RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Anna Kristine Young, wife of J.H. Young, recalls her childhood years in Trail after her family arrived in 1895. Her father, John Peterson, was bought out by Pat Burns, so he went into th;e hotel business with his brother; S.F. Paterson of the Crown Point Hotel. She tells why her family came; the development of the town in the 1890s, including the first water works; the Italian community; life in early Trail; the Arlington Hotel and hotel section; characters; the Crown Point Hotel; a trip to Rossland and the change from narrow to standard gauge. She discusses Rossland's Sourdough; Alley; the early years of the smelter; first schools; riverboats; the effects of smelter smoke; memories of an Easter egg hunt; forest fires; the town site of Deer Park. She recalls the family's immigration and travel to Trail; as well as her father's business in Minnesota. [TRACK 2: blank.]

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.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Isaac "Ike" Glover remembers Rossland from 1907 to 1920. His family come to Rossland in 1907. He offers his first impressions and experiences; recalling the explosion of 1905; the high; percentage of Americans; incidents of murder and fire; shipping ore; smelters; recreation; the mining boom of 1893; the Le Roi and Eagle Mines; ore shipped to the Northport smelter and Trail smelter; small mines; Rossland named in 1902; its decline in the 1920s and the eight-hour day. TRACK 2: Mr. Glover continues with more on the eight-hour day; childhood impressions; law and order; characters; Old Jess; Oregon John Bismarck; Old Judge Plume; Rossland Hotels; prostitution; the Chinese population; Halloween; Christmas; liquor; Miner's Union Day celebrations; winter recreation; prostitution; and an anecdote.

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John M. "Jake" Turnbull remembers the Kootenay mining region from 1897 to 1906. He describes how he came to the Kootenays in 1897; his first impressions of the mountains; working at Lanark Mine near Revelstoke; more about Lanark Mine; the "Mucker Gang" and "Happy Charlie"; the close of the Lanark Mine; Sandon in 1897; the journey to Fort Steele and the North Star Mine; miners returning from Fort Steele after an annual spring vacation; Sir Donald "Dan" Mann; Fort Steele in 1897; Cranbrook in 1898; North Star Mine; scenery; shipping ore; a trick played on a provincial meteorologist; St. Eugene mine at Moyie; a job at Nickel Plate mine at Rossland; Rossland in 1898; and meeting Father Pat. TRACK 2: Mr. Turnbull continues with his story about meeting Father Pat; Rossland and t;he spirit of the 1890s; moving to California; returning to Rossland in 1901 as chief engineer; the importance of a superintendent; the Rossland mining strike of 1901; work in 1902 as a consulting engi;neer developing coal resources; the completion of the railroad; Rossland music halls; Jack Kirkup; the Trail smelter; and sulphur as a nuisance in 1906.

