Tobacco farms--British Columbia

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Artie Phair interview

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0001 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Art H. Phair discusses his background; in that he was born in 1880, details of his father's work, his experience at private school in Victoria, the story of the Golden Cache Mine swindle of 1886-98. He describes the early history of Lillooet from 1856, the gold rush of 1858, Chinese miners around Lillooet in the 1880s, pre-war land boom and economic cycles in Lillooet.

TRACK 2: Phair discusses Indian life prior to European contact, strained White-Indian relations, bad relations between Indians, the Poole murder at Pemberton Meadows, murders and hangings, more on Lillooet Indians, Lillooet as a "melting pot" of many races, and the Chinese in Lillooet after 1884.

CALL NUMBER: T0360:0002 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1964-07-26 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Phair offers anecdotes about Indians and Chinese people, more about his own childhood experiences at school in Victoria, adventures and "close calls", hunting and prospecting, tobacco growing near Lillooet, the meaning of the word "Lillooet", early farmers between Lillooet and Pavilion, gold panning as a young boy, his family background, the red light district in Lillooet and the flourishing of Lillooet between 1858 and 1864.

TRACK 2: Phair comments more on the Chinese in the area, he describes how his store was a social center, how it was robbed, Indians in the store, and the start of big game hunting in Lillooet after 1884. Phair describes the Pemberton to Lillooet road, his family's relations with Indians, the John Bull murder, old settlements near Lillooet, crossing the Fraser River at Lillooet, how his mother was a musician, uncle was a poet, an incident about a priest who alleged to have beaten an Indian woman, and finally his father's background.

Tobacco growing in British Columbia

The item is a promotional film from 1929 on two reels. "Depicts the growing, curing and processing of tobacco at the Totem Tobacco plantation owned by McKercher's Ltd. at Sumas Prairie.
Reel one: shows employees' dwellings, shack-like barracks, readying the field for the crop and fertilizing the soil. The seedlings are shown in the greenhouse, being transplanted and being planted out. Growth at stages of four to six weeks is shown. Workers top the plants and pinch out the suckers. 30-40 days after the topping, the plants are picked by the split-stalk method and hung over wooden laths to dry.
Reel two: shows plants being loaded onto horse-drawn wagons and taken back to kilns where the curing begins. After curing, the leaves are taken to the processing plant, graded and sorted and steam processed. The leaves are then baled and driven off to the factory in a truck. The employees return to work after lunch. This very good film shows every step as it is carried out over a season, all the buildings, sheds and processing areas required, as well as interesting vignettes of the employees and their living conditions." (Colin Browne)

Totem Tobacco plantation

The item is a documentary film in two reels. Tobacco growing, curing and processing at the Totem Plantation, Sumas Prairie, BC. "Identical to TOBACCO GROWING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, except that the opening shots present a picture of the McKercher Company executives and give a plug for the company. Nowhere on this print is the British Columbia Dept. of Agriculture mentioned, although the government may have produced the film. Perhaps McKercher's put up the money, or some of it." (Colin Browne)

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