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Alice M. Earley interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1955?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Alice M. Earley talks about coming into the Cariboo from Victoria in 1884; the journey by steamboat, train, and horse-drawn wagon to Quesnel, where she had been hired to teach. The Conco;rd stages. She describes Quesnel in the 1880s: the town; the fur traders; pack trains; the Klondike gold rush of 1898; the telegraph line; a plot by the Chilcotin [Tsilhqot'in] people; Barkerville; Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie; the school teacher; coins; prices and automobiles of a later era. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Amy Dalgleish interview

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment PERIOD COVERED: 1905-1960 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish was born in 1905 and she discusses her childhood in Scotland. Immigration to Canada and life in Ontario. Attitudes towards religion and being a girl. Farming in Alberta. Commercial education course and working in a bank. Mountain climbing. Sex education and marriage. Keeping maiden name after marriage. C.C.F./N.D.P. in Saskatchewan. Court hearing regarding her right to keep her maiden name. Involvement with the N.D.P. Running for election, municipally and provincially.

CALL NUMBER: T0204:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Dalgleish : individualism and commitment RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-04 SUMMARY: Amy Dalgleish discusses campaigns; city politics; N.D.P. policy; women's ministry; opportunities for women; women in the N.D.P.; daycare; present capacity of N.D.P. for self-criticism; childbirth and birth control; Vancouver Council of Women; United Nations; Unitarian Service Committee; working in a debt collection agency and in accounting; Automobile Association; teaching children who don't want to learn; food co-op.

Amy Smith interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Amy Smith : first school teacher in a North Peace community PERIOD COVERED: 1930-1975 RECORDED: North Pine (B.C.), 1975-11-16 SUMMARY: Amy Smith describes her trip north at age 18 to become the first school teacher at North Pine, B.C. (20 miles from Fort St. John) in 1930. Room and board arrangements. Teaching eight grades in a one-room log school. Winter. Recreation and social life in the community. Bears. Raising a family of 11 children. Changes in the community.

Anita Tozer interview

CALL NUMBER: T2706:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Memories of growing up as the daughter of W.A.C. Bennett PERIOD COVERED: 1928-1952 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anita Tozer discusses her family background: the Bennett family's move to Kelowna, 1930; early memories of life in Kelowna; growing up in the Okanagan Valley during the Depression; relations with her brothers; anecdotes about W.A.C. Bennett as a father; family backgrounds of mother and father; education of the Bennett family; W.A.C. Bennett's years in Edmonton. TRACK 2: Anita Tozer discusses the background to her mother and father's marriage in Edmonton, 1927. Her parent's involvement in a religious youth group in Edmonton. Anecdote about her father teaching Chinese immigrants in Edmonton. Religion and the Bennett family. The nature of the Bennett household. Discipline and the Bennett family. Attending the University of Alberta. The education of her brothers. CALL NUMBER: T2706:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Politics and the Bennett family, 1950 - 1975 PERIOD COVERED: 1950-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anita Tozer discusses her education and teaching career. Marriage to Geoffrey Tozer, 1952. Growth of family. Relationship between the Bennetts and Tozers. The Capozzis and the Bennetts. Family involvement in election campaigns. Comments on her father's political career: reactions to W.A.C. Bennett joining Social Credit and becoming Premier. TRACK 2: Anita Tozer discusses aspects of her own life as the daughter of the Premier of British Columbia. Further comments on her teaching career. Attitudes towards teaching, teachers, the B.C.T.F. and compulsory union membership. Women in politics. Her mother's role in her father's political career. The effect of the 1972 election defeat. Reaction to her brother Bill's entry into politics and attainment of the Premiership. Comments on the book she intends to write on her father's career.

