the Delta area; Point Roberts; the old railroad to Port Guichon; the fish traps in Boundary Bay; and stories about John Oliver, the east Delta farmer who became Premier. Voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Arthur Swenson, George Dinsmore, Mike Whalen, J.J. Brown, John Oliver, H. Weaver, Levi Wildgrube, and Leon Ladner.

Unedited footage. Footage of students working at an archaeological excavation (location unknown); brief shot of Thunderbird Park and Belleville Street, Victoria, ca. 1945; various boats and a Union Steamship, possibly on Howe Sound.