RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Marie Gillard came to the Okanagan from Winnipeg via Kamloops in 1889, and came to the McDougall's place. Her father was Alec Barnard and he was a fiddler. She describes various places; that her father lived; building fences; three people in Kelowna area, including A.B. Knox; August Gillard; and a man named Lequime. She describes Lequime's stores; Gillard's shack; the meaning of Kelowna, grizzly bear; how her husband Mrs. Gillard's nephew came to the area; general comments; dances; hunting with her husband and her brother. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1981-02-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Marion Bews discusses the origins of radio station CKOV in Kelowna: founding of 10AY by James W. Bromley-Browne, who requested donations; incorporation and issuance of shares; etc. Her background in radio. Announcing. Early programming at CKOV. Her jobs as stenographer and as copy writer. Studios and facilities, then and now. Remote broadcasts. TRACK 2: Marion Bews discusses various employees of CKOV over the years. More on J.W. Bromley-Browne. Impressions of Kelowna and its development.

RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), February 1955.
SUMMARY: [No content summary available for this interview.] Presumed to be a CBC Radio interview, but not by Imbert Orchard.

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Recollections of years as the wife of Premier W.A.C. Bennett PERIOD COVERED: 1897-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. May Bennett discusses her personal and family background: life in Alberta, education, teaching school. Meeting W.A.C. Bennett at a young people's church group in Edmonton. Marriage, 1927. Life at Westlock, Alberta. Moving to Kelowna, 1930. TRACK 2: Establishing the Bennett household in Kelowna during the 1930s. Relationships within the Bennett family. The characters of each of the Bennett children: Anita, R.J., and Bill. Religion and discipline in the Bennett home. Hobbies and activities of the Bennett children. The role of housekeeper Winnifred Earl, in the Bennett home. W.A.C. Bennett's entry into politics. The 1952 election. (End of interview)

Amateur film. May Day: parade (mostly children); May Queen, etc. Gardens, beach, house at Parksville. The vessel "Uchuck I" travels from port (Ucluelet?) to places on Barkley Sound; people on board, scenery, etc.; Port Albion Cannery; return trip; Port Alberni Chamber of Commerce trip. Okanagan visit: Kelowna; city streets; 45th Regatta [i.e., 1951] - Ogopogo float; parks, people, fruit. Royal Visit to Parksville; motorcade with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip [1951]. Small parade. Waterfalls. Port Alberni fishing derby, held by the Tyee Club: fishing; men displaying their catches; weighing in the fish, etc.

Mechanics Lien index for claims filed against real property.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Micky Derickson talks about Indians in the Okanagan area, 1858 to 1915. He discusses his early life including family details; how he came to the Okanagan in 1910; people in the Westbank; area; a coddling moth problem in 1915; hard times; recollections of Chief Tomat of the Westbank reserve; his great-grandfather William Lewis Peone; comments on Kelowna area history; travels of William Peone; more on Chief Tomat and his recollections; the Allison family; Okanagan brigade trail route; a shooting of a policeman; orchards near Westbank; memories of journeys north from the U.S. with Nez Perce Indians to pick hops at Coldstream Ranch. TRACK 2: Mr. Derickson discusses the pronunciations and meaning of various Indian place names; John Ashnola; the naming of Skaha Lake; the Coldstream Ranch during hop picking; details of travel; farming; McLoughlin's Canyon Massacre in 1858; raids between Shuswap and Okanagan Indians; an incident at McIntyre Bluff; and the finding of a carcass of a strange animal on the beach.

The item is a composite print of a travelogue film made in 1073-1974. It uses unusual optical techniques (mainly mirror-image and "kaleidoscopic" effects) to present the scenic splendours of B.C. Includes footage of abandoned Nickel Plate mine, Fraser Canyon, whitewater rafting, Nicola Valley, cattle ranching & roundup, rodeo, Kalamalka Lake, Kelowna Regatta, Penticton Peach Festival, autumn scenes, snowmobiling and skiing.

Travelogue. Uses unusual optical techniques (mainly mirror-image and "kaleidoscopic" effects) to present the scenic splendours of B.C. Includes footage of abandoned Nickel Plate mine, Fraser Canyon, whitewater rafting, Nicola Valley, cattle ranching & roundup, rodeo, Kalamalka Lake, Kelowna Regatta, Penticton Peach Festival, autumn scenes, snowmobiling, skiing.

Naturalization index.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Okanagan and Similkameen regions, mainly dealing with the history of those regions in the years 1880-1914.

The item is a reel of film footage showing the removal of toll booths and gates from the Okanagan Lake Bridge at Kelowna.

Footage. Various shots of businesses, streets, factories, warehouses, schools, recreation, resorts, transportation, etc., in Penticton, Summerland, Kelowna, Vernon and surrounding area. Includes footage of the Kelowna Regatta and the Vernon Races and "Klondike Nites".

