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Jack Williams interview
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1979-07-26 [date recorded] (Creation)
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Steamboating on BC interior lakes PERIOD COVERED: 1918-1930 RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1979-07-26 SUMMARY: John Allan (Jack) Williams discusses his experiences as a fireman and engineer on CPR steamboats, sternwheelers and tugs on the Kootenay,Arrow and Okanagan Lakes, 1918-1930. His work as a fireman and second engineer on the tug "Hosmer". Duties of the fireman and engineer. Sternwheeler engine and paddlewheel. Living conditions on the boats. Summer fruit freightage in the Okanagan. Sternwheeler crew; positions. Role of steamboats in the settlement of the major lake valleys of the BC interior. Decline of the service; layup of four ships on January 31, 1930.
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R.R. Godden, 1980-03
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-215.
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Accession number(s): T3660
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speaker: John Allan (Jack) Williams, interviewer: R.R. Godden