RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Boyd Campbell Affleck came to the Kootenay/Arrow Lakes region in 1907 from Ontario. He took up a surveying job near Nakusp. He discusses settlers and speculators. He describes Fruitva;le in 1907; the development; the early settlers. Then he discusses irrigation and then more on Fruitvale; the impact of WWI on the region; fruit grown; a picnic in the 1930s; settlers; clearing land; and the Fruitvale town site. Mr. Affleck settled near Fruitvale in 1918; lost his hand and was forced back into survey work. He surveyed the town of Salmo. He offers an anecdote about the red light ladies of Erie and then offers more about Fruitvale; the impact of the Trail smelter; and recalls the forest fire of 1939. TRACK 2: Mr. Affleck continues with more on the forest fire. Then he dis;cusses the Trail smelter; effects on fruit farms; Columbia Gardens and survey work at Nelson. He offers more on Fruitvale and Nelson in 1907; transportation; the rivalry between the CPR and GN boats.; He tells a story of how Kaslo tried to steal the Nelson Board of Trade in the 1890s. He discusses the Fruitvale power system in the 1920s; Nelson City Light. He describes the rivalry between West Kootenay Power and Light, and Nelson City Light.

CALL NUMBER: T1717:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele, born in Vancouver in 1886, talks about his family; his aunt Sara Anne Reimer, his uncle, Tom Hugh, and his grandfather, Mr. Hugh, coming to Vancouver. He recalls property sales; funerals; subjects from the family diary; family homes; the Mount Pleasant school and community in the 1890s. He describes the family house; gardens; streetcars; the development of Mount Pleasant; trails; Cedar Cottage; Fairview; the McGeer family; False Creek; and Christmas.

CALL NUMBER: T1717:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Charlie Steele continues with recollections about the Mount Pleasant area; Christmas; birthdays; school; Nightingale's (the local general store); the chain gang road work; breweries; wildlife; hunting; fishing; childhood; Trout Lake; ice skating; False Creek; and streetcars. He discusses land business and personal transactions mentioned in his grandfather's diary; land transactions; depressions; speculation; the 1907 depression; the 1911-1912 land boom; land auctions; and girls' and boys' education. He describes the views of Mount Pleasant and Vancouver that he would have seen (and might have; photographed) from the tower at the fire station at Quebec and Main Street, 1901. CALL NUMBER: T1717:0003 [CD T1717:0002A] RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-[06?] SUMMARY: Mr. Steele continues describing of views of Vancouver from the fire station at Quebec and Main.

