Brigadier General J.W. Bishop interview [transcript only]
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- 1973-01-20
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-01-20 SUMMARY: Brigadier General J.W, Bishops discusses his experiences in Great Britain and Europe during the Second World War.
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Brigadier General J.W. Bishop interview [transcript only]
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-01-20 SUMMARY: Brigadier General J.W, Bishops discusses his experiences in Great Britain and Europe during the Second World War.
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-07-30 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Reggie Sparkes was born in Newfoundland in 1902. He came to Vancouver in 1922 and went to work for the CPR's BC Coast Service, then went to the Canadian National ship "Prince Henry". Canadian National failed to establish itself on the Triangle run. Sparkes served on a minesweeper during World War II. He was a member of the Canadian Merchant Service Guild. He later worked for the White Pass and Yukon Route, and was the first master of the "Clifford J. Rogers", the first container ship in the world.
RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-28 SUMMARY: Interview with Dr. Joe Boucher, an eyewitness to events surrounding the supposed shelling of the Estevan Point Lightstation by a Japanese submarine in June 1942. Boucher was engineer on the patrol vessel "Santa Maria" at the time, and his account contradicts the "official" explanation on a number of key points.
Part of CHEK TV fonds
Compilation. Guns [at Fort Rodd Hill?]. Combined fotage of naval combat, World War One and Two. Seaman wearing cap labelled "HMCS Bonaventure". Air and sea combat: aircraft carrier with planes taking off and helicopter hovering over deck. Submarine. Recent naval exercises with destroyers (one marked #282), helicopter, and missile launcher. Control room with officers, radar screen, etc.
The item is a newsreel showing a battle off the coast of La Rochelle, France (17-Aug-1944) involving the Royal Canadian Navy; presentation of medals at Buckingham Palace to motor torpedo boat crewmen and officers of the RCN; "Meet the Navy" review in London during World War Two.