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Aileen Lonsdale interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Aileen Lonsdale was born in the Washington Territory and moved around all her childhood; moved to Wolf Creek in 1909. She describes what was happening in Wolf Creek when she moved there, including her father's stopping house; she describes her family, Renshaw, including her brothers and her father, Robert Haldane Renshaw; she describes the area; steel mining; locations of railway stations; Mile 52; Valemount; Mile 49; railway construction camps; a description of Tete Jaune; bootlegging and smuggling during prohibition; some anecdotes about what life was like; moving to McBride in 1914; a description of McBride and life there when she arrived. TRACK 2: Mrs. Lonsdale continues with a description and anecdotes about the Indians at Tete Jaune; she describes Tete Jaune Cache and the surrounding area; Tete Jaune Mary.

Angelo Branca interview : [Itter & Marlatt, 1977]

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1896-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-14 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Angelo Branca discusses background and childhood: father in gold rush, 1896; father's import business; learning of his background through oral history, 1911, as father returns to Italy briefly; deliveries as child for grocery store; mucky sidewalks at Hastings and Main; games as a child; teachers at school; discipline in the home and at school; sense of humour of teachers; change of his ;vocation to law on father's advice; singing at Italian dinners; sister as a singer. TRACK 2: Discusses: physical work and chores; Italian picnics; lack of existing documentation of Italians in Vancouver; immigrants coming being those who needed new opportunity; Mr. Branca's father's reason for immigrating; story-telling amongst his father's friends; San Carlo opera company coming to Vancouver; the Avenue Theatre; Charles E. Royal players at Empress Theatre; early movie theatres; seeing opera recently in Verona; Italy; Italian banquets in Vancouver; his sister as a talented singer.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1977 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: Powell St. grounds; Burnaby farm; family; schooling; early success in law profession; assimilation of Italians into Canada; Fathers at Sacred Heart school; description of church interiors at Easter and Christmas; father's import business; speech making; Italian language. TRACK 2: Discusses: philosophical sayings and proverbs in Italian, and the poetry of learning them; discipline in the home; notes changes in parental guidance since WW II; brief history of union of the provinces of Italy; Strathcona residents from Veneto and Udine area; small community problems; community ;pride and jealousy; retention of ethnic customs.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-02-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: manual labour by first minority groups; discrimination problems; Janet Smith case of 1924; False Creek prior to WW I; maps of area viewed; location of family's home in area; street; cars, hotels and theatres; first Woodward store; Crosetti, Branca and Tosi stores on Main Street; stores at corner of Union and Princess Street; area of Water St., 70 years ago; Europe Hotel; Angelo Calori. TRACK 2: Discusses: sewage outlet at foot of Raymur St.; reclamation of False Creek park; builder of Union Street homes in 1900s; Hogan's Alley; distribution of brothels in area; police control and toleration of them; lack of crime in area; rum running; bootlegging.;

CALL NUMBER: T2619:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Strathcona neighbourhood : the Italian community RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Branca discusses: lawyers in '20s and '30s who influenced him; his first car, a Russell-Knight (?); early driving conditions in Vancouver; learning to box from George Paris; boxing in general; his father's business partner, John Crosetti; Branca's father as a colourful character. (End of interview)

Art Ralph interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-03 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art Ralph discusses his father, George Ralph, who was a British naval captain. Art Ralph came to Canada in 1901. He describes his travels west; service in World War One; his return to B.C. and the Gulf Islands after the war; settling on Saturna Island and marring Joan Georgeson, daughter of the light keeper at East Point Light; description of rum running and smuggling, and Mr. Ralph's marginal role in these activities. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Beatrice Freeman interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beatrice "Bea" Freeman discusses her father Arthur Reed Spalding; her father purchased property from John Tod; her mother [McKay] was from Saturna Island; her home life; visiting by row;boat; childhood activities; visitors; her father was well-educated and cultured; her mother was a very competent person; met many young wealthy Englishmen; story of Lord Loughborough; more on Pender Island settlers and landowners. TRACK 2: Mrs. Freeman discusses sheep rustling; "Old Burke" the smuggler; interaction with the American islands; visitors and strangers; more social contact with Saturna Islanders than those on North Pender; life too easy for young men; rum-running; building of the Pender Island canal in 1903; mail delivery; boat travel; comments about Sidney, BC.

