Amateur film. Shows an expedition up Mount Grenville at the head of Bute Inlet.

CALL NUMBER: T0613:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Albert Veranous Franklin remembers life at Tatla Lake before 1900. Mr. Franklin recalls his family background, his father, Benny Franklin, the move to Tatla Lake, the reasons, the journey, the purchase of the homestead and establishing a store, getting supplies from Ashcroft, trading with the Indians, the smallpox epidemic among the Indians, excursions to Bute Inlet, the Waddington Massacre, Chilcotin Indians and more, and the massacre and the aftermath.

TRACK 2: Franklin continues with more on the Waddington massacre, the story of the introduction of smallpox among the Indians as told to Franklin by John Hickory McLean, who was a member of the Waddington party, the effects of smallpox, names of early settlers, stories of life at Tatla, an anecdote about seeing the ghost of a dead Indian woman, the new road from Alexis Creek to the Nazko Valley, an account of the Indian game of Lahal, and moving to Nazko from Tatla.

CALL NUMBER: T0613:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-28 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Franklin discusses the move to below Anahim Rancherie, Norman Lee, partnerships in the Chilcotin, Indian-White intermarriage, the Franklin homestead, an account of his father's death and burial, his father as Justice of the Peace, his mother, Marie Forest, the move into the Chilcotin in 1889, early days at Tatla Lake, the reasons for moving to the lake from Nazko, and Indian agitation.

TRACK 2: Franklin tells the story behind Indian agitation, a trip to Skeena River, early days at Bute Inlet, his father's excursions between Bute Inlet and Tatla Lake, life after leaving the Chilcotin in 1903, the trip from Tatla Lake to Bute Inlet and back, 1892 or 1893, and place names.

Footage. Amateur footage depicting aspects of Bute Inlet logging operation.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. August Schnaar recalls how he arrived in British Columbia from Washington in 1909, and began hunting and trapping near Port Hardy, including a description of the terrain. Then he discusses his marriage in 1923 and the beginning of his family life at Bute Inlet; life at Owen Bay; hand logging and fishing; more on hunting and trapping in the interior; and building canoes. TRACK 2: Mr. Schnaar continues with his discussion about canoe building and paddling down rivers; a description of Knight Inlet; Shoal Bay; his dealings with animals including cougars; how his children raised cougars as pets; and more on animals including wolves and grizzly bears.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0005 track 2
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 2: [Original tape #1, Box 30.]
Canon Alan Green discusses his personal background, including his birth in Orillia; Ontario; his father, who was the vicar at the parish there; and his siblings. He describes coming to BC in 1911 at the request of Christ Church Cathedral to work with John Antle as a student missionary on a steamship up to Van Anda. He gives his first impressions of BC; how he eased into boating; and details about the Van Anda Hospital. He then tells anecdotes about "gettin' in" with people at the logging camps and settlers on the coast. He outlines what he offered as a representative of the Anglican church, and how he would adapt his approach based on what worked in a specific community. Finally; he discusses John Antle's character.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0006
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #2, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues by describing his career with the Columbia Coast Mission, and how he came to know John Antle through a man named Cecil Owen. He discusses Antle's belief that "the Church was not there to hold services, but to render service", and anecdotes that reveal Antle's character. Then he discusses hospitals; his hospital rescue ship the "Rendezvous"; and he compares loggers and fishermen. TRACK 2: [Original tape #3, Box 30.] Reverend Greene discusses lighthouses in Bute Inlet and their keepers, including a man named Smith; anecdotes about navigation in Bute Inlet; Skookumchuck Rapids; more on adventures on Bute Inlet; and stories about settlers, including some from the Orkney Islands.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0007
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #4, Box 30.]
Reverend Green continues with his story about the settlers from the Orkney Islands before discussing floating logging camps in detail. The story of a rescue involving the "Columbia" hospital ship; how the "Columbia" had the first radiotelephone in the area; and more on Bute Inlet, including logging and settling attempts and various old timers. TRACK 2: [Original; tape #5, Box 30.] Reverend Greene tells about various adventures around Read Island and Surge Narrows; the burial of Father Lambert of the Seventh Day Adventists; weddings aboard the "Rendezvous"; a large women that he had carry on his back to get ashore for Christmas parties; details about old-fashioned Christmas parties; various ministers on the islands; earthquakes; various characters, including Bill Frost and John Jones.

