Dairy farming--British Columbia

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  • Here are entered works on the care, breeding, feeding, and milking of dairy cattle. Works on the production, processing, and manufacture of milk and its products are entered under Dairying.

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Agriculture today : reel 15, part 1

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Dairy - Gill - June 71": Construction of dairy farm buildings. Treatment of liquefied manure. Views of farm area, cattle, pasture. New feed racks. Automated milking and milk treatment equipment. "Sheep - PNE - Dec. 68": Sheep pavilion at the Pacific National Exhibition. In an interview, a champion sheep breeder from the Armstrong area discusses grooming and economics. Judging of sheep. The winners. Judges explains the criteria. Farm dog herds sheep. Sheep in separate pens and in barn. Preparations for the show.

Agriculture today : reel 17, part 2

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
"Lumby Dairy, Feb. '71": farm views; water for irrigation and livestock; pump house and sprinklers. Cows. Milking machines. Harvesting; filling bunker and upright silos. Family scenes.

Agriculture today : reel 8, part 1

The item consists of a reel of 16 mm film which includes the following:
Tractor driver checking tractor. Using tractor-pulled sprayer. Cattle grazing. Dairy equipment. "Dutch Dairies Ltd." milk truck at Armstrong Cheese building. Milk processing. B.C. Dept. of Agriculture dairy laboratory. Dairy samples from Fraser Valley farmers. Milk and milk product testing procedures and equipment. Cattle at pasture.

Allan Toop interview : [parts one and two]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-02 & 03 SUMMARY: Allan Toop discusses his life as a dairy farmer in the Fraser Valley. The interview begins on the first tape after five minutes of sound effects, including the sounds of mechanized milking equipment. Excerpts from this interview were used in Marcuse's radio documentary "Vanishing Famers", broadcast on CBC Radio's "Three's Company".

Barbara Beldam interview

RECORDED: Oliver (B.C.), 1982-05-30 SUMMARY: Mrs. Beldam was born at Sumas in 1904, and was schooled in Vancouver and Seattle. Barbara's father had a large dairy farm in Sumas. Barbara was an ardent rider and hunter; and was largely responsible for the Oliver International Horse Show. After she married, she and her husband had a large fruit and hay ranch.

Beulah Probert interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Probert recounts her family's arrival in the Langley area in 1900; the farm site; dairy produce; Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association; mosquitoes; farm life; schooling; Bill Miner; ;school teachers; community life; neighbours; fishing and hunting. TRACK 2: Mrs. Probert continues with the discussion about fishing; Crescent Island; Boyd Island; wildlife; churches; picnics; 24th o;f May celebrations; dances; box socials; entertainments; anecdotes about the area; Neil Cameron; Jason Allard; interesting characters; Christmas.

British Columbia Jersey breeders' summer outing

The item is a reel of documentary film from 1931. "Oliver Evans, President of the B.C. Jersey Breeder's Association and A. J. Cameron, Secretary. 'A Trip through Saanich (The Fair Land), The Home of the Jersey - May 26th'. A file of automobiles travelling along the two-track dirt roads of the Saanich Peninsula visiting the various dairy farms of the district, looking over the premises and chatting with the owners. The trees grow right down to the road, and the whole vision is warm and bucolic. Farms visited and shown are: Olympic Farm, W. Horsland; Babbacombe, H.E. Burbidge; Coleshill, Mr. Aldridge & Mrs. Clive; El Sereno, G.W. Malcolm; Dominion Experimental Farm at Sidney where lunch was served, courtesy of Mr. Straight, the Superintendent. The Hon. Dr. S.F. Tolmie, Premier of British Columbia, arrives to 'grace the occasion' and speeches are made at a long table set up outside in the sun. Following Lunch, more farms are visited: Blastree Farm, G. Hooper; Woodcote, Capt. F.C. Gibson; Easamo; Brackenhurst, A.W. Aylard; Duntulm Farm, Major & Mrs. MacDonald; Glamorgan Farm, S. Matson; Heather Farm, Capt. F.C. Wilson; and Sandy Gap, Geo. Clark. Home to the Parliament Buildings in Victoria. Other speakers at the Experimental Farm lunch included the Hon. Wm. Atkinson, Minister of Agriculture, and Hon. N. Lougheed. Also along for the trip were two members of the agricultural press: George Murray of the Vancouver Province, and H.B. Smith from the Nor'West Farmer." (Colin Browne)

Charles Graham interview

RECORDED: Lasqueti Island (B.C.), 1975-03-12 SUMMARY: Charles Graham talks of coming to Canada in the early 1900s; up to the Queen Charlotte Islands; Masset in the early 1900s; boats on the coast; logging; logging camp stores [stories?]; life in general; dairy farming, Fraser River; Lasqueti Island in the 1940s; homesteading on Lindbergh Island; boatbuilding.;