Charles Williams interview

CALL NUMBER: T0780:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-04-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Charles Williams discusses Lasqueti Island from 1913 to 1960. He describes how he went to sea from England to BC in 1910; worked logging camp jobs; took up land at Lasqueti in 1913; why; people came there at that time; early settlers; St. Joseph Mine; social life. TRACK 2: History of the cannery built in 1915; logging; trails and roads; two large estates and their history; the cannery on the island; self sufficiency.

CALL NUMBER: T0780:0002 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Williams discusses economic and social life on Lasqueti; anecdotes about local residents such as Henry Hughes Higgins, Weldan, Gordon and Gillis; rum running. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Customs officer

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Customs officers describe their job; anecdotes about strange experiences; training and necessary qualities; smugglers; primary and secondary examination; role as enforcement officers. TRACK 2: Smuggling techniques and searches; agricultural functions; language problems; Japanese and Chinese visitors; experienced travelers and others; difficult visitors; advice to visitors.

Dorothy E. Richardson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Richardson describes how her father, Gerald Payne, came to BC in 1885 to Saturna Island; Saturna Island characters Warburton Pike and Billy Trueworthy; Gerald Payne's exploratory expeditions with Pike to northern BC and the Yukon in the 1890s; Gerald Payne's marriage in San Francisco in 1898; the story of his romance; Dorothy's birth in 1902; Gerald Payne pre-emption of land; on Saturna Island; farming operations are described; details about sheep farming; story of Billy Trueworthy who was a shepherd and bootlegger. TRACK 2: Richardson continues with more on Trueworthy; the Payne's hired hand John "Old Jack" Blanton; rum running in the Gulf Islands; education and schooling; going to private school, especially Crofton House; problems of adjusting to city life; a description of Miss D.W. Trickey, who was a private tutor to the Payne family.

Earl MacLeod interview

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0082 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Earl L. MacLeod RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-07-17 SUMMARY: Earl L. MacLeod was born ca. 1894. World War I flier. Stayed in RAF after war then came back to Canada and joined Canadian Air Board and later RCAF. TRACK 1: Discusses early flying in B.C. before and ;after World War I. TRACK 2: Discusses early pilots. [Duplicates T4265:0083 after first few minutes.];

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0083 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Earl L. McLeod RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses trying to become a pilot in World War I and early training. TRACK 2: Discusses formation of Canadian Air Board.;

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0084 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Earl L. McLeod RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Early Canadian Air Board activity. TRACK 2: Early B.C. activity and fishery patrols.;

CALL NUMBER: T4265:0085 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Pioneer Profiles project : Earl L. McLeod RECORDED: [location unknown], 1985-07-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Fishery patrols and smugglers. Chilliwack Airport. TRACK 2: Blank.;

Ellen and Peter Georgeson interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The interview begins with Mrs. Georgeson; she was born in East Sooke, and her father was John Aitken, who farmed on Galiano Island and later ran a store at Miners Bay, Mayne Island. Mrs. Georgeson recalls some early neighbours on Mayne Island; the Maude family; Canon Paddon; social life; life at the East Point lighthouse, Saturna Island; fires; bootleggers and drug smuggling; events at t;he lighthouse; a cougar story. Mr. Georgeson continues the interview: his father, James Georgeson, came out from the Shetland Islands in 1889, to the East Point lighthouse. He recalls early years on the island; growing up and schooling on Mayne Island; bootleggers; building small boats; his life spent at Saturna and Albert Head lighthouses; recollections about Tumbo Island. TRACK 2: Mrs. George;son discusses her children and the lighthouse life; schooling; their childhood activities; the war years. Mr. Georgeson discusses his early life, fishing and being a boat poler on the Fraser River; a; cougar story; a "sea serpent" story; sea life; whales; the East Point light and their neighbours; the Ross brothers, who worked a stone quarry on Saturna Island.

Francis E. Fredette interview

CALL NUMBER: T1651:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Francis Edmund Fredette of Victoria describes how he always wanted to go to sea, and so ran away from home on a sealing ship when he was fourteen; he describes the vessel he was on, including life aboard it; sealing with shotguns; what Victoria Harbour was like at that time; wages; his time (1909) as an apprentice at a shipyard where sternwheelers were built for use on the Skeena River; more on sealing including details on the seal themselves; how the Canadians, Japanese and Americans were the only ones sealing at that time; more on the sternwheelers he helped to build by hand; a six-month trip to the Bering Sea for salt cod in 1912, including details about the trip, the schooner they were on, and the fishing. TRACK 2: Mr. Fredette continues by discussing his experience in 1919 when he got a job aboard a ship as a carpenter; anecdotes about experiences on the ship; shipping laws at that time and implications; and a story about a criminal incident during prohibition.

