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Milton J. Stark interview
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- sound recording
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1981-06 [date recorded] (Creation)
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Vancouver radio in the 1920s PERIOD COVERED: 1921-1967 RECORDED: Toronto (Ont.), 1981-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Milton J. Stark recalls his career as a pioneer radio broadcaster in Vancouver, B.C. in the 1920s. Stark's earliest radio broadcasts in Vancouver, ca. 1921. Describes early programming. Programs from the Alexander Dance Studio (?). Broadcast speech by W.L. MacKenzie King (1921?). Canada's second live broadcast from a hockey game, Vancouver, ca. 1922. Call number of station: CFYC. Anecdote about courting over the air. Church fund-raising via radio. Stark began broadcasting at age 14. More on early programming. Station owned by Roy Brown (?). TRACK 2: No paying advertisers on early station. Comments on Major Dufresne who owned a radio store in Vancouver. Stark worked for Radio Corporation of Vancouver, selling radios. Anecdotes about selling radios. Stark's early business ventures, ca. 1927. Stark's career in the radio parts business. Stark's company called Stark Electronic Instruments Limited, bought out in 1963. In 1967 started EDAC Inc. (End of interview)
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Provincial Archives of British Columbia. [staff members], [1974-1987]
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- Complete transcript on file.
- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-236.
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- Copyright Status: Copyright British Columbia Archives.
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Accession number(s): T3857
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speaker: Milton J. Stark, interviewer: Derek Lawrence Reimer
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- CFYC (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.) (Subject)
- CFUN (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.) (Subject)