SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Acton Kilby of Harrison Mills : Early settlers on the Fraser RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Train noises. Acton Kilby is heard pointing out old tools, clothes and furniture at Harrison Mills Store. He discusses how he came to Harrison Mills. TRACK 2: Acton Kilby talks about life along the Fraser at the turn of the century, and since, including railroads, sternwheelers, and the floods of 1894 and 1948. Mrs. Acton Kilby also speaks. Footsteps and dogs barking. More train sounds.

CALL NUMBER: T0745:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Acton Kilby recalls his father; Thomas Kilby, coming from Ottawa with the first carload of settler's effects on the CPR; his father worked at various jobs in the area; the Brunette Sawmill store in Sapperton; the milk delivery business; the livery business at Barnet; operating the Harrison Mills Timber and Trading Company boarding house in 1902; owning the Kilby Store in 1904; the family; farm and family store; the Chilliwack ferry and Cheam station; and the Harrison family and Menten family. TRACK 2: Mr. Kilby continues with the history of the Chilliwack ferry service and the Albion ferry; anecdotes about rowing to Chilliwack; incidents on the family farm; the Harrison River; Captain Dick Ward; Mrs. Menten.

CALL NUMBER: T0745:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-03-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Kilby talks about an incident with Joe Davidson; Morris Valley; residents of the Chehalis Reserve; logging; working in the canneries; hop picking; stocking winter supplies for the reserve; 24th of May excursions; Indians and hop picking; Port Douglas; Purcell; transportation on Harrison Lake; Harrison Hot Springs; C.F. Pretty; the Kilby Store at Harrison Mills; business practices past; and present. [TRACK 2: blank.]

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews dealing with the history of the Harrison Mills, Kent and Agassiz area of the Fraser Valley, including Chehalis, Harrison Lake, Lake Errock and Seabird Island. The time period covered is ca. 1866 to ca. 1914.

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.]