Anna Arthur interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Anna Arthur : lower mainland BCGEA RECORDED: Coquitlam (B.C.), 1979-07-25 SUMMARY: Mrs. Arthur was born in Victoria BC; she graduated as a teacher during the Depression, but was unable to find work (early 1930s); she married and returned to the workforce in 1943. She began to work at the Boys' Industrial School as a special education teacher; the staff began to organise into the BC Government Employees Association, in order to have a say in teaching policy, wages and hours or work. They linked up with workers at nearby Essondale. Part of the demands made by women were for equal pay for equal work; this issue really involved Mrs. Arthur. The BCGEA workers faced many setbacks, including the hostility of employers and a refusal by the government to institute a check-off system. Anna Arthur was involved in organising the union, and was elected to the provincial executive in the later 1940s, representing the Essondale branch (1947-1949). Many of the issues concerned working conditions -- for example, the lack of decent housing for student nurses. Later, while working for the federal government, she became the local president of PSAC, organising for equal pensions for women and equal insurance benefits in the local.

Anthony Walsh interview

Tape summary: T1071:0001 Mr. Anthony Walsh discusses his experiences as a teacher at Inkameep Reserve School near Oliver, 1932 to 1942. He explains how he started teaching; the origin of his interest in Indian culture; his impressions of Inkameep reserve; early work with the Indian children; an Inkameep Christmas card; European interest in the Inkameep artwork; the nature of the children's art; native reactions; to white culture; the children's creative work; the school system; teaching at 6 Mile Creek; approaches to art; conditions on the reserve; why he went to Inkameep and then stayed; a description of Inkameep and the influence of the Old Chief. TRACK 2: Mr. Walsh discusses the North Okanagan reserve; the character and traditions at Inkameep; rock paintings; the school; Indian stories as drama; beginnings of school plays; costumes and masks; performances; evaluation by children of plays; reactions; "Tortoise and Hare" play; the children's reaction to school at various ages; and Chief Baptiste George.

CALL NUMBER: T1071:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Children's drama, dance, and art on Inkameep Reserve, 1932-1942 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-07-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Walsh discusses how Indian cowboys sang native songs; a contest to collect Indian songs; the development of dances from movements of animals such as the deer dance and butterfly dance; native art forms; a description of costumes; recitals; impression on white people; a "radio studio" at the school; recording at CBC Vancouver; a recital at the opening of Thunderbird Park in Victoria; ;art exhibitions in BC and abroad. TRACK 2: Mr. Walsh discusses the Inkameep nativity play; the story of the play; white interests; the Okanagan Arts and Crafts Society; leaving Inkameep; the effects; of war and how the school closed; the effects of the Inkameep experiment; the conditions on the reserve at the time of the interview; a growing understanding by white people; present problems and how; cooperation with white people is essential.;

CALL NUMBER: T1071:0003 track 1 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A visit with Emily Carr, and experience as a teacher on an Indian reserve RECORDED: [location unknown], 1962-07-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Anthony Walsh discusses his visit with Emily Carr in 1939 or 1940, and their discussion of art and native culture; reflections on his Inkameep experience as the "richest part of my life"; the teacher/pupil relationship; growth from early failures; relations with adult Indians; a comparison of Okanagan Indian culture to other Indian cultures; how Okanagan culture has changed.

Anthony Walsh interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): An Okanagan visit RECORDED: [location unknown], 1969 [summer] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: This interview by Imbert Orchard was conducted in the summer of 1969 and given the title "An Okanagan Visit". It deals with Mr. Anthony Walsh's teaching career at Inkameep Reserve School whe;re he encouraged arts and culture in First Nations students. He discusses coming back to the Okanagan after leaving in 1942; the vineyards on Inkameep reserve; the decline in students since the 1950s;. He states that Chief Baptiste George's death in the 1950s led to slippage in the natives' quality of life; and discusses the impact of Alcoholics Anonymous. Mr. Walsh describes changes in the Okana;gan and the appeal of different places; his own life; his enjoyment of solitude and his creative endeavors. Mr. Walsh criticizes white people; comments on inspections of his work by the federal gover;nment, and notes how he was able to win the confidence of the children. Mr. Walsh recounts his own background, including upbringing in Ireland and Scotland; how he acquired his teaching position; his; abilities as an art teacher, and his desire to give a sense of the past to the children of the Okanagan. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Bert McKay interview

