Oscar and Elizabeth Thames interview
- T0853:0001
- Item
- 1965-08-07 [date recorded]
Part of Imbert Orchard fonds
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thames recounts his family coming from Nanaimo to Bowser in 1893. He discusses fishing; Qualicum Tom; schooling at Alert Bay; early settlers; farming; fishing; logging; and settlement prior to World War I. Mrs. Thames recalls her arrival as a war bride in Bowser in 1917; her first impressions; fishing; her first year; settlement that started after 1922; hunting; boating; the government road; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]