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Abbondio Franceschini interview

RECORDED: Cumberland (B.C.), 1979-08-14 SUMMARY: One in a series of interviews about the history of Vancouver Island's coal mining industry and mining communities. Arriving in Canada; timberman's helper; wages; Cumberland explosions; Orientals; boarding houses; entertainment; Blacks; ethnic; union; medical; pubs; company train; company houses.

Abe Gurevich and Rita Goldberg interview

CALL NUMBER: T3134:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1945 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Abraham Gurevich discusses background: born 1901 in Russia; came to Canada at age 24 to join other family members; skilled locksmith and gunsmith but found job only washing dishes. Daughter Rita Goldberg: attended Strathcona School, 1936; recalls Miss Schooley and one other teacher. Gurevich in cattle business in 1930, went broke, peddled junk by horse and wagon. No job, no money but family never on relief; he made enough to eat. Discussion of: Hobo jungles on False Creek; Rabbi Pastinsky; Kosher butcher shops on Georgia; Sabbath day customs; mother's non-automatic washer; home-made pickles and sauerkraut. TRACK 2: Gurevich was a good wine maker- sold it for Passover. Peddling with horse. Buying Model T truck and going into fruit and vegetable vending. Second Hand store for 28 years, bought for $46.00. Strathcona in 1924 mostly Jewish; as more immigrants came, Jews moved out, synagogue moved to 19th Street. Gurevich family did not leave until 1944, when homes were getting run down and drinking problems were more evident. Italians bootlegging but good neighbours. Weekly outings to Stanley Park, lunch in suitcases, then later by truck. Violin found while junk peddling; gave to Rita; Rita's sister took music lessons at Ukrainian Hall. Tough black kids in area. Live chickens from Chinatown. Wood and coal furnace, then sawdust. Gurevich for 42 years member of Jewish Burian Society: dresses bodies, keeps vigil; discusses Jewish burial customs. CALL NUMBER: T3134:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Jewish community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1950 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-24 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discussion of the Zionist organization in neighbourhood on Hastings Street that was really a youth group. World War II does not affect family. [TRACK 2: blank; end of interview.]

Abraham Myer Freedman interview

CALL NUMBER: T2683:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Orthodox Jewish community within Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1930 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Myer Freedman discusses his Polish background: father's emigration in 1910; father as a peddler and storekeeper. Discusses: other ethnic groups in Strathcona; the first synagogue and Hebrew school; schooling in the neighbourhood; family life; Chinese neighbours; school memories; sounds of the neighbourhood; harsh winters; other comments on neighbourhood buildings, beaches, swimming; blacksmith shop at Keefer and Main. TRACK 2: Blacksmith shop (cont'd). Morris Goldberg's store. Public library, city hall, theatres. Hiking on North Shore, trips to Bowen Island, picnics. Hard work for women. Meat packing houses. Business ethics. Father's store: dealing with logging camps, Chinese. Neighbourliness. Crime: liquor and prostitution. Drug usage. Health conditions. CALL NUMBER: T2683:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): The Orthodox Jewish community within Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-05-19 & 31 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: health conditions and home remedies; Kosher stores on Georgia; preparation of chicken and other foods; Sabbath restrictions; Orthodox Jewish community in Strathcona; synagogue; why Jewish people left the neighbourhood; belief in cultural identity. TRACK 2: Growing up as an orthodox Jew in Strathcona neighbourhood: description of orthodox Jewish life; strength and pride in their culture. (End of interview)

Achille Stevens interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1962?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Achille Stevens talks about his emigration from England to British Columbia in 1907; meeting Sir Wilfred Laurier on the journey; his train trip across Canada; first impressions of Canada; early employment in Cumberland and Victoria; his work as an agent for British manufacturers; establishment of Acme Press in 1909; boom days of Victoria, 1910 to 1912, and the Fairfield Chinese gardens. TRACK 2: Mr. Stevens recalls his impressions of Victoria in 1907; the Inner Harbour; Victoria Chemical Company (C.I.L.); boulevard plantings; trips to England; first jobs in British Columbia; Pender Island; relations between Victoria and Vancouver; his retirement; government work; and the Fifth Regiment with Colonel Currie.

Agnes Jean Power interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Agnes Jane Power RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-07-07 SUMMARY: Agnes Jean Power was born in 1890 and discusses her early life in India; age 17-22, spent in England; and her move to Canada including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. Attitudes, the Depression. Comparison between India, England and Canada.