CALL NUMBER: T0944:0008
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: [Original tape #6, Box 30.]
Reverend Greene continues with more on the characters of Read Island; Bob Tipton, a justice of the peace, who threatened a man with a shotgun for trespassing; and others, including George Stafford. Reverend Greene also discusses the community at Quathiaski Cove on Quadra Island; the Columbia Coast Mission; and the role of the church at Bute Inlet today. TRACK 2: [Original tape #7, Box 30.] Reverend Greene comments on the role of the church in 1969; details on the history of Quathiaski Cove, circa 1905; Reverend R.J. Walker and Chief Billy Assu. [end of interview]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dennis Walker recalls the journey from England to Vancouver with his parents in 1892, and their eventual move to the head of Bute Inlet; his father's name was William George Walker. He ;then describes building a homestead; the slow influx of other settlers; the growth of the community around Mr. Walker's original home site; social events in the community of Bute Inlet; various attempts by his father to sell farm produce in Vancouver; the problems which arise from being so far from the market; and stories of other families in the town. TRACK 2: Mr. Walker continues by describing; a trip with other youths up the Southgate River to the Chilcotin; a description of the salmon spawning season; comments on wildlife in the area; the death and burial of three Walker children; the destruction of the township by fire; an anecdote about original settler Tony Bernhardt; the death of Shorty Hibbs at the hands of the Indians; comments on coast and interior Indians; the unused Mallard Company Tannery; the climate and physical setting of the township; his father's departure for work in Vancouver; the gradual departure of the other settlers when the railroad failed to materialize; and; his travels through BC, especially Barkerville, as a machinist.

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Duncan Robertson comments on the people who live on Cortes Island today. Then he tells a story about an islander named August Schnaar, before discussing taxes and management of the island. He then discusses his own refusal to be tied to a clock, working in a logging camp, the price structure of timber, big business versus the little man, and logging 'arches'. TRACK 2: Mr. Roberts;on continues his talk about logging arches and then discusses the early years of his life in Vancouver and on Cortes, more on logging, characters including John Manson and Ellingston Jacks and his brother Gilchrist Jacks, an account of a 1966 flood, climate in the area of Bute Inlet, and general subsistence on the island.

CALL NUMBER: T0976:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1968 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robertson continues with anecdotes about eccentric settlers: and an Italian settler and an ice skating party, an onion crop, wolves, university men, and a story about a man and a yacht. ; Then he discusses the lure of the island for settlers, the peak period for settlers from 1912 to 1914, changes since WWII, Ed Dolby stories. and Shoal Bay is described. TRACK 2: Mr. Robertson offer;s anecdotes from August Schnaar concerning: kidnapping the Kaiser, a Luger pistol, raccoons, and wolves. Then he recalls growing up on the island including hunting, swimming, fishing and chores. Then he recalls his working life including work on the railroad and sounds of the woods.

Records included material by Thomas Lea Fawcett, his sons Roland Wignall, Edgar and their families. Includes T.L. Fawcett's 1864 diary of a trip to England (available on microfilm), correspondence, accounts, etc. of Roland Wignall Fawcett and school notebooks of his children Eleanor Constance, Grace Helen and Jessie.

Edgar Fawcett material consists of accounts and correspondence (includes some letters to Sir Richard McBride, E.O.S. Scholefield and also lists of photographs collected for the Provincial Archives), articles and essays on historical subjects including early Victoria and the survey of Bute Inlet for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

SUMMARY: "Roads to the Sea", number 11 in the series, discusses journeys across the Chilcotin Plateau; the Indian "grease trails"; Alexander Mackenzie; horse and buggy roads; and a trip down the Homathko Valley to Bute Inlet. The Bryant family's journey to Tatla Lake. Lord Tweedsmuir's visit to the Bella Coola Valley. Voices heard include: Phyllis Bryant, Caroline Moffat, Alfred Bryant, Tom Carolan, and Albert Franklin.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of B.C.'s Lower Coast, including parts of the South Coast and Lower Mainland regions (and several coastal islands), from the 1890s to the 1950s, including some material up to 1968.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Born Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1917; moved to the Sayward valley in 1919; blew whistles for his father in the logging camp at Sayward when he was twelve; moved to Helmcken Island around 1920;/21; in 1932 at the age of fifteen, his parents moved to Vancouver, but he went to a logging camp at Palmer Bay working for Parker and Palmer; describes Palmer's camp and the bunkhouse; laundry facilities in the early logging camps; food in the camps; wages and job conditions; entertainment; black man by the name of Mitchell, played the violin; Otto Petersen's family; Cliff Palmer's family; story about the cook winning the BC Electric sweepstake; logging equipment and methods; steam donkeys; topping trees; Gilford Island; accident while rigging a tree; topped trees on Cortes Island for Oscar Neemy; jumping spar trees; using hand fiddles; camp at Neemy's; fallers and their wages; the Depression; worked for Billy DeMills and Curly Miller at Miner's Bay on Thurlow Island; bought a fishing boat in 1936; Billygoat Hansen's daughter; boat sinking at Stuart Island wharf; John Oswald of Herriot Bay; Matt Gerard at the Stuart Bay store; Billy DeMills. TRACK 2: Beaver Cove, father and sons formed company; worked for Sidney Soderman; trapping at Bute, Southgate River; Angus Schnarr homestead at Bute; Merle Hadley; Call Inlet, own logging camp; sold to Bill Campbell; moved to Campbell River in 1958; working as a faller; gypo loggers; in 1957, 95% of the gypos disappeared; poker games and Union boats in the early '40s; Ma Scott ran a logging camp; Angus Schnarr and his daughters all did hand logging in Bute; Jack houses ashore; Jack Shabler; boring boomsticks.

