RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Ildstead [or Ildstad?] discusses the Norwegian settlement at Quatsino; transportation; life in the settlement; Winter Harbour; the salmon run; fishing; canneries; whaling; early settlers; Ned Frigo, an early fur trader in the area (born 1819, died 1917); Indians; Port Alice pulp mill; Quatsino today; Mr. Ildstead's employment; and the Danes at Cape Scott. [TRACK 2: blank.]

News item. Footage shows damage to homes in Port Alice after heavy rains caused the river to rise. Diversion dikes are being constructed to try and keep water away from low-lying homes. Some good aerial shots from helicopter. Serious erosion problem.

This series contains records of the Rayonier Canada Ltd. appeal relating to the Port Alice Pollution Control Permit number PE-1240. It includes a transcript of hearings held at Victoria, B.C., 26 June - 20 July 1973; proceedings of appeal before committee of cabinet, 29 October 1973; arguments and briefs.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1979?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Cadwallader tells of his father's and grandfather's coming to Fort Rupert. He describes life at the Fort Rupert HBC post; coal mining in the area; Indians; Kwakiutl Indians and their trip to the Chicago's World Fair in 1893; the Indian village; the buildings at Fort Rupert; the visits of Franz Boas and his study of the native groups; Edward Curtis's filming of a re-creation of the Indians at Deer Island; and the religion of the Indians. TRACK 2: Mr. Cadwallader continues with his discussion about the Indians; missionaries; the Columbia Coast Mission ships; Nahwitti Indian band; Indian bands on the north east coast of Vancouver Island; Port Hardy; Hardy Bay; Quatsino Sound; Union and CPR Steamships; Coal Harbour; Port Alice; he speaks of his father's work in the sealing industry.

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Frank Hole describes his father, Albert Hole, who came to Canada in the early 1900s, and to Nahwitti in 1912. Then he discusses various Danish, Finnish and Swedish communities in the area. He describes his family's move to Coal Harbour in 1918; the telephone line being built in 1913; how WWII brought the armed forces to Coal Harbour; how the town became a whaling station after WWII; and building roads in the 1930s. TRACK 2: Mr. Hole describes the pulp mill at Port Alice in 1917, and the road between Port Hardy and Coal Harbour in 1916.

The fonds consists of Jack Woo's photographs depicting views of Port Alice including interior and exterior views of the mill, aerial views of the town and portraits of individuals and groups and community events and activities. The photographs were taken between 1949 and 1966. The fonds also includes a file of correspondence between Woo and various companies wanting copies of his photographs..

CALL NUMBER: T3653:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole talks about how people from Coal Harbour went to Port Hardy to vote. He speaks about his family's arrival at Coal Harbour where his father ran a hotel, and delivered the mail. He de;scribes the settlement at Coal Harbour; the proposed Winter Harbour British naval base; coal mining in the area; the Port Alice pulp mill; Nahwitti; Quatsino; early settlers in the area; Maquinna; Hol;berg; Shushartie; Winter Harbour; local work that included logging, fishing, mining, and the canneries. TRACK 2: Mr. Hole discusses his family's coming to Canada; they arrived in Vancouver in 1909, ;and later pre-empted on Nahwitti; and then moved to Quatsino Sound. He discusses early settlers in 1910, in the Nahwitti area; clearing land; fishing; hunting; and the telephone line. The Nahwitti settlement with ten to twelve pre-emptions only lasted four years; Cape Scott with thirty-five to forty pre-emptions, lasted ten to fifteen years. He talks about gold panning in the area; road work for ;the government; schooling; Shushartie; the post office; family life; the Hope Island Indian reserve; Nahwitti Bar; World War I, and trapping.;

CALL NUMBER: T3653:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole continues with his discussion about Quatsino and Coal Harbour; Ben Leeson the customs officer and justice of the peace; early settlers; his family; loggers; trouble-makers; dances; ;medical care; transportation of patients; storage and importation of food and supplies; the seaplane base at Coal Harbour, 1929 to 1940; coal mining at Coal Harbour; and settlers in Quatsino Sound. T;RACK 2: Mr. Hole describes the locations of communities in Quatsino Sound; Holberg; floating logging camps; the forest fire of 1889; early settlers; the Bland family; Williams the policeman and game ;warden; Leeson the coroner and justice of the peace; schooling; Hallowe'en pranks; and fellow students.; CALL NUMBER: T3653:0003 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Hole recalls his teachers and schooling in Quatsino; his work at a logging camp; Coal Harbour air force base; the processing of whales at the Coal Harbour whaling station circa 1949. He ;describes early Port Hardy and Hardy Bay circa 1913; copper mining; logging and fishing in the area. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Industrial film. Operations of Island Tug & Barge. Includes: historical background on coastal towboating; company's repair & maintenance facilities in Victoria; tugboats at work; a trip with the freight barge "Island Express" to Beaver Cove, Coal Harbour whaling station and Port Alice; barges "Island Exporter" and "Island Importer" carry limestone to Oregon from quarries at Blubber Bay on Texada Island; construction and launching of "Island Yarder", the world's largest self-loading/self-dumping log barge, which is seen loading at Kimsquit and towed to Burrard Inlet for dumping; railcar barges; chemical transportation barge "Island Pine"; other uses of barges to transport bulk cargoes.

Out-takes. Operations of Island Tug & Barge. Footage may include: historical background on coastal towboating; company's repair & maintenance facilities in Victoria; tugboats at work; a trip with the freight barge "Island Express" to Beaver Cove, Coal Harbour whaling station and Port Alice; barges "Island Exporter" and "Island Importer" carry limestone to Oregon from quarries at Blubber Bay on Texada Island; construction and launching of "Island Yarder", the world's largest self-loading/self-dumping log barge, which is seen loading at Kimsquit and towed to Burrard Inlet for dumping; railcar barges; chemical transportation barge "Island Pine"; other uses of barges to transport bulk cargoes.

Television stock shots

The item is a copy of a bond issue prospectus issued by the Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd. at Port Alice. It is annotated by Frederick .I. Ker, manager of mill from August 1919 to December 1920.

Footage. A trip from Victoria to Port Alice aboard the Island Tug & Barge tugboat "Snohomish". Includes: Island Tug vessels in Victoria Harbour; views of and from the "Snohomish" going up the coast with barge in tow; Port Alice; waves, passing coastline and other vessels; views of Island Tug vessel "Riversdale" on ways in Victoria, Island Tug personnel, and tug entering the harbour.