CALL NUMBER: T0749:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dan Cummings talks about his father [Rod Cummings] coming west from P.E.I. in 1879 to Vancouver; his father and uncle homesteading in Langley in 1888; logging bees; clearing land; burning out trees; statute labour; logging; Royal City Mills; logging mills and camps; Hamry's bus line; roads; New Westminster market; farming in the area; local incidents; more information about the New Westminster market. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings continues with recollections about the New Westminster market; the land boom; river transportation; peddlers; Prefontaine; Langley Prairie, Innis' Corner; early ;crops; anecdotes about pioneer life; food; winter weather; sleigh bells; mosquitoes; peddlers; recollections about the development of Langley Prairie.; CALL NUMBER: T0749:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cummings talks about the new Trans-Canada Highway; Murrayville; early stores in Langley; the Hughie Davidson and John Riddle store; the customs officer at Shortridge's Corner; Coulter an;d Berry store; growth of Murrayville; milk production; recreation and dances; teachers; schools; Otter School; Lochiel School; childhood memories and chores; churches and church life; Milner; the Hudson's Bay Company farm land; subdivision and land boom; Fruitvale; land development. TRACK 2: Mr. Cummings discusses the railway routes; the Great Northern Railway; BC Electric; construction of the railways; politics; road names; naming of Murrayville; the high school.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Effie L. Turnor describes early settlement at Wilmer: how she came from England with her family in 1911; her father was lured out by R.R. Bruce's pamphlet; her father bought ten acres just above Wilmer; grew strawberries and apples; in 1916 she moved to Invermere; there were few farms near Wilmer in the early days; it was mainly a mining town; Bruce's charming personality is described; she mentions several characters around Wilmer. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Gerard Hamilton Gorges : reminiscences of the Bulkley Valley, 1913 PERIOD COVERED: 1912-1914 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-04-12 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Gerard Hamilton Gorges begins this interview speaking about the North Coast Land Company, his journey to Telkwa from England (1912) via the Arrow Lakes, the potential town site of Hubert, the; North Coast Land Company land speculation, Telkwa, Tyhee Lake and Round Lake, land swindlers, early settlers: Jack Seely, the Carr boys and Charlie Barrett, pack trains, "Foley, Welsh and Stewart", freighting, Studebaker wagons, Coal Creek and Alvo von Alvenslaben, Mooseskin Johnny, the Bulkley Valley, Joe Bourgon, Indians, Blackjack MacDonald, "Popcorn Kate", incidents, a "gold rush" at White Sail Lake, more about Blackjack MacDonald and Jack McNeil. TRACK 2: Gerard Georges continues speaking about Jack McNeil and his "businesses" at Aldermere, prostitution, Telkwa, horse races, the Hubert ;town site vs. Smithers as a divisional railway point, Rene D'Egville, and an anecdote about the fur trade.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Peardon recounts his father's coming from Bellingham in 1882 to Peardonville to homestead, the community was named in 1894; mail routes and packers; the 1858 fire; homesteaders; family hi;story, with Brigham Young; description of the region and early settlers; farming; railways; land boom; poultry farming; berry farming; his grandfather. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Land promoter John Moore Robinson is recalled by his daughters Dorothy Robinson and Gwen Hayman, and by a nephew, William Robinson, who also discuss life in the central Okanagan, 1897 to 191;4. The three speakers all speak together so it is not specified who says what. The discussion begins by describing Robinson's background; memories of Summerland; the SS "Okanagan" and Captain Estabrooks; trips on the family houseboat; how Robinson came west and founded Peachland; early days in Peachland and Summerland; James Ritchie; Robinson's companies; CPR interest in Summerland; early days of Naramata, including what life was like there and in Summerland. TRACK 2: The Robinsons offer childhood memories; a discussion about J.M. Robinson and Mrs. Robinson; early church service; first impressions of the Okanagan; the trip out from Brandon; the family house; more on Robinson's background and the founding of Peachland; Robinson's enthusiasm for the Okanagan; Summerland days; visits of CPR; financiers; stories about the Robinson's family Chinese cook; impressions of Penticton and Kelowna; and a westerner's view of eastern Canadians.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. J.W. Inglis, born 1897, talks about life in the Lumby area, 1892 to 1914. He describes his father's background; coming to the Okanagan Valley, including the trail they took and their first impressions; Creighton Valley; impressions of the Lumby area after 1897; the people in Lumby; the French Canadian settlers; other people in the area; logging; the Richland Land Boom from 1910 to 1912; Cherry Creek gold rush and the development of Lumby. TRACK 2: Mr. Inglis continues with more on mining; the Monashee Pass area around 1900; people; school days; growing up in Lumby; his father's dairy farm; social life; the effects of World War I; Indians; encounters with various animals; the Lumby Hotel; a bank robbery in 1913; blacksmiths; hockey in Lumby, including the "Flying Frenchmen"; and French songs.

CALL NUMBER: T1244:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kathleen Hughan remembers early Aiyansh on the Nass River PERIOD COVERED: 1880s-1917 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Kathleen "Kay" Hughan (nee Priestley) was born at Port Simpson around 1900. Her father, Arthur F. Priestley was a homesteader, teacher and storeowner at Aiyansh; her mother, Melita M. McCullagh, was born at Aiyansh in 1885. Kay Hughan speaks about homesteading, the promise of a boom (1900's), and river travel along the Nass. Her maternal grandmother, Mary Webster, and grandfather, Rev. James B. McCullagh, came out to Old Aiyansh (1880's). She recalls Rev. McCullagh, his garden, his interests, mission work, the flood of 1917 and the move of the village of Aiyansh to Gitlakdamiks, and t;he mission house fire of 1910. She recalls her paternal grandparents -- Joshua Priestley, the family pre-emption, the house fire and the Priestley family move to Victoria. She talks about freight for ;her father's store, travel on the Nass, Mill Bay, Kincolith, hospitals, Dr. MacDonald, the Collison family, childhood memories of old Aiyansh, mail and visitors.TRACK 2: Kay Hughan recalls details of her father's store: the postal service, the social centre of Aiyansh, supplies for the settlers, stock, outfitting survey parties, the "Grease Trail", trails, wholesalers, floods, Indian-white rela;tions and the store credit system. She speaks about the land boom of 1910-1912, homesteaders, the impact of World War I, bogus land promotions -- Rattenbury Land Company (1909-1910), settlers, the flo;od of 1917, Grease Harbour, settlement patterns, the first school, Tseax, more about settlement patterns, Al Ferris, employment, taxation and roads.