CALL NUMBER: T1651:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], [196-] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fredette discusses McNeil Island, a U.S. federal penitentiary in Washington State, and continues a story which occurred in 1919 relating to prohibition; anecdotes about sealing boats in 1912; a trip from San Francisco to Haiti; his experience on Christmas Island; and more anecdotes about boats and the industry. [TRACK 2: blank.]

George S. Nicholson interview : [Bossin, 1978]

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Life on the West Coast of Vancouver Island RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1978 SUMMARY: Major George Nicholson of Victoria, interviewed by Bob Bossin, 1978. Subjects: Nicholson's arrival on the West Coast of Vancouver Island; rum-running; Fred Tibbs and his island.;

Geraldine Hulbert interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-01-30 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Geraldine Hulbert of Saturna Island describes parties at Harold Payne's house; an English nurse; her teacher Dorothy W. Trickey; the Payne family, from which she comes; a story of her aunt Isabel Payne; Mayne Island celebrations on the 24th of May; how she dislikes visitors; her father Harold Payne was incompetent with engines; fishing at East Point; visiting East Point light; pets; summer boat trips; details about Billy Trueworthy; the Taylor family; rum running; a story of Murder Point; Mr. Gabriel of Tumbo Island; the winter of 1916; choosing a location for the Saturna Island ;school. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Heritage theatre : Rum-running

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Rum-Running" by Tom Cone, takes a look at the lucrative business of rum running during American prohibition.;

John Kosikar interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-04-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Kosikar recounts his father's coming to homestead in the Columbia Valley in 1889; US/Canada border and land registration; clearing the homestead; farming; pioneer life; roads; working; Sumas; early settlers; logging; railways; the border; social events; schooling; smugglers. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Len Bittancourt interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Lyndell A. "Len" Bittancourt recounts his family's history on Saltspring Island. His grandfather came to Saltspring Island in the 1860s, and his father was born there ca. 1869. Mr. Bittancourt has lived on Saltspring since 1895; his father was a carpenter and storekeeper. He discusses early Saltspring pioneers, the black settlers, "a happily integrated community", the Stark family, "English" Society, early settlers, Mr. Bullock, the Abbott family, and other recollections of a pleasant life on the island. He continues with recollections of his career as a seaman and customs officer, incidents relating to rum-running and smuggling, and his days as a fisherman, 1929-1945. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Mabel Davis, Bea Hamilton and Ina Hamilton : interview

CALL NUMBER: T0800:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In this interview, three sisters -- Mrs. Mabel Davis, Miss Bea Hamilton and Miss Ina Hamilton -- recall growing up on Saltspring Island. Mrs. Davis begins by describing the family's move to; Fulford Harbour; Saltspring Island in 1897; the trip and the new landscape. Her memories include the Indians fishing and bird hunting; the forest; rumrunners in the 1920s; the arrival of the CP navigation boat at Fulford Harbour; dockside politics; boats. Her father, William J.L. Hamilton, introduced broom to the island. She tells of his Irish background; his twelve children; his arrival in British Columbia. The Hamilton family settled in Oak Bay, Vancouver Island, during the 1890s. She discusses this community, as well as: incidents concerning the Bowker's bull; the island social life; Fulford Harbour; and an incident with a cougar. TRACK 2: This portion of the interview begins with reminiscences by Miss Ina Hamilton and anecdotes about Fulford Harbour. Miss Bea Hamilton continue;s the interview with recollections of her deaf siblings; growing up and politeness; Kanakas (Hawaiians) including William Norkin; social life and domestic details; cordial relations with the Indians; ;hotels in Fulford Harbour; collecting the mail on Billy, a horse; her childhood; more information on the Kanakas who settled in the area; the Catholic Church in Fulford, built about 1880; St. Mary's Anglican Church; Reverend Austin Wilson.;