CALL NUMBER: T1239:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bert McKay : the Nisga'a Indians : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1882-1972 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert McKay, a New Aiyansh elementary school principal, speaks about education and the Nisga'a people. He discusses the problems with high school education and residential schools, recent improvements and innovations, attempts to integrate the Nisga'a culture and language into the curriculum, current (1972) plans, "traders English", the present curriculum, non-Indian teachers and current p;roblems with communication and teaching English as a second language (TEAL). Bert McKay speaks about a resurgence of Indian unity and a disruption of the native way of life by the post-war logging boo;m. TRACK 2: Bert McKay continues speaking about Aiyansh and the Nisga'a society, the cultural strength of the community, the importance of the family unit and Nisga'a culture and traditions remaining intact. Rev. McCullagh and the impact of the missionaries is discussed, including the new role of priests. He talks about modern day wedding procedures and ceremonies, traditions, rituals, philosophy, ceremonials, crests -- territorial rights, Nisga'a elders teaching the young men and the issue of the Nisga'a Land Rights Question, 1882-1971.

CALL NUMBER: T1239:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Bert McKay : the Nisga'a Indians : part 1 PERIOD COVERED: 1882-1971 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1972 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Bert McKay continues discussing the history and background to the Nisga'a Land Question -- the "Nishga Land Petition", further encroachments on native rights -- fish, game and timber permits,; Indian-white relations -- settlers, logging, the "Heart of the Nass" -- a rock 30 miles south of Aiyansh which is landmark for the Nisga'a, the richness of the Nass Valley, eulachon, the background to the destruction of the "Heart of the Nass" and the importance of a mountain in Nisga'a history -- the "great flood" myth.

Beryl Weatherell interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-10-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Beryl Weatherell recalls early years on Saltspring Island. She discusses her family background; her father, Frank Scott, came with his brothers and settled in the Ganges area. She discusses Reverend Francis Wilson, her grandfather; fruit farming; economic life; Dr. Gerald Baker; the private school in Ganges that she attended as a student and where she was later appointed as a teacher; early residents; the Mowat family; the Woods family; farms; Saltspring Island Creamery; Black residents; and the British atmosphere. She also describes her early visits to Victoria, where as a child she watched the horses being harnessed for the fire department; a trip to the San Juan Islands, and a visit to Vancouver during World War One. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Bessie S. Dickinson interview

The item consists of an audio interview with Bessie Dickinson recorded in Vancouver, B.C. on August 29, 1984.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Bessie Dickinson was born in Arden, Manitoba on September 8, 1892. She was a domestic science teacher from 1920 to 1953. She first taught at Strathcona School in Vancouver and in 1927 she went over to Templeton Junior High where she taught until 1953. She took her training at MacDonald Institute in Guelph, Ontario from 1918-1920. Explains how she decided to go into domestic science. Also describes the different courses taken in her domestic science training as well as the physical layout of the cooking classroom. She describes the philosophy of domestic science that was taught to the girls. She discusses her teaching experiences at Strathcona and Templeton, especially the sewing classes that she taught at the latter.

Track 2: Bessie continues her discussion of sewing classes at Templeton. Girls were also taught about childcare -- how to hold a baby and how to bath a baby. She explains why domestic science was taught to girls in junior high and high school.

Betty Smith interview

RECORDED: Hornby Island (B.C.), 1979-11-03 SUMMARY: Mrs. Smith recalls arriving at Hornby Island on the CPR boat "Charmer" in 1921 as an 18-year-old teacher. Describes quiet island life at that time. Most of islanders were sheep farmers. Tells of meeting her husband when she was teaching on Denman and he on Hornby, he courted her using a secret code they flashed between the islands. Communication between Hornby and Vancouver Island -- rowboat travel, supplies, mail, etc.

Bonnie Daiken interview

SUMMARY: In an interview on the CBC Radio show "Morningside", New Westminster teacher Bonnie Daiken talks about a teacher's part in the anti-restraint protests.;

Cedric J.G. Lonsdale interview

Item consists of an interview, recorded April 20, 1976 with Cedric Lonsdale who recalls his uncle, C.W. Lonsdale, the founder of Shawnigan Lake School, and discusses the history of the school. Cedric G. Lonsdale was also on the school staff at one time, and provides some of his personal reminiscences.

