SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a D.P.W. workman recalls his immigration, jobs PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Arthur (Artur) Soares (D.P.W. labourer) was born in 1930. St. Jorge, Azores, farm work. Immigration to farm in Newfoundland. C.N.R. extra gang. Learning English. C.N.R. section work, Telegraph Point. First house in Terrace. Work for Alcan, Kitimat; for Department of Public Works, Terrace. Construction: renovating small house, building large house. Description of house and garden. Easier for new immigrants now. Standard of living on Azores, emigration, getting ahead. Terrace in the late 1950s. D.P.W. work.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a grocery store owner talks of immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Claudino de Melo (grocery store owner) discusses auditing bakeries in Lisbon; immigration (Oromocto, Halifax); speaking Italian and English. Work at Montreal Portuguese Club. Learning of Kitimat, "trainload" to Kitimat, 1955. Employers' recruiting methods. Work in smelter. Shortage of housing. Mrs. de Melo arrives via Bella Coola. First baby. Providing room for new people. Sagimat Construction houses were moved to Terrace. TRACK 2: Alcan made it easy to purchase houses, restricted improvements, had regulatory power. Beginning a specialty store in Kitimat, reasons for relocating to Queensway, Terrace. Buying and selling Imperial Hotel. Trying business in Okanagan. Portuguese fish and other specialty products for sale at the Riverside Market. Luso-Canadian Club of Kitimat. Daughter; learns languages, business practices. "Calling" (sponsoring) relatives.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: businessman recalls his immigration and Kitimat PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: Francisco Trigo (shoestore owner) discusses background in North Portugal; immigration, work in restaurant, gold mine. Recalls Kitimat in 1950's; locating in Terrace; climate. Discusses shoe store; wages; ethnic identity; building construction and style; Terrace in 1963; the building at 4600 Park.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace, B.C. : a smelter worker recalls immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: Germano Carrita, as a new immigrant from the Azores, had difficulty getting a railway job: hunger and bribery. Railroad work. Description of San Miguel, Azores. Immigration, problems of not knowing French or English. Alcan smelter: how pot room work has changed. Kitimat in 1955: a place to stay in the bunkhouse. Visiting Terrace, moving to Terrace. Description of house and garden.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace : a smelter worker recalls the Azores, immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Carreiro (smelter worker) was born in 1931. Childhood work, farms on Azores, description of village. Logging and sawmilling in Azores. Immigration in 1955, railway work. Learning of work at Alcan. (blank gap). Treatment, as a newcomer. (blank gap). Not knowing English, confusion at work. A friend who mistook "cabbage" for "cabrito", other confusion. Learning English. Food. His brother's story of immigration, work at Kitimat, return to Portugal. Work and housing at Kitimat. TRACK 2: Description of Kitimat in 1956. Work in Kitimat: Alcan and C.N.R. Moving to Terrace. Garden. Comparing present with past immigration. (blank gap). Help from people. Working with Italians, Canadians.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a sawmill worker compares mills, describes 1950s PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jose Raposo (loader operator at a sawmill) from San Miguel, Azores. Description of town, of first job. Logging and sawmilling on Azores in 1940s-50s. Immigration, "herding" of people. Life on farm. Working for C.N.R.; job description, coming to Terrace. No other Portuguese at Weber's sawmill. Greenchain work. Friend Lowe [or Louie?] TRACK 2: Living at Lip's farm, John Lips. Learning English. Pohle's sawmill; changes in sawmilling methods and machinery. Use of trimming in Azores. Calling relatives; ties with homeland fade. Terrace in 1956. Visiting Kitimat by train. Recruiting workers, friendly treatment of immigrants.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A French settler in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1951-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-05 SUMMARY: Pierre Victor Jouy (farmer, logger, mechanic) was born in France in 1929. Backgrounds about parents. Arrived in Canada in 1951. Met by immigration officials in Montreal. Lodging and eating in Montreal. Job at vegetable farm outside Montreal. Construction work in Montreal. Farm work in St. Claude, Manitoba. Logging in Ontario. Arrival in B.C. in 1952. Logging at Campbell River. Work at sawmill in Prince George. Description of Terrace on arrival. I.W.A. strike. Job for Dudley Little at Little, Haugland and Kerr Mill. Other jobs. Returned to France in the winter of 1952. Returned to Canada in 1953 and returned to Terrace after working in Ontario. Effects of Kitimat on Terrace. Evidence of military occupation. Power and telephone facilities. Farming around Terrace. Social activities. Changes in Terrace. Moved to Dutch Valley in 1959.