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2019.010.16 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown], SUMMARY: 2019.010.16a: Oliver Wells discusses Indian oral testimony and legends; Dan Milo; Bob Joe; Chilliwack Indian origins and history; missionaries; reserves; changes in native life; church schools; Indian traditions; place names including Chilliwack and Cheam; Atchelatz River and Mount Baker. 2019.010.16b: Mr. Wells talks about the first white settlers in the Chilliwack area; the arrival of his grandfather...

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2019.010.17 - Audio File
Consists of episodes from the fourth series of "Living Memory", a CBC Vancouver radio program about people and places in British Columbia history, based on oral history interviews recorded by Imbert Orchard. 2019.010.17a; Titled 'Abbotsford and Sumas' and features the beginning of Abbotsford and the settlement of Sumas Lake. Voices heard include Cornelius Kelleher, Constance Cruickshank, John Fraser, William Fadden, and Joe Starr. 2019.010....

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2019.010.18 - Audio File
2019.010.18a: Mr. Charles Borden discusses the following: there was no archaeology work west of Toronto until after 1946; personal training; the Marpole site at Eburne; the history of the Milliken site. 2019.010.18b: Mr. Borden continues discussing the need for observation, good provincial law on antiquities, need for a provincial archaeologist, findings in the Fraser canyon and a tour of the site.

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2019.010.2 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown] SUMMARY: 2019.010.2a: Mr. Louie speaks about Indian languages of the Fraser Valley; legends about drought and Cultus Lake; Indian religions and values; Indian boundaries respecting land, hunting, and fishing, and; the preservation and respect of natural resources. 2019.010.2b: Mr. Louie continues to speak about respect for life and beliefs associated with hunting; the Indians' quality of respect that was the sa...

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2019.010.3 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown], [1964-03?] SUMMARY: 2019.010.3a: Mrs. Margaret Lorenzetto, who is more than 91years old, describes the house in which she was born and how her grandparents raised her. She tells anecdotes about the gold rush days, Indian and white relationships, more anecdotes, and their life as Indians. 2019.010.3b: This track begins with several First Nations songs followed by an explanation of the story of the lyrics. Th...

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2019.010.4 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown], SUMMARY: 2019.010.4a: Mr. Gus Milliken tells many stories from many different sources about the area around Yale. The first story takes place during the gold rush about a man who sells another man a claim to a mine which turned out to be a gravel mine, not a gold mine. Several other prospecting stories, some of which are fictitious. Early stories about the sternwheelers, including an argument between an engineer...

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2019.010.5 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown] SUMMARY: 2019.010.5a: Miss Annie York describes her grandfather, Joseph York (1868?-1951), who attended Anglican schools at Jackass Mountain; his lifelong work for the CPR; several anecdotes about things that hap;pened to him during his lifetime; his character; Spuzzum Indians; Indians in Lytton; how Spuzzum got its name; Harry James; events in Spuzzum; Indians of Spuzzum; basket weaving; Spuzzum Indian chiefs; th...

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2019.010.6 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown], SUMMARY: 2019.010.6a: Mr. Cornelius "Corny" Kelleher recalls his father, Mortimer Kelleher, Mortimer's early days in British Columbia, and his settlement in Mission City in 1868. He speaks about the mills in Mission City; the Oblates of Mary Immaculate Mission [OMI] settlement of the mission in 1862; Indians at the mission; construction and location of the mission buildings; the Sisters of St. Ann convent; his fa...

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2019.010.7 - Audio File
RECORDED: [location unknown], SUMMARY: 2019.010.7: Mr. Joseph Morrison talks about the early years of Fort Langley from 1860 to 1890. Born at Fort Yale in 1861 [sic]. His father, Kenneth Morrison, came west via Edmonton. Buildings at Fort Langley. His grandfather, Ovid Allard, was Chief Factor. The steamboat "Fort Yale" blows up in 1861. Miners bound for Cariboo. Job on CPR construction. Indians living near Fort Langley. Visits o;f Judge Begb...

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2019.010.8 - Audio File
"Early Vancouver Reminiscences" includes recollections of the following: the origins of the Salishan people, the coming of the "white people", the smallpox epidemic, and Indian villages in Stanley Park and the Vancouver area (described by Chief August Jack Khahtsahlano and Mrs.George); descriptions of Vancouver after the 1886 fire, the arrival of the first trains, road building, eviction of native people from Stanley Park, and the dedication of t...

Record Type: Archive