SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A history of First United Church, Vancouver PERIOD COVERED: 1910-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: A history of First United Church in Vancouver. First Presbyterian Church and its community centre. Union with Turner Institute. Ethnic changes in the neighbourhood. Camp Fircom. More about people at First United Church.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 2: Reverend A.H. Sovereign, Bishop of Athabasca, talks about coming to BC as a young deacon in 1906; he recalls his first impressions of Vancouver, streetcars and the city centre. He describes; his first position at Christ Church Cathedral under Reverend C.C. Owen; his work with the Boy's Brigade; first boys' summer camps on Bowen Island 1906; St. Mark's summer camps at Lions Beach in the 1;920s; St. Mark's Church in Kitsilano; early Kitsilano; life in the community; Mr. J.Z. Hall and family; growth of the area and the Sam Greer land dispute. TRACK 2: Reverend Sovereign continues with ;recollections about the J.Z. Hall home in Kitsilano and Mrs. J.Z. Hall; Sam Greer and family; Fred and George Burroughs; Kits Beach; and Captain Dawe. He talks about his interest in mountain climbing; search and rescue work on Grouse Mountain; Don and Phyllis Munday; the BC Mountaineering Club and Mount Garibaldi Park. He continues with recollections of his time spent in Dawson City, Yukon in 193;2, and the Peace River area.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A history of Chown United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1889-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976 SUMMARY: Charles Burritt was born in 1918. He recounts the history of Mount Pleasant (now Chown) United Church. Reverend Ebenezer Robson. The Burritt family at Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. Origins and changes in Chown United Church. Young People's. O.M. and A.M. Sanford. Camping at Ocean Park. Later activities at Chown: AOTS groups. Union. Childhood activities at the church.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Cultus Lake Camp of the United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Fred Leary, Supervisor of Boys'' Work for the United Church talks about Cultus Lake Camp: acquaintance with the Manuel family, beginning of Cultus Lake Camp, location and buildings, and administrative changes.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): United Church minister and C.C.F. activist : Reverend Harold Tuttle Allen PERIOD COVERED: 1909-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Reverend Harold Tuttle Allen discusses his family background and birth in Montreal in 1902. Family came to Naramata in 1909. Schooling. Decision to become a United Church minister. Theological training. First position at Coalmont, B.C. Marriage and children. Pastorates at McBride, Terrace and Cumberland. Special services. Summer camps. TRACK 2: Founds first C.C.F. group in Terrace. C.C.F.; work at Cumberland. Running for office at Cumberland. Secretary of Victoria Presbytery. Move to Sardis in 1939. Wartime activities. Fernie: anti-education attitude. Haney, 1949-1953. Vancouver returned soldiers' area, 1953-1956. Field secretary in Lord's Day Alliance. Retired to Victoria and work at churches there. C.C.F. candidate in Victoria in 1966. Alcoholism as a problem in the community. Theological and social ideas.;

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the First United Church PERIOD COVERED: 1919-[no date] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-06-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jean McDuff landed in Vancouver 07-Jul-1919 from Scotland to join husband; stayed with Mrs. West; attended Mothers Meeting at Turner Institute; quilting there. Attended Fircom, First United Community House, at Georgia and Campbell; Miss Goddard taught gym classes there; deaconesses lived in White Shield social club there. First United Church: making stews for breadline from donated food. Roy Stobie (student minister) helped Rev. Roddan take food down to mud flats where men lived in cardboard shacks. She saw unemployed men marching on Woodward's and invading Hudson's Bay. Post Office occupation. Men invaded church while she was at camp. Roddan had invited Mayor McGeer to speak; McGeer had read riot act, so the men came in to protest. City Hall welfare handouts. More on HBC demonstrations. Men coming off trains came up to First United for stew. They fed perhaps 1,000 men a day. Mr. Redburn initiated Saturday Night Fellowship meetings; fed 200 men a night. Fellowship meetings started in late 1930s, still carried on. Early ministers at First United (post 1919): Craig, Roberts, McIntyre, Dr. Telford. Roddan came from Port Arthur because he'd heard of First United's welfare work. Family man, 7 children. Stayed for 20 years. Jolly personality. More on Roddan and Stobie carrying stew to the flats. Roddan made men write home to mothers. Present ministers' work. Church camp. TRACK 2: More on church camp: her cabin, using pump, improvements at camp, building Jubilee Hall, boat story. Life at camp, geography there. Describes buildings at Hastings and Gore in the 1920s. New church building erected 1936. Rev. Roddan's preaching style. Cooking at church and camp. Hobo jungle on flats again; another one under Georgia Viaduct. Georgia Street streetcar. Union Street became Adanac Street. Story of being looked for in Chinatown. Quilting women. Ladies' Aid: she vice-president, Mrs. Hunter president -- two big Scots women. (End of interview)

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections about O.M. and A.M. Sanford PERIOD COVERED: 1871-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Osbert McLean (Mac) Sanford talks about his father and his uncle, the Reverends O.M. and A.M. Sanford. Biography of A.M. Sanford. Story of his father, Reverence O.M. Sanford: pastorates in Iowa, Nicola, Kamloops (1909-1913), and Vancouver. Mount Pleasant Church, young peoples camping at Ocean Park in the 1920s. TRACK 2: Olive Sanford talks about women's groups at Mount Pleasant Church. Mac talks about men's activities. More comments about his father. Beginning of the Religious Education Council in B.C. History of Ocean Park Camp 1910 to 1975. His own work as Chairman of the Board of Ocean Park Camp, 1943-53.