CALL NUMBER: T1244:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Kathleen and Peter Hughan remember the Nass Valley - Aiyansh and Tseax regions PERIOD COVERED: 1917-1958 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Kathleen Hughan remembers floods along the Nass River, the flood of 1917, moving the Old Aiyansh mission to Gitlakdamiks, mosquitoes, housing, settlement patterns and subsistence farming in the 1930's. Peter Hughan came from Scotland via England (1923) to the Prince George region. He discusses his reasons for emigration, experiences trapping, work at Prince Rupert (1924) and Terrace, his woodsman skills, locating land in the Nass Valley, his Tseax River property, the Vedder property, place names, settling and clearing land, purchasing the Charlie Gordon farm, river and trail travel and the telegraph trail to Stewart. TRACK 2: Peter Hughan speaks about pioneer life, his market garden, trapping, building a new house (1928), clearing, "wild rice" -- chocolate lily, changes in settle;ment, the Columbia Cellulose road opening up the area (1950's), development, logging, proposed hydro dams and the difficulty of land acquisition. He recalls pioneers including Al Ferris and the Joe Phillips family and soil and climate conditions.

CALL NUMBER: T1038:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lawrence Dickinson recalls his journey from Wisconsin and arrival at Francois Lake in 1910, when he was about 15 years old. He describes his journey along the Cariboo Road; stopping in Quesnel Forks to help mine for the winter; the route he had to take to Francois Lake; filing preemptions upon arriving in Francois Lake; joining a survey crew for Swannell company; life as a surveyor ;in the Fort Fraser, Prince George and general Upper Nechako area in 1910. He describes Fort St. James and the HBC post located there in the summer of 1911; the old trails in the area, leisure activities at Fort St. James, and how much everyone enjoyed the area; A.G. Hamilton's trading post in Fort St. James; work he did over the next several winters; how the war disrupted life; his father's trading post at Fort Fraser in 1915; how he and his brother bought out the trading post and went into business for themselves; the kind of people in Fort St. James before the war, including railroad construction men and other old timers; Mr. Murray who was a factor for the HBC and other characters; what makes the area so attractive; the difficulty nowadays at making a living as a trapper; shifts in mining techniques, changes in the Necoslie Valley after WWI; and how Fort St. James continues to be a jumping off point for miners and people of various vocations. TRACK 2: Mr. Dickinson continues how t;he HBC got supplies to their forts; how the war affected business in the area and how the mercury mine boosted the economy; how preemptors could not get good land because companies took all the prime ;real estate.;

CALL NUMBER: T1038:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1971 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Dickinson comments on the attitudes of people and various characters in Vanderhoof from his past; anecdotes about gold miners and how the landscape has changed; buildings at Fort St. Jam;es that are no longer standing; how the younger generation is not as reliable as the older generations; the fur trade around Fort St. James and how the local buyers had the monopoly; and a few old timers. TRACK 2: Mr. Dickinson describes traffic going through Fort St. James; changes in the area resulting in growing industry and construction; the rivalry among stores between the HBC and Dickinson and others; placer mining areas; freight service into the Nechako Valley by the HBC, Dickenson's surveying career from 1910 to 1913, including descriptions of places he surveyed; and miscellaneous comments about today's pioneers and industries.;

