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Bruce Batchelor fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-93
  • Fonds
  • 1976-1982

Fonds consists of tape cassettes of Bruce Batchelor and Joy Brown interviewing people in various communities of the Yukon from January 1976 to April 1977. Jean Legare, Geoff Rushant, Danny Roberts, Abby Roberts, Roger Mendelsohn, and Janet Prenty describe the wilderness life in the Yukon, discussing topics such as skinning animals, living in the woods and dog sled expeditions. The fonds also consists of a 10-page typescript article about Sergeant A.B. Thornthwaite, a retired RNWMP and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) NCO, written by Bruce Batchelor in 1982. The article was published in the Victoria Times-Colonist "Islander" supplement on October 31, 1982.

Batchelor, Bruce Trelawny, b. 1950

Skookum Jim Hall Friendship Centre Potlatch Society fonds

  • CA yuk yuk-785
  • Fonds
  • 1977

The fonds consists of 15 audio tape cassettes, a booklet of the transcripts and a 2-page letter that was in the booklet. The tape cassettes are sound recordings of First Nations people describing the symbolic and cultural importance of the traditional potlatch ceremony. Lee Wilkie and Audrey Brown conducted the interviews in 1977. While the interviews focused on the potlatch system, people shared a variety of stories, songs, legends and personal memories. People interviewed include Charlie Bob, Charlie and Elsie Johnson, Mary McLeod, Tom Peters, Danny Roberts, Angela Sidney, Pete Sidney, Frank Sidney, Annie Ned, Virginia Smarch, Kitty Smith and Joe Tom Tom. The letter was written by Lee Wilkie, addressed to the elders and younger people in the communities, explaining the goal of the book project and stressing the importance of elders teaching the young people about the traditional ways of First Nations people.

Skookum Jim Hall Friendship Centre Potlatch Society