CALL NUMBER: T0936:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-03-10 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Turnbull continues to talk about the Kootenay mining region; Walter H. Aldridge, who was the general manager of Canadian Smelting Works; Aldridge and the CPR negotiated with Augustus Heinze for the Trail smelter; Aldridge negotiated an arrangement between the CPR and the Great Northern railways; Hall Mines and the smelter closes; Selwyn G. Blaylock was the manager at St. Eugene mine; ;the background of the takeover; "square setting" is explained; more about Aldridge; a fire at the assay office in Trail in 1902; F.W. "Bill" Guernsey; Peter Verigin; a practical joke; E.P. Matheson an;d coal supplies. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Rossland : 1898-1906 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-11-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Turnbull discusses his life in Rossland. Copper and gold mining. Companies involved, including the CPR, Great Northern, and the British America Corporation. August Hinsing (sp?) was a mining operator and smelter-man in the area, until selling to the CPR in 1898. Trail: the beginning of Cominco; the whys; the people involved. Population, type of life, and sorts of businesses operating in Rossland. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-13 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. J.W. McKay recalls the Trail smelter, and Trail before World War I. He came from Lethbridge with his family as a child in 1897. He discusses the Gus Heinze railroad; Trail before 1914; ;the zinc plant and copper refinery in 1915 and 1916. He offers pre-war refinery history; the Heinze venture; smelting in the 1890s and the effect of sulphur fumes from early smelters and developments; leading to control from 1928 to 1930. He discusses today's minerals, and more on the smelter and refinery; other smelters; the Trail smelter; zinc refining; Pat Stewart and S.G. Blaylock and the development of the smelter from 1911 to 1914; booms and development in Trail. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-11-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Kathleen Dewdney discusses how she and her father, John Robert Ferguson; came to Trail in the Kootenays in 1894, but left upon deciding that the smelter was bad for their health. He decided to move the family to Midway in the Okanagan [actually in the Boundary Region] to have an orchard. She describes the town of Midway as it was when he arrived, including the people there and the ;irrigation system which was in place. She discusses what happened to Midway when the irrigation stopped; the wooden irrigation system and why it failed. Then she describes Trail as a beautiful town,; until the smelter was established in 1896; her father's store in Trail; a Chinese man who lived in Trail and how he dressed and lived; how the smoke from the smelter killed all of the vegetation; the; journey by stage from Trail through the US to Midway the year before the CPR arrived there; what their orchard grew and its success; how they would sell their produce at Greenwood to the workers in t;he smelter; incidents at Midway involving bandits who came from the US to rob people; her memories of Father Pat, including his physical description and manners, and a story of him at Midway, and another of him visiting a sick miner; her job as a teacher in Midway, and incidents there. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: Grand Forks (B.C.), 1982-05-31 SUMMARY: Mr. Scheer came to Canada and worked as a labourer as he learned to speak English. He worked at the Trail smelter for many years, and was also secretary for the Grand Forks Hospital.;

Travelogue. From Osoyoos to Trail and Nelson by the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway. Footage includes: Cominco smelter; the sternwheeler "Minto" on the Arrow Lakes and at Castlegar; Kootenay River power station; lumbering scenes; car ferry on Kootenay Lake; and Nelson scenes (including the Curling Bonspiel parade).

Footage. A selection of miscellaneous footage from various films produced by Parry for the Mining Association and some of its member companies. Includes footage of Boyles Brothers (manufacture of diamond drills); BC Research labs; Cominco labs and smelter; geological surveys; "Kimberley smelter" (?); Nickel Plate mine at Hedley (abandoned buildings); oil refineries and tank farms; Phoenix mine; Pine Point; Similkameen Mining Company operations; Sullivan Mine; Trail; various unidentified mills and mine operations; Western Canada Rolling Mines (steel mill); Western Mines (construction of mill and other facilities).

