Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript)

Image 1 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) January 28, 1976 Interview No. 1802, Tape No. 1, Track No. 1 Begin M29 A(2) Mr. Reimer: You were saying before that you were born in Kimberley in 1906, : 1906, yes....

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 2 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 2 was a miner as well as a logger. So we came into Silverton in August, 1918, got work at the Bosun, rented a home and we moved over...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 3 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 3 Mr. Reimer: Before we talk about that could I just go back and ask a couple of questions on what we've covered so far? What do you remember...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 4 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 4 Bosun, and a crew there and a cook and so on, so I guess some of them stayed there. But I think it was the married men with...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 5 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 5 all these patients. Mr. Reimer: This was in Silverton. : In Silverton. A lot of the miners, you know, and it had hit them pretty hard on account...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 6 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 6 There was quite a few died of the flu. As I say, I was only a boy then; I wasn't acquainted with any of the grownups particularly. But...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 7 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 7 : Oh, yes. You see, they'd spent years underground where they don't get the fresh air and all the outside, and then their lungs would be affected by...

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 8 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 8 You take up in Sheep Creek there, where my dad finished his mining career, the Queen mine up there, it has 85 per cent silica in the rock....

Contributor: Carter, Lindsay - Reimer, Derek
Date: 1976-02-02

Image 9 of Oral history with 70 year old male, British Columbia (Transcript) 1802, 1-1, p. 9 Another thing -- this is a black eye on the companies up in there -- they'd never tell the men what their silicosis tests brought out. So a...