Dan Cummings interview

CALL NUMBER: T0749:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Cummings talks about his father [Rod Cummings] coming west from P.E.I. in 1879 to Vancouver; his father and uncle homesteading in Langley in 1888; logging bees; clearing land; burning out trees; statute labour; logging; Royal City Mills; logging mills and camps; Hamry's bus line; roads; New Westminster market; farming in the area; local incidents; more information about the New Westminster market. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings continues with recollections about the New Westminster market; the land boom; river transportation; peddlers; Prefontaine; Langley Prairie, Innis' Corner; early ;crops; anecdotes about pioneer life; food; winter weather; sleigh bells; mosquitoes; peddlers; recollections about the development of Langley Prairie.; CALL NUMBER: T0749:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cummings talks about the new Trans-Canada Highway; Murrayville; early stores in Langley; the Hughie Davidson and John Riddle store; the customs officer at Shortridge's Corner; Coulter an;d Berry store; growth of Murrayville; milk production; recreation and dances; teachers; schools; Otter School; Lochiel School; childhood memories and chores; churches and church life; Milner; the Hudson's Bay Company farm land; subdivision and land boom; Fruitvale; land development. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings discusses the railway routes; the Great Northern Railway; BC Electric; construction of the railways; politics; road names; naming of Murrayville; the high school.

Elizabeth and Robert Smith interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Smith recounts the arrival of his father, Thomas Smith, to Hornby Island in 1902. Mr. Smith, who was five when his family arrived, describes Hornby as he remembers the island; his family; had a dairy farm. He discusses the problems with transportation; education; early settlers; remittance men; Walter Gordon; other island characters. Mrs. Smith recalls her early impressions as the island's school teacher. She discusses her teaching career; student anecdotes; island qualities; early island residents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Fred Toop interview

CALL NUMBER: T0717:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Toop recounts the early history of the Yarrow District; Volkart Vedder and family; early settlers; the Toop family who came to Chilliwack in 1874; incidents involving the changing course; of the Vedder River; family history; Sampson Toop; homesteading; roads and trails. TRACK 2: Mr. Toop talks about his family's journey to Chilliwack; the flood of 1894; dairy products; shipping to t;he creamery, Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association; BC Electric; childhood memories; Sumas United Church; growing hops; draining of Sumas Lake.

CALL NUMBER: T0717:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Toop continues with his discussion of draining the Sumas Lake; early schemes for dyking Sumas; the Mennonite community; Yarrow; early settlers; the Vedder family; Sardis. [TRACK 2: blank;.]

Grace Copeland interview

CALL NUMBER: T3527:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace Evelyn Moses talks about the Moses and Copeland families of Sidney, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-02-09? SUMMARY: TRACK 1 & 2: History of the Moses farm in Sidney: Daniel David Moses, pioneer and businessman in Victoria, purchased crown grants beginning in 1864; marriage to Mary Barton; raising hops and cattle. Mrs. Copeland's own Jersey cows, 1932-1958. Her father, Christopher Moses, and his background. Mrs. Copeland's background and career as a teacher in one-room schools and as a dairy farmer. British back;ground of the Moses family. Her marriage to Walter Newell Copeland. Background of the Copeland family in Britain and B.C. More about her family, including her packer grandfather Munch and Indian gran;dmother in the Cariboo and at Langley B.C. Comments on native people and their customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T3527:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace Evelyn Moses talks about the Moses and Copeland families of Sidney, B.C. RECORDED: [location unknown], 1978-02-09? SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Continuation of comments on native people and their customs. Religion in her family. Depression years. Politics in the Moses family (Liberal). The farm house: lights and plumbing in 1947. First car, 1912. Schools in her youth and now. Old Copeland family documents. Chain gang. Her cousin, Emily Noble, recalls the Moses farm. [End of interview; TRACK 2 blank.]

Harry Brown interview

CALL NUMBER: T2792:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry Brown's family; Dairy farming in the Fraser Valley before the Depression; selling milk to individual buyers; organisation of Fraser Valley Milk Producers; moving to the Cariboo, Likely; and Horsefly; ranching in Beaver Valley during the 1940s; what the place was like when he bought it; getting the ranch going; haying; feeding cattle; daily chores and routine; milking cows and shipping; cream to Williams Lake and Quesnel. TRACK 2: Ranching Beaver Valley; leisure time in the winter; feeding cattle in the winter; travel by horse and cutter in winter time; condition of roads; cattle drives to Williams Lake; Williams Lake in the 1940s; operating a general store in Horsefly in the 1950s; managing a men's clothing store in Williams Lake; Horsefly in the early 1940s; the general store in Horsefly from 1950 to 1958. CALL NUMBER: T2792:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: Harry talks about his years living in the Corner House, a large rambling log house in the centre of Horsefly; taking in boarders; feeding people; the General Store in Horsefly in the 1950s; bringing in beer for the local population; Niquidet's freight line from Williams Lake to Horsefly in the 1950s; customers; trappers, hunters, locals, tourists, forestry people; store goods; on the ranch in Beaver Valley; chores, fencing, irrigation; buying seed; pigs; the log home that was on the place when Harry moved in; building a barn; comparison between farming in the Fraser Valley and the Cariboo; winter on the ranch; Melba's father, Harry's father-in-law; food on the ranch.