Agnes Mackie interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Agnes Mackie describes how the town of Boswell got its name. She describes coming to Canada and discusses Earl Grey. She offers anecdotes about early settlers; the local priest; prospectors and the development of orchards. TRACK 2: Mrs. Mackie continues by describing the ambience of Boswell and entertainment in the area. She discusses the effect of World War I on the community ;and offers anecdotes about Indians.

Albert de Mezey interview : [Dale, 1987]

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey discusses his life in Hungary and reasons for coming to Canada in 1928. Coming to Victoria following the Second World War. TRACK 2: Albert de Mezey gives the history of his Samuel Maclure-designed house at 931 Foul Bay Rd.. Kildonan House.;

CALL NUMBER: T4282:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Albert de Mezey RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1987-02-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Albert de Mezey gives details of his business career in eastern Canada and the United States. TRACK 2: He describes his involvement helping Hungarian refugees in 1956.;

Alec Steven interview

CALL NUMBER: T1078:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alec H. Steven discusses life in Summerland from 1902 to 1930. He describes his early life in Scotland; why he came to Canada; a period in Manitoba; the attraction of the Okanagan; his ;first impressions; J.M. Robinson and the Summerland Development Company; Steven's work for Robinson; selling orchard lots; James Ritchie and West Summerland; Mr. Steven's own property; selling and shipping fruit; a trip back to Scotland in 1911; his involvement with immigration; resisting subdivision of property; why he chose Summerland; interest in the CPR; getting started in Summerland and social life. TRACK 2: Mr. Steven continues discussing J.M. Robinson; stories about liquor coming in by boat; the story of J.M. Robinson and his contributions; other people in the area such as Preston; Paddy Acland; Major Hutton and Sam McGee; more about work with Robinson; a story about Alexander MacKay, who came to buy land.

CALL NUMBER: T1078:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Steven continues his story about Alexander MacKay, who bought land with gold coins he carried in a dirty handkerchief; a description of MacKay; the joy in life; hard times; no money in circulation but only promissory notes; an anecdote. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Alex Wylie interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Alex Wylie discusses hiking near Hinton in 1905 with some traders as he moved to BC; moved to Alberta from Scotland; describes the fort at Edmonton; he describes how he became a packer in 1907; Swift Ranch; pack trails near Quesnel; a man named Swift; the Northern Territories as he remembers them; the CPR; and Fort George. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Alice Griffiths interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Revelstoke, 1906-1975 RECORDED: Revelstoke (B.C.), 1975-01-21 SUMMARY: Childhood; meeting her husband; coming to Canada; remembers trip from England; time in Manitoba and Calgary; arrival in Revelstoke; first day in Revelstoke and the first few years; move to the Big Eddy; crossing bridges; life in the Eddy; the Barretts; social life; working on the farm; medical services; experiences of first few years; cabin in the Eddy; more on husband; Farwell; choir days; reflects on life today; meets Mr. Diefenbaker; British Gaumont Film Company [shooting film in Revelstoke area - "The Great Barrier"?]; loss of son.

Alice [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-16 SUMMARY: Came to Canada from West Germany in 1958, her husband came in 1956; he got a job right away in the Kootenays; she stayed and worked in an office to earn money for the fare to move to Victoria; left daughter behind in a French boarding school for one year; spoke little English, neighbours, TV and radio helped; took her a year to become fluent; talks about upbringing and laziness; baked and learned how to make ethnic foods; now cooks "international"; neighbours helped her to cook and can; missed family, felt cut-off; difference in childrearing here and in Germany; language difficulties; people very friendly in the Kootenays and Victoria; English classes; meeting friends; Germans; help; immigrants are practical people; had no trade, could only clean houses at first; difficulties Canadians face hiring immigrants; accept new country's customs; didn't consider moving back; visit was a cultural shock; part of two cultures; speaks German at home; how it was for her daughter when she came in 1959; similarity of French, German and English languages; discrimination toward daughter at school; German club and school; passing on customs to daughter; learning how to drive a car; husband has control over money and shopping; learned things by herself when he went to Nelson; insisted on a car for independence; Europe them and now; changes in relationship between husband and wife; no money to have a baby; saved money; first husband supportive; ICA, German Club, Multicultural Association; activities she takes part in; courtesy to Canadians; learning to assimilate; differences between boys and girls; good citizenship; expectations on new Canadians; passing on traditions; advice to newcomers; BC government encourages immigrants to share.

