RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1981-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Christmas party at Deutscher Verein before 1914; Christmas at Hafer's; parents met in the German Club; mother's arrival; mother's relatives; father's background; fathers work as a machinist, now Hafer Machine Company Limited; land in Keating; return to Germany; father's machine shop; people of German background that father know; Masonic Lodge; German Lutheran Church; Dr. Otto Gerbich; father's death; Alvo von Alvensleben; mother's difficulties; farm and life in Keating; mother was "the neighbour of neighbours", a pioneer woman; German language died out in 1914; further education; road to Victoria; Farmer's Market; apprenticeship; mistake corrected; journeyman's time in the U.S., working with the help of relatives; German language after WWI; Victoria in 1924; own shop in Keating; WWII work for the airport; fountain system at Butchart Gardens; retired in 1968. [TRACK 2: blank.]