Harry Mufford interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Harry (Henry G.) Mufford recounts his father's [Thomas Mufford] coming from Cornwall and settlement in Milner in 1885. He talks about the community of Milner; Langley Prairie School; wildlife; roads; shipping milk and hay; the Mufford Brothers Dairy Farm; weather; driving livestock into New Westminster; a farm disaster; neighbourhood quarrels; politics; saloons in Fort Langley; owning the first threshing machine in the area in 1898. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Jersey breeders of Vancouver Island

The item is a b&w film documentary from 1936. "Jersey breeders convene for a day trip to the Cowichan Valley to meet with other breeders and visit a Jersey farm in the Valley. There are good shots of cars on the Brentwood-Mill Bay ferry, driving on and off. A group of breeders and a barn full of Jersey cows. Cloth banner: 'Welcome from Cowichan Jersey Cattle Club.' Pan across farm, perhaps just south of Duncan, to banner over the driveway. Shots of Jersey bulls. Breeders having a glass of beer. Shots of Jersey cows and breeders. Ladies at farmhouse -- a long buffet table. Breeders eating. A little girl with a big cake." (Colin Browne)

Jersey, lower Fraser Valley

The item is a reel of 16 mm film footage. In it a large group of agriculturalists visit the Frasea Dairy Farm to inspect the cattle, grounds, barns, etc., and to have lunch.

Jessie Boston interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Boston recounts her parents arrival in Milner; they later homesteaded in Aldergrove in 1887; early settlers; pioneer life; the farm; mail service; mills; the Home Improvement Company; churches; Reverend Dunn; the first school; Aldergrove; logging; the Great Northern Railway; the BC Electric Railway; dairy farming; schooling; family life; bus service to New Westminster; Goodman Hamray; peddlers; Richmond A. Payne. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Leonard and Ella Pretty interview

CALL NUMBER: T0746:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. L.F. Pretty talks about the career of his father [Charles Pretty] from 1888 to 1925 in New Westminster; his father's cannery businesses along the Fraser; his retirement to Harrison Mills; his timber businesses; pulp and paper business; the Vancouver harbour scheme; the Pretty family; L.F. Pretty's dairy farm; a story about a Vancouver glue factory. TRACK 2: Mrs. Pretty talks about ;the reasons Charles Pretty came to Harrison Mills and a description of the family home. Mr. Pretty continues with a discussion of the Harrison/Lillooet trail to the Cariboo; anecdotes about hiking the trail; the Skookumchuck Reserve; methods of Indian fishing; Morris Valley settlement; old families; roads in the area and to Hope; other stories.

CALL NUMBER: T0746:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Pretty continues with anecdotes about people in the Harrison area and the Morris Valley; Mr. Pennier and Mr. Weaver; stories of the Sasquatch; the Indian reserve; Big Joe, an Indian who took scalps; anecdotes about Moses Brown; comments on Indian/white relations. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Lillian and W.G. Fadden and Rita Starr : interview

CALL NUMBER: T0706:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Fadden recalls the store at Whonnock owned by her father [L.C. York]; Bill Miner; the settlement at Whonnock. Mr. Fadden recounts his father's arrival in Sumas in 1885; family history; floods of 1894; the lynching of "Indian Louie" [i.e., Louie Sam]; the family farm; Sumas Lake; first settlers; Fraser York; mosquitoes; early memories. TRACK 2: Mr. Fadden continues with childhood ;memories and pranks. Mrs. Rita Starr [Winford's sister, Mary Marguerite Fadden] reads from her mother's diary relating to the flood of 1894, household entries, and day-to-day events. Mrs. Starr recounts her own memories of the flood; saving the farm animals; life during the flood; swimming; picnics; Sumas Lake; school days; social activities; Tommy York; early settlers.;

CALL NUMBER: T0706:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Starr continues with stories about local characters; Sumas Indians; farm life. Mr. Fadden talks about BC Electric; shipping farm produce; dyking Sumas Lake; land tax; shipping milk; Nooksack, Lyden and Sumas [rivers?]. Mrs. Starr reads from her mother's diary on the subject of Abbotsford; the old man in the stump; Freeman; the naming of Abbotsford. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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