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Madeline A. Turnor came from Staffordshire in 1911; her father was Phillip Watson Turnor, who had practiced as a doctor in England; the official title of R.R. Bruce's settlement scheme w;as the Columbia Valley Irrigated Fruit Lands; he had made no preparation for the arrival of the settlers; WWI resulted in the sale or abandonment of many of the farms; raising beef cattle became the main concern of the farmers after the war; she describes the difficulty of clearing land; most English settlers had a pension or other means of income; the prices were always higher than what had been ;given in Bruce's pamphlets. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-03-16 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Blackstock recounts her father's [John Gillis] arrival in BC in 1883 from P.E.I. to Tynehead; the homestead on Hjorth Road; clearing land; family life; church; school; the family house; incidents; World War I; Port Mann land boom in 1913; a train derailment in New Westminster; incidents in Surrey; cranberries; anecdotes about residents in the area; a trip to Barnston Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. Blackstock continues with the Barnston Island incident; other residents in the area; the Charnley family; Bobby Gordon; school days; school teachers; Tynehead community; local incidents; other characters in the area; D.M. Robertson family; naming Tynehead; a description of the area; Port Kells; roads to New Westminster.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. H. Williams describes her trials as a woman homesteader at Wilmer: she came from Scotland in 1914 and really wanted to go back as she was very homesick for a year; settled outside of Wilmer; their house was built in ten days; her husband was a carpenter; and had worked in Wilmer for three years before he brought his wife out; Sir Robert Randolph Bruce is described as not being an hon;est man; misleading advertisements about Invermere; a description of Bruce's wife and her death; loggers and miners described as real gentlemen; originally Wilmer was more prominent than Athalmer and Windermere, but then Bruce pulled out; a big flood in 1916. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. L.B. Lake came from Wisconsin to Wilmer in 1911. She discusses R.R. Bruce at Invermere and James L. McKay at Athalmer. Mrs. Lake's father-in-law, J.J. Lake, ran the first store in Athalmer. Mrs. Lake describes Bruce's fruit farming plans; the 'demo-cart' and the route from Cranbrook to Windermere; Athalmer as a pioneer logging town. TRACK 2: Mrs. Lake continues by describing the boats running along the Columbia River and on Lake Windermere.

SUMMARY: This program features recollections of Fort George and the land boom before the First World War. The voices heard are: Charles Whidden, Harold Moffat, and J.B. Guest.

CALL NUMBER: T0322:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert E. Gamman recalls life in the Okanagan; 1908 to 1914. He describes how he came to the Okanagan in 1908 via the U.S.; odd jobs in Vernon; trapping; J.M. Robinson and Naramata; land dealings; irrigation; life as a greenhorn in a cabin; the man who lent him the cabin; "real men"; a story of a man who froze to death on a trail; Nahun Landing; trapping in the Monashee area; the story of how he came to Naramata; work there and surveying. TRACK 2: Mr. Gamman describes early days in Naramata; survey work in the South Okanagan; an encounter with wild cattle; Mrs. Kruger and her boys; hospitality then as compared to today; Okanagan Falls; packing into Camp McKinney; the story of Arnott, who had owned the site of Kaleden, and his partner Bill Hines; their ranch; other characters; a visit from a game warden regarding deer; and the town of Fairview.

CALL NUMBER: T0322:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Gamman describes surveying and the construction of the Kettle Valley Railway; accidents; survey work; work in Northern BC; surveying the watershed of Deadman River; an anecdote about the; beginning of World War I; Kelowna and remittance men, including one who pretended to own a ranch; a description of Kelowna; Vernon; bad debts back then; other people such as Tommy Wilmot and Paddy Acland; early days in Penticton; Naramata; more on J.M. Robinson who was "a real pioneer"; early growth in Naramata and irrigation. TRACK 2: Mr. Gamman tells stories of people in Naramata; development ;in Naramata over World War I; land between there and Penticton; his own early life there; the Green family of Green Mountain; a story about getting locked up overnight in Kelowna; various odd jobs such as prospecting and pruning trees.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-20 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bob Yeomans talks about early Langley; his father's coming in 1882 to homestead; the origins of Derby; first settlers in the area, Smith, Muench, Campbell; trails and roads; Port Kells; the landslide at Haney in 1881; the Yeomans family; farming and logging; schooling; dyking the area and the land boom. TRACK 2: Bob Yeomans continues with incidents that occurred during the land boom; h;is father's early years; Indians; childhood memories; teachers; mosquitoes; other settlers; roads; flood of 1894; land deals; logging; shingle mills; community life; Tynehead; school memories.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Vera Bennett describes early days in Field, Cranbrook and Creston: Vera's father was from Sweden and worked for the CPR and eventually became road master at Field; her mother was English and was born in India; Vera was the first white baby born in Field, and was born in a box car; VIP's at Field; the family moved to Cranbrook in 1898; in 1899 nearly everything in Fort Steele went to; Cranbrook which was just a tent town during its construction; Vera married in 1913; the stage to Windermere was always uncomfortable; describes the route and stopping house; the smallpox epidemic in ;the spring of 1899; hundreds of workers died. TRACK 2: Bennett continues by describing a movie company and promotion of Invermere as a fruit growing area in 1909 and 1910; apples tied to poplars; reservists from England were totally unprepared for the actual conditions; she and her husband moved to Creston in 1914; there were reservists there also; Radium Hot Springs; ceremonies for the opening ;of the David Thompson memorial in 1922; she went to All Hallows School in Yale for two years; Indian and white girls were kept very separate.