RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Swenson talks about his father [Paul Swenson] who came to Westham Island in 1881 from Sweden, and later managed the British American and Canoe Pass Canneries and bought a farm on Westham; Island in 1886. Mr. Swenson discuses the bridge to the island in 1909; early family history; local Indians; anecdotes about his father and family; Tamboline Slough on Westham Island; history of the Ladner/Delta area; the sturgeon banks; farming; development; Canoe Pass; early settlers of Westham Island and dyke construction. TRACK 2: Mr. Swenson continues discussing dyke construction on Westham Island; Chinese labour; farming; canneries; fishermen; ethnic groups in the area; Japanese; inducements for fishermen to join a cannery; Icelandic immigrants; Finnish immigrants; getting fish to the canneries; local characters; strikes; Count [Alvo von] Alvensleben; Tsawwassen Reserve; raising sugar beet seed.

CALL NUMBER: T1707:0062 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: News conference RECORDED: Vernon (B.C.), 1977-09-29 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett at a news conference, Vernon, 29 September 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0063 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: News conference RECORDED: Vernon (B.C.), 1977-09-29 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett's speech, Vernon, 29 September 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0064 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Address to public meeting RECORDED: Delta (B.C.), 1977-10-06 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett address to a public meeting, Delta, 6 October 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0065 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Comments on referendum on Quebec separation RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-10-20 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett comments on the national referendum on Quebec independence, 20 October 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0066 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: interviewed by Colin King for CBC Quarterly Report programme RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-08 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Colin King for the CBC program "Quarterly Report", 8 December 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0067 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Radio Interview with Joe Easingwood, CJVI RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1977-12-08 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Joe Easingwood, CJVI Radio, 8 December 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0068 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Reaction to Prime Minister's call for economic summit RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-08 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett reacts to the Prime Minister's call for an economic summit, 8 December 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0069 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Christmas message RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-14 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett's Christmas message, 14 December 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0070 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Interviewed by Allan White of Vancouver Province RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-16 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Allan White of the Vancouver Province, 16 December 1977.; CALL NUMBER: T1707:0071 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bill Bennett: Interviewed by Hall Lieren RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-12-20 SUMMARY: Premier Bill Bennett is interviewed by Hall Lieren, 20 December 1977.;

Series consists of Delta Supreme Court divorce decrees absolute, decrees nisi, and orders created between 1974 and 1977 as well as one judgement from 1980. Between 1968 and 1985, a decree nisi required a three-month waiting period before a decree absolute could be applied for. During this time, a divorce was not legally in effect without a decree absolute. Also included in the series is a list of divorce petitions for August 1974-February 1975.

All orders are arranged by volume and folio numbers, as assigned by the Court Registry, and folders each include a nominal file list. The divorce petitions list is arranged by case file number and entries include a last name, an additional unknown numbering sequence, and details per case such as date discontinued or transfer to another registry. The records were scheduled for full retention under Court Services ORCS (schedule 100152) 51440-25.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell recounts the early history of the Ladner area: William H. Ladner; Thomas Ellis Ladner; first settlement in 1868; early residents; subdivision; the Sutherby family; C.F. Green, her ;grandfather; A.R. Green; a journey on the "Tynemouth" from England; the Green family in 1871 in the Ladner area; family history; family stories; floods; building of dykes circa 1895; other residents; ;the McNeely family; steamships; Chinatown in Ladner. TRACK 2: Mrs. Bell continues with her recollections about the Chinese community in the Ladner area; canneries; other ethnic groups; ship building; fishing; fish plants; mills; navigation in the area; farming; family history; Canoe Pass Cannery; Wellington Cannery; the Ladner family; social life; her parents; the Reverend Bell; the McNeely estate; establishment of the monastery; memorial park; community hall; transportation to Vancouver; the land boom of 1911 and 1912.

CALL NUMBER: T0736:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [ca. 1960] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Bell continues with her discussion about transportation to Vancouver; the Delta district; BC Packers; the Japanese community; social amusements; camping at Boundary Bay; history of Point; Roberts; the Icelandic settlers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the Delta-Richmond area of the Fraser Valley, including Point Roberts (Washington) and Westham Island. The time period covered is ca. 1850 to ca. 1914.

