Interview with Bob Phillips
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- Date Range
- April 22 1991
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Robert 'Bob' Phillips, recorded on April 22nd 1991 by Smithers Alternate School student Vince Mackie. Includes raw and edited .WAV files and an .MP3 access files.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Vince Mackie
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.67
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 999 MB of digital records
- Date Range
- April 22 1991
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Robert 'Bob' Phillips, recorded on April 22nd 1991 by Smithers Alternate School student Vince Mackie. Includes raw and edited .WAV files and an .MP3 access files.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Bob Phillips - April 22, 1991
Interview with Bob Phillips - April 22, 1991
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.67_Phillips,%20Bob/Phillips,%20Bob%201991_04_22.ACCESS.mp3
Phillips answers introductory questions about his early life in Telkwa, including what modes of transportation were used, where he went to school, what his earliest memories of the Valley are, and what his father did for a living.
buggies; elementary school; general store; George Shepherd; Grace Shepherd; H. H. Phillips; Hazelton; high school; homes; jobs; log houses; money; R. S. Sargent; Telkwa Museum; train; Vancouver; wagons
Armistice Day; childhood; general store; memories; school; Telkwa; transportation
Phillips describes various pieces (many of them Indigenous) in his artifact collection. Many of these items were received during his time running the Phillips & Shepherd general store in Telkwa. (Note: section contains outdated and offensive language to refer to Indigenous people).
aprons; army medals; Babine area; beading; bear trap; Carrier people; Chapman Lake; Derringer gun; dugout canoe; electricity; fur toboggan; fur trader; gas masks; headbands; hope chest; Hudson Bay Company; Hudson Bay trade beads; Indigenous masks; jacket; Jean Baptiste; lamps; Martin Starrett; matches; moose skin; Mrs. Leon; multi-purpose tool; Nass River; oolichan boxes; oolichan grease; Paddy Leon; phonograph cylinders; pistol; rattle dance; records; riverboats; sad irons; steaming; stone axe; tokens; Topley Landing; totem pole; washboards; washing clothes; Yukon Telegraph Line
artifact collection; goods; Indigenous artifacts; items; trading
Phillips discusses several artifacts, such as a Tibetan prayer wheel and a Mongolian passport, which had belonged to his old friend T.J. Thorpe, a Telkwa resident who had travelled throughout East Asia in the early 20th century. (Note: section includes a racial slur for people of Chinese descent).
Dalai Lama; death; deputy mining commissioner; justice of the peace; Lhasa, Tibet; North Star Cafe; Panchen Lama; pilgrimage; prayers; register of births, deaths, and marriages; Russian comic books; tourist visa
artifacts; Buddhism; Mongolia; passport; religion; T.J. Thorpe; Tibetan prayer wheel; travel
Brief discussion of sports and games played by Phillips as a child, followed by continued discussion of the artifact collection.
baseball; cameras; Chief David Francis; dog pack; fish net; gun; rabbit paw blanket; saddlebag; T.J. Thorpe; Tyee David; Tyhee David
artifact collection; artifacts; games; recreation; sports
Discussion of Telkwa history, including the Telkwa Nursing Home, bridges over the Bulkley and Telkwa Rivers, and the Telkwa barbecue.
Bulkley River; Bull James; chuckwagons; donations; photographs; population; Telkwa barbecue; Telkwa River; Telkwa rock
bridges; Telkwa; Telkwa Nursing Home
Discussion of the creation and abandonment of Hubert, the building of Smithers on a swamp, the town of Aldermere, and the visit of Slim Williams and his dog team.
barbecue grounds; Bull James; driving piles; Indian dance hall; Jack McNeill; Jesse James; Main Street ditch; swamp; Telkwa Hotel (Aldermere)
Aldermere; divisional point; dog team; Hubert; Slim Williams; Smithers
Continuation of viewing Phillips' artifact collection. Topics discussed include slavery in Siberia, work done by Phillips in his youth, mail-order catalogues, Father Morice's map, logging/carpentry tools, robberies, and missing child Michael Dunahee.
attempted kidnapping; axe; break-ins; Eaton's catalogue; farm work; firearm; forced labour; Fraser Canyon; goods; Hagwilget Bridge; inflation; mail order catalogue; map; Michael Dunahee; missing child; missionary; money; Morice map; newspapers; payment; prices; robbery; Siberia; slavery; spokeshave; T.J. Thorpe; telephone line; theft; tie-making; tools; Vancouver Island; Victoria; wages
artifact collection; artifacts; crime; Father Adrien-Gabriel Morice; work