Angelo Branca interview : [Itter & Marlatt, 1977]

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1896-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Angelo Branca discusses background and childhood: father in gold rush, 1896; father's import business; learning of his background through oral history, 1911, as father returns to Italy briefly; deliveries as child for grocery store; mucky sidewalks at Hastings and Main; games as a child; teachers at school; discipline in the home and at school; sense of humour of teachers; change of his ;vocation to law on father's advice; singing at Italian dinners; sister as a singer. TRACK 2: Discusses: physical work and chores; Italian picnics; lack of existing documentation of Italians in Vancouver; immigrants coming being those who needed new opportunity; Mr. Branca's father's reason for immigrating; story-telling amongst his father's friends; San Carlo opera company coming to Vancouver; the Avenue Theatre; Charles E. Royal players at Empress Theatre; early movie theatres; seeing opera recently in Verona; Italy; Italian banquets in Vancouver; his sister as a talented singer.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Powell St. grounds; Burnaby farm; family; schooling; early success in law profession; assimilation of Italians into Canada; Fathers at Sacred Heart school; description of church interiors at Easter and Christmas; father's import business; speech making; Italian language. TRACK 2: Discusses: philosophical sayings and proverbs in Italian, and the poetry of learning them; discipline in the home; notes changes in parental guidance since WW II; brief history of union of the provinces of Italy; Strathcona residents from Veneto and Udine area; small community problems; community ;pride and jealousy; retention of ethnic customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: manual labour by first minority groups; discrimination problems; Janet Smith case of 1924; False Creek prior to WW I; maps of area viewed; location of family's home in area; street; cars, hotels and theatres; first Woodward store; Crosetti, Branca and Tosi stores on Main Street; stores at corner of Union and Princess Street; area of Water St., 70 years ago; Europe Hotel; Angelo Calori. TRACK 2: Discusses: sewage outlet at foot of Raymur St.; reclamation of False Creek park; builder of Union Street homes in 1900s; Hogan's Alley; distribution of brothels in area; police control and toleration of them; lack of crime in area; rum running; bootlegging.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Branca discusses: lawyers in '20s and '30s who influenced him; his first car, a Russell-Knight (?); early driving conditions in Vancouver; learning to box from George Paris; boxing in general; his father's business partner, John Crosetti; Branca's father as a colourful character. (End of interview)

Anna Lees interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Anna Lees : Clayton School, Hudson's Hope in the 1920s and 1930s PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Anna Lees discusses immigration to Canada from Norway in 1928 at age 5. School days at Clayton School.;

Annie E. Bostock interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Annie "Nan" Bostock discusses her father, Hewitt Bostock, a lawyer who came from Cambridge in 1888, and bought a ranch at Monte Creek; his decision to settle in the south Thompson because of the sunsets. She describes original settlers including Jacob Duck; details about the ranch; homesteaders and the influx of immigrants from 1908 to 1912. She tells how her mother and father met; ;their subsequent marriage and the eventual move to Canada from England in 1894. She continues with the story of how her father learned of her birth; her father's constituency while in politics; her earliest memories of growing up on the ranch; schooling; various characters involved with the train; details about roads in those days; livestock; and houses that her father built. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Arni Myrdal interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Myrdal talks about his coming to Canada in 1876 from Iceland; his early memories in Iceland; the family's journey to Scotland; emigration; memories of Manitoba; North Dakota in 1880; the; family's move to BC in 1887. TRACK 2: Mr. Myrdal talks about the family's arrival in British Columbia; his father, Sigurd Myrdal, was a lay minister; the family's life in Victoria; Oliver Johnson; ;the depression of 1893; George Messer; an 1894 trip to Point Roberts; settling in Point Roberts; roads; post office; squatters; early settlers; the government military reserve.

Arthur and May Mellor interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-20 SUMMARY: Mr. Arthur Mellor emigrated from outside Liverpool to Ontario in 1903 and came out to Kettle River, near Westbridge, in 1904. He spent his first three years as a surveyor until he contracted typhoid, then he worked as a trapper and a surveyor. Mr. Mellor tells about several incidents including a shooting in Midway after two men robbed several hotels, the Dirty Dozen gang, Bridesville, the original prospectors of the area, and the Bell Mine. Then Mrs. Mellor speaks: she was born in Midway in 1897 and describes her childhood, including how her father was killed. Mrs. Mellor describes in detail several people at Camp McKinney. Then both compare life back then with the present.