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver recounts his parents' arrival in Vancouver from Cheshire; England in 1887; his grandfather [Woodward] was already living in BC; his family later moved to Delta in 1894. He discuss;es early life on the family farm; schooling; game; draining and preparation of the land; mud shoes for the horses; ploughing; soil conditions; drinking water; crops; Brackman and Ker; transportation; ;roads; schooling; other settlers; the McKee family; farm produce; West Delta settlement; flooding and dyking. TRACK 2 Mr. Weaver continues his discussion about the dredging operation; the Oliver Slough; the Great Northern Railway; Old Man Morgan; recollections of John Oliver; fish trapping; picnics at Blackie's Spit; Frank Burns; early settlers; Old Man Morgan; John Woodward; logging in the area.

CALL NUMBER: T1657:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-05-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Weaver talks about the roads in the area; weather conditions; mosquitoes; Butler's Corner; Tom Ladner's property; threshing work; [pause]; local incidents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The item is a reel of unedited footage. In several extended shots taken from a helicopter, this footage follows Highway 99 north through Delta to the then newly-completed Deas Island tunnel. Both tunnel approaches are shown.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the arrival of his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in Vancouver from Ontario in 1877; the family farm at Delta; Morgan's farm; dyking the family property; his father's political career as an M.L.A. and Premier. Mr. Oliver discusses his own schooling and farming. TRACK 2: Mr. Oliver continues with his discussion about farming methods in Delta; "tooley shoes" for; horses; haying; fresh water supply; early draining methods; other incidents.;

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner discusses the Nugent Report on Sir James Douglas to American President Buchanan in 1858; his personal; political and educational philosophy; history of the Ladner family in Cornwall; Leon Ladner's political career, circa 1926; history of the Ladner family settlement in Ladner and the family's canneries. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner continues with his discussion about the family's cannery business; anecdotes about his uncle William Ladner; All Saints Church in 1881; his mother, and his education.;

CALL NUMBER: T0176:0005 - 0006 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ladner begins with readings from William Ladner's diary. He talks about his father's adventures after leaving Cornwall; his father and uncle arrived in Victoria and Delta in 1858; their; business ventures in the Cariboo and New Westminster; the family land purchase in 1868 in the Delta area; drainage problems in Delta; his father's cannery business; the naming of Ladner; the Victoria; Cannery Company; the mosquito problem; anecdotes about Sir James Douglas, John Oliver, Sir Richard McBride, the Guichon family, William McBride, and the first school in 1882. TRACK 2: Mr. Ladner talks about his father's adventures in California; his uncle William Ladner's appointments; early Ladner; wooden horse shoes; drinking water; roads; floods; the family farm; beekeeping; Delta Manor; sub;division of his father's farm; anecdote about Lord Byng's visit; old Ladner homes and his father's experiences.

Minute books.

Delta

SUMMARY: The dyking and draining of the Delta area; Point Roberts; the old railroad to Port Guichon; the fish traps in Boundary Bay; and stories about John Oliver, the east Delta farmer who became Premier. Voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Arthur Swenson, George Dinsmore, Mike Whalen, J.J. Brown, John Oliver, H. Weaver, Levi Wildgrube, and Leon Ladner.

SUMMARY: Stories from the Fraser River delta: early explorers; land pre-emption; farming; the Ladner brothers; the 1911 plan to develop a harbour at Sturgeon Bank. The voices heard are: Mrs. E.R. Bell, Isabella Hall, Arthur Swenson, and Leon Ladner.

The item is a spliced ECO picture of a training film from ca. 1976. It employs live-action footage and animated maps to familiarize Hydro bus drivers with a particular bus route, Vancouver through Richmond to Delta and return.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Oliver recounts the pre-emption by his father [the Honourable John Oliver] in 1884 in Delta; his family history; the family farm; dyking projects on the farm; family houses; flooding; his father's early appointments; his father's provincial politics from 1900 to 1927; early life in Delta; farming in the area; railways; farm produce; mixed farming; weather; flooding; oyster farming; hi;s father's character; the family's sawmill in 1899. [TRACK 2: blank.]