Seniors' Talk audio interview series
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- Date Range
- [1987?]
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Oral history series conducted by Carol Morgenthaler of BVLD Radio with seniors from the Bulkley Valley and surrounding region, circa 1987. Consists of two audio recordings, each containing multiple short (~4-5 min) interviews. Includes raw and edited .WAV files and .MP3 access files.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Carol Morgenthaler
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.72
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 3.46 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- [1987?]
- Scope and Content
- Oral history series conducted by Carol Morgenthaler of BVLD Radio with seniors from the Bulkley Valley and surrounding region, circa 1987. Consists of two audio recordings, each containing multiple short (~4-5 min) interviews. Includes raw and edited .WAV files and .MP3 access files.
- Notes
- Part I includes interviews with: Margaret Long, Lois Campbell, Dick Mosdell, Hugh Neave, Phyllis Matthams, Fran Bonneville, Beth David, Lulu Beaver, Henry Groulx, Jean Kilpatrick (twice), Nancy Vlaar, Dewey Cummins, and Fred Sterns. Part II includes interviews with: Jean Kilpatrick, Vern Hoff and Phil Leroux, Jim Mahoney, Ivy Strimbold, Ella Glans, Phyllis Davidson, Dorothy Adamson, Eleanor Anderson, Bunny Funk, and Winnie and Clary Goodacre.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Seniors' Talk - part I [1987?]
Interview with Margaret Long (nee Seely), who taught school in Palling during the first half of the 1940s. (Note: introduction has been cut off).
Burns Lake; camraderie; country school; fire; piano lessons; piano teacher; retirement
Palling; schools; teachers; teaching
Interview with Lois Campbell (nee Munger), a long-time resident of the Bulkley Valley. She recounts her memories of growing up in Telkwa and Houston in the 1920s.
coal; farming; Fort Fraser; guide; industries; Jack McNeill; Ladies' Auxiliary to the Royal Canadian Legion; mines; packer; Roy Munger; Sargent's Store; sawmills; school; Senior Citizens' Association; Summit Lake Road; tie-hauling; tie-making; Walcott; Wallace house; Women's Institute; World War I
Houston; Telkwa
Interview with Dick Mosdell, a former sailor from the Maritimes who later moved to Kitimat and retired near Smithers.
Aluminum Company of Canada; bowling; church choir; concert; education; fishing; gardening; Halifax; Kitimat; livestock; machinist; Newfoundland; repair ship; Senior Citizens' Association; Seymour Lake; singing; telegraph cables; Vancouver; Western Union Telegraph Company
activities; hobbies; retirement; sailing; sailor; Smithers
Interview with Hugh Neave, who came to the Francois Lake area from Saskatchewan with his family after the Depression.
Andy Anderson; Burns Lake; Farmer's Institute; ferry; Francois Lake store; Fred Knowles; hardships; Lee Cooper; Marilla; post office; Saskatchewan; school; typhoid; Verne Taylor
Francois Lake; Great Depression; Hansons; Lakes District; moving; Ootsa Lake
Interview with Smithers resident Phyllis Matthams about the development of Hazelton over the past 30 years.
'Ksan; arena; Birch Grove; campgrounds; college; French immersion; graduation; heritage designation; high school; hospital; John Field Elementary School; motel; motorboating; playground; post-secondary education; RCMP building; restaurant; road conditions; Skeena River; sternwheelers; Wiggins Way
education; entertainment; Hazelton; recreation; school; town development
Interview with Fran Bonneville, a former Hazelton schoolteacher.
bingoes; Cancer Society; Catholic Women's League; Chinese cafe; exercise; kindergarten; McDonald's Store; RCMP building; Senior Citizens' Association; St. Mary's School; TOPS
Hazelton; hobbies; New Hazelton; retirement; teaching; town development
Interview with Beth David, whose husband Tom ran the Bell Pole Company yard in Hazelton. (Note: interview contains objectionable viewpoints towards Indigenous people).
Bulkley Canyon; cutting poles; history; horse-logging; lumber; paving; pole yard; pulp mills; road conditions; roads; Senior Citizens' Councillor; telephone poles; timber
Bell Pole Company; Hazelton; Tom David
Interview with Lulu Beaver (nee Morgan), a longtime resident of the Lakes District. Her parents and uncle were early settlers in the region.
Bennetts; education; farmers; farming; Great Depression; Hazelton-Bella Coola trail; hobbies; Jim Morgan; Ootsa Lake; Ootsa Lake flooding; pack train; packer; quilt-making; retirement; rug-making; school; skating; South Bank; Tahtsa Lake
Harry Morgan; history; Lakes District
Interview with Henry Groulx, a retired miner from Ontario who moved to Granisle in 1967.
back road; development; Granby Mining Co.; Great Depression; mining equipment; Ontario; pulp-cutting; retirement; roads; shaft-sinking; wages
Granisle; mining
Interview with Jean Kilpatrick (nee Grant) of Smithers. She discusses working for the Union Bank, meeting her husband Norman, his job for the Land Settlement Board, the family's association with the Fall Fair, and why she has stayed in Smithers for so many years.
dance; exhibition; Land Settlement Board; life memberships; marriage; postmaster; Prince Rupert; World War I
Allan Kilpatrick; bank teller; community involvement; Fall Fair; Norman Kilpatrick; Union Bank
Interview with Nancy Vlaar, who moved to the Houston area from Holland in 1939.