Arthur F. Priestley interview : [Orchard, 1966]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneering in the Nass River region, 1907-1930 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur Priestley immigrated to Canada from England in 1905. He speaks about his experiences as an immigrant in Alberta and on the Nass River near Aiyansh (ca.1907), the family homestead near Aiyansh, planning and building the family house and the house fire. Mr. Priestley recalls his family's coming out to Aiyansh encouraged by Rev. J.B. McCullagh, impressions along the Nass River, Aiyansh and other Nass River settlements, the Indian way of life and the work of Rev. McCullagh, the Anglican missionary at Aiyansh. TRACK 2: Arthur Priestley recalls his homesteading efforts in Aiyansh, homesteading and settlement in the area, soil and climate, transportation, incidents along the Nass River, the telegraph line to Anyox, Indian legends about the lava flow, more about Rev. J.B. McCullagh and his time in Aiyansh, settlement 1912/13, operating the post office and store, local incidents, the Nisga'a, schooling and Timothy Derrick.

Arthur F. Priestley interview : [Reimer, 1976]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Nass River Valley, 1907-1930 PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Arthur F. Priestley was born in 1887 in England. Immigrated to Canada in 1905. Experiences as a recent immigrant to Canada, 1905-1907. Rural work in Alberta. Settled in the Nass River valley, near Aiyansh, in 1907. Description of Rev. J.B. McCullagh, Anglican missionary of Aiyansh. Homesteading experiences. Travelling by freight canoe on the Nass River. TRACK 2: More on Rev. J.B. McCullagh and his missionary work with the Nisga'a Indians. Description of house fire, 1909. Start of homesteading in 1912 and 1913. Priestley opens a store on the Nass River new Aiyansh. Problems of homesteading. Food supply. Mail. Early settlers in the Nass Valley. Most homesteaders defeated by about 1918. Marries McCullagh's daughter in 1910, and sells out in 1930.;

Arthur Shelford interview

CALL NUMBER: T1031:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Arthur Shelford recalls his early life in England and his feeling that city life in London was not for him, so he decided to come to Canada in 1908 on an urge. Mr. Shelford describes the conditions of economic depression upon arriving in Canada at Calgary. Mr. Shelford recalls his experience working on the railroad, including the food they ate and his interactions with the Walking Boss; the relationship between the railroad and the employment agency in Calgary; his decision to walk a few miles up the road to Field which was his first experience in British Columbia, there was no work available, his next job on the railroad which paid a dollar and a half a day which was excellent, his positive experiences with foreigners and how it changed his perceptions of others, the need for gloves to do the work, befriending an English soldier named Tommy Gibson who got him a job working on the road at Banff which paid very well and his experience there, an anecdote about some of his co-workers who got arrested for drinking and one who got out and let the others loose and his boss changed the man's name so he would not get arrested, the scenery around Banff, putting a fire out at Fernie, odd jobs and characters, and an anecdote about when he worked on shingling roofs in winter. TRACK 2: Mr. Shelford describes how he came to Vancouver in 1909 and how much he liked it, the game of real estate, working in a logging camp at Courtenay until a forest fire burned his camp down, getting a job as a fireman for nine months at Powell Lake and the foreman Jim Springer who was a great man, his job as an engineer at the Powell River Pulp Company and a description of the conditions as one of the best jobs he ever had, his brother Jack suggesting that they venture to Northern BC to; acquire land, a journey up the Skeena by river boat and the conditions there and the people whom he met on the trip. Mr. Shelford describes arriving at Hazelton, how Hazelton was a frontier village.

CALL NUMBER: T1031:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shelford continues by discussing his horses, a trip to Bella Coola to get cattle in 1910 with his brother and what was involved in the trip including building a raft out of rope, characters around Francois Lake including Harry Morgan and other pioneers, more on their journey and a description of places visited and sites seen, leading the cows up the valley, expertise about horses, more on their travels including interactions with the horses and building more rafts. Mr. Shelford discusses the personality of pioneer Irishman Mike Touey, including several anecdotes including one about the three pounds of meat he ate per day and another about his poetry and another about an incident when he retired to Burns Lake and gave up eating meat. TRACK 2: Mr. Shelford continues with more on interesting characters who were in the area around the time Mr. Shelford came in around 1914. Firstly, he discusses the two Oknianski boys who were Polish and they made a living off whip sawing and they also were involved with Hansard in Ottawa which is something Mr. Shelford feels is quite commendable. Secondly, Mr. Shelford discusses and offers anecdotes about Bob, Jim and Kelly Nelson who were known for their hospitality. Thirdly, he discusses the Hinton family who came from London and had hardly spent any time in the country, Mrs. Hinton really missed eating meat, details on the family and people whom the daughters married. Fourthly, a Norwegian man named Jacob Lund and an anecdote about Lund's teeth and a dentist and another Norwegian man named Shorty Mathieson who was a good friend to everyone and had a knack to find an easy way to do things. Fifth , Mr. Shelford discusses the pioneer women whom he believes did not get nearly enough credit. Mr. Shelford offers anecdotes about the contributions of several of these women including Mrs. Bennett who came into Hazelton before the railway, Mrs. George Lawson who came from Scotland, Mrs. Morgan who came in over the Bella.

