Interview with Larry Miller
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions11949
- 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 firefighter and former BC Tel employee Larry Miller, recorded November 30 2021 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 …
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Cassandra McKenney
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.11
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 2.22 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- November 30 2020
- Scope and Content
- Interview with firefighter and former BC Tel employee Larry Miller, recorded November 30 2021 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 Larry Miller - November 30, 2020
Interview with Larry Miller - November 30, 2020
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.11_Miller,%20Larry/Miller,%20Larry%202020_11_30.ACCESS.mp3
Learning about Larry's family, who were early pioneers of Smithers.
apartment; bailer; Bulkley Hotel; Carr; Carr brothers; Carr Ranch; foster; Grand Forks; horses; lumber yard; mines; pioneers; police; Smithers; St. Paul's; Vancouver; WWI; WWII
family; parentage; pioneers
The different businesses that the Carr family owned.
Bill Carr; garage; Hetherington & Hooper; Jack Carr
business; family; lineage
Changing schools, working, finishing high school, and then starting a life.
altar boy; BC Tel; Catholic school; cooking; Fall Fair; girls; hardware store; Harmonettes; high school; public school; Sister Mary Andrew; TELUS
education
Working for BC Tel and seeing how it evolved through the years.
cable; district; line man; management; mill; party line; plant councillor; plowing; splicer; switch board; traveling; trouble shooter; union
TELUS
Miller's life as a fire fighter/paramedic.
assistant; bank; cabins; Fire Chief; fire hall; firefighting; first aid; Heimlich maneuver; industrial first aid; Junior Fire Department; PCP; volunteer
firefighting
What the life of a fire fighter really looks like, the good and the bad.
annual firemen's ball; BC Tel; drinking and driving laws; fire department; hockey; Prince Rupert; safety
car accidents; fire balls
This topic is on the work that Miller did to help develop the Child Wellness Centre, like finding the property, building the building, and finding the staff to run the show.
banker; Child Wellness Centre; Childhood Development Centre; Farmers' Market; farms; young offenders
Child Wellness Centre
After Miller retired he had a lot more time on his hands and he devoted that time to helping those in the community.
children and families; Children's Hospital; community; dances; Doctor Hook; Kinsmen Club; Lions Club; money; pool; rehab representative; Rehabilitation Centre; rodeo; Rotary Club; wheelchair
charity; community; hobbies; rehabilitation
Where Miller got his start in Smithers, first being at his mother's house, then being on his own in a basement suite, to later moving in with his wife.
Bulkley Valley Credit Union; fires; Hilltop; history of fire department; Interior News; rent
housing; photography; youth
How the town of Smithers has changed over the years and how farmers are being over run by the rail way and industrialization.
Bovill Motors; coal; courthouse; First Nations; ice; industry; jail; Kitimat; Lake Kathlyn; policeman; population growth; Post Office; rail yard; railroad; rural people
farmers; industrialization