CALL NUMBER: T4135:0010 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1929 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information; father's first trip to Canada; father returns to Sweden during First World War; borrowed money to return to Canada in 1925; logging in Nelson; mother and brothers come to Canada; four days on immigrant train; father borrows money from the CPR to bring him over; route to Canada; immigrant trains; anecdote about trip; life in Sweden; logging in Sweden; anecdote about work; pay in Sweden; unions; workers; paper; union raiding; working for father on Silver King Mountain; driving horses; cut cedar poles and white pine for Mathes; prices and wages in 1928; anecdote; about supplying mine; anecdote about operation of mine; anecdote about supplying mine; anecdote about Eagan's eyeglasses; crew at mine; location and name; camp at Cahill Lake; anecdote about working log deck; anecdote about brutal foreman; camp conditions; wages and costs; flume to Slocan Lake; flume construction; ice chute for log; anecdote about brother's logging accident and hospitalization; compensation; brother loses leg; brother's life after accident; brother's life and family; father and Bystrom, piling lumber at Six Mile Lake, quit over pay dispute; Cotton Logging Company job above Boswell; tools for fallers; piecework cutting cedar poles; peeling poles; camp at Boswell, hot water, sinks. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0011 PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1935 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Camp at Boswell; hot water tanks; camp quality; anecdote about cork boots; work hours; anecdote about hard worker; recreation in camps; stock crash of 1929; logging camps close; anecdote about trying for job outside of Castlegar; room and board; logging in Princeton; riding freight train to Vancouver; unemployment in Vancouver; hobos on train; freight train to Castlegar; CPR police; walking from Castlegar to Nelson; working in mine; packing equipment in; miners' candlestick; anecdote about packing steel out; father on relief; mother cutting wood; farm produce; homemade pipe boring machine; making pipes. TRACK 2: Wrapping pipe with wire; economics of pipe sales; homemade sawmill; Kootenay Landing; Proctor railroad; anecdote about poor wages; hand drilling for blasting; anecdote about diarrhea in camp; anecdote about driving to Hidden Creek; lived in trapper's cabin; anecdote about boss tricking them into working; work at China creek relief camp; work conditions at camp; anecdote about man being kicked out of camp and him leaving; people in camp; Willow Point relief work; prospectors classes and grubsteak relief program; groceries for a month; three weeks prospecting in Slocan area; came back for groceries; CMS called him to go to work --started June 27, 1934 in lead refinery; work hours; lead explosion; conditions in refinery; open transfer (fired) from refinery; labour gang; anecdote about Joe Fillapelli. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0012 PERIOD COVERED: 1934-1972 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anecdote about Joe Fillapelli; "barring down" the lead furnaces; anecdote about "safety first man"; construction with molten slag; lead contract; leaded work conditions; scrap yard; cutting shears; operation; meets wife; sick and crippled people in scrap yard; anecdote about quitting scrap yard; worked storage plant in Warfield until his retirement in 1972; 1942 work on Brilliant dam; work conditions on dam; anecdote about unloading cement; bicycling to work; contract system in storage plant; became shop steward; Castlegar board member; union split; reasons for not joining steel; Al King president; elected to convention in Olympia, Washington, barred from crossing into the U.S.; steelworkers and barring. TRACK 2: Stopped at border; Bert Herridge; anecdote about Herridge getting his border crossing privileges back; member of CCF; quit CCF because it was the political arm of the United Steelworkers Union; Murphy in Communist Party; met lots of Communist Party members; good men; approached to join the CP by Art Erins and Garfield Belenger; reminiscences about Belenger; anecdote about Harvey Murphy; benevolent society and six weeks of Murphy tries for better sick pay; vesting rights to pensions; 1940, moves to Castlegar; fresh air; terms and prices for lots; credit for lumber; built 14 x 20 shack; West owned water system; old lumber for new house; anecdote about pouring foundation; constructs an apartment building; layout of apartment building; sold apartments after he retired; present house bought as a kit from Vancouver; construction of house; contents of kit; agent helped assemble house; framed by nightfall; cost of kit. CALL NUMBER: T4135:0013 RECORDED: Castlegar (B.C.), 1983-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Food co-op; Sam Muirhead's idea; war rationed items were kept for storekeeper's friends; sold shares at 50 dollars each; bought three lots in Castlegar; lots cleared and building put up on volunteer basis; Cominco employees had two transportation societies; had garage by theatre; food co-op hired Walter Markin as first manager; later co-op in Vancouver recommended Jack Kirby for Manager; Kirby anti-union; first president was Muirhead; second was Bystrom; last president was Dalziel; co-op folded, Kirby fired, co-op liquidated; co-op expansion plans rejected; first co-op operated from his back porch; operations from porch; Transportation Society builds new building; operation of Transportation Society; NDP membership; anecdote about rejoining CCF-NDP; rejoined after merger with Steel; Columbo Lodge Hall meeting of Mine/Mill members where Murphy explained merger.

The item is an industrial film demonstrating the integrated nature of the various Cominco operations. Cominco's operations in Trail and Kimberley are discussed from the viewpoint of various Cominco employees. Includes footage of: Sullivan Mine; refining and smelting processes for lead, zinc, silver; power plant on Kootenay River; research and development; use of metals refined; manufacture of fertilizer from smelter emissions; mine exploration and prospecting across Canada; facilities, accommodations and recreational activities [e.g. hockey, Kimberley Dynamiters, etc.] in communities around the plants. Also includes sequences on a fertilizer plant in Calgary (Alberta Nitrogen Dept.) and mining at Yellowknife, N.W.T.