CALL NUMBER: T1031:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1961-11-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Shelford recalls enlisting in WWI in 1916 and almost being turned down for entry in Hazelton because he had flat feet. He discusses what he did upon returning from the war including how lovely returning to Vancouver was and his travels back up to Houston and continuing work just as he had left off. He discusses the economic conditions of the country after the war, jobs they tried to get some money including shipping cream, the start of the railway tie industry and the profitability of timber to that end, trapping furs, cattle prices, conditions picking up just prior to WWII, the impact of the war in boosting the lumber industry, drawbacks of the lumber industry, the necessity of having to supplement farming with other work, the flood of 1948 by aluminum companies to provide power for the plant at Kitimat and the repercussions on good farming land and relocating settlers, the reaction from the community, details about the Kenny Dam, and compensation. TRACK 2: Mr. Shelford continues with more on the compensation from the aluminum company and how most felt it was quite fair, one man who did not spend the money he was given well and others who did, repercussions on the local economy, the growth of the Ootsa Lake community including the first church, the effect the flood had on the lake itself, the growing tourist industry, pioneering routes by river, general problems of pioneer life and farming, having to walk everywhere because there were no roads until 1915 and that road was very rough.

Audrey A. Brown interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Audrey Brown on the travels and life of her grandfather, James Miller Brown RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Brown relates the life and travels of her grandfather, Mr. James Miller Brown; born 1830 in England; travelled to Evansville, Indiana, in the 1850s; wagon journey from Evansville to California in the late 1850s; arrived in Nanaimo in 1863. TRACK 2: Opened tailors store in Nanaimo in the 1860s; tells of early life in Nanaimo, its people and its growth.

A.W. and Kathleen Lymbery interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. A.W. Lymbery remembers his first years at Gray Creek. He came to BC in 1911 from Nottingham; England and he discusses the reasons why. He discusses his view that Canadian games and sports are disappointing. He discusses Government relations; the decision to settle at Gray Creek; building a house and making a living; Sir John Wilmot's, a local landowner's, place; the naming of Gray Creek; early settlement and the Gray Creek regatta. Then Mrs. K. Lymbery talks about early English settlers. She came from England in 1919 and she describes the journey in; the monetary system; roads; early fruit farming and early days. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Barbara Tremaine interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Peter Mannering collection RECORDED: West Vancouver (B.C.), 1979-08-03 SUMMARY: Barbara Tremaine discusses early theatre in Vancouver and Victoria: began acting in England; came to B.C. with her husband and children; performing in Victoria at the Crystal Gardens Theatre in early 1930s; directing a play for the Sun Ray Club; doing radio at CKWX; starting the Victory Players in Vancouver in 1941; Sam Payne; Tremaine Garstang; travelling tours of plays; Jane Darwell anecdote; getting into BBC radio; working with a few Ontario theatre companies; Cambie Theatre company -- short-lived; worked with Vancouver Playhouse company in '60s and '70s.

Bavarian folk music

SUMMARY: "The Changing Society" was a CBC radio series about immigration to Canada, and how immigrants change the demographics of Canadian culture. Each program in the series featured interviews with individua;ls of a specific ethnicity. This episode consists of Bavarian folk music recorded in Germany by Jurgen Hesse.;

B.C. Hilliam interview

CALL NUMBER: T1335:0001
RECORDED: [England], 1964-03-17
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: B.C. Hilliam emigrated to Canada in 1911. He recalls his early years in Canada, including playing the piano for a cinema in Fernie; his arrival in North Vancouver; his position as news editor at the North Vancouver Express newspaper; and impressions of George Morden and civic politicians. TRACK 2: B.C. Hilliam continues with his recollections about living and working in North Vancouver; newspaper personalities; Noel Robinson; and the visit of the Duke of Connaught. He reminisces about his involvement with local amateur productions; "The Queries"; topical revues including; "1963"; "Lottie"; "On the Capilano Road"; "Belle of Burrard" and "Here's a Ho, Vancouver". He recalls teaching voice and piano; composing; and the start of a touring troupe he called "The Canadian Follies".

