CALL NUMBER: T1717:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele, born in Vancouver in 1886, talks about his family; his aunt Sara Anne Reimer, his uncle, Tom Hugh, and his grandfather, Mr. Hugh, coming to Vancouver. He recalls property sales; funerals; subjects from the family diary; family homes; the Mount Pleasant school and community in the 1890s. He describes the family house; gardens; streetcars; the development of Mount Pleasant; trails; Cedar Cottage; Fairview; the McGeer family; False Creek; and Christmas.

CALL NUMBER: T1717:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele continues with recollections about the Mount Pleasant area; Christmas; birthdays; school; Nightingale's (the local general store); the chain gang road work; breweries; wildlife; hunting; fishing; childhood; Trout Lake; ice skating; False Creek; and streetcars. He discusses land business and personal transactions mentioned in his grandfather's diary; land transactions; depressions; speculation; the 1907 depression; the 1911-1912 land boom; land auctions; and girls' and boys' education. He describes the views of Mount Pleasant and Vancouver that he would have seen (and might have; photographed) from the tower at the fire station at Quebec and Main Street, 1901. CALL NUMBER: T1717:0003 [CD T1717:0002A] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Mr. Steele continues describing of views of Vancouver from the fire station at Quebec and Main.

The item consists of an audio interview with H.H. Stevens, recorded in 1966.
T0327:0001 summary
Track 1: Mr. Stevens, who came to Vernon in 1894, talks about his early experiences and memories of the Okanagan, including driving the stage from Penticton to Grand Forks in 1897; Camp McKinney; Fairview; Rossland; Phoenix; Greenwood; Grand Forks; Crows Nest Railway; Rock Creek; prospecting and mining and W.R. Meagaw. He describes Vernon; local residents; farms; ranches and the Aberdeen Ranch.
Track 2: Mr. Stevens continues with recollections about the Coldstream Ranch; Okanagan Lake; coming to Vancouver 1901; False Creek; CPR land holdings; real estate boom 1901 to 1912; sawmills and logging; Oppenheimer brothers; local personalities and wholesalers; Victoria wholesalers; North Vancouver ferry; Stewart; and the Dominion Trust Company.

T0327:0002 summary
Track 1: Mr. Stevens speaks about the Dominion Trust Company; the beginning of party politics in BC, 1903; and his election as a federal Conservative MP in 1911. He comments on federal political life; Vancouver in the boom period and depression, from 1911 to 1920; personalities; Alvo von Alvensleben; Hindus; Japanese; wholesalers and the Vancouver Hotel. [Track 2: blank.]