Industrial film. A comprehensive look at mining in B.C., made to attract employees to the industry. Shows prospecting, core sampling; mine interiors, including the Sullivan mine (with electric trains); train (with steam locomotives) taking ore to smelter; smelter operations (including lead and zinc refining and production of fertilizer from smelter by-products); Bralorne mine; open-pit coal mine at Corbin; discussion of safety and health care for miners; amenities provided for the comfort of miners in mining camps, and for their families at larger camps.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Philip Glover remembers Trail and Rossland prior to World War I. He describes how his family came by train to Rossland in 1907; the train journey; trains and railroads; and the Kootenays in 1910. He offers his impressions of Rossland in 1907; the Trail smelter; the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company, and the recovery of zinc; control of sulphur fumes gradually developed; the ;early days of smelting at Trail and his first job. He offers reminiscences of Rossland; community spirit; Tom Long, who was the chief of police; an incident at the Josie Mine; 'Kid' Burnett; incident;s in bars; and an incident between two prospectors. TRACK: 2: He continues with the incident between the two prospectors; lost persons in the Sheep Lake district; prospectors; recreation such as carnivals. He briefly mentions the depression of the 1930s. He discusses an incident in which he was mixed up in a domestic dispute; Gus Altman, and a gun and a locksmith; clientele at the Sam Irvin Hotel; prostitution and curfews.

The item is an industrial film print made ca. 1977 from footage originally shot between 1934 and 1936. The compilation shows the company's mining, smelting and related operations in southeastern British Columbia including: the Sullivan Mine and concentrator at Kimberley; a power plant on the Kootenay River; the Trail smelter; and the fertilizer plant at Warfield.

Industrial film. The mining industry of B.C. and its impact on the province's economic life. The film "pinpoints the intensive search for new ore bodies and the development of giant new mines in all areas of the province." The development of an open-pit mine is traced from initial surveys through construction to actual production. Also includes shots of various mines throughout B.C.; interior of Sullivan mine; scenes in smelter (Cominco at Trail) and steel mill; coal train en route and unloading at Roberts Bank; uses of metals made from B.C. minerals.

The item consists of an industrial film made by Lew Parry Productions for the Mining Association of British Columbia in 1970. It depicts the mining industry of B.C. and its impact on the province's economic life. The film "pinpoints the intensive search for new ore bodies and the development of giant new mines in all areas of the province." The development of an open-pit mine is traced from initial surveys through construction to actual production. Also includes shots of various mines throughout B.C.; interior of Sullivan mine; scenes in smelter (Cominco at Trail) and steel mill; coal train en route and unloading at Roberts Bank; uses of metals made from B.C. minerals.

The item consists of three reels of promotional film.
Reel one: Captain Vancouver's monument, entrance to Vancouver harbour, the Lions, ship approaching, Siwash Rock, boathouse at harbour entrance, freighter passing, view of ships, piers and buildings. HMS "Hood" and HMS "Repulse" in the harbour. Pan over downtown section of Vancouver. Making hemp rope in factory. Woman making woolen products on loom. Huge herd of cattle on a flat prairie. Stockyards. Tank car unloading oil. Mattresses being made. Plants along the waterfront. Apple trees in the Okanagan; apples being picked, packed and stored. Cars on the Pacific Highway. Bathers on a crowded beach. Cars and people entering Stanley Park. Mine and ore cars; concentrators; milling of ore. Trail smelter, ore cars and silver ingot.
Reel two: Coal cars in freight yard. Waterfall and powerhouse. Sports fishermen. Fishermen hauling in salmon-filled seine nets. Dumping herring into ship's hold. Man sitting astride giant tuna. Shots of mountain goat, white-tailed deer, mountain sheep, and giant brown bear (dead with hunter atop it). Trapper and dog team in front of cabin. Seals diving and swimming. Douglas firs being cut, felled, topped and yarded. Dumping logs from train at mill. Tug towing log raft. Sawing logs into lumber. Making furniture. Loading lumber onto ships. Three-masted whaler in harbour. New freighter tied up. Shot of original Vancouver wharf and new Ballantyne Pier. Cargo cranes. Loading cargo onto ships. Cars lined up on pier for shipping.
Reel three: Workers completing CPR pier at Vancouver; tug hauling a section. Passenger ship "Empress of Asia" arriving in port . . . Steam engine ploughing prairie. Men seeding from horseback. . . .Threshing wheat. Horses haul wheat to elevators. Freight train crossing prairie, then in the Rockies. . . Vancouver freight yards and grain elevators; one elevator being built. Waterfront with ships tied up. . . . Loading wheat into ship's hold. Freighter and passenger ship leaving harbour. . ." (Colin Browne)