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1899-1920 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson was born in 1899 and he discusses his family background in Norfolk, England and service in World War I. TRACK 2: World War I continued. Arrival in Canada after the war. Ranch life near Drummer, Saskatchewan.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1919-1945 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson discusses the trip to the Okanagan from the prairies, ca.1920. Ranch work near Kelowna. Kelowna in the early 1920s. Countess Bubna. The wool business. Marriage in 1928. Trip to Quesnel by wagon, 1929. TRACK 2: The ranch near Rutland. Wool business: processing the wool, spinning wheels. The Depression years in the Okanagan. Indian carvings. Service in World War II.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1939-1950 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Oliver Jackson discusses World War II. Work on the telephone line to Bella Coola. Salish and Kwakiutl Indians. Army work on trains from Kamloops to Vancouver, and on island telephone lines. Indian wool sweaters. How he got into the wool sweater business in the Depression. TRACK 2: The wool sweater business continued. Other crafts: weaving, carving, Indian regalia, beadwork. Making buckskin.

CALL NUMBER: T0195:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Oliver Jackson : fifty years in the Okanagan PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1970 RECORDED: Kelowna (B.C.), 1973-04-16 SUMMARY: Oliver Jackson discusses making Indian headdresses. Living in a tipi in the 1920s. Social life in the Okanagan in the 1920s. Countess Bubna. Comparison of farming in England and B.C. Ogopogo.

The item is an audio recording produced for the Provincial Archives' Sound Heritage Series under contract. The speaker is H.V. "Paddy" Acland, one of the many young Englishmen who came to settle in the Okanagan Valley in the first decade of the 20th century. He and his compatriots saw in the Okanagan a reflection of their own youth, vitality and optimism. This sound program was based on an 1964 interview with Mr. Acland, recorded by Imbert Orchard of the CBC.

Stock shots. Compiled from the outs of sundry Parry productions, these rolls include footage of cannery operations, cattle ranching, farming, fishing, a foundry, logging, pipe laying, powerhouse and power line construction (Kemano), sawmilling and shipping. In addition, there are such sequences as an amphibious aircraft landing on a lake and taxiing onto land; a CPA DC-8 airliner taking off and in flight; Kelowna's Royal Anne Hotel; CPR locomotive 374 (retired) at Kitsilano Park; Mission Dam; Okanagan Valley apple blossoms; Rocky Mountain scenery and locales; Stanley Park; a fire in a Vancouver shipyard; and Vancouver's streets, skyline & waterfront. 76.3 has some particularly good mid-1950s Vancouver street scenes (with newsboys hawking papers on busy streets), as well as good footage of the waterfront and docks, various cargoes being loaded or unloaded, etc.

Partnership declarations and dissolutions.

The item consists of an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in Kelowna in 1973.
Track 1: Pasquale "Cap" Capozzi was born in Italy in 1889 and he discusses his family background. Cap attended school in Italy before travelling to New York and then to Nelson, B.C. at age 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the C.P.R. He discusses various jobs held in the interior -- from rock quarries to sawmills, stables and stores. After travelling throughout the interior of B.C., Cap decided to settle in Kelowna where he established the town's second grocery store.
Track 2: Description of conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. Cap explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store, he opened another one. Discussion of how Cap entered the wine business. He was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. Impressions of W.A.C. Bennett. Discussion of various aspects of his business career.

The item is an audio interview with Pasquale Capozzi, recorded in 1964.
T0194:0001 track 1: This interview is the story of how an immigrant went from a railway labourer to being a multi-millionaire. Mr. Pasquale 'Cap' Capozzi was born in Italy on July 13 1889. He discusses his family background; how he attended school in Italy and traveled to New York, and from there to Nelson when he was 18 or 19. He worked as a railway labourer for the CPR. He discusses various jobs he held in the BC interior before he eventually settled in Kelowna, where he established the town's second grocery store.

Track 2: Mr. Capozzi describes the conditions in Kelowna around 1920. He married his wife in 1921. He describes the town of Phoenix and the copper mining boom there. He explains the reasons for the success of his store in Kelowna. After a fire burned down his first store he built another one. He discusses how he got involved in the wine business and how he was greatly assisted in this venture by W.A.C. Bennett. He offers his impressions of Mr. Bennett and various aspects of his own business career.

T0194:0002 track 1: Mr. Capozzi discusses a service station which he bought in the Kelowna area, the hotel/motel business, his philosophy on business, what Canada means to him, how he learned to speak English in Nelson, how being an immigrant was never hard for him, how he loves Kelowna, some famous people whom he has met, his sons and how they decided the grocery business was not for them, his future plans and more on his life's philosophy.