Christine F.M. McNab interview

The item consists of an audio interview with Christine McNab recorded in Victoria B.C. on August 9, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Christine McNab lived with her mother in a home provided by B.C. Tel in Saanich in 1920. Describes home, had to pump the water into the washroom tanks. She and her mother lived alone and ran telephone office, hired 8 other women. Went to Girls' Central and was taught by Miss Juniper. Was not impressed by anything she took, although says she did try the recipes out at home. At Normal School they took "Nature Study" and had garden plots, "a psychological garden". The classes there were not mixed. Summer jobs included filing, gardening and picking fruit. Teaching salaries dropped during the Depression, married women could not teach, and they were not allowed to have "bobbed" hair. Didn't think many of the classes in Normal School were very practical. Her first principal was a woman, she was shocked when she met her and she was wearing slacks!

Track 2: Church activities, organizational activities, worked for IODE and Teachers' Federation and Teachers' Association (fairly political). Worked for wages and working condition improvements.

Dorothea Walker interview

CALL NUMBER: T1127:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothea Walker talks about life in the Okanagan Mission area, near Kelowna, from 1892 to 1910. She discusses her father's background; what brought people to the Okanagan; his arrival ;and early days in the Okanagan Mission area, including a discussion of Lequime's store and the family orchard. She then describes her husband's background; why he came out to the Okanagan; his early ;experiences there; and how land was purchased from the Roman Catholic church. She describes her father's orchard; and impressions of H.V. "Paddy" Acland and his family. TRACK 2: Mrs. Walker continues with stories about Coutts Majoribanks who was the manager of Coldstream and Guisachan ranches; recreation; Lord and Lady Aberdeen at the Guisachan Ranch; the Reverend Thomas Green and stories about; him; details of her husband's life; the Indians; more about the Acland family; and her own teaching experiences.

CALL NUMBER: T1127:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-11-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Walker offers recollections of recreation, including riding and hunting, and social life in the area. She discusses young Englishmen; Paddy Acland; sports; her husband's health; comforts; and stories about 'colourful characters' in the area. TRACK 2: Mrs. Walker continues her story about an Englishman and his Indian wife. She then discusses other people in the area including the; Creightons; Edgelows; Charles Mair, who was a writer and storekeeper, and his family. She discusses more on her husband's health; general comments including the Kelowna regatta; land clearing; the physical environment; and the lack of conveniences. She discusses teaching; John Casorso and his family; problems of orchards; Vernon people; the story of why her husband came to the Okanagan, and their engagement.

Dorothy Fraser interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-05-23 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Dorothy Fraser talks about Anthony Walsh, his work as a teacher encouraging native culture at the school on Inkameep Indian Reserve from 1932 to 1942, and the resulting national interest in Indian affairs. She also offers general comments on conditions at the reserve after Mr. Walsh's departure, and more about Mr. Walsh himself. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Dr. Myrne Nevison interview

CALL NUMBER: T0145:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Myrne Nevison : educator and counsellor PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-02 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Dr. Myrne Nevison was born in 1916 and discusses her childhood in Vancouver. Experiences as a student at U.B.C. and as a teacher of physical education. Early interest in counselling. Training at the University of Minnesota. TRACK 2: Developing a Department of Counsellor Education at U.B.C. Founding of a Canadian Association of Counsellors and a journal. The state of counselling in Canada. The psycho-social price index.

CALL NUMBER: T0145:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Dr. Myrne Nevison : educator and counsellor PERIOD COVERED: 1916-1973 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-03-12 SUMMARY: Dr. Myrne Nevison gives her analysis of the changes taking place in society. Trudeau as an inspiration. Involvement in policy formulation of the Liberal Party. Changing role of women.

Earle and Hazel Toppings interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Hazel Toppings : overcoming a handicap PERIOD COVERED: 1903-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Hazel Toppings was born in Ontario in 1903. Moved west that same year and grew up on a homestead near Wadena, Saskatchewan, after 1907. Schooling and teacher training. Teaching experience. Marriage and life on a Kipling, Saskatchewan farm in the 1930s. Adoption of three children. Her life as a handicapped person. Move to B.C. TRACK 2: More comments on Kipling, Saskatchewan. Volunteer activities in the United Church and the Handicapped Club. Special facilities for the handicapped. Death of her husband in 1973. Travel. Her son, Earle Toppings, discusses his work at CJRT-FM and Ryerson Institute. Description his mother's illness and the way she dealt with life as a paraplegic.