Travelogue. Scenic and recreational attractions of the West Kootenay area. Includes sequences on Arrow, Christina and Kootenay lakes; mining history, abandoned mine workings, old hotels and ghost towns, including Sandon; Hugh Keenleyside dam (and boat lock there); boating, fishing and water-skiing; Duck Lake wildfowl sanctuary; Meadow Creek kokanee spawning channel; "house of bottles" tourist attraction; Ainsworth Hot Springs; the retired sternwheeler S.S. "Moyie" at Kaslo; the Balfour-Kootenay Bay car ferry; mining museum at Rossland; parade honouring champion skier Nancy Greene, who is seen winning the ladies' slalom in the Du Maurier International at Red Mountain; Trail, including Cominco smelter; Phoenix open-pit mine; Doukhobor village museum and tomb of Peter Veregin; trail riding on the Dewdney Trail; various facilities for visitors.

CALL NUMBER: T4101:0014 PERIOD COVERED: 1925-1945 RECORDED: Glenmerry (B.C.), 1983-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Biographical information. Started work at Cominco in 1925. Elected to Workmen's Cooperative Committee in 1934. General member for six months, then elected to Secretary. Elected from lead burners. List of full time positions. Benefits of WCC for workers on the hill; pension, coal, wood, Christmas turkey and bonus. Anecdote about Christmas bonus. Dealing with men was hard. Company shares. Company financed housing scheme. Rules of WCC. WCC never had any serious complaints. Lead poisoning. Company farm. Dealing with Blaylock. Blaylock and power. Delegate to War Prices and Trade Board. Anecdote about Blaylock's power. WCC lobbies anti-company union bill. Women on hill during the war. CIO comes to Trail. Slim Evans. Harvey Murphy good organiser. Murphy a "red rabble rouser". Dollar a day and got rid of bonus system. Blaylock would have gotten rid of union if he had lived. Campbell talked to CIO in Seattle. Tried to organise for CIO before he was elected to WCC. WCC met on company time to organise against Mine/Mill. WCC formed ISWU. Secretary of ISWU. TRACK 2: WCC bulletins printed by Trail Ad News. The Ad News owned by Elmer Hall. Anecdote about Hall. Campbell saved Hall's life. WCC intervened if men were fired. WCC on wage raises. Blaylock hated unions so paid good wages. WCC sets up ISWU. Jointed Mine Mill after they were certified. How he was elected to WCC. Mine Mill members on WCC. Turnover causes WCC decline. Anecdote about Blaylock and working conditions. Coal committee. Blaylock and WCC. 1917 strike. Profit sharing. WCC beginnings. Wage board. CALL NUMBER: T4101:0015 PERIOD COVERED: 1927-1945 RECORDED: Glenmerry (B.C.), 1983-08-22 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Workmen's Cooperative Committee on company wage board. Pension calculations. His wages and bonus. Satisfaction of men. Murphy tried to recruit him. Bulletins and Murphy. Elmer Hall and editorial comment. WCC and community chest. Patriotic and welfare society give money for Croatian relief. Blaylock offers company lawyers. Steelworkers organising in 1950. Billingsley remembered well. John ;McPeak took over as organiser. Meetings in Trail with Bert Herridge. Tom Uphill from Fernie. WCC lobbies for liquor law change. Uphill praises WCC. WCC lobbies for Workmen's Compensation changes. Silicosis in mines. Benevolent society payments. WCC medical committee and company medical care. Company helped with hospital maintenance. Work hours before the Depression. single men's hours. Company town. Steady work. Holidays lost during the Depression. Company store and West Kootenay Power's medical plan. [TRACK 2: blank.]