CALL NUMBER: T0389:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain Mim DeCrop discusses how he began sailing in Flanders, Belgium, in 1947; a story about starting work as a cook at Coast Ferries in BC in 1956; getting a job as a deckhand; how he started on tugboats, including the names of many boats from that time; how they serviced the logging camps; how Union Steamships eventually disbanded in 1960 and the reasons why Tidewater's ships eventually lost out; how the government eventually squeezed Coast Ferries out of the Gulf Islands runs; how the "Petrel" was lost in a gale at Cape Mudge; details on the operation of the "Patscoe"; details on the shipping business, including how they did door to door service; how tow boats have to feel their way through bad weather; how the pattern on the coast is changing as small business are giving way to big ones; building the freight business; details on navigation; how information would be gained from loggers; how experience is key; and details about Bute Inlet. TRACK 2: Captain DeCrop describes using echoes for navigation; the inception of Coast Ferries; the boat "Troubadour"; how you find your way in inlets; Owen Bay and the rapids nearby.

CALL NUMBER: T0389:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-25 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Captain DeCrop continues by discussing various characters along the coast; anecdotes about experiences along the coast; more on freighting; the kindness of loggers; how freighters helped each other; how freight was charged for; how the radio provided forecasts; communication with other tuggers and locals; Jervis Inlet; and various other inlets. [TRACK 2: blank.]

CALL NUMBER: T0811:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. "Sparky" New, involved in coastal shipping since he arrived in the 1920s, discusses the development of the Coast Ferries company from early freighting and passenger travel in the Gulf of Georgia, including the supplanting of the Union Steamship Company by scow, tug and airplane. Included in this discussion is the role of logging and mining in the coast economy and navigation problems in the Gulf. TRACK 2: Mr. New comments on fruit production and lumber mills in the Gulf. He describes his early experience working on ships, and eventually getting into the towing business in 1937. He praises the CP Steamship Company's coastal service when roads were non-existent. He compares CPR with the Union Steamship Company, and compares transportation in early decades with the present [the 1960s]. He tells the history of his first boat, "Brentwood".

CALL NUMBER: T0811:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. New tells the story of the loss of the "Petrel" and other ships and mentions hazards at places such as Cape Mudge, Fraser River mouth, and Bute Inlet. He describes the kind of work that coastal boating was in early years, and some major changes in the towing industry since then. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: A look at the history of Bute Inlet, and its exploration and promotion as a way into and out of the BC interior. The story of Alfred Waddington, his efforts to put a trail through to the Chilcotin via the Homathko Valley, and how this enterprise ended with the massacre of several members of a construction party by Indians.

SUMMARY: Stories and descriptions of the early days of logging among the islands and inlets of the northern Gulf of Georgia. Voices heard include: Allen Robertson, Duncan Robertson, Ben Ployart, and Albert Drinkwater.

The series consists of a photograph album created around 1875, possibly as a presentation album for Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, containing 77 black and white photographs taken by Charles Horetzky between 1871 and 1875.

The photographs were taken during the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey and include images of the Homathko River area, Jasper House, North Saskatchewan, Peace River, Gardner Canal, Dean Canal, Bella Bella, Lake Huron and Mississaugua River. Many photographs are numbered and all have a caption.

The series consists of a photograph album created in 1875, possibly as a presentation album for Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, containing 54 black and white photographs taken by Charles Horetzky. The images were taken during the Canadian Pacific Railway Survey and are mostly of the Homathko River area. Each photograph is numbered and has a caption.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Farms on Cortes Island and Read Island. Came to Cortes in 1920. Homesteads available on Cortes, Read, etc., after WWI. Mother settled at Gorge Harbour. Feuding on Cortes between Mansons Landing people and Whaletown people. Merchant Service. Depression. Worked on the "Prince Robert". Wife came to Cortes in 1929; her mother ran the resort at Gorge Harbour for 5-6 years. Married in 1937. The resort. Entertainment. More on Depression, feuds. Community hall. Went into logging. Fishing. Joined Navy in WWII. Job with logging company after war. Lived in Esquimalt, then Courtenay; then lived aboard a small gulf trawler, 1959-1969. Winters in California and Mexico. TRACK 2: Hungry Thirties. Shacks at Cape Mudge. Various boats. Hand logging on Cortes. Stories about logging. Bute Inlet logging camp. Running a locomotive. Loggers and trappers at Bute inlet. Wife's childhood. People who came to the lodge [at Gorge Harbour?].;

CALL NUMBER: T0641:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Will Dawson describes why he came to the coast from Montreal during the Depression on his bike, rambling around until buying a boat and settling at Port Alberni, details about his six month bike trip, his prior experience sailing on the St. Lawrence, cruising he has done on the coast including the joy and conditions of the Gulf Islands, the physics of nautical miles, more on sailing details, the sport and lifestyle of sailing, using soundings for navigation, and sailing in fog. TRACK 2: Will Dawson continues by discussing sailing in winter, localized weather, places where the water is warmer, trips through Discovery Passage and the water currents, more anecdotes about boat trips, the hazards of sailing in Bute Inlet, and Howe Sound as the most beautiful inlet on the coast.

CALL NUMBER: T0641:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dawson continues by discussing night navigation. [TRACK 2: Blank.]