Interview with Doug Boersema
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions11944
- Date Range
- November 30 2020
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Telkwa Museum curator Doug Boersema, recorded November 30 2020 at the Old Church in Smithers by Cassandra McKenney, BVM oral history intern. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, PDF bibliographic form, photo from day of interview, PDF and .docx copies of question prep…
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Cassandra McKenney
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.6
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 1.83 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- November 30 2020
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Telkwa Museum curator Doug Boersema, recorded November 30 2020 at the Old Church in Smithers by Cassandra McKenney, BVM oral history intern. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, PDF bibliographic form, photo from day of interview, PDF and .docx copies of question prep, and .csv file of subject indexing.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Doug Boersema - November 30, 2020
Interview with Doug Boersema - November 30, 2020
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.6_Boersema,%20Doug/Boersema,%20Doug%202020_11_30.ACCESS.mp3
Why Doug moved to Canada and became a teacher
architect; caregiver; carpentry; Ebenezer School; Elementary School; Forestry; immigration; Music; Netherlands; Ontario; teaching
Canada; Teacher
Doug Boersema discusses his forestry career.
brushing and weeding; contractor; fall and burn; helicopter; mapping; marine claves; pine beetles; ribbiting
forestry; soil stability
Teaching all over Canada
Alberta; band; Bible camp; Christian School; Ebenezer School; minister; Ontario; principal; Tricon
Christian School; teaching
Teaching in Smithers along with practicing religion.
band; cadet; Canadian Reform Church; children; Dutch; Reform Church; Saddle Club
education; religion
The hobbies that Doug held in Smithers
Fall Fair; horses; Midsummer Festival; racetrack; rodeo grounds; Telkwa Museum
equestrian sports; Fall Fair; Northern Saddle Club
How Tyhee Lake got its name and how the land had changed over time
Chief Tyhee; farm; First Nations; John Baptiste; namesake; Robert Whitington; settlers
First Nations; origin
The history of Telkwa as researched by Boersema.
Aldermere; C.P. Mustanger; Charleston; historian; Hoops; Information Center; logging; museum walk; pioneers; post office; railway; research; restaurant; Shared Histories; summer student; Telkwa Barbeque; TFML Saw Mill; volunteer
history; research; Telkwa
What life in Telkwa is like and how it used to be.
bridge; carpentry; heritage; John Darcy; water supply; water tower
change; Telkwa Museum
What Telkwa's history has told us and how it is interpreted.
assimilation; culture; dancing; feminism; First Nations; freedom; integration; LGBTQ; money; pioneers; white man
history; society; Telkwa Museum
Business gravitated to Smithers and left Telkwa
business; cooperation; drugstore; jobs; Telkwa Barbeque; train
business