The item is a short sequence that appears to be part of an industrial film about Cominco dams and power plants on the Kootenay River. Shows power plants at Lower Bonnington Falls, Upper Bonnington Falls, and South Slocan. This section of film was removed from a reel containing loose sections of film with sequences on different Cominco subjects.

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-09-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. John H. Jerome remembers the West Kootenay Power and Light Company, and the South Slocan region. He came to work for the company in 1916 at the age of eighteen. He describes the West Kootenay Power and Light Company from 1898; modern hydro and dam development; Mr. Jerome as an operator for forty-seven years; the past versus the present; the people of the South Slocan region; early roads and transportation; settlement around 1912; the eccentric British immigrants; the South Slocan Chalet; the Doukhobors; mines and the Nelson City Power Plant. [TRACK 2: blank.]

RECORDED: South Slocan (B.C.), 1983-11-11 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: The early history of Theatre Energy of South Slocan, B.C. Names and backgrounds of early members. Early workshops and first productions. Developing plays and planning a season. TRACK 2: Plays produced. Description of plays done: "The Food Show", "The Girls Will Be Out", "Pablo's Dog". Plans for the future. Guest directors and actors. Criticism. New plans, new ideals. Relationship with the audience.

The sub-series consists of oral history interviews recorded in the Kootenay Lake region and mainly dealing with the history of that region from the 1830s to the 1960s, as well as the history of some communities in the Arrow Lakes and East Kootenay regions.