buying land; children; clearing land; death; development of Houston; Harry Anderson; road conditions
Holland; Houston; immigration; work
Interview with Dewey Cummins, a sheep rancher from the Hazelton area.
bears; cattle; clearing land; coyotes; fishing; horses; sheep; wolves
Hazelton; retirement; sheep ranching; wildlife; youth development
Interview with Jean Kilpatrick about life in Smithers in the late 1910s and 1920s.
adding machine; airplane spruce; bands; barbecues; cashing cheques; Charlie Barrett; Cronin Mine; dance hall; excise stamps; Gray's Jewellry; Gray's Orchestra; hockey; Ivy Strimbold; Jim Cronin; mail; money; pool hall; Round Lake picnics; theatre; Union Bank
banking; community events; entertainment; mines; railroad
Interview with Fred Sterns of Burns Lake, explaining why the highway in that area is crooked. He also discusses his own family's history in Burns Lake. (Note: audio is choppy in some areas).
Collins Overland Telegraph Line; crown lands; hardware store; Indian reserve; Miss Addleby; railway construction; Royal Bank; school; settlers; swamp; telegraph trail; tent town
Burns Lake; highway; railroad; transportation history
Seniors' Talk - part II [1987?]
Interview with Smithers resident Jean Kilpatrick (nee Grant) about coming to Hazelton by riverboat in the early 1910s.
baseball; bonfires; cargo; dances; dog sled rides; Hazelton; hockey; homes; horseback; houses; Little Canyon; parties; picnics; population; Portland, Oregon; Prince Rupert; Seeley; skating; snowshoes; supplies; tennis
paddlewheelers; recreation; riverboats; Skeena River; steamboats; sternwheelers; teen life; water transport; youth
Interview with Vern Hoff of the Canadian Elks Lodge and Phil Leroux of the Smithers Elks Lodge about their involvement with the Elks organization.
children's camps; community calendar; Elk Ness; Elks Hall; Fall Fair; food booth; Ladies of the Royal Purple; membership; pancake breakfast; Purple Cross; summer camps
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; BPOE; Canadian Elks Lodge; clubs; community service; Elks; fraternities; fundraising; organizations; Smithers Elks Lodge
Interview with Jim Mahoney of Granisle, primarily about logging and trucking work in southern B.C.
Babine Lake; car repairs; cars; fishing; logging camps; logging trucks; logs; meals; milling; trees; wood
hobbies; labour; logging; truck driving; trucking; work
Interview with Ivy Strimbold (nee McInnes), who relates her stories of life in the Bulkley Valley in the early 1900s. Her parents, Archibald and Jessie McInnes, owned Pioneer Ranch at North Bulkley (between Houston and Topley).
Aldermere; Archibald McInnes; Billy Henry; Carr brothers ranch; cars; Cataline; Charles Barrett; Clark's ranch; community; cross-country skiing; Diamond D Ranch; dog teams; George Beirnes; Jack McNeill's ranch; Jack Seely's ranch; Jessie McInnes; Lowe's ranch; Mill ranch; mowing machine; pack trains; Pioneer Ranch; railroad; ranches; Smithers; travel routes
history; McInnes family; pioneer life; transportation; travel
Interview with Ella Glans of Burns Lake, discussing her arrival to and life in the area.
cabin; family; hobbies; Jonas Glans; livestock; marriage; railway work; school; Senior Citizens' Association
Burns Lake
Interview with Phyllis Davidson (nee Cummins), a longtime Bulkley Valley resident and former schoolteacher.
Anglican Church; dances; Evelyn; Galena Bay; grades; janitorial work; marriage; Normal School; one-room schoolhouse; responsibilities; Revelstoke; Ron Kilby; salary; school supplies; Senior Citizens' Association; teacher training
Evelyn School; Fall Fair; Muheim Memorial Elementary School; school; teacher; teaching; Walnut Park Elementary School
Interview with Dorothy Adamson, who spent most of her life in Ontario and Quebec before retiring to Houston.
Activity Centre; butcher shop; Chateauguay, Quebec; family; French; garbage man; marriage; Senior Citizens' Association; Stayner, Ontario; Toronto; tourist resort; Wasaga Beach
activities; family; hobbies; Houston
Interview with Eleanor Anderson, president of the Hazelton Senior Citizens Association and Women's Institute,
Fall Fair; gardening; health; Lions Club van; monthly themes; outings; picnics; rivet heater; rivet heating; shipyards; shopping; trips; Women's Institute; World War II
activities; events; Hazelton; hobbies; Senior Citizens' Association
Interview with Marjorie 'Bunny' Fink, a longtime resident of Telkwa and Smithers.
Bella Coola; Ben Fink; Betty Mine; blaster; blasting; C.P. Bussinger; Ernie Bradley; Fink sawmills; government office; hobbies; mining; Prince Rupert; Queen Charlotte Islands; Senior Citizens Association; Telkwa Hotel; travel; trips; Tyhee Lake; Tyhee Mary; vacations
Smithers; Telkwa
Interview with Winnie (Winifred) and Clary (Clarence) Goodacre, the founders of Goodacre's Store in Smithers.
buying goods; Doodson's Store; employees; Gray's Orchestra; Great Depression; Harold Mehaffey; Royal Bank; Watson's Store
Goodacre family; Goodacre's Store; grocery business; Smithers; Telkwa