Interview with Richard Overstall
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions11953
- Date Range
- January 20 2021
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Interviews with geologist and environmentalist Richard Overstall, recorded January 20 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 …
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Cassandra McKenney
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.15
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 1.92 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- January 20 2021
- Scope and Content
- Interviews with geologist and environmentalist Richard Overstall, recorded January 20 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
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Interview with Richard Overstall - January 20, 2021
Interview with Richard Overstall - January 20, 2021
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.15_Overstall,%20Richard/Overstall%20Richard,%202021_01_20.ACCESS.mp3
Richard Overstall goes over his early life, education at the University of London, and his subsequent travels
Brighton; England; parents; University of London
geology; travel; university
Richard Overstall talks about his early career as a mine Geologist in the Yukon, the UK and Northern BC.
Canadian Superior Exploration; Dublin; Farrow; Smithers
geology; mining
Richard Overstall goes over his work in the environmental fields with the Telkwa Foundation.
Alcan; Harry Krusselbrink; Joe L'Orsa; Ootsa Reservoir; SPEC Smithers
environmental organizations; Telkwa Foundation
Richard Overstall discusses his role in the Delgamuukw case and other aboriginal rights cases.
academic witnesses; Crown Land; Gitxsan; Tribal Council; Wet'suwet'en
Delgamuukw; Gitxsan Wet'suwet'en Education Society; Unlocking Aboriginal Justice
Overstall goes over how he got started in the field of Law in schooling, and then into general practice with a firm in the Bulkley Valley.
Bulkley Valley; general practice; greenhouse gas emissions; law firms; Penticton; Smithers
environmental law; law practice
Overstall tells about his role working with the early days of the Smithers Community Services Society
NDP; Norm Levi; Social Services
SCSA; stovepiping
Overstall describes the events leading to the creation of the Bulkley Valley Research Centre and his role with the organization.
Alex Woods; Dave Coates; research grants; Wilf Mackenzie
Bulkley Valley Research Centre; research funding
Overstall discusses his favourite aspects of the Bulkley Valley, and how the area changed over his time living there.
skiing; Smithers; Telkwa
Bulkley Valley