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Desmond Vicars interview
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1964-06-30 (Creation)
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3 audio reels (01:30:00) : 19 cm/sec, mono ; 18 cm
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CALL NUMBER: T0405:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Colonel Desmond O. Vicars offers details about his father, John Richard Vicars, who came from Dublin to Ontario and became a surveyor; 1878, went to Peace River country; 1890, went to Vancouver; 1896, went to Kamloops area; became warden of the Kamloops jail; married his wife in 1892; discusses old timers and old miners; J.A. Marrow; anecdotes about Indians who died of smallpox; Rose Shubert; transportation along the Fraser River; pack trains; the Fortune's ranch; overlanders; John Tate; mining around Kamloops; some characters in the area who liked to mine; the CPR and its effect on the area. TRACK 2: Colonel Vicars continues with a story about Andrew Onderdonk; an old timer named Antoine Allen; Colonel Vicars discusses Kamloops as it was when he was born; a private school that started in 1893; several stories about Bill Miner and about Miner's partner, Shorty Dunn.
CALL NUMBER: T0405:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Colonel Vicars continues to discuss characters associated with Bill Miner, including Jack Budd; more on his father and the Rocky Mountain Rangers; and militia units. [TRACK 2: blank.]
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Imbert Orchard, 1974-1975
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A digital copy is available. Please contact staff for further information.
Preservation compact discs made from original audio reels, 2001-08-14.
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- Copyright Status: Copyright Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Accession number(s): T0405
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Previously described as AAAB0468
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Orchard ; FT-21/1-3
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speaker: Desmond Odlum Vicars, interviewer: Imbert Orchard, sound recording: Ian Stephen
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- Canada. Army. Rocky Mountain Rangers (Subject)
- Onderdonk, Andrew J., 1848-1905 (Subject)
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company (Subject)