CALL NUMBER: T1335:0002
RECORDED: [England], 1964-03-17
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hilliam continues with recollections about performers in his touring troupe; composing for a set of poems by Pauline Johnson; "Here's a Ho, Vancouver" and "Autumn's Orchestra". He talks about his wife and family; life in North Vancouver; World War I; comrades; the Sixth Field Company; the company song "We are Canadian Engineers..."; memories of his career; "Flotsam and Jetsam"; radio; television; music halls; concerts; tours; J. Francis Bursill; local Vancouver characters; early musical shows and compositions and Pauline Johnson. TRACK 2: Mr. Hilliam talks about Francis Bursill ;and his Vancouver pageants; E.V. Young; "Theatre Under the Stars"; and his career.

CALL NUMBER: T1335:0003
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-17
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: B.C. Hilliam begins this tape singing "Lottie"; "The Capilano Road"; "Knocking the K out of Kaiser". He continues with recollections about early theatre in Vancouver; "The Queries"; "We are; the Canadian Engineers"; "Little Lady Icicle"; Pauline Johnson; the production of "The Belle of Burrard"; Lonsdale Theatre performances; musical home evenings; war songs and background information for his songs. TRACK 2: Mr. Hilliam continues by recalling the background of "The Capilano Road"; "The Boulevard"; reminiscences about living in North Vancouver; and his position with the newspaper.

Ben and Emelia Stevenson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Stevenson talks about coming to Elgin in 1888 from the Orkney Islands; clearing the farm; dyking and draining the land; early Elgin; logging camps; early settlers; early crops; Brackman and Ker; shipping produce; the hotel in Elgin and Crescent Beach, known as Blackie's Spit. Mrs. Stevenson talks about her father, Isaac Johnston; early New Westminster; the New Westminster market; family life; farms; the family potato factory; early Elgin; W. Kaye Lamb; early residents; Peter Bain; Ladner; John Oliver. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Bent Gestur Sivertz interview

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0001 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-02-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christian Sivertz (father) and his background in Iceland; emigration to America; settling in Winnipeg, 1883, and life and work there; move west to Victoria, 1890; impressions; work on the B.C;. Electric railway. TRACK 2: Icelandic community in Victoria; grocery store enterprise; farming in Point Roberts; return to Victoria; joins post office; political activity; unionization of letter car;riers; trade-union activity and its effect on the family.;

CALL NUMBER: T4374:0002 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1989-03-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Life in the Sivertz household, Victoria, early 1900s; social life -- the Victoria Icelandic community and its culture; organization of the household; school days in Victoria; trade union acti;vities of Christian Sivertz; James Watters; formation of B.C. Federation of Labour, 1910; Christian Sivertz as BCFL president; political activities of Christian Sivertz and views on a labour party; at;titude to J.S. Woodsworth and the CCF. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Bernard Jowett interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-14 SUMMARY: Bernard Jowett recalls his early years in Edgewood. He came from England to Winnipeg in 1906, constructed buildings, then joined his two brothers in Edgewood. He discusses social life, fruit farming, wildlife, his family's ranch "Sherwood", and construction of Edgewood's first buildings.

Beryl Lum interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Lum discusses the pioneer's life in a cabin at Fort Steele; Mrs. Lum came from England to Victoria then on to Lake Louise; to Fort Steele where she still lives in the cabin which; was once the home of Michael Phillips; the Galbraith brothers; husband, George Lum, was a Chinese packer and his wife [?] was a Hope Indian; used to trade commodities for horses with Stoney Indians; Lum was lured west by the world of Zane Grey; after the 1880s gold rush, Fort Steele was a lumbering district; anecdotes. TRACK 2: Game was everywhere in the old days and bands of forty to fifty horses were not uncommon; Mrs. Lum had seven children; incidents with her husband's horses; sleigh riding at minus thirty degrees; hardships of freezing weather; her children had a strict upbringing.

Betty [pseudonym] interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1985-08-16 SUMMARY: Came from Tokyo, Japan in 1969; to Vancouver; husband wanted to live here; they knew no one here; moved to Victoria to get another job; biggest problem was not knowing English; was working in the Japanese community; not as active here as in Japan, partly because of the language; speaks of educational differences between Canadians and Japanese; value of two cultures to children; daughter speaks of being western; day care in Japan; more jobs needed here; Japanese Cultural Association, what they do; Tokyo is very crowded, although there are more jobs there; likes Victoria very much.

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