Elisa Negrin interview

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1913-1940 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elisa Negrin discusses: her parents' Italian background; parents' first jobs in Vancouver; garden and animals on Atlantic Street; looking after cows; manure used in medicine and other folk remedies; butchering at home; fodder for cows; barn at Atlantic Street house. TRACK 2: Mutual help in the neighbourhood. Police in the neighbourhood during the Depression. Transients in the Depression.; Relations of girls with neighbourhood boys and transients. Chores and schools. Helping with midwifery in the neighbourhood.;

CALL NUMBER: T2715:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Italian-Canadians in the Strathcona neighbourhood PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1945 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1977-06-01 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Discusses: work and her attitude during her teens in the Depression; school life -- activities, ethnic groups; mutual help in the neighbourhood and attitudes of ethnic groups toward each other and neighbourhood problems; languages spoken in the neighbourhood; trees and sidewalks and proposed changes in the neighbourhood. TRACK 2: Taking in borders in the Depression. Credit from stores. Attitudes toward teachers. Prevalence of TB in the war years. Other diseases: diphtheria, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever. (End of interview);

Elizabeth and Robert Smith interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-09 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Smith recounts the arrival of his father, Thomas Smith, to Hornby Island in 1902. Mr. Smith, who was five when his family arrived, describes Hornby as he remembers the island; his family; had a dairy farm. He discusses the problems with transportation; education; early settlers; remittance men; Walter Gordon; other island characters. Mrs. Smith recalls her early impressions as the island's school teacher. She discusses her teaching career; student anecdotes; island qualities; early island residents. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Ethel Bailey interview

SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ethel Bailey : a teacher in rural Alberta RECORDED: [location unknown], 1973-04-19 SUMMARY: Ethel Bailey was born in 1904 and discusses her childhood on a farm in Alberta; boarding in town and going to high school, normal school, and various rural schools; social life, including dances; school of agriculture; the Women's Institute; getting married; life during the Depression; the United Farmers of Alberta; life in a prairie community.

Ethel Wisehart interview

The item consists of an audio interview with Ethel Wisehart recorded in Victoria on June 7, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Ethel Wisehart describes home she lived in, her jobs around the house and her diet. Married in 1929. She and husband moved to an isolated area where he was the caretaker of a cannery. Then moved to Bamfield where they ran a bakery. Domestic accident burned their home down in 9 minutes. Grocery boat delivered food once a month. Shantyman boat (missionary boat) came by periodically to do a service for them. Indian women came down to visit her. She taught at Garbella [?] Indian village. She walked from Pacheena to Claloot [Clo-oose?] lighthouse -- stories therein.

Track 2: Conditions on early West Coast Trail. Went up to Bamfield on the "Princess Mary" on her honeymoon. Took home economics in grade 8 at Victoria West School. Her husband's recipes were passed on to her children rather than hers.

Eveline Meade interview

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1976-02-02 SUMMARY: Ruth Chambers interviews Miss Eveline Meade, a retired school teacher. While teaching at the Freebel Institute in London, England, in 1909, Miss Meade became one of the first women to lead a Wolf Cub pack. She came to Canada in 1913 and taught in Saskatchewan for a time. She was teaching in Japan in 1923 when the country was struck by a major earthquake. In the 1930s, Miss Meade opened and taught at one-room schools in the Peace River district. She also taught at North Ward and Quadra Schools in Victoria.

Evelyn Flett interview

The item consists of an audio interview with Evelyn Flett recorded in Victoria, B.C. on July 20, 1983.

Tape summary:
Track 1: Evelyn Flett was born Evelyn Stoddart in Whitehorse in 1912. At age 8 she came to Victoria with her family. She describes their houses in Whitehorse and Victoria. Diet, household chores, and her mother's workload raising 5 children are discussed. She went to the George Jay School, Victoria High, Victoria College and Normal School. Domestic science was taught in grade 8 and she recalls things that were made in both cooking and sewing.