CALL NUMBER: T0800:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Miss Bea Hamilton continues this tape with an anecdote about Reverend Austin Wilson. Early Saltspring settlers are discussed, including the Shaw family; Henry Wright Bullock; the Fullers; the Wilsons; the Akerman family; and the Maxwell family. Mrs. Davis recalls more on the early settlers; Kanakas; roads on Salt Spring and the dangers of early trave; the Ruckle family; Mr. Bullock; manners; social life and customs; dances and other social events. Miss Bea Hamilton discusses the Kanakas; the naming of the Hamilton house "Dromore"; and a journey to Victoria or Sidney. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Margaret Smith interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-05 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Margaret Smith discusses early agriculture and settlement on Pender Island, 1885 to 1925. Her father, Alexander Hamilton, purchased land on Browning Harbour in 1885; he was a stone mason and had a business in New Westminster. The family moved permanently to Pender in 1898. Mrs. Smith discusses various aspects of island life: agriculture; sheep farming; her childhood on the island; dredging the Pender Island canal; domestic chores; fruit farming; land clearing; shipping cream; chickens; herding sheep; sheep thieves; smuggling and "Old Burke"; the Brackett family; schools; social and political life; Mr. Pollard; rum running; subdivisions; recollections of other Gulf Islands. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Margaret Stewart interview

CALL NUMBER: T0326:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Margaret Stewart, nee Brown, recounts her father's [David W. Brown] early life and her parent's arrival at Halls Prairie in 1878. She talks about early life at Halls Prairie; Archie Brown; ;the first settlers; setting up the homestead; clearing the land; her mother's life and homemaking skills; butter production; her father's request to Government to build a road to Cloverdale; the New Westminster Market; her father's role as justice of the peace and postmaster; fruit growing and the Semiahmoo Spit. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart continues with her discussion about early days on Halls Prairie; schooling in 1885; teachers; Chief Semiahmoo; George Kinley; Indians in the area; family homes; Blaine, Washington; the customs officers; smuggling; July 4 celebrations at Blaine; anti-British sentiment; the U.S. depression of 1893/94 and the consequences for BC; and St. Leonard's Hotel.;

CALL NUMBER: T0326:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1963-02-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Stewart continues with her recollections about local incidents; two eccentric Brown brothers, their horticultural interests and their property; the Henry T. Thrift family; the post office; Hazelmere; Christmas celebrations; churches; community life; the Hinch family; logging; incidents; early New Westminster; miner's supplies; the Cariboo Gold Rush. TRACK 2: Mrs. Stewart recounts ;family stories; first impressions of New Westminster; river transportation; incidents; reminiscences and poems.

Mary Hamilton interview : [Orchard, 1966]

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-02-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Hamilton recalls early years on North Pender Island. Her father, Alexander Hamilton, who was trained as a stone mason, settled on North Pender Island permanently around 1902, when Mary; was eleven; she had previously spent summers on the island. She describes her family settling on the island; methods of clearing land; early families; Bracketts; Taits; Pollards; wildlife; food supplies; Indians; domestic chores; entertainment; schools; 24th of May; neighbours; social life; ministers and missionaries. TRACK 2: Miss Hamilton continues with a description of ministers and missionaries; her father's character; residents on the other Gulf Islands; stone quarries on the islands; Saltspring Island Dairy; Rutherford Hope; David Hope; the propagation of the "Hope Apple"; Mr. Buckley; the Grimmer family; Menzies; politics; schools; island settlement and population growth; Corbett's store at Hope Bay; Browning Harbour; Percy and George Garrett; hand-logging; rum runners.

Phyllis Martin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1966-09-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. John Martin tells of her father, Carl Binns, coming to Ucluelet for the first time in 1895, with William Thompson. She recounts how her father rowed to Ucluelet; he found gold in 1899; worked at placer mining and eventually sold his claim returning to Ireland; he later ran boats along the Alberni Canal; and ran the Big Boy Mine at Herbert Arm. Mrs. Martin recalls her early life; growing up in New York and later moving to Ucluelet in 1914. She describes her impressions of Ucluelet; her family life; her mother; social life; politics; early settlers; pre-emptions; funerals; Frenchy's Cove or Spring Cove; the lifeboat station and the telephone system. TRACK 2: Mrs. Martin continues her recollections of early Ucluelet; Long Beach; roads; road work; settlers; beaches; tidal wave; "Carelmapu" wreck in 1915; Gibson family from Ahousat; transportation; CPR boats; HMCS "Givenchy"; dances; and rum-running.

