Voices of British Columbia : stories from our frontier /
Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province's pioneers. The resulting collection (2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and every...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Budd, Robert. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Voices of British Columbia : |b stories from our frontier / |c Robert Budd ; foreword by Mark Forsythe. |
| 260 | |a Vancouver : |b D&M Publishers Inc., |c c2010. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 199 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 26 cm. + |e 3 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) | ||
| 500 | |a Interviews conducted by Imbert Orchard. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 199). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |g 1. Original voices. |t Put your knife down : on the meeting of James Douglas and Chief Kwah / |r Lizette Hall -- |t Won't do anyone any good to fight : on natives and white men during the first gold rush / |r Danny Milo. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 2. To the new country. |t Not knowing what I was coming to : adventures as a newcomer / |r Arthur Shelford -- |t Those mountains were our garden : life as a remittance man in the Okanagan Valley / |r Paddy Acland -- |t Now you are my brother : on medical missionary Robert Tomlinson / |r Agnes Johnson -- |t To climb the Rockies : on mountaineering in the new world / |r Edward Feuz -- |t Oh, just some place to go : the journey from Vancouver to South Fort George / |r Ivor Guest. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 3. The growth of new cities. |t Horse and buggy days and Victoria in the 1890s / |r Roger Monteith -- |t The town was changing so fast : early days in Vancouver / |r Isabel Sweeny. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 4. Working out west. |t Gold was lying on top of the ground : the Lillooet gold rush / |r Artie Phair -- |t I'll sell it to you cheap : the Hills Bar claim / |r Gus Milliken -- |t There's no sound... There's nothing! : the sole survivor of the 1910 glacier snowslide / |r Bill Lachance -- |t Paid by the skin : on the seal-hunting life / |r Max Lohbrunner. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 6. Pioneering women. |t Cried every day for a year : on making a new home / |r Mrs. H. Williams -- |t Monarch of all I survey : the first woman to pre-empt land in British Columbia / |r Sarah Glassey -- |t The country was a dream : on her mother's rustic life / |r Myra Debeck. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 6. A frontier childhood. |t Youngsters haven't got any fear : wild horses in the Thompson / |r Nellie Baker -- |t No children here : on life as a child at a remote salmon cannery / |r Walter Wicks. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g 7. Legendary figures and historical characters. |t More trader than missionary : on Robert Cunningham and the founding of Port Essington / |r Agnes Harris -- |t He was a Robin Hood : on the capture of Bill Miner, the legendary train robber / |r Martin Starret -- |t There's old Cataline : on B.C.'s most famous mule packer / |r Martin Starret -- |t The hanging judge : on Matthew Begbie's frontier justice / |r Tom Carolan -- |t The queen of Kitselas : on a bizarre bootlegging trial / |r Wiggs O'Neil. | |
| 505 | 0 | |g Bonus track. |t Busting Comrades out of clink : recounts a jailbreak / |r Arthur Shelford. | |
| 520 | |a Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province's pioneers. The resulting collection (2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences) is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about the province. Combining text, archival photographs and the original sound recordings from the CBC Archives onto three CDs, Voices of British Columbia draws 24 stories from this collection to immerse us in daily life in the early 20th century. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Frontier and pioneer life |z British Columbia. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pioneers |z British Columbia |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a British Columbia |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Oral history |z British Columbia. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Biography. |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Interviews. |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Orchard, Imbert, |d 1909- | |
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