Track 2: Evelyn Flett talks about her teaching experiences beginning in 1931 (at age 19) at Meldon (?) Creek, Chezacut, the Kootenays, Pitt Meadows, Duncan and Victoria. While teaching in Duncan she took a shorthand and typing course. Wanted to work in an office but was frozen into the teaching program during the War. Began to teach shorthand and typing to members of the forces in night school and then later in day school during the War. Married in 1942 and set up her own home at that time. Talks about how she raised her children and how it was different from when she was a child.

Evelyn Goddard interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], [1965?] SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Goddard talks about her father's arrival in Vancouver in 1891; the family house and family history; her mother's family, the Tierneys, from Victoria; living and growing up in the West End; Joe Fortes; recollections about English Bay; Kitsilano; Belcarra Park; and Indian Arm. She recalls the flu epidemic of 1919; West Vancouver; the Hotel Vancouver; the family home and furnishings; her childhood; the roller rink at English Bay; Purdy's candy store; teaching in New Hazelton and Hazelton in 1922; and Gastown. [TRACK 2: blank.]

Florence Kirk interview

CALL NUMBER: T2614:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): A Canadian teacher in China, 1932-1950 PERIOD COVERED: 1911-1946 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Florence Kirk was born in Ontario, 1902. Migration to Saskatchewan, 1911. Education in Saskatchewan. Life on the prairie. B.A. and M.A. degrees at University of Saskatchewan. Teaching in Sask;atchewan. Decision to go to teach English at Ginling College, Nanking, China, in 1932. Experiences in Nanking. Sino-Japanese war in Shanghai. College moved to West China Union University in Chengtu. TRACK 2: Moving to West China University. Teaching in Chengtu, 1938-1946. Wartime conditions. Ph.D. in United States. Return to China, 1944. Return to teaching at Nanking, 1946. Political turbulence. Regional differences in China.

CALL NUMBER: T2614:0002 PERIOD COVERED: 1944-1970 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-04 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Parents encouraged family to seek education. Return of college to Nanking, 1946. Advent of the Communists, 1946-1949. Discussion of whether one can be a Christian and a Communist. Arrival of Communist troops at Nanking, 1949. Departure from China, 1950. Experience as student and teacher in the United States. Experiences teaching in Mississippi and Michigan. Teaching in Taiwan. Retirement to Victoria, 1970. Views on racial problems. TRACK 2: Chinese attitudes to the West. Her view of her experiences. Criticism of Western attitudes. (End of interview)

Florence Nye interview

CALL NUMBER: T0189:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Florence Mary Nye : a school teacher in British Columbia RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Florence Mary Nye was born in 1913 and discusses her biographical background including her early childhood. TRACK 2: Florence Nye discusses being a schoolteacher in the Cariboo country.;

CALL NUMBER: T0189:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Florence Mary Nye : a school teacher in British Columbia RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-04-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Florence Mary Nye discusses teaching in the Cariboo in the 1920s and teaching in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s. TRACK 2: She continues discussing teaching in the Rocky Mountains and teaching in Lone Butte.;

CALL NUMBER: T0189:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Florence Mary Nye : a school teacher in British Columbia RECORDED: North Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-05-06 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Florence Mary Nye discusses her uncle's lodge at Dairy Lake. TRACK 2: She tells several interesting anecdotes about her life as a schoolteacher.;

Fred Irwin interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-06-29 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Fred Irwin was born in Lower Nicola; his mother's family was named Woodward, and they were from Ontario; Mr. Irwin's mother came out in 1874. His father taught at the first school in Lower Nicola; he describes his father's life and most of the early settlers; a description of the town and houses when he was a child; cattle farming; French Canadians in the area; farmers; Merritt; churches; Nicola Lake; and where the settlers came from. TRACK 2: Mr. Irwin offers several anecdotes about things that happened to him in his youth; the gold rush in the Klondike and its effect on the community; a few members of the community; and events in Kamloops.

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