Ralph Briggeman interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Ralph Briggeman recalls life at Deer Park. He came to Deer Park with his family in 1910. His father bought land to start a fruit farm. He discusses fruit farming; memories of Deer Park circa 1910; stories about prospectors and mines; Brooklyn, BC; a local legend; life in logging camps in the early 1920s; Harry Allen; more about logging camps; tugboats; Arrow Park in the Edgewood area; Castlegar; bootlegging and moon shiners during prohibition. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Robert Gisborne interview

RECORDED: Cedar (B.C.), 1984-03-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Interview about mining in the Nanaimo/Wellington/Ladysmith coal field, particularly labour relations. Includes verbatim reading of a 1919-1920 contract between Canadian Collieries (Dunsmuir) Ltd. And its employees. TRACK 2: Continuation of reading of contract. The "big strike" of 1912. Gisborne's work on coastal boats. The ship "Quadra" as a rum runner. Describes rum running operations to San Francisco. Gisborne arrested and tried in San Francisco; acquitted. One trip to Alaska on an American boat. More on the "Quadra" and rum running. Anecdote about swimming in New Guinea.

Robert Naughty interview

CALL NUMBER: T1793:0001 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Robert Naughty immigrated to Vancouver after the First World War. His father came out before the war and was an officer with the Union Steamship Company. Daily service ran to Powell River. Junior officers were "set back" during the Depression. Describes crews' quarters aboard ship, methods of navigation. U.S. Army Transport Service ran up the coast to Alaska during the Second World War, attracting many Canadian officers. Union Steamship Company purchased the Canadian National Steamships' "Prince John" and "Prince Rupert" in 1940. Eric Suffield, chief officer, swam in to Egg Island lighthouse to turn on light after both the keeper and assistant keeper had been killed in a fishing accident.

CALL NUMBER: T1793:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1975 SUMMARY: Robert Naughty describes moonlight cruises to Bowen Island, the collision of the "Lady Cynthia" and the "Cowichan", navigating by time and compass, also navigating by the whistle. Worked with Capt. Andy Johnstone. Was a rum runner on the "Malahat", going to Tahiti and California. Describes practical jokes played aboard ship, navigating techniques, 1935 waterfront strike, going through Gunboat Pass near Bella Bella and location of the Union Steamship dock.

Robert Roe interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Robert "Bertie" Roe reminisces about Pender Island. He describes his father, who came from Scotland as a marine engineer, and settled on Pender Island in 1896. He describes Port Washington; the Hope Bay rivalry; clearing land and building up a farm; in 1918 he started a resort; a visit of Premier McBride and a Conservative party picnic; a political speech; sea serpents; the Shingle; Bay fish plant; rum running; Cannonball Baker. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Rosalie Innes interview

CALL NUMBER: T0731:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Rosalie Innes recalls the arrival of her family [the Skillingfords] in Maple Ridge from Saskatchewan in 1909. She recalls her schooling; Normal School; her first teaching position at Cultus; Lake School in 1914; her impressions and experiences; students; the school board; families in the area; incidents; social events. TRACK 2: Mrs. Innes continues with her recollections about the danc;es that occurred during her time at Cultus Lake; experiences that changed her life; living on the US/Canadian border; the Columbia Valley; settlers and squatters in the area; the Dorko family and the Kosiker family.

CALL NUMBER: T0731:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-01-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Innes talks about pioneer families, mostly of Swedish, Slavonian, American or German origin. She describes the school buildings; her teaching career; teaching techniques; smuggling incidents; leaving Cultus Lake School. She went on to teach at Port Kells and describes her experiences; the railway; social events; settlers; the Kells family; the community; the Reverend Cunningham. ;She continued her career and taught at a school with discipline problems in South Westminster. TRACK 2: Mrs. Innes continues with her recollections of her time teaching in South Westminster; differences in schooling then and now; school inspectors; clothing styles.

Rum Row as seen from the rum tender M.V. Hickey

The item consists of a video copy of R.F.H. Reed's ca.1932 amateur film showing a rum-running expedition from Victoria to "Rum Row" off the California coast. The video depicts details of the run made by the ship M.V. "Malahat". The tender M.V. "Hickey" is shown transferring cases of liquor to American vessels and avoiding US Navy cutters. At San Martin Island, Mexico, the "Hickey" puts in for repairs. The film was shot by Richard Francis Heurtley Reed while he was serving as an engineer on the rum-running vessel M.V. "Hickey".

Rum-running interviews : tape 1

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1967-1968] SUMMARY: The first of two audio reels containing interviews recorded by Ron Burton with individuals involved in rum-running (smuggling of liquor) into the United States from British Columbia during the Prohibition years in the U.S. (1919-1933).;

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